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Please Note Our Failure

ryan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:16:11 +0000

Photos!

I’ve been using some expired 220 portra nc which can’t go on any longer. Time to buy film. I am thinking I might start shooting 220 vc.

In this post…. Clay, Emily, Katherine, Alberta, London, Outside. It was 25 degrees out for some of these shots last saturday and there was some serious wind. Tonight (7 days later) it’s -4.

Tags: , 220, Alberta, Clay, Emily, film, Katherine, London, mamiya 7, outside, photo, photos, portra, wind

Subject To The Ladder

ryan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:51:42 +0000

These are photos from my Christmas, Christmas vacation with my father visiting my brother in Fernie, and new years. They are in no particular order. It’s winter and I’ve been shooting nothing. When it gets warmer there are a few series I’ll be shooting and maybe I’ll post the random snapshot.

Tags: , ad, art, brother, christmas, christmas christmas, christmas vacation, father, fernie, Katherine, ladder, mamiya 7, new years, photo, photos, point and shoot 35mm, random, random photos, random snapshot, vacation

Sperl

ryan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:50:55 +0000

I’m back in the Canada. I have to go to work in the morning. It has been awhile. Anyhow I was just going through some images tonight. I stitched a panorama together of the grand canyon. It’s 18 images and the final image is 26000 by 4000 pixels! At 300 dpi I can make a 10 foot wide print with it. While photoshop was overloading putting all these images together I was going through lightroom and rediscovering old images and thinking about how poorly I used to do raw conversions so I redid one.

Tags: , gallery, grand canyon, images, lightroom, photo, photos, photoshop, random, work

macquarie ridge

ryan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:25:48 +0000

So I got my first roll back from the olympus. The half frame is an interesting beast. The lack of focusing system is interesting. Most of the first half of the roll is out of focus. But I figured out about half way through that I was looking at the wrong distance marker. I think I’ll get better at guessing distances. There are a few shots that are pretty sharp. All and all I am very happy with the performance.

I should also mention that the integration between photoshop cs4 and lightroom is fantastic. It’s stitching ability is mind blowing. Very impressive. I bought Annie Leibovitz’s new book “at work” and was shocked to hear that most of her portraiture is stitched. She was saying that after she’s done a shoot her assistants will shoot all around the portrait area to make sure they have good overlap.

The first couple shots here are shitty flatbed scans of some 645 from september. as usual click on the image for the gallery.

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Tags: , 645, annie leibovitz, film, half frame, lightroom, medium format, olympus, photo, photoshop, portrait, september, trix, xtol

Weekend

ryan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:15:45 +0000

This post has been a long time coming. Goes back quite a while. Basically, a lot of me screwing around with my medium format 75mm lens hand holding it in front of the 5d with a sock between the body and the lens to create a tilt shift effect. Very sophisticated! There are shots at my parents place for my grandfathers 80th birthday. Family, cousins, etc. Then some more tilt shift from out the window of the office at work. Then there are a bunch of shots from the theatre, I was lighting a play for a week then some cast party shots. Oh there’s a washroom break photo in there somewhere too. The end! Very exciting. Anyhow I’ve put a couple rolls of triX through my new pen d3. I should have a chance to scan those this week. I also have a roll of 120 laying around from the summer that I should scan.

click on the image as usual to check out the gallery.

Tags: , 5d, birthday, cast, party, photo, play, tilt shift, Weekend, work

Obstacle 1

ryan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:18:34 +0000

I have loads of photos from all over the place, slides, digitals, I will soon have them up here just not yet. In the mean time here a nice little photo of Graham from Sunday.

Tags: , 50mm 1.2, 5d, beasley, digital, photo, Toronto

The Daughters of Quiet Minds

ryan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:22:09 +0000

So summer is over. Wow that was quick. I took a few photos this summer. I also moved during the middle of the summer which took a lot of my time and energy but the rest of the time was pretty good. So I processed some film this week. The colour stuff is from one of those point and shoot one time use waterproof cameras, I had never used one before, it wasn’t bad, obviously not a real camera, but at least it’s film. Anyhow those are from camping for Stephs birthday. There are shots from my families cottage Katherine and I out on the boat with my mom and dad. There is Nicks house warming party/Clays last night in town. There’s beasley and I finding a TV. I guess that’s it! Nothing special, just random stuff. I also think that my contax camera is leaking light. Might be time to bite the bullet and get one of those leica m6′s.

Click on Image to enter gallery.

Tags: , 35mm, beasley, birthday, boat, camping, Clay, contax, cottage, dad, film, Gordon, Katherine, Nicks, party, photo, photos, Stephs, summer, Toronto, trix, waterproof cameras, xtol, zeiss ikon

Weddings (Bee Hives)

ryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:31:04 +0000

I finally managed to get through the hundreds of photos from Alnis and Brooke’s wedding. I had never shot a wedding before so I was pretty nervous to be honest. It’s a lot of pressure and I usually dont work well under that kind of pressure. I guess weddings have a stigma and a style that kind of conflicts with my own. My biggest conflict was taking the photos I wanted to take without ruining the event as an experience for others by getting in the way. It’s a wedding not a photoshoot. I was able to wittle them down to four hundred and something images, not all of them are great but I tried to include shots that I didn’t like too cause you know, memories… Anyhow the gallery has some pre and post wedding stuff from home. Just haninging out with Katherine mostly. Our new place is coming together nicely, I built some massive shelves that I’m pretty proud of. Once it’s all done and set up maybe I’ll take some photos. This idea just occured to me now as I write this, shows how focused my mind is. Anyhow click on the image to check out the gallery.

Tags: , 5d, Alnis, bee hives, Brooke, home, images, Katherine, memories, photo, photos, portrait, tweed, wedding, work

Whaihopai

ryan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:47:44 +0000

This is one hell of a post. Lets call this the post of film lost. Long story short, I found a bunch of old film and processed it and a lot of it is old and looks bad and some is rather new. How old you ask, well shots from Macau last summer at this time, 120 medium format stuff from montreal this winter with my TLR. The new stuff is from my trip recently to Boston and Maine. There are also some shots that Katherine took of me kiteboarding. A real mixed bag of images here, most are crap.

In other news, I’ve upgraded my blog here so it’s easier to navigate (It has tags now!) I’ve also become completely obsessed with cycling and I wear the spandex and the cleats and everything, so I don’t take transit street photos anymore because well, I don’t take transit. Those of you thinking I am the next Lance Armstrong are absolutely right.

as usual click on the image to enter the gallery

Tags: , 35mm, America, Boston, contax, film, Katherine, kiteboarding, macau, Maine, medium format, montreal, photo, street, trix

lower your eyelids to die with the sun

ryan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:33:15 +0000

Before I get into my regular blog spiel I had something interesting happen. My girlfriend was borrowing my bike (her new bike, as I just got a new one) last monday and she rode it to school. Well when she got out class guess what, no bike! All that was left was a snipped lock on the ring post where the bike used to sit. She was upset but I told her not to worry it’s just a bike (I’m such a great boyfriend). Anyhow I thought well maybe I’ll report it to the police but that will almost certainly be fruitless. A few days pass and I am forwarded an article about an infamous bike thief ring leader who sells like all the stolen bikes in the city. Turns out he got busted paying some thieves to steal a bike. So today we were coming back from a wedding in london and decided to stop into the warehouse where they were displaying all the stolen bikes that were seized, there were about 200+ bikes there, and one of them was mine! I couldn’t believe it, after a bunch of paperwork and showing some photo print outs of the bike, the finally gave it to me. Katherine road it home very excited as it fits much better than the bike I got to replace the stolen one.

So now for the spiel. this past Wednesday I stopped at my friend Brett’s place and we did a little bit of video recording of him and Scribbons playing some blues music. Check it out!

Tags: , , art, blues, Katherine, London, music, photo, stolen bike, video

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