Dilettante Photography: Retrospective

Regarding the news about G+ closure. I would like to stay in touch with some of you who have become great followers and friends I admire the works of. If you can pm me I will give you few other social media outlets that we can follow each other's works. I would hate to loose the contact. Cheers. Hera Bell

Hello everyone. It has been a while that I was away from g+. I hope everyone is well. Japanese Butoh. In December I had a special client. She practices Japanese Butoh. A dance form. From our portrait session we ended up creating a video. The video.part was taped in one shot hand held with my lumix GH2 so was the photography was shot during a second dance in my studio. The music is her choice. Voila https://youtu.be/ICp7YPJGPnQ https://youtu.be/ICp7YPJGPnQ

I become Dracula's bride. After the ceremony I got bitt3n by the Mister. Happy Halloween.

Eiffel l Tower is completely gated and there is a huge line up to pass almost airport security like gates just to go close to It. Sad but it needs to be like that. Can you blame the city? I still captured amazing shots just with my cell phone and my infrared camera. Few teasers. Voila

Turkish Steps... A surreal place in Sicily. Shot as I was hiking on it with my other camera... A moment captured... After I did the shot I runned after her. I showed the shot in my camera. She was a group of young Chinese tourists. They all wanted to get photographed. I told them no time. I made her sign the digital model release. I now will send her a signed print.

My portraits of this family were on CTV news last night. Check it out. interesting story. https://youtu.be/xv0m_gWXMto

There was an era in photography that we used to take a color slide film, then process it in negative film chemicals and call it Cross Process. I come from that era as a photographer. The results were highly contrasty negatives. Fuji Velvia created bizarre blueish contrasty shots. Agfa slides were warmer tones yet still contrasty shots. I digged into my old negatives this morning. Year was 2001. October. In studio with an old friend of mine. I body painted her skin. And shot with Agfa slide and cros processed it. Voila scanned 16 years later. Then turned into a toned B&W shot.

Yesterday I had the pleasure photographing legendary entertainment personality Mr. Sheldon Kagan and his wife Linda first in my studio.Then we moved to their condo from my place and photographed their kids with their own families. Thank you Sheldon choosing me to be the photographer for your upcoming book cover. I am humbled. Here is the first teaser.

http://herabellblog.blogspot.ca/2017/01/portrait-photo-editing-styles-versus.html

I wish I had met Gaudi in my life time. I wish I had the opportunity to get to know the crazy genius behind his monuments. He created these stuff 100 years ago. Mind blowing. He was as practical as technically advanced and as off beat as a designer/artiste I feel sometimes. visiting his creations was the highlight of my Barcelona trip.

I love the dreamy feel of infared photography. Everything green turns into white, sky becomes dramatic where the blue becomes darker against puffy clouds. Hopewell Rocks from last summer's trip towards PEI.

Alan Hustak had an illustrious career as a Canadian journalist on TV and at newspapers. Among them CBC, CTV and Montreal Gazette. Although he is now retired, he is still very active as an author behind many books. I had the privilege having him in front of my camera last Sunday. We shared a glass of wine as I edited few shots. www.herabell.com

A selfie moment with a cell phone. Good morning g+. In 5 days I will turn in my 57th year on Earth. All natural skin. No injections. Happy Holidays.

This morning in Montreal. Cell phone snaps.

I was on the market for a negative and slide scanner for a while now. My first scanner was Nikon Coolscan III. Amazing scanner for its time. Paif for it back then over 1 g.... It worked with a scazi. Therefor with my new computer back then it could not be hooked. I finally purchased after careful conideration Pulstek 8200i... First scan with my new beast. High quality scans. Shot in March 2002 with slide film. As is. Savannah Wormshole. I have millions of such beautiful shots since 1997... Let's start the engines. Fun visual destination is ahead. www.herabell.com

Exhibit is hung. 47" tall prints are hanging without a frame.

From my first contact sheet to the first portrait. Early years of my work. In an Audiovisual with the stories behind the images. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vut6-GRyEe0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vut6-GRyEe0

My upcoming exhibit H2O CANADA will be all about prints. However there will be a digital frame at its opening showing various animations of the hung prints. This is one of them.

Another example. Animation created by #PLOTAGRAPH. #plotagraphpro South Beach Miami www.herabell.com

I have become the ambassador of an animation program called #PLOTAGRAPH. #plotagraphpro. You can create animations from a single image. Voila few samples. Indian Summer. www.herabell.com