Below are Earl’s favorite six photos from his time on the Fire and Ice Photo Tour. Earl decided to ‘stretch’ himself and shoot most of the time in black-n-white.
©Earl Merrimen
©Earl Merrimen
©Earl Merrimen
©Earl Merrimen
©Earl Merrimen
©Earl Merrimen
Below are the six favorite Creative Expression Masterclass photos from Philip Lo.
©Philip Lo
©Philip Lo
©Philip Lo
©Philip Lo
©Philip Lo
Below are the five favorite Creative Expression Masterclass photos from Richard Douglas.
HDR 1 Aperture Priority – F/13 – ISO 200 – 105 mm
HDR 2 Aperture Priority – F/18 – ISO 200 – 28 mm
HDR 3 Aperture Priority – F/18 – ISO 200 – 65 mm
Tone 2 Aperture Priority – F/13 – Shutter Speed (1/80 sec) – ISO 200 – 28 mm
Tone 3 Aperture Priority – F/18 – Shutter Speed (10 secs) – ISO 200 – 300 mm
Below are Jagjit Dhillon’s six favorite photos from the Fire and Ice Photo Tour.
©Jagjit Dhillon
©Jagjit Dhillon
©Jagjit Dhillon
©Jagjit Dhillon
©Jagjit Dhillon
©Jagjit Dhillon
Below are Dan Wheeler’s favorite six photos from the Fire and Ice Photo Tour.
©Dan Wheeler
©Dan Wheeler
©Dan Wheeler
©Dan Wheeler
©Dan Wheeler
©Dan Wheeler
Here are three Holga shots from Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park near Cochrane, Alberta. IF you want to learn more about the park and all of its winter possibilities for photographers be sure to sign up for our Twoonie Talk (2 dollars to get in) on Jan 21, 2012 in Cochrane – for more information please see here.
©Darwin Wiggett - Kodak Portra 160
©Darwin Wiggett - Kodak Portra 160
©Darwin Wiggett - Kodak Portra 160
Today is the official release date of oopoomoo! This is a new website that Samantha and I put together that is the one-stop shop for everything Sam and Dar. But it will be more than just a photography site, or a place to get eBooks or workshops. The concept behind oopoomoo relates more to our attitude towards life. Life is short: why not just do the things you love and live a balanced healthy lifestyle? Why not give back a little instead of always taking? Why not live a little softer on the planet? Why not have fun and smile a lot? Well, oopoomoo is our attempt to live that kind of life. We are photographers and photography instructors and we love our work. But we also love nature, hiking, eating, drinking, art, music and, in short, life. We want oopoomoo to reflect our passion about these things, and we want to share our passion for living well with the world. We would love to have you come along!
Ultimately we will be ending all our other websites so we can concentrate on oopoomoo and all the fun and meaningful projects we hope to engage in. So we will stop posting on our personal blogs (both this blog and Sam’s blog will finish at the end of the this year). Ultimately we will also end our personal websites and have everything we do happen at oopoomoo.
Finally, over at oopoomoo we decided affiliates and sponsorships wasn’t our thing. We’ll let others continue on with these kinds of partnerships because they are good at them! We find our time is pretty much taken up trying to live our new philosophy on life.
Drop by oopoomoo and let us know what you think and stay tuned for all sorts of interesting posts on photography and life!
Darwin and Sam
When I am out doing ‘serious’ photography, I have my ‘serious’ camera gear. Usually for landscape photography that is my Canon 1ds Mark III with my four Tilt-Shift lenses and a telephoto zoom (Sigma 120-400mm). But even with my landscape photography pack, I still always have my point-n-shoot camera in a pocket just to get fast grab shots in changing light. For the November Fire and Ice Tour we stopped at the Bighorn Dam west of Nordegg to find fast moving fog rolling through the spruce trees. I made these two quick snaps with the Canon G11 because the light was changing super fast. By the time I could dig out the ‘big guns’ the moment was gone. If I didn’t have the point-n-shoot I probably would have missed the moment! Mostly this is a reminder to myself to always have the point-n-shoot with me.
©Darwin Wiggett
©Darwin Wiggett
Below are Roger Raepple’s favorites form the Fire and Ice Tour:
©Roger Raepple
©Roger Raepple
©Roger Raepple
©Roger Raepple
©Roger Raepple
©Roger Raepple
Below are Royce Howland’s six favorite photos from the Fire and Ice Photo Tour.
All photographs were taken with a Panasonic LX-5 point & shoot camera at a wide aperture, usually f/2.8. I pressed the camera lens right to the surface of the ice, as close as I could get to the features buried within, and used a small pocket LED flashlight for selective lighting. Each final image was developed with HDR processing (using Oloneo PhotoEngine) from 2 – 3 bracketed exposures, followed by finishing work in Photoshop for additional contrast & color.
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
Photographer's Guide to the Canadian Rockies now available
Darwin Wiggett 