brawns personal blather

Shoot-Out #2

Spencer — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:55:34 +0000

We had another shootout, this time at Englishman River Falls. If you have not been there, you should make a point to go. It’s a great spot for a walk. Lucky for us, we left minutes before it started pouring!

This time we made the rules stricter so that the images would be more consistent. I was told that I was not allowed to shoot dogs or kids. I was tempted to break that rule as there was a big man and an even bigger dog hugging in the parking lot. Like last time, the photographers are anonymous until after the voting to keep people from playing favorites… Enjoy!

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Tofino

Spencer — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:46:42 +0000

We had a shoot back out last minute that was suppose to occur in Tofino. Theresa and I decided to go anyways as we try to make a point to get out there a couple times a year beyond with clients. Ben had never been to Tofino, it was fun to watch him play in the ocean and in the sand although he hates to get his hands dirty.

Rain clouds

Spencer — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:29:16 +0000

I love when it’s sunny, but you can see rain clouds across the water…

Landscape work

Spencer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:35:03 +0000

It’s been a long time goal of mine to produce fine-art status worthy landscape works. The problem is that landscape photography is much more challenging than I’ve ever expected. As I continue to grow and learn as an artist, I’m able to take what I know about portraiture photography and apply it to landscape. While at first glance it might not seem directly related, at the end of the day we are just trying to capture the interesting things that light is capable of. Here are two frames from a recent sunset walk at our favorite park in Nanaimo, Neck Point.

Nicole

Spencer — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:30:01 +0000

I’ve started a personal project. While I can’t really tell you what it is yet, I can tell you that Nicole is involved. After we were done with the project images, we went for a walk at my favorite park in town. I decided to play a bit with this set in my processing. Sometimes photographers struggle to find their processing groove and keeping things consistent. I’m no different and struggle with this every shoot. I do however feel that I’m becoming more consistent with my light, camera and processing, I do feel the draw to try new things. Feel free to tell me what you think of this set in the comments, all comments are welcome.