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DPS Assignment : Wide Open

Over at the Digital Photography School Forums they have a new assignment every couple of weeks. The latest assignment is “Wide Open”.

This weeks assignment is “wide open”. This may have a few people asking what exactly shooting wide open is. Basically it refers to the size of the opening in your lens to let light pass through. The smaller the f-stop the larger the opening. For example, if your lens is the standard 18-55mm kit lens it probably has options of f3.5 to f5.6. The f3.5 is a larger opening than the f5.6. So for this assignment we are trying for smaller numbers to have a wider opening.

A great intro for this is in the blog: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/aperture/

This was my submission, shot with my 50mm lens at f/1.8.

Tags: 50mm, aperture, assignment, cemetery, digital photography school, DPS, grave

12 May 08 | Assignments, DPS | Read on | Comments (0)

So one of the Flickr groups is focused around war memorials and remembrance… so it got me to thinking about my cemetery walk yesterday and all the headstones for veterans that are there. Wondering if it’d be worth my while to go and individually shoot them all for posterity sake. I guess if it helps one person identify or find someone, it’d be worth it. Wouldn’t it?

Maybe I’ll call around and see if the local veterans society/groups have anything already in place.

Tags: cemetery, grave, headstone, tombstone, veterans, war dead, world war i, world war ii

08 May 08 | edmonton | Read on | Comments (0)

St. Joachim Catholic Cemetery

Visited the St. Joachim Catholic Cemetery in town during lunch… it may sound odd but I really enjoyed this photo walk. I only hit about half the cemetery but I really like the TTV stuff for this.

"Sleep my Baby" : Baby Gerald Alan Vienneau

I know some people think visiting cemeteries for the purpose of a photo shoot is crass and wrong. I don’t. The way I see it, and taking into account some of the tombstones I saw, I’m paying more attention and respect than has been paid since who knows when. I also find it keeps me grounded, makes me think, question my mortality and what I’ve done and where I’m going…

Tags: cemetery, duaflex, duaflex i, graveyard, kodak, st. joachim catholic cemetery, through the viewfinder, tombstone, ttv

07 May 08 | TTV, edmonton, flowers | Read on | Comment (1)

Edmonton Municipal & St. Joachim’s Cemeteries…

Headed out at lunch yesterday to the Edmonton Municipal Cemetery to snap a few shots… didn’t realize it was actually a couple of cemeteries, and that we had a WWI War Memorial there… turned out well though, took about 75 shots and ended up posting 22. Couple samples below, you can view the entire set on flickr.