I've spent the last few days going a little crazy taking pictures. Five days, 3.3 gigs, 881 pictures. I've figured out a hell of a lot with this camera, and by now I'd say I'm pretty comfortable with it. It's all quantity though... there's really not all that much to show yet.

Saturday we took a trip down to Niagara Falls (and yes, I'm kicking myself for missing Nuit Blanche), and we had a chance to take some pics. There really didn't seem to be all that much to take pictures of... I don't know if it was just me or what. We certainly took a lot anyway... while we were walking around, Sue took a tonne of pics of random things. It's really easy to get shutter happy.

Since then I've been doing a little night photography and I've been dabbling in HDR. I've always loved night photography, but HDR is a new thing for me. I'm sure I'll get more in depth about it soon, in fact I think once I understand it a bit better I'm going to write an actual article about it. Why not?

I've got a few shots (out of the 881) that are actually worth showing. I'm sure there are more, but I have to really get down to sorting through them. Not an easy task.

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This is Giles and Kim's dog Molson. He started chasing me around the room every time I brought out the camera. I was lucky enough to grab this shot of him just before he rammed his nose in the lens.


Sue unexpectedly took this one of me. I had no pic for FPiR: 165 so here's one.


Here Sue's telling me that she's not going to laugh.


My first attempt at an HDR image. Not quite so good. I think it's the type of image that just doesn't work well for it. It was worth a shot.


This one worked. I wish it wasn't at work and I had something cooler for a background than a static loading dock, but what can you do when you're at work and you notice the sun's going down?


Here's me thinking I might want to try doing some product shots some day. I bought some cheap lights from Ikea, learned the custom white balance feature (WOW), pulled my curtains over a table and went to work. Unfortunately I didn't realize that a reflective bottle would reflect me, so if you look closely you can see me holding a paper towel over the lamp while I'm in my underwear. Awesome!