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Simon + Megan: Calgary Maternity Shoot

Heath OFee — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:10:56 +0000

A week and a half ago I had an awesome maternity session with Simon and Megan – despite the (somewhat) early hour I forced them out of bed I’ve known these two for a couple of years now, and I have no doubt that they’re going to be wonderful parents when the time comes.

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Heath OFee — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:34:36 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my pals south of the border! I hope you all have an awesome long weekend and are able to grab some sweet deals on new gear tomorrow!

I decided to take us back to school again with this shot of a set of extremely cluttered message boards. This is in the lobby area of the Science Theatres building at the University of Calgary. I find it so funny that all these students with things to say are far too lazy to clear off any old notices to make room for theirs…they just slap their own message right on top, regardless of what they may be covering up. I guess the life of a student is a busy one!

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 10mm, F 8.0, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

The Zipper

Heath OFee — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:59:51 +0000

This photo brings back some memories for me. This was shot in the Science Theatres lobby area at the University of Calgary where I spent 5 glorious years getting my undergraduate degree in Economics. The crazy looking metal sculpture in the centre of the frame is called ‘The Zipper’. Both screw-like pieces of the sculpture are able to rotate, plus the entire structure sits on a rotating mount allowing the sculpture to spin on two axes. It is considered good luck to spin The Zipper before writing an exam (unless you were an engineering student for some reason), so during midterms and finals this thing was almost always in motion.

Good luck to all those students returning to the U of C this fall!

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 10mm, F 11, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

Art Parkade Walkway at the U of C

Heath OFee — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:48:40 +0000

This past weekend I decided to take a nostalgic photo walk through the University of Calgary campus. I hadn’t been back there since I graduated a few years ago and I thought it would be kinda neat to see what (if anything) had changed. Everything was just as I remembered with the exception of the brand new Taylor Family Digital Library (still under construction) and all the scaffolding and false walls in the engineering building…apparently they’re doing a bit of a fix-up job there.

The brown grass and leafless trees of early spring don’t make for particularly pretty photos, so I stayed indoors and shot anything I found interesting. Symmetry was a common theme at the university so played around with that for a change since I typically try to place my focal point off centre (rule of thirds). I also let myself into some lecture theatres and will be making a few lecture hall panoramas in the coming weeks. For now, here’s the first image I shot upon my arrival at the U of C:

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 10mm, F 11, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

This is the skywalk from the Art Parkade to Craigie Hall. I almost kept walking once I got through the doors from the parkade but I’m glad I stopped to shoot this hallway. Converging lines are so much fun!

The details: 3 exposure HDR (-2,0,+2) tonemapped in Photomatix, masking in Photoshop, noise reduction using Noiseware (unbelievable results!), final tweaks in Lightroom. Let me know what you think.