Holly Sisson Photography

April 6, 2009

First Sign of Spring, Out & About in the Park

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 4:03 pm

I decided to give my Canon 70–200 f2.8L IS lens some loving, and also experiment with using it with an
extension tube attached to achieve closer focus then normally possible with that lens.

I captured this early sign of spring, this lens gives great bokeh:
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Then ‘tried’ to capture some shots of the children, after socializing with other parents, in the park:
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Caught this one shot of Maddy (whom you may remember from this blog post). Perhaps next time she’ll be on the loose in the park and I can really put that 200 mm to work!
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Only two more blog posts to go, then I’ll be caught up…not sure if I’ll have time to get to them today or not though (but I will try). 🙂

January 4, 2009

Horses: Sunnybrook Stables, Toronto

Filed under: Animals,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 5:13 pm

A friend and I went to Sunnybrook Stables, here in Toronto, the other day to capture some horse photos. (Something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now!) We were lucky enough to run into an owner of one of the horses who invited us into the stable to take some photographs. Thanks Cindy!

Here are a few from the afternoon:
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September 28, 2008

Photography Workshop

Filed under: Children,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 9:07 pm

I had the amazing experience of attending a photography workshop recently. Though rather time consuming to get to from Toronto, it was worth the 11.5 hour journey down and the 13.5 hour journey home.

After we arrived, I went down to the beach:
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The next day we did some shooting with one of the instructors:
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The next day we did some shooting on the beach. At first Ella was nervous and wanted to hang with her mom:
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But then she warmed up to the group:
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And then the shoot was over:
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Some shots from the last night, the calm before the storm that blew in the next day:
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We couldn’t get out and about the next day, due to rain and wind, but I managed to captured the following two photos of my roommate, Josée, before we had to head to the airport:
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Virgil, our next door neighbour, hung out with us most of the time as well:
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And as nice as it is to get away, especially to somewhere so beautiful, it sure is nice to come home again!

September 8, 2008

Dragon: Noah’s Beta Fish

Filed under: Animals,The Natural World — Holly @ 2:03 pm

Since the family shoot I had scheduled yesterday was rained out, I decided to play around with off camera flash and take some photographs of my son’s beta fish for an assignment I was working on. The ‘theme’ for the assignment was ‘Shadows’, you can see my entry here, as well as all the other entries.

I choose this first one as my entry as I thought it had an interesting element, with the fish’s fins curled round as they are. Almost looks like a flower, and it isn’t obviously a fish at first glance.

I was shooting in a very dimly lit room, with only window light to see by, so I had to focus manually. I stopped down my aperture to f8, and reduced my flash output so as to only illuminate the fish but not the surroundings. I think the effect worked quite well.

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August 28, 2008

Two weeks worth of images!

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 10:31 pm

Wow! Didn’t realize I was so far behind in posting some images!

This one is from about two weeks ago, out and about running some errands:
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We stopped by the local vet’s to visit kittens, again:
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This past Sunday, once we determined that the weather was going to hold, we decided to make use of a free family pass to Centreville on Centre Island. Here’s a shot of Rebecca on the ferry on the way over to the Island:
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Rebecca and Noah exit the Haunted Barrel Works ride at Centreville:
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Rebecca on the Log Flume Ride:
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Rebecca and Noah enjoying the roller coaster:
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During dinner Noah was creating steam from his iced drink, can you see it?
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Here Rebecca holds up what Noah choose to get instead of dessert, and funnily enough he named this little guy “Dessert”!
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“Dessert” even went for a ride with Noah, see him there? They both had a great time! 😉
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At 8:15 pm we caught the ferry back to the mainland, I caught this shot of the skyline:
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Then this shot of Rebecca with the skyline in the background:
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And who could resist shooting this sky? Beautiful colour and amazing cloud formation as well!
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Noah, with Rebecca in the background:
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On Monday afternoon we went to the park and I caught this shot of ‘Maggie’s’ nose:
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Here is Maggie, a 9-year-old Golden Retriever that Rebecca just LOVES, she is a very sweet dog:
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Maggie’s paws:
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One more of Maggie:
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Rebecca against the fence at the baseball diamond:
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As we were leaving the park the children pointed out a beautiful sunflower right beside the school:
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On Tuesday we went for haircuts, here is the after of Rebecca:
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And here is the after of Noah, isn’t that a great haircut? 😉
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And one more of Rebecca, who was happy to show off her new do:
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That’s all for the moment!

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