Saturday, August 31, 2013

Ageing Together Celebrating Life And Sharing A Life

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
Victor Hugo

 
To all the love birds out there, may you age happy together by always leaning on to each other's shoulder.

Last Thursday my husband and I, we celebrated 25 years together and 21 years of marriage.






Let There Be Fire... Montreal Glamour Portrait Photographer Hera Bell

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

George Carlin

"Fire is light-footed and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed molecule at a time, wreaking utter destruction with a touch softer than breath. Its poor cousins, wind and water, are one-dimensional rubes by comparison. Wind is all push, push, push. Water is suffocating, but passively so. And even when water gets it together to be a torrent or a tsunami, it is but wet wind. Fire is at once elemental and otherworldly. Fire dances on the grave of all it destroys. Fire is serious voodoo.”

Micheal Perry


From my garden to yours with love. Photos were shot by me hand held in August  28th 2013
PS: Thank you Danielle & Simon for this second opportunity collaborating with this project. We achieved well my vision of  "The Shaman and His Sorcerer's Fire Dance" concept together.

Results below are with Lumix GH2 camera. Further down you will see the results with Canon 5DMark III.













Results with 5DMark III are below.






Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Areal Landscape Photography From A Plane's Window- Montreal Photographer Hera Bell

Most of you who know us by now know that Anthony and I travel and we document our travels with actual photos and texts at our travel blog.

Anthony & Hera Travel Adventures

As for people who can't believe that my photography is real and is mine, well, all I can say, I have nothing to prove to unbelievers. Let them walk with their blinders and see only what they believe in and peruse with their rumors.

I am known to edit my work. Half of the art of photography is in the editing of your images, the other half is composing and using the light to your advantage. In the past, before digital era,  I used to print my images in my darkroom. Today Photoshop made it easier to achieve my artistic vision faster and easier.

I sometimes document the realty, much like in my travel photography. My colors are bold, sometimes saturated. But my travel photography are images as composed in my camera, not cropped... I usually travel with a Panasonic Lumix GH2 camera and Lumix lenses. I also capture images with my cell phone Samsung Galaxy SII. People who can't believe that great images can be shot with a cell phone, I welcome them to the new cell phone era. I produced 16"x20" size prints from my Galaxy SII.

The rumor has it that  The Galaxy S5 (which is not out yet) might have an image stabilizer.

In my fine art portrait works. I am known with my very realistic collages. However everything in my collages are shot by me. The backgrounds, locations and the people. Much like in this Blog post.

Creating A Collage

Let me show you how I shoot and edit my areal landscape shots from the plane's window behind a dirty glass. And how it ends up becoming what you see uploaded to my Blogs.

Voila. 







Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Photographing A Very Sexy Muscle Man A Montreal Rescue Fierman And A Pro Fitness Model

Claude is an extremely handsome and a very sweetheart kind of a man.

I had photographed him first last year August 29 1012.









He returned back to my studio for another photo session this year in July 25 2013...








 







In about a week time he will compete at WBFF 2013 under the Pro category in Las Vegas.

Best of luck to you dear Claude.

Then if everything works well, I am scheduled to conduct another session with  Claude in early September with another outstanding pro female fitness model in my studio.

Stay tuned...