Andrew Strain Photography

Just a few weeks ago I was raving about how winter had finally arrived... it was good while it lasted, but it seems to have been short. I went from shooting on another sunny Sunday at Cypress, to enjoying burgers and beer at sunset on Jericho beach in less than 45 minutes - I really love living in this city.

I wanted to throw a strobe onto Colin in this photo, but my camera battery decided to call it quits after a long day of shooting, and the spare was in the car. I still like it.
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I've been going through my library lately, looking at old photos as I put together a shortlist of images for the portfolio/website that I'm currently working on. I haven't posted much this summer, so I figured I'd follow up my last post fairly expediently with a couple photos: one from May, and a new take on an old favorite from nearly 2 years ago.





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Another from Monday. The full moon climbs into the evening sky as the last light of day glows red on downtown Vancouver and the snow capped peaks of the north shore.

Nikon D200 / AF-S 70-300 VR
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An icy droplet clings to the ceiling of the kiosk at the Cypress lookout at sunset, with the Straight of Georgia and Vancouver Island in the background.

Nikon D200 / AF-S 18-70
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I'd be willing to bet the crew of that barge are a bunch of leprechauns...

Pentax K10D / DA 50-200
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Last night's sunset over the Vancouver skyline, as seen from the Kitsilano side of English Bay.

Taken with my Pentax K10D / DA 10-17 Fisheye @ 13mm, "defished" with photoshop's lens correction tool.



The distortion is still fairly high, but coming from a fisheye shot I'm rather impressed. Comparing to some photos with the DA 18-55 @ 18mm, this is a similar amount of distortion, but with a ~14mm FOV.

For those looking for more longboat photos, they're up on flickr now. Full Post and Comments

I made it my mission to get in some landscape photography before the month was out... the reason I haven't been posting much lately is simply because I haven't had any time to go out and shoot something (anything!) for myself. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy shooting indoor events, but at the end of the day I'm an outdoor photographer at heart...

As I headed towards the beach, I noticed that the large cumulonimbus cloud over the north shore was starting to develop a mammatus-like appearance, something I've only seen a couple times before (and never in Vancouver). Unfortunately, they dissipated before the "golden hour" hit, but the sunset didn't disappoint.

Pentax K10D / FA 50 1.4













Pentax DA 18-55
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