Portfolio and blog for Newfoundland based photographer Darrell Strickland


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Family Shoot

I just love shooting these guys and I am usually honored to do it once or twice a year. The kids are great to work with and their mother is open to let me have creative control in the studio. I started off the shoot with some pretty standard boring shots but by the end [...]

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Another from my last glamour shoot

This is another from the new softbox series. One 6′ octabox camera left as a main and an SB-800 camera right for a background light. The only processing was done in Lightroom 3. I reduced the overall clarity while sharpening her pupils.

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New light shapers to play with

I have been considering picking up at 60″ or larger soft box for quiet a while now. The small soft boxes that I have a great but I sometimes find myself combining them to make the appearance of one large one. Yet, I was having trouble justifying the cost of the extra gear. During my [...]

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Fallon

One Light Setup Fallon was shot with a medium sized soft box camera left placed just a few feet from her. I tapered the light on her face to allow her feet to fall into shadow and hide the footprints on the floor. I was going to flag the light and prevent the spill onto [...]

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Bowering Park

Another image captured in Bowering Park. This is of a smaller tributary that joins with the Waterford River.   iso200, f22 at 4 sec. Converted to B&W using Silver effects pro

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Bowering Park

I spent an evening in Bowering Park recently, one of my favourite places to shoot and just wander. I was getting late in the evening, so my exposures were getting longer, I thought it was a perfect time to try some long exposures on the river. This image was captured at iso200, f22 at 5sec. [...]

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Matt & Cecilia

Matt & Cecilia and actually my brother in-law and his beautiful wife. i had the pleasure of photographing their wedding last summer in Ottawa during the Canada Day weekend. Obviously, we all went for the trip, making a bit of a vacation out of it. Honestly, Canada Day on Parliament Hill with two kids under [...]

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Another gallery wrap

I had the gang over at Metro Signs do another one of their amazing studio wraps. This one I had done a little differently. I had the image wrap all the way around the frame and the frame itself is much thicker. Unfortunately, this image just does not do the wrap justice, you really have [...]

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Tiffany

Tiffany is one of my favourite people in the world to shoot. She is an amazing photographer herself and is one of the most fun people to have on set. I had an idea to play with a “caution tape” them and Tiffany was all in. I used two medium soft boxes in a clam [...]

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