My first time lapse!

Sadly, Youtube is really hard on compression, so the quality is nowhere near the original movie.

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Ottawa Citizen photojournalist Rod MacIvor Retire. I will quote myself, from an old ECNPA forum thread:

When interning at the Citizen in March/April, I remember that I saw Rob one Monday morning editing some photos of his week-end trip to Mont-Tremblant (ski resort, north of Montreal). He was filing the pictures he took on vacation, just in case the paper would need some stock photos of the resort in the future.

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I remember one day I was tagging along with a photographer that will remain nameless. He was, too, a veteran. We arrive at a scene of an accident. He pulls over, crank his window down and grabs a few shots from the seat of his car. I was shocked. Just before leaving (like 30 seconds after we arrived), he asks me if I want to get out to get some shot. “Of course!” I say! So while he waits for me in the car, I move around to find an interesting angle and see how I could make an interesting picture. Of course, mine was better than his… And it’s not that I was a better shooter than him!

To make a long story short, as a young and starting photographer, I hope I will be a Rob MacIvor in 20 or 30 years from now.

CTV did a nice reportage on his last day at work

That is the picture The Gazette used. It’s the classic “tight CP style” photo. This is the one I was hoping they would use. Different. What do you think?

This is totally not editorial-kosher, but it is really cool. I knew of course about using multiple images to create an HDR photo or a panoramic image. But it’s the first time I hear about Synthetic Depth of Field to get a huge depth of field where it would otherwise be impossible.

I just receive my Timer Remote Control I bought on Ebay. I wanted to test it, so I photographed myself while editing/photoshoping a short day hunting for feature/stock photo.

So just look over my shoulder and watch my photo workflow. I did not include the last (and very important!) part because it would be of no interest in this context: captioning and keywording.

The photos in the video are below

Today is a new landmark. We officially went above Victor’s pregnancy time. He was born at 19 weeks and 5 days. Little Francis (not decided on a name yet) is 19 weeks and 6 days into the pregnancy.

Cindy is followed very closely. She had like 15 ultrasound yet. She has blood test and all kind of things every week. This one his going to go thru.

But Victor.. You toys still miss you.

Annual report photographer David Tejada explains you how to use leading lines to help your composition. That is a very simple and basic technic, but I like the way he explains it with example.

What a neat idea, wonderfully done!

As a self-employed photojournalist, even when I don’t have something to do (an assignment), I HAVE something to do. Beside the “business” side (billing, self-promotion, etc), a freelancer always have to try to find new markets and new ways to make money out of his skill.

I recently told you about going back to my archive to put my photos into stock bank. Now it’s done, so as soon as the weather is cooperative, I go shoot headquarters, landmarks, or anything that might sell.

And when it’s snowing, raining, or when it’s just cloudy? I just started to try a new market: creative (non-editorial) stock photography. Earlier this week, I selected the theme “coffee” and spent a couple of hours setting up a little studio and shooting everything in the apartment that was coffee related. Some example below, complete sets of coffee stock photography on my Photoshelter page.

Coffee beans overflowing from a Burlap sack
Keywords: bag, coffee, beans, bean, white, background, studio, shot, food, cuisine, diet, food and nutrition, meals, breakfast, beverage, drink, drinks, nonalcoholic, cafe au lait, café mocha, cappuccino, drip coffee, espresso, Burlap, close, up, Textures, caffeine, roast, roasted, legume, seed, raw, icon, symbol, pip, grain, detail, still, life, group, java, flavored, hot, ingredient, black, sack, texture, fabric, Abundance, morning, decaffeinated, decaf, Caffeinated, gourmet, flavor, rich, fresh

Coffee and milk poured into a cup
Keywords: Same as above + sugar, milk, glass, cup, transparent

A cup full of coffee with sugar and cinnamon sticks isolated over a white background
Keywords: Same as first + spoon, sugar, cinnamon, stick, cinnamon stick