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This past Monday I shot some additional portraits at the office. This time I utilized four different backgrounds: the glass-block wall and the black marble tile on the main floor, along with plain black and plain white backdrops. Each brought their own challenges in terms of lighting, and that’s what I’ll concentrate on here, featuring Barb who is a Partner Channels Manager for Sybase. It became clear early on that Barb’s photogenic side was her left. I first tried a lighting setup with the main light, a Novatron 500 monolight […]

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Sybase marketing portraits

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This past Thursday morning I shot three young women from the Sybase sales and marketing teams here in Waterloo. Here are a few examples of the portraits from that shoot, featuring Carolyn who is on the marketing team for the Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP). The glass blocks at the entrance to the firm’s cafeteria form an interesting background, with the glass exhibiting an olive-green hue from the ambient light in the late morning. For this shot, I used a three-light setup: a large softbox on my Novatron 500 mono light

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The Master Photographer’s Toning Book

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Recently I purchased a copy of Tim Rudman’s The Master Photographer’s Toning Book [1] from Silverprint in the UK. Thanks to Silverprint, this “definitive guide” to toning gelatin silver and platinum prints is now in its second printing, and thank goodness it’s now in print once again. This book is really a superb resource. Here’s a brief synopsis from Tim Rudman’s website: Using a system of First Steps, Second Steps and Further Steps, the normal use of simple ‘off-the-shelf’ toning kits is explained and then developed further by exploring the

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Helping Hands

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I’ve received a number of questions about the print that is framed for the inaugural Sybase Waterloo Community Service Award, so I thought I’d post the details here. The models were Marketing Events Manager Christine Weber and retired employee Dagmar McIntosh. Christine and Dagmar’s hands were photographed against a white backdrop tilted at 45 degrees and lit by two Novatron 500 strobes with umbrellas. Their hands were lit with a single Novatron 500 strobe with a snoot to prevent lens flare. For this shot, I used my Mamiya C330S TLR

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Daring to Look

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Since I was ill for much of the summer months I decided to spend my spare time reading about photography if I couldn’t actually go out and shoot. Fortunately there are a number of new and excellent books on photography out this year, and Daring to Look [1] is one of them (I’ll write about others in future posts). In Daring to Look, Anne Whiston Spirn presents and analyzes Dorothea Lange’s 1939 work for Roy Stryker and the US Farm Security Administration (FSA). Unlike other retrospectives I’ve seen of Lange’s

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Sea landscapes by Michael Berman

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Each issue, my Lenswork subscription inspires me with incredible images and their stories, along with the stories of the photographers who make them. And so it is with marine photographer Michael Berman who is based in Port Ludlow, Washington. Mr. Berman’s work was featured in Lenswork issue 88 (May-June 2010). Michael Berman’s sailing images are simply breathtaking. But it’s not his sailing images that I wanted to comment on. Rather, I would like to draw your attention to his Open Ocean series that’s also available on his website. These images

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Oil

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While on holiday the past two weeks I had the privilege to view Edward Burtynsky’s exhibition, “Oil”, at The Rooms Museum and Art Gallery in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Subsequent to the exhibition in St. John’s, Oil will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Alberta, in Edmonton from September 18, 2010 through January 2, 2011. Oil explores one of the most important subjects of our time by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photographers in the world. Edward Burtynsky has travelled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and

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Film or digital? And does it matter?

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As I’ve been ill since the beginning of June, I’ve been unable to shoot and unable to print in the darkroom. So I spent my spare time re-reading some of my very favorite references on photography: Issue 83 of Lenswork magazine (July-August 2009), a tribute to photographer Bill Jay; On Being a Photographer by Bill Jay and David Hurn; Single Exposures – Random Observations on Photography, Art, and Creativity by Brooks Jensen; Within the Frame by David duChemin; and VisionMongers – Making a Life and a Living in Photography, also

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