I recently hung out in High Park with a camera, and a couple who could best be described as “not hideous.”

Hey Entire Cities,
Months ago, you were kind enough to put me on the guest list for your vinyl release. I promised to buy the record at a later date (Caroline was just injured, and I was running low on funds), here’s some proof that I eventually did buy it.

Yours,
Adam

On that note, friends, and readers, you should check out Entire Cities at Lansdowne Syndrome tomorrow.

Continuing the theme of “day off equals photo fun,” I took the opportunity to take some photos with my friend Allegra. This beautiful young lady is a music nerd and a student. She has a love of bands from Nova Scotia, but not so much the women of that province.

She’s also single!

I seem to have been blessed with beautiful friends. As someone who likes taking pictures, this is a good thing. Fortunately Natalia, pictured above has a fashion blog that requires photos. She also lives across the street from me. She’s also in a rockin’ band who I get to photograph often.

With Wednesday being Shavuot, and myself being a rather unreligious Jew, I took the opportunity of a day off and hung out with Natalia eating some tasty Italian cuisine and taking photographs.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I now present, sexy…

Kristin, Adam, Cari, Emily, and I took a walk down Broadview and Queen streets. We took photos. Here are some of my favourites.

I’ve been trying to find some time to hang out with my friend Heather and take some photos. She was over, along with her husband Graeme and our mutual friend Vince. Here’s some shots of Heather and/or Vince.

On Friday night I went to see the Blue Fog Review at Lee’s Palace. I had previously upload photos from before $100′s set. Here’s $100 and Rick White.

Went to the Blue Fog Review at Lee’s Palace last night. It was my opportunity to road test my new 50mm 1.8 lens. I took over 600 photos. I’ve only had a chance to go through the pre-$100 photos. Until I get a chance to post the $100 photos, you can enjoy a recording, courtesy of Mechanical Forest Sound. Here’s $100 performing “Hell’s A Place,” a song about Lesbian love; and here’s Rick White with $100 performing “Sorry We Missed You.”

Photos?



I’ve been playing with some self-portraits as of late, because I haven’t had any models around. Though I do have some photo sessions lined up with some friends. I decided to buy some new equipment I had been craving for some time. I started with a 50mm prime lens. It’s the standard lens that everyone has, and the fact that the aperture opens to 1.8 should make it nice for concert photography. I know that it’s a cheap lens, and I don’t expect to last decades, but it’s a start. Maybe when it dies, I’ll be rich and can afford the 50mm 1.2¹.

I also purchased a cheap remote for the camera, enabling me to capture photos from a distance. Unfortunately, the remote is infrared, like a television remote control, which means that it needs a direct line of sight. This requires some hiding on my part. However, this can help considerably with camera shake if I want to capture something at a low shutter speed. I don’t expect to get much use out of it, but it’s already been worth the investment. Running from the tripod to wherever I’m posing was enough to drive me crazy.

My final purchase was what I was most thrilled for. I bought a Bowens Gemini 200 light. It spits out up to 200 joules (or watt seconds in the photo world) and you can dial it down considerably. The flash also includes a modelling light. I bought an umbrella to go with it, but I can’t figure out how to attach it, so the above photo is with a direct light. It’s at the brightest light, shooting at f16, 100 ISO and if I remember correctly the shutter speed was something along the lines of 1/250 of a second. If I didn’t purposely want to wash out half of my face, that means I could’ve put my shutter at some stupid fast speed and still had a good picture. I like this light.

Where the hell is your pupil?

Good question, the unphotoshopped photo can be found here². I was trying to make a logo in Photoshop for NHTF, which I could possibly use as a watermark, nothing came up that I liked, but then I decided to try to remove those wisps of hair coming down over my mouth, I wasn’t doing too well. I need to work on my Photoshop skills³, instead, I decided that I didn’t need a pupil.

So, who wants to model for me?

1. Probably not. [↩]
2. Well, that’s a lie, I did remove the photo frame that was behind my head. [↩]
3. Or I need to upgrade to CS5, and use those newfangled tools. [↩]

I was recently paid a visit by a dreamy woman, in a dress. As any man would do, I took out my camera. She’s got a fashion blog, which recently used these photos.