new year! new gear

hi
its 3 weeks into the new year! 2009, crazy stuff....the states has a new president as of today!! thats really good, glad to see bush out of there and am very interested in what obama is going to do for the country. we need someone like him up here in canada! lets see, what else is new, i am getting married in a couple of weeks in jamaica!! i am super excited about that. my son is now officially a year old as of december 27th, cant call him a baby anymore, now he is a toddler. he is very close to walking on his own and is imitating so much (he can wave now!!)

hope the holidays were good to everyone. they certainly were for me. my soon to be wife was, as usual too good to me! she got me a bunch of nice clothes, and a lowepro primus AW camera bag!! from the rest of the family i got about $450 in gift certificates to my fave camera shop. so after much deliberating, i went to the store on boxing day, and bought a whole bunch of stuff:

• SB-600 speedlight
• mc-dc1 cable release
• nikkor 50mm f1.8 lens w/ uv filter
• sto-fen omni bounce for speedlight
• spare 4GB sd card

that should tide me over for a bit, dont you think?
i LOVE the lens, its barely left my camera since i got it. such a quality difference from that to the kit lens. and the razor thin DOF is very fun to play with. the flash is also amazing and opens up all sorts of possibilities. dayna really wanted me to get it after i borrowed my dads and she saw the pictures, everything is so bright and vivid. if you take a lot of indoor shots, i highly recommend it! a big step up from the little built in flash.

i am going to set up a proper website soon with a image gallery and whatnot. a couple of friends were looking through my images and found the layouts of the flickr page and blog a little busy/confusing. so i will probably keep this page for writing about whatever and have the other site as a means to purchase prints and look at what i am currently working on! i know its not much now, but its hard to get out all the time, plus its friggin cold here now. i went out the other day to shoot this shot:





and nearly froze my fingers off! plus i dont have winter boots so my shoes were full of snow. oh well, i got the shot and it turned out as i wanted :)
i also got the chance to play around with light painting the other day, this is something i have been wanting to do for awhile but never got around to it! so dayna was out with a friend and the little man was asleep so i went to the basement and experimented a little.
here is a couple of shots i thought were cool:




well, thats all for now, i am off to bed! have to work tomorrow ugh...why cant i just win the lottery??

oh and just one more quick thing!! i sold 4 of my pictures last week!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was getting a little discouraged to be honest, but yah, 4 pictures!! they are on there way here from the print shop, i am super excited... btw, i am happy to sell any of my pictures as prints, so please buy some :D

phew that was long winded!! good night

happy holidays!!

just wanted to wish everyone a happy holidays, however and whatever you celebrate! thanks for checking the blog out. my new years resolution (one of them anyways) is to update this page more!
i have begun working on my long term review for the D80, so thats coming along.
i also got to play around with a sb600 speedlight yesterday, and it was amazing! so for christmas, i had asked for money from everyone to get a new lens, but now i am seriously thinking about the flash. it changes the images completely! you will see some in a little bit, when i get around to posting some on my flickr page!
on another note, i joined deviantart recently. figured it was a good place to get some images out there as well. i just started that page, so eventually i will have prints available to purchase as well as some desktop wallpapers and things like that! here is the link: My deviantART page
check it out, and leave some comments if you would like, i always enjoy receiving feedback!
take care everyone and all the best in the new year!

Happy Halloween!

loving it!
Originally uploaded by supervillain1

Here's my little guy all dressed up for halloween! we went out trick or treating and had a grand ol time!

200 visitors!

hey everyone,
just a quick update to say thanks for checking out my blog! there has been just over 200 visitors since i started it :)
i know it hasn't been too interesting as of yet, i have been really busy as of late! i am working on writing some reviews of my stuff at the moment, those will be up soon. anyways, take care everyone, and check back soon and hopefully i will have found some time to update the site

craig

all hail the mighty spoon

all hail the mighty spoon
Originally uploaded by supervillain1

here is my latest favorite pic of Levi! I was trying to get him to feed himself, he was more interested in the spoon than the food! Oh well, gotta start somewhere, right?

blue colored berries

blue colored berries
Originally uploaded by supervillain1

just testing the 'blog this' button in flickr! i shot this at the cottage trip while hiking through the forest

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

New Stuff

Good morning


Okay, so a couple more things:
I can now make prints for anyone who is interested! I am able to make prints on high quality photo paper, or even canvas! I can get them mounted on a variety of frames or have it shipped rolled up for you to mount or frame! This is very exciting news, and I hope that some of you readers out there support my hobby enough to get a print done! So, I don't really have any prices off the top of my head, but if you head over to my flickr page, you can pretty much pick any of the images and contact me and we can work out the details on prices, paper, mounting and all that exciting stuff! I was playing around with Photoshop and realized I can do some pretty large prints if you are so inclined :)

Just got back from a vacation

Hey everyone!

Its been awhile since I have posted anything. I have been a very busy man the past couple of weeks. I am off work this week and the family and I made it up to a cottage on Chandos lake and had a great time! I got many nice shots of sunrises over the lake and I went on an adventure through the forest and got some good shots of some mushrooms and other forest like things. I had my tripod strapped to my back, and i guess the leg got caught on a tree while i was hiking around and snapped off. I didnt hear it because I was listening to some music, so now i have no tripod. We also went to vist my aunt and uncle near Toronto and had a great time there as well.

I am slowly but surely processing the images from the cottage and also the ones from the Olympic Flag raising on the 8th! Hopefully by next week i will have them up and ready to go. I dont have time to link the pics in this post, so as usual, go to my flickr page and look in the set "Summer Vacation 2008" and "Olympic Flag Raising". I will most likely edit this later and embed the images tonight.

I also changed the blog title picture to one i particularly liked from the cottage of a sunrise and some fog over the lake. I converted it to black and white in photoshop.
bye for now, enjoy the last week of summer! :)

been busy!

Hello everyone
I have been busy the past couple of weeks with work and the family. but we did get to go to Huntsville, Ontario to see my fiances aunt this past weekend! so we got to drive through Algonquin park which was very nice. of course i had my camera and got some really good shots. her aunt has an insane garden and i went a little nuts in there with the camera! but, came away with a ton of beautiful flower close ups!
i am going to link a couple here and you can check out the rest on my flickr page!



I tried to take some pictures of the stars while i was there, but it proved to be a little more difficult than i thought it would be! plus its hard to take a long exposure with no remote shutter release, so i will hold off on that for now!
Here is a neat little shot i did up of dayna and levi. i was going for a sort of 'Dave Hill' look, but i added a bit more softness to make it look a little more dreamy!



Awhile back, we had a family gathering at my folks place, and my grandfather was there. i had my camera around my neck the whole time and he got to calling me "Karsh", who was a famous canadian portrait photographer (more information) who photographed the famous winston churchill picture and many many others! all his work is very dark and moody black and white photos. while portraits arent really my thing, i really do like his work! so i thought i would create a karsh inspired photo of my grandfather! i think it turned out ok, it was color to begin with then i messed around with it in photoshop to alter the lighting and the color.



well, thats all thats new for us! next week there is a wushu demonstration in ottawa to commemorate the beginning of the olympic games in beijing! so my kung fu club is going to do a demonstration for the public and the politicians! i am hoping to get some photos of that which i will share with you all!

have a good weekend! i wont, i am working nights for the next 3 days, ugh :P