Happy New Year!

Hello.

No pics this time. I'm leaving this note to explain that I have moved my blog to a platform I built myself.

It's not as fancy as this Blogger setup, but it does better justice to my photos, and that's the point of this endeavor.

So as of today, the first day of a New Year and hopefully, a new year filled with great photos, Bugnoir can be found at www.bugnoir.com.

Feel free to come back any time to enjoy this blog representing my first six months of photographic memories.

Thank you for continuing to enjoy and support my learning journey.

Sincerely,

Jeremy

© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.

Farm Christmas

Another Christmas out of the way, and with it, my annual trek to Peterborough. I took my new lenses with me and had a go with them. I particularly enjoyed using the 11-16mm ultra-wide-angle lens while shooting around the barn with my dad. I learned that there really isn't a low battery warning on my SB-900 flash; it went from usable to dead seemingly without warning.

P.S. I processed these images along with a whole bunch of other family photos over the course of two nights, and I think during the process I applied my usual sharpening filter to the horizontals twice. I'm not going to fix them because I don't think it's worth it. Also thinking of building a blog from scratch because I'm starting to not like the small horizontal images and the detail they present. But that's a story for another day...

Inside the main barn, facing west.

Snow through the cracks in the wall, main barn, facing east.

Main barn walk-in 'basement'.

A shed looking cold in the snow.

Lots and lots of snow...

This all natural effect was created by shooting outside in the cold for an hour or so, then coming inside the warm house, where condensation formed on my 11-16mm lens. I kept checking it as it dried and about half of the lens had dried off when I took the photo. The center of the lens cleared first, hence the natural blur.

© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.

St. Lawrence and Union

Today was a 'I'll take my camera to work today because I have errands to run and I might have some time to shoot' that turned into 'I don't have time to run errands because I have to shoot' day. I had fun, but I missed having a tripod on hand for some shots.

I went to the St. Lawrence to take photos, but the priority was lunch! Half and half ravioli with meat sauce and cheese, $8-ish.

When I realized my 35mm (52-ish mm on my DX camera), wasn't wide enough to do the kinds of shots I had in my head, I focused on smaller subjects instead. And in the case of this stack of bacon, by 'small' I mean 'really freaking huge and super awesome looking'.

I basically drool constantly while in the market.

Good inspiration for color photos!

Some random people, doing random market things...

Picnic symmetry.

This is one of the many narrow, rabbit warren hallways where I work.

An old and foreboding-looking church I didn't shoot due to the foreboding locals.

I've been wanting to take photographs inside union station for years, and while the 35mm wasn't wide enough for most of what I wanted to do, I had some success focusing on the details.

The roof is a fantastic display of artistic brickwork.

/Salute.

The sign from the Royal York peaked through one of the windows (and if you look really carefully at this incredibly small photo, you can one of the panes is partially open).

The skyway (?) on the way to the CN Tower.

I was getting a little distracted at this point. Just some lines and tones... nothing to see here, move along.

It was really hard to get this shot, not because it is a hard shot to get, but because I'd turned my lens to manual focus a few steps back and forgot. Golly gee, I couldn't shoot a focused image to save my life! I actually left in disgust, got about 300 feet, remembered I switched it, and went back for this shot.

Some clear direction on the way back to... Well, you get it.

On the platform where I caught the train to Richmond Hill almost every night for 2.5 years. Can't say I miss the experience very much.

Back in the day we didn't have these fancy locomotives, either. A rushed shot due to GO staff avoidance techniques in action.

© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.

Lunar Eclipse

There's nothing like on-the-job training, especially at 1:30 a.m. while standing in a snowdrift trying to feel one's toes. There was a lunar eclipse tonight and it was very cool to watch. I took about 300 photos of the event, and had a bit of a disappointment near the end.

My tripod, up to this point completely versatile and trustworthy in every situation, let me down by not being able to 'aim up' enough. This left me with no stability for the longer-exposure shots I needed to catch the eclipse's colorful climax.

But no matter! The budding photographer in me took geek pleasure in watching the histogram change as the event wore on, and I am pleased with a set of grainy photos that might one day make an interesting montage. If only I was able to pick up my TC on the weekend, they might even have been printable. Anyway, without further ado, the moon, to nothing:












© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.

Cheapest Model I Know

I've been trying to learn more about lighting but practicing is difficult. I hired this model and I didn't pay a lot and it was awkward. No talking, took directions poorly (odd, given the size of its ears), and had a wicked facial hair problem.

Sigh.

© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.