What’s been going on lately

I was notified March 15th, 2020 not to show up to work until April 6th, 2020.  Three weeks without work.  The agency I work for probably won’t pay me for the three weeks I’ll be off.  I am hoping my photography takes off and I can pay for rent, groceries, bills, etc.  Who am I kidding?  With everyone self quarantining, no one is making any money.

I took the opportunity today to test my setup.  My setup includes the Sony A7R II full frame camera, the 2018 Apple iPad Pro with the 512GB hard drive and the 12.9” screen.  I am using 4TB Seagate hard drive attached to my iPad Pro to store all my photos and videos.  The longest part of my editing process is actually importing the 80+ megabyte files onto the external hard drive.  I am hoping that iPad OS 13.4 gets more solid as the File app on the iPad is kinda sketchy.  I am hoping that iPadOS 14 resolves the Files app and makes the whole system easier and more solid to use.

The 2018 Apple iPad Pro edits the Sony A7R II files with a breeze.  Literally it takes a second or two to import into Pixelmator Photo on the iPad Pro.  Less than a second to use the Pixelmator Photo to use the AI to edit the photos.  I am finally happy to report that I no longer need a MacBook Pro or a Windows 10 laptop to edit photos.  I am now 110% reliant on the 2018 Apple iPad Pro.

Since I have a few weeks off, I was going to go to Parc Omega to test out the Sony A7RII but thanks to Coronavirus, the park is closed until whenever this shit show is done.  I will be doing photography around the Ottawa area since travel is very limited right now and the income is limited as well.  Thankfully gas is cheap and getting cheaper by the day.  We’re done to less than 80 cents a litre.  This Coronavirus is an overblown shit show.  Someone is definitely making money off of this panic.  It’s not a pandemic.  It’s a panic.  

Timelapse from today

Since my contract ended early due to shortage of work and looking for work on a Friday, I decided to give myself a break and have some time to relax I went downtown to shoot a time lapse of Parliament Hill from the Quebec side.  There were a lot of nice and fluffy clouds.  The clip should be up and approved soon on Shutterstock, Pond5 and Storyblocks.

Holy exhausted Batman!

No new photos or videos today as I was swamped at work.  Plus I didn't get a chance to edit photos that I took yesterday.  I took a lot of panorama photos and some wide field like the one above taken with the Canon EOS 6D and the Canon EF f2.8 16-35MM L series lens.  I think I will do some photography tomorrow.  I haven't been sleeping well in the past week or so.  I'm really exhausted.

Shooting panoramas

Did another walk around from where I work to the Museum of Canadian History.  This walk takes me about 90 to 120 minutes to complete as I stop along the way to take photos.  Today I decided to shoot some panoramas with my Canon EOS 6D and the Canon EF f2.8 70-200M L series lens.  I gripped the camera vertically and started shooting at 70MM.  I stitched about 8-10 vertical shots in Adobe Lightroom CC and colour corrected, removed sensor noise, corrected white balance and then posted on this blog.

I didn't get to edit many more shots as I had a few errands to run after work.  Tomorrow will be the day for editing.  Actually maybe next week as we're supposed to get sunshine till sometime next week.  I want to be outside and use my camera.  Editing is for those rainy, miserable days.

Finally some photography this week.

After doing a week of video work, I "forgot" my camcorder at home and only took my Canon 6D bodies and the various lenses.  The above shot is a landscape panorama composite of three separate photographs.  I shot this on my lunch today as I needed to get out of the office and do something I actually enjoy doing.  I actually enjoy the current job I have as the my coworkers are good, clients not that bad and the bosses leave me alone.

Today was a hot and sunny day as you can tell from the above photo.  Ottawa is finally green after a prolonged winter and hardly any spring as we went directly from winter to summer.  Spring was very cool compared to past years.

Anyways, back to photography.  I always get my shots from either across the river from Ottawa or from Nepean Point which faces westward towards Ottawa.  Today I shot eastward and got this pretty sweet shot.  It was taken with a Canon EOS 6D and a Canon EF f2.8 70-200MM L series lens.  Composite of 3 photographs each at 70MM, f16, ISO 200.  Ottawa is a really green city.

Shooting editorial photography and videos

I've been shooting a lot of editorial photography and video.  A lot more video than photography.  It's a lot of fun.  I'm selling the photography as well.  Shutterstock is a great platform to sell your photography and videography along with Bigstockphoto.