November 2008

I did a very informal, technically incorrect shootout between the 5 cameras owned between myself and my wife and daughter. I tried to keep the basic stuff consistent - such as aperture and framing and distance to subject. But due to the nature of the cameras used it was not always possible. Also note that I left most processing on the default values everywhere. I did no special processing on any file.

Finally! I have been waiting for the first snow to fall since I got here. I mean - in South Africa we do not really know snow. Especially not where I lived. There seems to be something magical (for me) about the first snow. And this year we got it in spades. It seems like the weather held back - even at Halloween we had no snow. But yesterday all that changed. Yesterday it started with sleet... At 18:00 this is how my back yard looked like:

I took a drive through Assiniboine park, and grabbed some quick snaps of the recent snow fall.

Abstract, G10 @ ISO80

Twin peaks, G10 @ ISO80

Every morning when I get out of the house on my way to work I am witness to some kind of magical sunrise. Problem is I am always in a hurry to get to work in time so I hardly have time to run back in to the house, set up my heavy artillery (1Ds Mark III) so usually I just shrug it off and go on my way.

When I got the Canon PowerShot G10, this all changed. Grabbing a shot is now as easy as taking the camera out of my jacket pocket and taking the shot. So here is one (less dramatic) example of what I used to miss out on.