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Welcome to Rob Brunato's Elements of Style photography blog featuring photos of people, nature and wildlife.

Creativity has always been a big part of my life and photography is my favourite. I have been a photographer since 2007 and strive to improve my photos with every snap of the shutter. Equally inspiring is my wife Trista, who time and time again is a big help with my photography. We share a passion in meeting families and couples and capturing some wonderful memories.

I am always looking to expand my portfolio, so if you are interested in photos for your family, maternity, engagement, or model portfolio I would love to hear from you!

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Ingils Falls, Owen Sound

I was out with a couple of friends from work the other day to take some photos of the frozen Inglis Falls located just out side of Owen Sound, Ontario. We arrived just before dusk and it made life easy to get some really great flowing water photos of the fall. The only downfall was the gloomy clouds overhead.

The picture to the left is of me as I was venturing out onto the side of a cliff as seen in the picture below. Josh happened to snap the photo just as I took a step and was a bit nervous of falling through the cracks. The cliff was snow covered and a bit frightening to walk on. I'm sure my wife would have killed me for doing that if she was there.

The first picture below took a bit of effort to get. I had to climb down the icy, snow covered rocks to the west of the falls. Once I was down the ledge, I was in waste deep snow and had to walk over and under all sorts of branches and rocks. I set up my tripod on a boulder just on the shore of the creek at the bottom of the falls. Unfortunately, I was a bit too cold and snow covered to consider putting on my zoom lens. So my shots were all wide angle from below.

The second photo is shot straight on from the west side of the falls on the ledge. The last photo is from the bridge at the top of the falls. I've taken all the photos either at f/22 or f/32 in order to get a long exposure time. My ISO was set around 200 and I was shooting on aperture priority.

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Fruit Splash

Freezing water splashes and fruit... it makes a mess, but looks awesome!

Here is how I set up the shot.

I had seen something similar done on flickr and thought I would give it a try because I wanted to play with my new lighting. What I wasn't expecting was how much of a mess this was going to make. Even with towels everywhere I managed to soak the floor (good thing I have laminate flooring). To get the shot, I had my camera on a 2 second timer. I pushed the shutter and stood over the table to the right. It took a few tries to get the timing right, but once I did you can see the results below!

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Trista Shoot

I bought some new lighting and a backdrop over the holidays and I set up a shoot with Trista to test them out.

I bought a Bowens Gemini 400 studio kit and a soft-box. It took me a bit to figure out how to put the softbox together, but once I got it I found the lights very easy to setup and use. The 400W bulbs throw a TON of light and they are a bit much for the size of room I was shooting in. But after dialing them back to 30% power the lighting was much more even and manageable.

For the first two images, I had the soft-box light to the left about 5ft. away and a white reflective umbrella to the right about 4ft. away. I put the right light almost parallel to the backdrop. The left light was about 45 degrees from the backdrop. I was shooting at f/11, ISO 200, 1/250s at 50mm. The photos were converted to B/W in lightroom. I dont have a white backdrop yet, so I was using a white sheet. I was not overly impressed with the sheet and as pushed me to look into a proper back drop. I have a proper black backdrop that I love.

Trista

The next two images I moved the right light to about 45 degrees and was shooting with the same camera settings. Taken in colour and converted to B/W in Lightroom.

Trista

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