This will be the first post on the Medley series. The series will be for images that don’t fit well with other photo day stories, or they were the only images taken that day.
The first image was taken at Britannia Beach. That weekend had been very rainy, but the sky started opening up in the late afternoon, there was still a few hours left in the day, so my girlfriend and I decided to head there and try to get a photo of this spot that I had been wanting to get for a while. It’s a pretty easy spot to get to, you can park anywhere near the beach, you will see this abandoned hangar, and if you look around you will see all these old structures in the water near it. Just find your way to the beach and you are gold.
I chose this composition because I wanted to show the snowy mountains on the BG, the clouds and the structures on the FG. I had to find a way to lead your eye from the structure all the way to the mountains, I found this angle that had the main structure right in the FG, including its reflection on the water, and a second smaller structure to be the MG layer. From there the mountain lines all lead to the snowy area with the brightest part of the sun behind the clouds. The scene was beautiful in person, but it was tricky to get what I visualized in my head, in the camera. I decided I needed a 10 stop ND filer, to reduce the specular highlights on the water and to add motion to the clouds. I had to take a 3 min exposure to accomplish that.
I honestly don’t have much to say about this one, the image kind of speaks for itself. On our way back from Britannia Beach Trail, we stopped at Porteau Cove to see the last few minutes of sunset. It was absolutely stunning! I had to grab my camera to take this last photo, the way the mountain was silhouetted in front of those clouds was amazing. This was a 1min exposure to be able to capture the movement of the clouds. I didn’t have to do much on the color grading side of it, it’s just one of those images that you cant get twice.
Let’s jump to another day. It was a rainy Saturday morning, I didn’t have much to do, girlfriend was still asleep, so I grabbed my stuff and the car and started driving around. I drove around the east van area, near Hastings street, I wanted to find some industrial looking buildings and things of that nature. Took a few photos, but nothing worth sharing. On this calm suburban street near PNE were these views towards the ocean and below and the industrial area. I chose this photo because of the way those buildings reflected the light around them, the chrome look really appealed to me, and with the clouds above it gave the scene a very gritty feel.
To close off this medley, I have this photo I took the same day as the one above, but in a different location. After driving around for a bit, I decided to go to Deep Cove, it’s always super nice and quiet there when it rains, not that sunny days aren’t relaxing there, but the rain just helps dampen everything down.
I’ve been trying to get more into minimalist photography, I saw this boat far in the distance, it was all alone in the fog. I used my TAMRON ZOOM MACRO, it’s a really weird vintage lens, 70-150mm F3.5 with a macro range. I can’t say enough good things about this lens, the bokeh is from another world. I wanted a very calm feeling when you looked at this image. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to leave the cable lines in the photo or not, but I decided against removing them in post. For some reason I thought leaving them there added a very weird feeling of not knowing where they were coming from or how far the boat was from land and it added to that serene lonely feel.