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World Tapir Day!

Shot with the Sony DSC-T500 at the San Francisco Zoo. Flickr informed me that it was World Tapir Day, so I thought I’d give a little shout out to one of my favourite animals. Plus, I have this little vid that I took at the SF Zoo last year starring a very lovely and docile Tapir Goober! Aside: I’d love to see a Tapir using an iPad. Now that’s a hit viral video in the making.…

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Behind the photo: Shooting One Strobe Portraits on the Fly

5DMKII + 85mm f/1.8, 1/125 @ f/3.5. Model: Taravat Makeup: Mika Another moody & cold day for shooting outdoors. This was my first of three shoots I did yesterday. My model was freezing so we huddled in a back alley which was slightly warmer than the wind tunnel where we first started shooting. Nothing more glamorous than shooting in a back alley :/ I was using a really basic one strobe set-up: The 430EX strobe was set to Manual, 35mm,…

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Life Photography

Photography Blues

Canon Xti + 85mm, backlit by strobe + umbrella. Lately, I’ve become so hypercritical of my photography that I haven’t been able to post any of my shots on my blog or Flickr in ages. I literally have hundreds of shots that I’ve worked on and never uploaded because I didn’t think they were good enough. This even includes all of the shots I took at the Olympics. I had such high expectations of myself going into the Olympics, that…

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