Pleasant Surprises

My wife is a Singer.  A great singer.  She’s a vocal coach, sometimes piano teacher, and she also teaches vocal theory.  She’s also a really good organist, and plays at the, I think, largest Catholic church here in town.  The organ is beautiful…  (Someday I’ll go in and take some decent pictures of it and post ‘em)


As a result of her fantastic voice and talents, she gets asked to perform at Weddings.  This past summer, she was asked to sing at a wedding in St. Ignace.  As I have very little to music ability, I asked if I could tag along.  It was a gorgeous day June day, the sun was out, and St. Ignace is a nice harbour town, so I figured there would be some stuff to shoot. I took the Rolleicord, and the D90 and a tripod, and set out.


it was a bright day out, so the shooting wasn’t the best.  Most of the shots from the film camera were about trying to get a sense of the square negative I was going to get.  The square format, to me, doesn’t lend itself to thinking “rule of thirds”, so I wanted to get a handle on it.  I had a roll of 400 in the ‘cord, and a handy little light meter.  (Sometimes, Value Village is a great place!)  


Heres one of the shots: (its unedited)

I was sorta happy with it, and in the high-rez picture, its got some really nice tones, and there was room to edit…  The digital stuff was meh.  And so, I walked away from them, and forgot.


I was going through my portable hard drive, when I came across this:

Colin, one of my teachers from the course, kind of pushed me towards this graffiti series, (that you can see in my personal work Tab) I resisted for a long time, humming and hawing, when after I started looking at some of my shots, I really started enjoying it.   


While this isn’t GRAFFITI, per se, I think it still fits.  I love finding stuff like this.  Sometimes, you just cant think this stuff up, and people just leave crap lying around!  :)


This semester, we’re working with video.  vlogs to follow?  


Happy Shooting!