I'm gonna make this quick! Keep checking back here, I should have some new photos up from my Victoria Day weekend soon! It's more of a personal set of shots, hope you like them!

-Nate

So as a part of New Balance Ottawa's media team I get to do cool stuff every now and again. Apparently Canadian Olympians Eric Gillis and Reid Coolsaet will be stopping by our downtown Sports 4 location for an autograph session and yours truly will be shooting the event. Sounds like fun? I think so! Am I nervous? Hell yeah!

I always enter a session with my confident face on, but inside there's always a part of me that still twists and turns. The swirl of "what ifs" begins to circulate just before I get down to business, but as soon as game time comes it's time to put aside all that crap and do my job. When it comes to nerves, I think a healthy amount of fear can be enough to keep a guy like me (or even yourself perhaps) in check. There's a fine line between confidence and cockiness so be aware of what your capabilities are and never assume that you are above reproach. To be frank, I'm far too new at this game to be cocky anyway. I've been blessed with great opportunities like this and keeping that in perspective will be my foundation for all the work I produce as a photographer. Fact: Everything blessing can be taken away.

I'll probably shoot this event with my 55-200 lens just so I can get in close without invading anyone's private space. Since I'm not sure of the lighting, I'll most likely pack my SB-400 flash and SC-28  TTL remote cord to take her off camera. For composition purposes, I'll probably be cranking the aperture wide open to get a nice, shallow depth of field (blurring the background) and try to get away with a 400 ISO setting so the shots don't turn out too grainy.

Check back here for shots and updates! I'm super excited for this!
- Nate

 

Last night when I has having trouble sleeping I stumbled upon a series of meme's called "Bad Luck Brian". First of all whoever came up with this is a genius and secondly it gave me a good 10 minutes of "LOL" factor which was nice. This morning I reposted a meme, from the group, that I thought was exceptionally funny and had a thought.

Now, I love a good meme as much as anyone else but I couldn't help but wonder about the poor soul who has now become, as one of the images stated best, "the laughing stock of the internet". How does he feel about all this? Does he take it in stride or does he sit alone crying for mercy in the comfort of his room? Does he embrace the virality or does he loathe being recognized? Does he want it to end or, perhaps more appropriately, when will it end? I hate to be a buzz-kill, it's lame and it was selfish of me, but it was a thought that just wouldn't leave my head.

So many things from hashtags to images like these to videos can go viral these days and I think to a point we become desensitized to its nature due to our saturation in "net" culture. What we need to remember is that, while it's nothing personal to us, to someone out there it was very personal right from the start.

So I realized that using a forum required a subscription of some sort on Facebook... I figured most of you wouldn't be into that kinda thing so I figured a blog with comment features would be a decent compromise. Leave comments, suggestions, ideas or whatever comes to mind! On another note I had a wonderful BLT for lunch today. If I could cap it off with a nap it would be spectacular....