Here are a couple photos taken while doing the timelapse from the last post. The light was beautiful and we had some time to kill so we played around with some off camera flash and different techniques. We even took some fun photos on some expired polaroid film... but that's for a later post.
Watching the Sun Set
in Summer
There is a great hill in Ottawa called Carlington Heights. The hill houses a large water reservoir and has a uniquely flat top because of it. It's pretty close to our house so Katriina and I had some dinner and went adventuring on top of the hill to do a timelapse and take some pictures (see future post) as the sun set. I set one Canon 5D mark II on a tripod with a 17-40mm lens facing the sunset and thanks to the bubble level Katriina gave me in my stocking I was able to level the camera without much fuss. I started the timelapse a little late but the clouds still make a great effect. Photos were taken in 5s intervals and processed in Adobe Lightroom. I love making timelapses and I hope you enjoy this short one.
Playing in the Rain
Everyone hopes for a nice, sunny day on their big day but we all know the weather doesn't always cooperate with our plans. Rain or shine we want to be able to take great photos. Sunday proved to be grey and rainy here in Ottawa so we saw this as an opportunity to try some portraits in the rain. The idea was to really accentuate the raindrops and make them a key element of the photo. To do this I stuck a flash on a stand and put a freezer bag on it with an elastic to keep it dry. The flash was placed behind the subject and fired remotely from the camera to light the raindrops.
I think this worked out pretty well. You can see below the difference between shooting only with ambient light and than shooting with the flash back-lighting the raindrops. It really makes the photo pop.