Hopefully this will satisfy all those wanting new pictures from me.

As for the blog, it’s on the backburner. Life is too busy at the moment, but as soon as the photography bug bites again, I’ll be taking pictures and posting them up here.

- Denis.

I have recently acquired a new baby to play with.  The legendary Nikon 105mm f2.5 lens is mine and I will post some new stuff taken by her.

Stay tuned! And I promise I won’t let this blog go dead for a month before I update it again.

P.S. I’m still open to new models!

It was quite a challenge working against the sun in mid-day.  I was continually adjusting the sb600s left and right.

More pics and strobism goodness inside.

Strobist info: Fairly obvious gridspotted SB600 on the subject.

Strobist Info: Clean SB600 from the bottom, and gridspotted SB600 on the face to even out the shadows.

My good friend Andy was kind enough to offer his services as a model. Here are the results:

Strobist info: DIY softbox camera left, SB600 + grid camera left, sb600 + snoot on background.

And you gotta love those eyes.

My source and inspiration:

http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/pictorial_use_of_kodak_lithographi_film

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericconstantineau/sets/72157612563435208/detail/

Ever since I got my Minolta 7s, I’ve been carrying it around with me to work downtown.  It’s almost therapeutic to snap a roll off here and there at the end of the day.

Film: Ilford HP5 400

Processed at home with HC110

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Finally, some shots!

Velvia Transperancy.  More inside. (excuse the quality, scans ruined some of the beauty)

I’m sure you people thought this was a dead blog.

My recent creation: Beauty Dish (inside for details and build pictures)

Found a 19 inch salad bowl at Kitchen Stuff Plus.

Cut a square hole the size of my SB600 in the centre. The support frame was made using a shelf elbow (the kind you use to support shelves) via Home Depot

Here’s the detail of the mount:

A 3 inch bold with a 3 inch screw (also at Home Depot) is perfect for mounting on light stands. The black thing is actually the plastic mount that comes with the SB600. I never use mine, so I converted it by cutting off a portion of the front. Now my SB600 simply slides on when I need it to.

Then came the mirror on the inside:

The two white circles you see are actually the things used to cover lampshade mounts to the cieling (to obscure the hole and all the wiring).  Sold for 2 bucks at Home Depot.

The 6 inch dual bolts were put in place to allow for adjustability of the mirror (seen below). This is because when doing research, I’ve stumbled on many versions of the beauty dish (Specifically the terracotta version with the CD case) that couldn’t perform well because of the fact that the mirror on the inside was in a wrong relation to the dish, producing all sorts of artifacts on the subject’s fact.

The mirror that you see is the 3.25 inch mirror intended for cars, bought at your local friendly Canadian Tire.  I utilized the hole that came in the centre of the white cover to put a bolt through the backside of the mirror in order to secure it.  I hope you get what I’m stabbing at.

Paint job! White Matte on the inside and black semi-gloss on the outside.

You need to really calibrate the thing to get a smooth fall-off all around.  This was one of my first test shots. But at least the centre is smooth and spot-free.

Strobist info inside!One of my first attempts at full out lighting.  1×0.6m soft box camera right,  SB600 w/ grid left, opposite of soft box, for hair and separation, and a peice of paper rolled into a cylinder for back lighting (yeah, I’m getto).