Wow what a busy week! I’ve spent the past week slowly editing pictures from last weekends Worldwide Photo Walk and I’ve ended up with around 100 or so. I must say, I sure do miss that fisheye lens! I’m also preparing an HDR tutorial based on my Canada Place HDR shot that I took and processed from the photo walk. Fear not, it’s coming!

This weekend will be just as busy, shooting a country wedding tomorrow – going to be hot though, the forecast high is 32C! On Sunday I’ll be doing up some family pictures for a local MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter and (hopefully) in September I’ll be shooting his fight at TFC 8 at the Shaw Conference Centre here in town.

I found out today that one of my shots from the Photo Walk (image above when viewing full post) was featured over on Paul Stamatiou’s blog in an article title How To: HDR Photography Basics (Part 1). Thanks Paul, glad you liked it enough to use it.

Next up, I’m also featured over at Kimberly Rose’s My Alternate Reality blog. She emailed me some questions which I responded to and posted with some of my images from the past year or so. As well, if you comment on her post a random winner will receive their choice of an 8×10 or 8×12 print from my site or Flickr stream. Go check out the article and comment for the giveaway!

And with that, I leave you with a pooch I shot on the Photo Walk.

Pooch in B&W HDR shot with a fisheye lens

Congrats to DPS on 3 years and 1000 (and counting) articles. Darren and the admin team over there have done a great job on the site and I know I’ve certainly learned a thing or two over the past year and a half.

Here’s the top 10 DPS posts based on viewers:

1. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits
2. Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples
3. How to Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
4. 15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement
5. 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
6. How to Make an Inexpensive Light Tent
7. How to Photograph Fireworks
8. Rule of Thirds
9. 11 Surefire Landscape Photography Tips
10. Wedding Photography – 21 Tips for Amateur Wedding Photographers

Be sure to hit the See the Top 10 Articles from our First 1000 at Digital Photography School article over at DPS. Keep the great articles, tips, tricks, contests and everything else coming!

Ashley and Matty came over yesterday afternoon to have a look at the pictures I took at their wedding. They were both very happy with them (they sent a quick email this morning to tell me again), so in turn that made me pleased that I had done a great job in capturing their special day for them.

All in all, it was a great experience, I know I swore I’d never do a wedding, but I’m glad I took the jump. The experience was definitely made more rewarding watching Ashley and Matty go through the pictures and just listening to the comments and the additional memories it brought back – not to mention being able to capture things they hadn’t thought of as needing to be captured. I’ll be slowly uploading them over the next few days, these are two of my favorites, it was a tough call though.

I’ll also write up another post in the next couple days going into a little more detail about the shoot, how many images I took and whittled down to, and some other interesting tidbits.

Met up with Ashley and Matty to scout a possible location to take their wedding photos after the ceremony. While we were there we took a few shots – both for practice and to use on some Moo cards for the wedding.

The location was great, lots of green, a couple water spots – now we just need to make sure it’s sunny that day!

Any and all critique, comments, suggestions at this point would be most welcome of course!

Be sure to check out the rest of the set.