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Recent Shots, Out & About: Toronto Child Photography

Thursday, April 30, 2009

I thought I should give another lens some loving, rather then using my Canon 85 f1.2L lens all the time, all of the following where shot with the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens.

Absolutely ADORE this shot of Harry, who came over one day after school to have a play date with Noah. Love the look he is giving me, and the hair askew across his forehead, and, as always, loving the red hair, freckles and green eyes:

Extreme backlit shot in the doorway:

Managed to get Noah to stand still for a minute for a photo after Harry left:

Last Saturday Noah had a birthday party to go to, so Rebecca and I spent some girl time together and went shopping.

(Blur at the edges are her hands, but I still like the shot.)

Under the cool bridge:

Further down Yonge Street:

Last shot before we went inside to go shopping:

We were inside and underground for the whole afternoon, and didn’t realize what the weather was doing outside! We came out to scary dark clouds and very windy conditions so hi-tailed it home!

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Yonge Street, St. Lawrence Market & Guildwood Park

Sunday, April 19, 2009

A bit of catch up with some recent shots today. All were taken with my beloved Canon 85 f1.2L lens, really thinking I need to give some of my other lenses some loving next time I go out!

Noah, under the same bridge as before:

We stopped in at a local shop to pick up some fish for dinner, caught Noah in some nice window light:

Paused long enough for me to capture this shot:

Then off he ran ahead of me to the Spotted Zebra (same store we visited in the previous blog posting):

And he added two more rubber frogs to his collection:

Then, on the weekend, we went down to the St. Lawrence Market:

Noah discovered the joy of pigeon chasing:

One of the MANY pigeons:

Rebecca enjoys some chocolate milk as part of her afternoon snack:

Noah got a lot of exercise running after the pigeons:

At one point one flew up onto a light:

He kept an eye on it:

And tried to coax it down:

Now, just let me assure everyone NO PIGEONS were harmed! He didn’t get that close to them, even though it looks like he did!

Think I will have to do a family or couple shoot down at the market, it’s a rather cool location, with some older buildings that would be fun for backgrounds too.

After hanging out at the St. Lawrence Market until almost closing time (BTW, in case you didn’t know, some of the stores have a big sell off at the end of day Saturday), we went to Guildwood Park, which I’ve never been to before. Boy, I sure wish I could bottle this kids’ energy! As you can see Noah was still running and jumping!

Here he was triumphed from throwing a rock or stick, I’m not sure what his goal was!

I saw a bit of a rise in the path and had him run back and jump, but he only did it once so this what the best image I captured:

Just when the kids decided that they had had enough, and wanted to go home, they then decided to start digging in the dirt, we didn’t leave for another 15–20 minutes:

Love this smily shot of Rebecca, even though something (sun flare? object in front of lens?) distorted it a bit in the middle, love the backlighting:

On the way back to the car Noah let out a real, out-of-control, laugh, love it!

Noah was ready for bed EARLY that night, after all that exercise and fresh air I can’t say I was surprised! 🙂

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Out & About with Noah

Monday, April 6, 2009

Noah was so overdue for a haircut that last Thursday, since it was such a beautiful day, I collected him from school and we went to Yonge Street to the local barber.

As you can see he was being a bit of a character during his haircut!

But he was rewarded with lollypops!

I thought this image, under a bridge, just cried out for a texture. All of these images were shot with my beloved Canon 85 f1.2L lens, it is just an amazing piece of glass. Always delivers fabulous bokeh. If I could also use it as a macro I’d probably keep it on my camera 99.9% of the time!

Here’s another without the texture:

Bokeh, bokeh, bokeh, LOVE it!

I almost always shoot wide open with the 85, as it is known to be tack sharp at 1.2. I really only ever stop down when there is more then one person in the frame.

We stopped to pick up something for dinner and to buy some water for Noah:

Then we had one more errand to run before heading home…

We stopped in at the Spotted Zebra so Noah could exchange a birthday present:

One of his choices was this blue rubber frog:

We took a back access alley home, which is another cool place in the hood to shoot:

And, yeah! I’m all caught up with my blogging! Woot!

by Holly

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