Gallery Showing In August

I have been going over all my car photos for an upcoming gallery showing that will run the month of August this year at Custom Frame Works on Mississaga St. in Orillia . Custom Frame Works will also be open for this years Starry Night Tour with my photographs as well.
I have taken the photographs from the 2007 Orillia Classic Car Show and produced a short slide show.






This years Orillia Classic Car Show will be held on August 13 and 14th

DVD Slide Shows

Each slide show comes on a DVD that will play in a DVD player for viewing on a TV. These are high resolution images. Your custom made cover image can be purchased as 8x10,11x14 or 13x19 prints also

Buying Image Files

Wedding,Maternity,Newborn and Family Portrait customers purchasing your images as digital files will receive, all images as full resolution files for printing on one disk, CD or DVD depending on the number of files. Weddings are usually on DVD disks because of the number of files. A second disk with low resolution files for e-mail and facebook use is also included. Your personalized cover on the DVD jacket can be ordered as an 8x10, 11x14 or 13x19 prints

Alicia's Christmas Photos

Wedding Slide Show

Ryan and Penny's wedding is an example of the typical coverage that I offer for weddings, starting with the Bride getting ready, arriving at the ceremony half an hour before it begins to photograph the Groom and Groomsmen, Getting pictures of the bride outside the church before the wedding. , Pictures during the ceremony, formal and candid pictures after the service. Pictures entering the reception as well as during the reception up till 10pm. Cake cutting, throwing the brides flowers etc. Ryan and Penny's wedding was a little different as most wedding are in that after the meal and before the first dance tables on the dance floor had to be moved and I was able to do some fun shots of the Bride and Groom outside while this took place.

Tapps Performing Arts

I did some photography at Tapps Performing Arts a while ago for their new web site, a few head shots of some of the instructors as well as a few shots of a couple of the dancers. I tried to be a little more creative with the lighting and posing on the head shots and do something more than your passport type of photo

Still Experimenting with slide shows, there is a noticeable difference in quality with the web sized videos and DVD quality videos. A higher quality is possible but they take so long to load, if they load.
This is a 30 second clip
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Birthday Party

I photographed a friends birthday party recently and have put this presentation together.Choosing the music for the videos takes nearly as long as producing them, Choosing the right tempo and mood and sampling hundreds of songs to get what I think is the right style and still be the right length is frustrating at times Or am I choosing only something that I like ?

Happy Birthday Dave

New product

I am experimenting with slide shows that I will be able to offer to customers, for portrait and weddings. This is a first attempt. They are available for internet use as well as on DVDs

Below are two different methods of displaying the presentations The top one is streamed at higher resolution from a different server that charges yearly for this service. The second one is a lower resolution and is provided by e blogger

Relationship Photos

This is my fifth year doing Christeens family Christmas photos. I still do the look at the camera and smile type of photos but am including more relationship type of photography as well . This is my favorite so far.

Newborns

In the last month I have photographed 2 newborns. The first one was easy but the second one as the grandmother put it , She was fussy.

Also purchased a plug-in for photoshop that adds borders to the photographs. I like the effect but my customers are so, so about it

P.S. I am now offering gift certificates for maternity and newborn portraits

Figure Skating Test Shots

As usual its been a while since I have added anything, its been a busy few months. Ended the fall doing weddings for Studio Studios. Four altogether, in Milton, Alliston, Keswick and Newmarket. Fall weddings are getting very popular.
Did photos of Tapps Performing Arts instructors for their new web page and at the same time tested a background and lighting setup to use for figure skating. My model did great.
Too much photo-shopping required on these but I have the basic setup figured out.

Lori and Marks Wedding

These are some photographs from a resent wedding. Mark did well for saying he did not like having his picture taken.

Demolition Derby ( Orillia Fall Fair )

Some Photos from the demolition derby at this years Orillia Fall Fair
Before and After and a few in between

Village Of The Arts

I helped setup and take down the Orillia Camera Club display at this years Village Of The Arts. I did not stay for the event as I wanted to take pictures at the demolition derby at this years fall fair but I understand they had a good turnout.
This is the 2nd year for The village Of The Arts and this year they closed off one block of Mississaga St W and put up 3 large tents in one of the city parking lots to show local artists , musicians , writers, actors, and dancers during the day At night they had live performances at the Opera House

Interesting Carvings

Photos taken on the Mt St Louis Side Rd just before you cross over the 400 highway. I thought they were interesting. There is about 7 or 8 of them but I think they are adding more all the time.

Orillia Classic Car Show

Got up early and photographed some of the cars attending this years Orillia Classic Car Show. Organizers expected close to 450 cars this year. They started parking about 5:30 am and to get pictures without people this was the time to start. It would have been nice if the street lights had stayed on longer.
I photographed till about 8:30 am and went home and printed half a dozen pictures. The Custom Frameworks on Mississaga St displayed these in there front window and handled sales










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More HDR This time from Orillia

Spent most of the day taking and processing HDR images from Orillia. These are the ones I am really happy with.Will print some of these to display at Tiffins for this years Starry Night studio tours They look much better when printed as 13 x19 prints, the detail is lost on these small images
Aug 22 - STARRY NIGHT: A MAGICAL EVENING OF ART
Experience Orillia's vibrant arts community & meet local artists in their creative spaces! Guest artists & musicians, all studios & galleries open, 7:00 pm - Midnight, Downtown Orillia, 326-2159






Detail from Chair

HDR Workshop at Wye Marsh

Took a photo workshop on doing High Dynamic Range photographs at the Wye Marsh in Midland this weekend, taught by John Davidson http://www.johndavidsonphotography.com/
HDR lets you blend several exposures together into one photograph and retain detail in the shadows and highlights that a single exposure could not reproduce. The following image was taken looking into the sun and manipulated on the computer to create an HDR image, The second image is what you would get with a single regular camera exposure.



Following are some other images from the weekend as I practice this technique, You can give the images a more surreal look or a traditional feel. I like the bumped sharpness /contrast and the more surreal look


Last two pictures taken in Coldwater on the way home.

Tapps Performing Arts

Just delivered some photos to Tapps Performing Arts for their new website.These were taken at the end of the season just before their recital. I did the usual posed shots and some action photos.These are a few of the over 500 pictures.

Ride For Dad

Taking a break from printing photos I went out and took a few pictures at the Ride For Dad event this spring. This years Orillia Ride For Dad had approximately 800 riders and raised over $80,000 for prostate cancer research


Top photo was the best wave I got, second photo I liked the handle bars on the bike and thought it had a nostalgic look when converted to black and white