Deadmau5
2 January, 2012
Happy New Year everyone. Last week I got the last-minute opportunity to shoot the Deadmau5 concert for AllStar Show Industries, who was putting on the show. Working for the stage company was pretty amazing because it didn't come with the usual media pass restrictions but rather an all access pass — thus there is an abundance of amazing shots from everywhere in the room! Check out the gallery.

New York State of Mind
19 August, 2011
Earlier this month I went down to New York City for a short but fantastic trip. Really didn't feel like much of a vacation since I was running around like mad trying to take it all in (which isn't really possible in six days — guess I'll have to go back) but it was overall a pretty unreal experience seeing a city like that for the first time.

I've created a Flickr gallery of my travel photos and embedded the slideshow of them below. Enjoy

Portrait Grid
26 June, 2011
I've seen this "portrait grid" layout all over the place — especially when it's an article profiling a photographer's portfolio or something like that. Thought I'd give it a try myself with the gracious help of my friend Julianna, another photographer, who willingly took on several fun poses for me.

Pinhole Camera
23 April, 2011
Back in the film era, pinhole cameras were at times quite popular. The didn't have any glass in the lens, just a pin prick to let light in and expose the film. Because the aperture was so small, there wasn't any sense of depth-of-field with the photos because everything was in focus provided that the hole was the appropriate distance from the film.
In theory, the concept should be quite transferable to digital photography. After all, the sensor in a DSLR functions just like the film in a camera so by making a tiny hole in the body cap (the protective cap you put on the camera when there is no lens attached), the camera should be able to resolve an image. I tried it out and got it to sort of work. The photos are out of focus because the distance from the sensor to the hole isn't quite right, but with some refining, I should be able to create a way to take some really cool photos. Here's a few up on a Flickr gallery (click here) as sort of a "proof of concept."

Beautiful City
8 March, 2011
Over the last couple months I took two trips to Montreal. One was for a conference with the Canadian University Press and the other with my friends because I loved it so much the first time. Now I don't at all dislike Edmonton — it's my home and I'm quite well rooted here — but after a while everything in this place I call home starts to look a tad grey. It's the same buildings, same parks, same everything day after day. This, paired with the fact that most buildings in Edmonton don't really have much history or architectural significance, my interest in photographing Edmonton tends to be fading from time to time. This is why I get really super excited about visiting another city loaded up with amazing buildings and generally cool sights. Up to this point, I still want to go back to Montreal over and over again until I can get my fill of all that it has to offer (which could take a while). There's a ton of photos on Flickr from my two trips to Montreal, both as its own gallery and a few more from my recent trip just thrown in to the Photostream.

Point-and-Shoot Love
14 February, 2011
Despite the date, this post has nothing to do with Valentines' Day, except that I love my new camera! Recently I picked up a Canon S95 — the point-and-shoot camera that really packs a punch! I've often lamented that, while I adore my E3, it can be a tad large to carry around with me for say a night out with friends or just casually street shooting. Props to Canon for coming up with a compact camera truly designed for photographers. It has a great sensor that's powerful in low light, RAW image formatting, and can be set to a full manual mode so I can intuitively set up photos the way I'm used to with a DSLR. I've posted a few shots on Flickr from a concert on Saturday night.