Congrats Tracey and Todd!

Will Pridham would like to congratulate Tracey and Todd on their recent wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and a great time! More photos on the way.

Grunge Patterns and Lomo Effect

I took a couple of photos on the way home from Dorset, Ontario this weekend and decided to give them a slightly different feel. I added some grunge patterns and brushes from the terrific Obsidian Dawn website. I also changed the curve levels of the reds in order to give more of a "lomo" effect.

The lomo effect emphasizes more casual, snapshot style photography. Many of the lomo cameras had fisheye lenses and they were all characterized by oversaturated colours and improper exposures. Do I recommend this all the time? No! However, sometimes it can take a dull photograph and give it a unique nostalgic presence.

Thompson's Marina, Coboconk, Ontario, Canada.
Camera and Lens- $2000.00
Tim Hortons- $1.65
Gas- $45.00

Immaturity of Youth.... Priceless!


"Wrong Turn". Dorset, Ontario, Canada.

Sudbury Superstack

"The girls are out to Bingo and the boys are gettin' stinko,
And we think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night."
- Stompin' Tom Connors

Sudbury, a boom-and-bust town at the gateway to northern Ontario, has long been considered on of the icons of blue-collar. On the way back from Lake Superior, I took this shot of the stack against the a wall of clouds. INCO is one of the worlds largest nickel producers. This "superstack" sends all polluntants into the sky high enough so it bypasses Canada and heads out across the Atlantic. It's our little gift to Europe.

This is a good follow-up as an example from my "Emulating Black and White" post a while back.

More b&w from the trip here.

Colour vs Black-and-White?

I took a drive this evening as the sun was shining on the fields. It's tough to get good photos were I live because it can be very flat. Luckily, I found a nice spot as I rounded a corner on a dirt road.

I like how the light coming from the west is filtering through the trees and adding shadows across the fields. This gives the appearance of depth in the photo. My only regrets are that the house on the right is slightly cut-off (due to some trees in the way) and the large pine in the background is cut-off.

Post-processing of this photo include the usuage of some blue and yellow graduated filters to bring out the blue sky and the yellows in the field. Also, a #85 Amber filter was used in order to tone down the greens. Usually, evening light over farm fields doesn't produce rich greens unless it has rained. For the black and white version, post-processing included the above and then converting to AgfaPan type b&w and implementing a red filter to really bring out the contrast in colour in the fields. This was discussed in my "Emulating Black and White" post.