Atheist Poncho » portrait http://atheistponcho.com Photos and words by Ryan Marr Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:42:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 These are My Twisted Words http://atheistponcho.com/2009/08/21/these-are-my-twisted-words/ http://atheistponcho.com/2009/08/21/these-are-my-twisted-words/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:32:53 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=628 Got a bit of film back recently. I went up to montreal for the Rogers Cup. I had never been to a tennis tournament before and Evan was kind enough to host me. We have a portrait that sums up our weekend nicely.

Some of the other shots are from when clay and emily and I went and hung out with my parents and took their boat out for a spin. More shots of me than usual on that little trip.

I got new batteries for my camera but am still having trouble metering with my 50mm, not sure what the deal is, but I’ve just been metering externally.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2009/08/21/these-are-my-twisted-words/feed/ 10 The Staircase http://atheistponcho.com/2009/04/19/the-staircase/ http://atheistponcho.com/2009/04/19/the-staircase/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:11:29 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=570 Last weekend I was at my parents place for an Easter lunch with my parents and their parents. My grand parents from both sides of my family were there, so after lunch I asked everyone if I could take their portrait. My Mom is usually extremely reluctant to have her photo taken so I could not help getting a shot of her with her mouth open. I think it’s a great shot personally, kind of sums up her personality if you ask me. I had only one shot for each because I was shooting 4×5. My grand parents are all great people and took me cornering them after a meal pretty well. They’re all in really good health too. Makes me feel pretty good to have good genes.

Today I finally figured out how to scan 4×5 at home. I have a (very dusty and old) flatbed scanner that is capable of scanning medium format so I figured out how to lock the scanner tone and exposure and scanned one half of the negative then scanned the other half. Once I had my halves I reassembled them in photoshop with the always handy automated photomerge. The results are pretty great. There are no seams that I can find. The only issues are that the scanner is pretty shitty and it’s really dusty so the scans are not good enough for printing but most shots come out ok for the web. Colour really suffers but black and white is fine.

These shots were captured in colour then converted to black and white using photoshop.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2009/04/19/the-staircase/feed/ 3 Ringer http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/27/ringer/ http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/27/ringer/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:53:46 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=467 Here are a bunch of random shots. from well all over the place. I’m trying out a new theme here so let me know if you notice any problems. I’m trying to work the kinks out of it.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/27/ringer/feed/ 0 The Equator http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/13/the-equator/ http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/13/the-equator/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:20:20 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=443 I have some massive 50″ prints to pick up tonight at image works. They’re off their giant chromira digital c printer. Graham is flying off to Venezuela tonight, the land of Chavez. Here is a nice portrait of Graham in case he gets kidnapped the police will know who they’re looking for. Also here is a shot from the cd release party of the very talented band Boys Who Say No. Listen to Luke’s voice, turns me into a weeping teenage girl.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/13/the-equator/feed/ 0 Threads http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/09/threads/ http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/09/threads/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:30:42 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=422 I’ve been struggling with the photo uploader on this new wordpress version. I kept on having to upload thumbs and full size images, anyhow now it’s resizing the thumbs for me which is nice. So here is some 320 triX off the ol bronica. It was Liz’s birthday the other night, a nice little party took place. This is her birthday portrait. The others are random shots and the john wayne airport. We all know the story.

Tobias Fünke: Here he comes. Here comes John Wayne. I’m not gonna cry about my pa. I’m gonna buy an airport, put my name on it. Why, Michael? So you can fly away from your feelings? You can keep them bottled up, Michael, but they will come out. Sometimes in the most unexpected-
[opens refrigerator and looks inside]
Tobias Fünke: Hey, where the fuck are my hard-boiled eggs?

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2009/02/09/threads/feed/ 4 Shinkansen http://atheistponcho.com/2008/12/14/shinkansen/ http://atheistponcho.com/2008/12/14/shinkansen/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:04:24 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=303 A portrait I did for work last week. This woman is a consultant. This is for the home page of her website. I did a couple test shots first.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2008/12/14/shinkansen/feed/ 0 macquarie ridge http://atheistponcho.com/2008/12/09/macquarie-ridge/ http://atheistponcho.com/2008/12/09/macquarie-ridge/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:25:48 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=295 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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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2008/12/09/macquarie-ridge/feed/ 1 Weddings (Bee Hives) http://atheistponcho.com/2008/09/04/weddings-bee-hives/ http://atheistponcho.com/2008/09/04/weddings-bee-hives/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:31:04 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=207 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.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2008/09/04/weddings-bee-hives/feed/ 6 Thirtysixtwentyfive http://atheistponcho.com/2008/08/25/thirtysixtwentyfive/ http://atheistponcho.com/2008/08/25/thirtysixtwentyfive/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:49:15 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=202 So my friend Clay suggested that for our friends wedding we should take photos of all the guests wearing the same glasses (that belonged to his friend Jake Szuminski). So at the wedding we borrowed Stevens camera (because I was taking wedding photos with mine) and I set up a portrait studio in a small cabin and in the reception hall the next day. Clay, Gordon, and myself took shifts taking photos and in the end managed to photograph 116 people. Yesterday Clay and I (with help from my girlfriend, Katherine) framed most of the shots and presented them to Alnis and Brooke. They were happy and so were we. I think Alnis is going to put all these up on facebook, but I thought I may as well put them up here too. Click Here to see the whole set.

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]]> http://atheistponcho.com/2008/08/25/thirtysixtwentyfive/feed/ 3 Forest Moon http://atheistponcho.com/2008/08/25/forest-moon/ http://atheistponcho.com/2008/08/25/forest-moon/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:54:25 +0000 ryan http://atheistponcho.com/?p=198 Was sent out this morning to photograph a property for a client at work. They are developers and we are building the website for the development. Anyhow we needed some images so we went to take some photos. There is a really cool observatory on the property. This is Kaminski the designer who is building the site. I thought this was a cool portrait because all last week he was working on the logo for the development which has the observatory as a centre piece and I feel like I inserted him into his own work. Most of the time he works on a whole project without leaving the office. I don’t know if most of you will appreciate that point of view but it means a lot to me. Here are a few frames of what I shot today.

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