Pets.ca is another web­site that I help run and lately on the bul­letin board we have monthly pet pho­tog­ra­phy chal­lenges. This month’s chal­lenge is Pet Valen­tines and here is one of the 3 pho­tographs that I entered. The point is that there are soooo many pet lovers out there…and almost every­one has a cam­era so why not take some fun por­traits of your pets?

I’ll be doing a pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast on pet pho­tog­ra­phy in the near future so stay tuned for some tips! For this pho­to­graph I used win­dow light on an over­cast day and used bounced fill flash to fill in Ziglet’s (my boy cat’s) fur.

Pets.ca is another web­site that I help run and lately on the bul­letin board we have monthly pet pho­tog­ra­phy chal­lenges. This month’s chal­lenge is Pet Valen­tines and here is one of the 3 pho­tographs that‚I entered. The point is that there are soooo many pet lovers out there…and almost every­one has a cam­era so why not take some fun por­traits of your pets?

I’ll be doing a pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast on pet pho­tog­ra­phy in the near future so stay tuned for some tips! For this pho­to­graph I used win­dow light on an over­cast day and used bounced fill flash to fill in Ziglet’s (my boy cat’s)‚fur.

Here are the results from my exper­i­men­ta­tion with shoot­ing through glass. Basi­cally I went to a glass store and asked to buy scrap pieces of bro­ken glass. I was espe­cially look­ing for glass that had a bit of tex­ture in it. I looked through the glass with my eye and chose pieces that had just a bit of pat­tern and/or tex­ture. I bought about‚6 pieces of scrap glass for around 5 dol­lars. The pieces of glass that I bought were a bit too small in ret­ro­spect. I’d rec­om­mend the min­i­mum size to be 6 x‚8 inches (15.2 X 20.4 cm)

To shoot I put the cam­era on a tri­pod and placed dif­fer­ent pieces of glass between the lens and the fake flow­ers. Seems to me that the best shots were those where I placed the glass closer to the flow­ers than closer to the lens. I man­u­ally held the‚glass dur­ing the expo­sure, and I did this with­out using a cable release (which would have been handy). On some shots I focused on the flow­ers through the glass, and on other shots I just focused on the glass. The effects are quite painterly and I encour­age exper­i­men­ta­tion. Here are the results.

Nor­mal shot

Through tex­tured glass

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Through tex­tured glass

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Through tex­tured glass

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Shot through amber glass with texture

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Pieces of the actual glass that were used

How long should pho­tog­ra­phy projects last? Is there a time limit? Should‚there be a set amount of time? Can it span years, can it span a life­time? Hmmmmmm.

I took this shot this past sum­mer and it is part of‚a project that never seems to end.
Does it even matter?