faking it

HDR (incase you don't know what that means, it's High dynamic Range imaging) is all the rage in recent photography. And while I do plan to do it properly one day (maybe when I get a dreamy new camera...) in the meantime I've been fooling around with some fake HDR techniques through photoshop. It os so fun! It's not the same, but it's cool!Here is a photo of Copper Island (North Shuswap, British Columbia) before:

Here is the after version, using these instructions as a base to start from:

It's quite fun!

Here's another before and after of Vermillion Lakes (Banff, Alberta):

and then:

Anyways, oh so cool and fun! Check out my portfolio for these and more!

The Outlander

I've been listening to a lot of CBC Radio and caught this year's rendition ofCanada Reads, and of course they had a book I'd read already (Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill) so I'd like to make my way through that list too. I wasn't sure about The Outlander, from the beginning I was uncomfortable with the the main character, the narrative seemed so disconnected from her, or she was so disconnected to herself. As the novel journeyed through the wilds of the Canadian Rockies I found myself as lost as the heroine, where was she from why was she there, where was there... and I came to the realization that as hard as it was to read at points it was exactly the way the character felt, sort of lost to the wind, not quite bound to anything in the physical or emotional, perhaps lost or never had in the first place to lose. there were times when I shook my head while reading, what a dumb thing for her character to do, and at other times it was her protagonists who were unfair in their actions. I ended up enjoying this book, the main character forced her way out of her situation, and probably made choices to removes herself from a relationship that made her unhappy, not exactly the same choices I'd have made in their extremities, but possibly necessary in the time the story took place.

photo

I'm taking some photos for work, here is one of them. Taken an hour and a bit ago, without my trusty tripod (whoops, forgot the thing-a-ma-jig).

I'm fairly happy with this, could have been better, but next time I won't be forgetting important parts.

taken in RAW