Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #40

I spent the last week at a cottage in the Haliburton/Algonquin area with my Girlfriend, Laura and my sister and her husband. Now I'll be spending the majority of this week editing all the photos. This shot is from the Spruce Bog trail in Algonquin Park.

Chase

Last week a bunch of us met up at the skatepark with the intention of riding a bunch of street spots. After a couple hours at the park waiting for Seth to finish what must have been a super Big Gulp cup of coffee and show up at the park, we headed to a nearby high school to rock some ledges. We didn't end up going to half the places we had planned to, but I still got some decent photos.

Lung Diary

As you've probably noticed from previous posts, I've been shooting a lot of photos for my friends band, Lung Diary. I went over to Steve's apartment on Thursday night to take photos while they laid down some rough demo tracks. I didn't plan on shooting too many photos because I've already shot everything I could in the apartment. Or so I thought. I shot a bunch anyway and came up with some I really liked.

This one is Steve recording some harmonica. It's usually pretty dark there and I don't like using flash too much because even I get annoyed by its presence, I can imagine how they feel trying to concentrate. This time I got out the tripod to help the clarity of the photos without too much high ISO noise. Notice Steve's collage shrine to Pearl Jam he made back in Grade School. (He kinda likes Pearl Jam). Sony a350, 50mm, f/1.7, 1/2 sec, ISO 200.

Last night I tried out an idea I had for some band photos in my little garage studio. It's pretty easy to create this with 3 separate photos and put them together in photoshop, but I like to do things as naturally as I can. This is a 10 second exposure and I triggered the flash manually in my hand for each position.