Creative ebb and flow: Photog Steven Vigar

Photographer Steven Vigar started with his father’s Olympus in Canada’s frozen mid-west. He now calls the warm Asian island of Taiwan home and shoots freelance for many publications. Meet Steven on this week’s Photog Friday. How did he get started? How does he work? What does he shoot? Read on…

Brief Bio:
Taiwan’s photographer of the year, Steven Vigar was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where he studied photography at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He has worked as photo editor for The Nugget and is a regular contributor for the Firstlight Associated Photographers. Currently, Steven is traveling Taiwan, Asia and beyond while working freelance for several publications. Vigar’s most recent work can be found in the Taipei Times, Adbusters, JPG, Taiwan Photographers, BUNK, Taiwan Nights and Waakao. He specializes in documentary, travel and portraiture.

How did you first get interested in photography?
At an early age my father used to let me play with his old 35mm Olympus camera. Loved the creative outlet it gave me the minute it touched my little hands.  I would return after two minutes with the camera looking for more film. “you used it all taking pictures of the cat?!”

What can the Phottix Geo One GPS do?

Fitz globeQuestion: What can the Phottix Geo One GPS do?

Answer: Lots.

Geotagging images is popular. With some simple software the longitude, latitude and altitude information captured with your images can be plotted in popular mapping applications like Google Earth. The Phottix Geo One GPS unit for Nikon DSLRs gives you the ability to add GPS data to your JPG and RAW files. The Geo One is small and mounts on your camera’s hot shoe or strap.

The good folks are Red Dot Photo put together a neat little video on what the Phottix Geo One can do, and how to process GPS data in Adobe Lightroom 2.

Phottix Weekly Photo: Fortaleze Surfer 2

Gadget333 added this spectacular shot to the Phottix Photos group on flickr. About the surfing series from Brazil he said: I took these two shots from the pier known as Ponte dos Ingleses (Bridge of the English) which offered some great views of the local surfers in the hour before sunset. Unfortunately we didn’t take…