McLatchy Photography

strobist meetups.

2008-10-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

I have been attending some (and organizing some) online photoshoot meetups.
here are some recent examples from them.

Bomb the base

Clock tower

Dani

reflections of Jasmine

whats in the forest

keeper of the woods

it's been a while

2008-08-22T16:22:00.000-07:00

here are some photos I did near my house at UBC.

My friend Isaac brought his wife along.

while at the lacarno beach with my wife, kids, mom, and sister Holly.
I snuck up close to this Great Blue Heron.

an sneaky invader looks for his opportunity to strike.

someone has spotted us.

Payton has figured out how to catch birds, with just her hands. too much disney princess movies I think....

and me in my super crocs

A photo of me at work

2008-05-09T22:49:00.001-07:00

Hard at work

some outdoor shots

2008-03-09T22:29:00.000-07:00

more highlights from the 365 self portrait project

2008-02-10T23:25:00.000-08:00

all of the photos except for the one with Payton and I are straight out of the camera.
they haven't touched photoshop any. not even the in camera editing options. for information on how I composed the shot click on the photo to bring you to my flickr page for a brief description.

"@ sunset"

"what to think about"

"the only pose I liked"

"wake up reflection"

"I was just changing it."
I actually broke the new lightbulb.

"I click you"

"ninja click"

love is

2008-02-05T23:40:00.001-08:00

more self portraits

2008-01-21T23:21:00.000-08:00

365days Self Portriat update

2008-01-07T00:41:00.001-08:00

Day 2/365+1 double Hard edge from each direction, I knew I wouldn't like it much but I wanted to see it's effects on portraiture. the results, are I like the outof focus one the best, and the next one was good too.

day 3
extrasoft light from one side.

day 4
you spin me.....

day 5
newcameraday!! doesn't my circa 1970s flash look lovely on that camera!

day 6
Directly from above. I was going to do an overexposed image, but I thought this looked great as it was.

Alright, here's my 365days post

2008-01-01T23:30:00.000-08:00

Day 1/365

Well I planned to get more creative than this for day 1. But ended up not feeling well so I was glad I shot this photo in the am so I wouldn't be missing day 1!

My daughter brought her camera(fisher price kid tough) with her to wake me up this morning. Then she climbed in handed me the camera and asked me to take a pic of us together. So yeah, it's a first thing in the morning, I haven't even been out of bed, self portrait taken with a kids camera. But it's a self portrait none the less.

Day 1: Done!

365days +1

2008-01-01T21:59:00.000-08:00

Michelle and I are trying to do a self portrait every day for a year. yes it's a leap year, so 366 photos. the group allows other people in the shot if you setup and pushed the button(even by proxy). I just had to be in the shot, and had taken/composed the shot.

here is my day one.

I know it looks like I was trying to grab something, but I was snapping my fingers to direct the girls. I was intending to point when the flashes went off

Impatiently waiting.

2007-12-31T22:41:00.000-08:00

We have dreamed and drooled over the Digital SLR pretty much since we started getting into digital photography but could never afford one. Well with prices dropping and saving we can finally afford to enter the Digital SLR market.

So why the waiting? We have a bunch of Best Buy gift cards towards our purchase and they have been out of stock since Christmas. ARGH! It's pretty much driving me insane to be this close and not have it in my hands. Like taking a child to a candy store just to look.

We(mainly Rod) did a lot of research and we decided on The Nikon D40x. I'm so excited!

Isn't it pretty?

So it's New Years Eve and I'm sitting at home posting on blogger, sad I know. But my Kids sick and we aren't really party animals anyways. I was hoping to have a new camera to play with but I think I've said that already.

Rod's been reading a great deal on Strobist and learning amazing stuff. I've read some and am learning some from Rod too. It's all to do with DIY external flashes and equipment. It's really incredible. If you like photography and want to improve your work it's really worth a read. check it out here. It's geared toward dSLR's but we've been playing with the flashes with our current camera and getting amazing results.

Rod found a flash(Vivitar 285) at a pawn shop today that will work with the flash we have(from my mom's old camera) for $40. It's an oldy but a goody. We are very excited to actually try taking photo's with 2 flashes. FUN!

A New Beginning?

2007-12-31T00:15:00.000-08:00

A corny title I know.

This is the first post on our new blog. Rod and I plan to use this blog as a place to not only share our photos but also post about ideas and techniques we are working and experimenting with.

Oh and whatever random photo related stuff we feel inclined to share.

Enjoy.