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Portrait from the Plateau – Best Friends in Lafontaine Park

I shot this just yesterday in Parc Lafontaine in Montreal. It was about 1 hour before sundown and these boys were on a rock feeding, playing with the ducks and just chatting. I LOVE timeless feeling shots and I was captivated by the scene, their pose and the fading light.

Most times these types of silhouette shots are a result of error because the photographer wanted the main subject to be well lit and the result is the underexposure of the main subject due to back lighting. Not here.
For me the whole scene was the main subject and so I deliberately kept my flash off even though it was already mounted to my camera and ready to add as much light as I wanted to the boys. I did add a hint of extra light in the post-processing by dodging the boys’ faces.

Exif data -‚ F4‚ – 1/500‚ – ISO 200 – 50mm focal length

Photography tips (recap) – Photography podcast #50

Photography podcast #50 recaps many of the photography tips talked about in the past 49 photography podcasts. Here are some quick tips talked about in this podcast chosen from previous photo podcasts; Watching the backgrounddepth of fieldfill flashexposure in photographypainting with lightframing your subjectintentional blurpolarizing and neutral grad filtersdigital in camera filterspatternsleading linesthe rule of thirds in photographydeliberate underexposureshutter-speeds - using shadows creativelywide angle lensesposing modelsusing reflectorsstudio setups for beginnerscheap macro photographyone light portraitslow-light photographyusing histograms your rights as a photographersimple back lighting outdoorsbrightness and other distractionsphotographing babiesdodging and burning in photography.

I’d also like to thank Laszlo, Dominic Fuizzotto, Dita Kubin, Ann Dahlgren, Raphael Goldchain, Vicky Reed, Jolene Monheim and Andre Nantel for the informative interviews that they let me record with them. More interviews are already scheduled for future podcasts.

Here’s a quick snapshot of a small part of Parc-Lafontaine where I have been recently recording these podcasts.

Thanks as always to Landon, Benny, Sandra 543, Manamarak, Claudia regina, destructivemicrowave, ratio, kathleen, taffy, kiddo, dag, trhoads, megster85, langdon9720, Richard Annable, kate and Ashmuddy for recent comments and suggestions. We LOVE comments and suggestions so please send more.

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Podcast # 50 to be released on Monday

Wow – hard to believe it but we are coming up on episode #50!!!! This makes me so happy and we plan to release our 50th episode on Monday. This episode will be full of photography tips so please stay tuned!!!

I’d like to thank all of the listeners and contributors and interviewees, and the many many people that have sent in thankful, encouraging and constructive comments via the blog – forum and through email. I do this podcast for the love of photography and for the of love of teaching but it really helps when there is a fantastic community behind you!
I hope to record the next 50 shows with your helpful comments and suggestions.

Many thanks in advance!
Marko

SPCA dog-wash photo

Last Sunday I photographed many dogs at the SPCA dog-wash fund raising event here in Montreal. It was a cloudy overcast day and it rained for part of the event. Even so, the SPCA was able to raise $3500.00 dollars which is amazing. Of course as photographers we know that cloudy skies make for excellent portraits. Here’s 1 of my favourite shots from the day. If you’d like to see many of the other shots you can see them in a thread on the forum on Pets.ca.