New Blog
>> Friday, July 27, 2012
We have switched to a new blog...come visit us at: http://sbeachphotographyblog.wordpress.com/
(Remember to change your bookmarks!!)
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Absent due to Major Changes
>> Wednesday, July 18, 2012
You may have noticed my absence on this blog as of late. Not only are my fiance and I very busy with our wedding preparations, I am also working on some BIG changes for this blog and in for my business overall. Some of the changes need a fair bit more research before I can announce them, but the changes for the blog should be ready sometime this weekend!! I am super excited to share it all with you and I hope you check in to see what's going on.
Read more...Blue Fire
>> Friday, March 9, 2012
I really like how this photo came out. It is one from my first attempt at smoke photography. Tricky to do in that you need a great deal of patience, which is a virtue I do not have, but the result was so worth it!
Read more...Fireworks
>> Sunday, March 4, 2012
I have been playing in CS5 Extended (a trial edition while I decide whether or not I want to upgrade right now) and have done some work with the stacked layers ability. Essentially it allows you to stack your photos and then one way of displaying them is to multiply them on top of each other. It works brilliantly for fireworks and I am pretty happy with how the photos from Canada Day came out.
My Wish List
>> Sunday, January 29, 2012
There are many items on my wish list, a few of which I am in the process of researching and purchasing, but this item is one that I don’t know when I will be able to purchase. 
It is a tiny Nikon camera that is actually a USB flash drive. The little lens comes on to reveal the USB key. How awesome is this?! A friend of mine got one from a Nikon rep when they came to introduce a new line of cameras to the store he works at. He showed it to me and then told me that it can’t be purchased from Nikon yet. You can get similar things from other places but they aren’t Nikon cameras. So for now I will wait patiently until Nikon wishes to release this to the general public.
Read more...SOOC Sunday #2
>> Sunday, January 15, 2012
Above is the screenshot from Bridge showing the Before and After of today’s SOOC feature.
This was a shot I took of a “ferris wheel” (it is actually called the Skyview of something like that) in Niagara Falls. It is a long exposure shot done at night (f18.0, 6.0 seconds, ISO 200) that I was actually quite happy with straight of the camera. I cropped it down to 16”x20” as that is the size of print I wanted, but it wasn’t actually necessary as the original composition worked quite well. I converted the image to black and white. This was something I struggled with for a little while as I actually found the slight blue colours around the edges of the image very interesting, but the crisp whites when converted to black and white won over in the end.
Niagara Falls
>> Sunday, January 8, 2012
I spent the past few days in Southern Ontario for business meetings and at night took the opportunity to visit some of the tourist attractions down there and of course made a stop at Niagara Falls. It was a little cold and windy, but well worth it, in my opinion. I just love how they light the falls at night. I waited around until the lights changed to variations I really liked and I think this version is my favourite.
These are the American Falls. The Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls are normally my favourite, but this night the straight, American ones really caught my eye.
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