David Lifson Photography

09/22/2014

Modern smartphones have really good cameras. Here is a great article I came across: http://www.techspot.com/article/879-smartphone-photography-tips/

While it's interesting to know and understand what constitutes a digital camera module, that won't help much when it comes to actually taking a photo on your smartphone. From a photography enthusiast and mobile hardware reviewer, here are 10 tips to take awesome shots using your smartphone. 10 Tips…

05/22/2014

Marshian Sky 2 - This marsh is connected to the one in the last image that I posted. It was made on a different night. Look in the water on the left hand side there is a beaver carrying material to build a dam. He kept going back and forth all night. He was like the expression, busy as a beaver. I watched him for about 2 hours. I tried to wait for him to leave so that I could have still water. He would not stop.

05/21/2014

Marshian Evening - Zoom in on the foreground and you will see that it is a beaver dam.

05/13/2014

What an amazing trip to Algonquin Park. I even made a new friend. This "little" girl got a little too close to me for comfort. Or maybe I got to close to her.

02/21/2014

Catching A Ray - This picture makes me long for the warm peaceful mornings of spring!

02/18/2014

A Rush of Colour - There are some times when I find that a square crop is more effective than landscape or portrait. I really like how this image works as a square.

01/08/2014

Little Girl Big Steps - although I have seen this effect for years(mixing colour and black and white), I was never able to visualize any of my own images with this technique. I was flipping through some of my old photographs and across this one and tried it. I had always felt that the girl got lost in the background. Now she is really highlighted. Anyway, I entered it in a competition recently and it scored well and won an Honorable Mention.

This photograph was made in Angkor Wat. It seemed to me the girl was being punished - time out - and was not very happy about sitting off by herself.

12/22/2013

The glamour life of a photographer!

I got this from another photographer. I didn't take it.

10/16/2013

"Autumn Falls" I am really enjoying working in Black and White. I like how the tree colours stand out. I made this image last week.

09/28/2013

I went to an Ansel Adams exhibit last week. It inspired me to really start thinking about monochrome images. This one is called "Inspired Dawn"

09/09/2013

Some photographer friends were joking with me about not having a shot of red canoes in my portfolio. So did one my own way.

I made this image at 3 in the morning. I took my flashlight and light painted the canoes so that they would show up.

If you decide to shoot at that hour, don't drop stuff. It's really hard to find!

08/23/2013

Last Light Kissing The Trees - Most of my images require extensive scouting. This one did not. I pulled over on the side of the road for a break and this is what I saw! So I marked the location and came back at the end of the day.