Archive for the ‘Digital Photography’ Category

Getting Artsy with HDR Photography: First Attempt

Monday, July 28th, 2008

One of the parts of Photography I have always found to be really cool has been HDR or High Dynamic Range photography. To sum it up it is sort of like overlaying 3 different exposures of the same photo together to create some pretty surreal images. For a better explanation I invite you to check out Wikipedia as it gets a bit more into the fundamentals behind the cool image processing technique.

One thing I have always wanted to …

Celebration of Light 2008

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Celebration of Light is a yearly event that happens in the summer off the shore of English Bay in Vancouver. Three countries compete for bragging rights during this event in the world’s largest offshore fireworks display that is in sync with music.

Being one of the larger events in Vancouver that can attract up to over 300,000 people is the HSBC Celebration of Light. Previously it was called Benson and Hedges Symphony of Fire but with Vancouver’s decision to …

Photography: Majestic Bald Eagle

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Even though the majestic Bald Eagle is the United States icon we do get are share of them up here in Canada. Today on my walk after purchasing the Canon Remote Switch RS60-E3 I decided to head over to the Alouette River in Pitt Meadows to try and capture any of the large birds of prey that tend to circle over head in that particular location.

Last week on my run on the dikes next to the Alouette River I saw …