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mexico | film

Heath OFee — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:32:06 +0000

In late November I was able to take my family on a trip to Mexico to shoot a friends wedding. I’ll be sharing those photos some time down the road, but in the meantime here are a few casual frames shot on film.

Zeiss Ikon // Nokton 35 1.2 // Fuji 400h

moraine, louise, and agnes

Heath OFee — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:30:11 +0000

I paid a visit to a few of the most popular lakes in Banff National Park last week.

I love our Canadian Rockies.

milky way

Heath OFee — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:18:51 +0000

Waking up at 3am is never particularly fun, but photos like this can help ease the pain.

The milky way in Sedona, AZ.

arizona

Heath OFee — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:44:04 +0000

All photos shot with a Contax G2 using both Fuji and Kodak film stocks.

emma+brian

Heath OFee — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:25:35 +0000

Back in November I had the opportunity to shoot a wedding down in Phoenix, AZ with a good friend, and I couldn’t have asked for a better one to be a part of. I had such an amazing time and I can’t thank Emma and Brian enough for being so welcoming to this Canadian kid.

Obviously, big thanks to Mike Olbinski for having me along!

Whitefish

Heath OFee — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:00:48 +0000

I spent this past weekend in Whitefish, Montana with a group of boys from my office. I didn’t take any of my real camera gear with me, but I thought I might as well try to get a post worth of material using my iPhone – so that’s what you see below. All of the photos in this post were taken with my iPhone 4S and processed using VSCOCAM, which is far and away my favourite camera app these days.

Hellmouth

Heath OFee — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:10:02 +0000

One of the great things about shooting with a group of other photographers is the sharing of knowledge and ideas. New techniques that you may not have tried before come to light and subjects you may not have photographed otherwise make their way onto your memory card.

One of the downsides of shooting with a group of other photographers is that, inevitably, you end up with some similar compositions. This is the case with my shot today. My good buddy, Mike Olbinski, posted a frame of this same location with a slightly different composition a little while ago. I absolutely love his shot, but I couldn’t just let mine sit on the hard drive – so Mike, please forgive me

As for the title – I thought the creepy, salt encrusted old pier could pass for the ferry dock where one would begin their journey across the River Styx into Hades. Setting off across that eerily calm water towards the burning sunset in the distance would certainly creep me out!

Equipment:
– Canon EOS 5D Mark II
– Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L
– B+W 77mm 10 stop ND Filter

The Desert

Heath OFee — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:12:22 +0000

Another small set from Joshua Tree National Park:

Curvature

Heath OFee — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:10:46 +0000

My previous visit to the Salton Sea area yielded a ridiculous amount of images – none of which contained any clouds. I spent the better part of three days shooting in and around the salt-lake, and the entire time there wasn’t a cloud in sight – ridiculous.

Thankfully, for my second visit a couple of weeks ago, we were blessed with a day full of clouds that had potential to deliver a stunning sunset. We were not disappointed. As the sun started to dip below the low mountains, we were treated to some pretty great reds and oranges in the clouds.

This shot is of the curving shoreline of Bombay Beach.

Equipment:
– Canon EOS 5D Mark II
– Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L
– B+W 77mm 10 stop ND Filter

Joshua Sunrise

Heath OFee — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:10:14 +0000

The best part of the one night I spent camping in Joshua Tree was when the sun started to come up and I was forced to get out my freezing cold sleeping bag and go take photos. Sub-freezing overnight temperatures ensured that I didn’t get any sleep, so the rush of finding some good sunrise compositions was a welcome bit of activity.

I’m sure that all six of us who were camping got a silhouette shot similar to this one at sunrise. There were just enough clouds on the horizon to create some interesting colour, and those Joshua Trees are just too cool to pass up as a foreground element.

Equipment:
– Canon EOS 5D Mark II
– Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L