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Archive for July, 2008

Some Recent Weddings

July 22nd, 2008

I wanted to share some images from a few recent weddings Lisa and I shot. I am really lucky to be working with great couples who love to have fun and I am sure you can see this from the photos. Thanks for taking a look.

EMILY AND BRIAN





JESSIE AND ALBERT





JOLANTA AND GARY





Nelly Furtado

July 7th, 2008

Nelly Furtado was honoured by the Royal Conservatory of Music for her contribution to Canadian music and I was lucky enough to get to shoot the event for RCM once again. The first image is of of Nelly with Peter Simon who is the president of RCM and a great guy. The other images are during the red carpet interviews and a set she did after the award was given to her. I think what impressed me most about Nelly Furtado was that we were not allowed to shoot her kids during dinner and the youngest sat on her lap and coloured with her which was great to see.


Lighting Trick

July 7th, 2008

I was shooting some restaurant interiors and my friend Tracy came along to help me out. As I was shooting the images and spending a lot of time lighting the photos she suggested I shoot one overall exposure and then use my small strobes to accent various parts of the images and then paint just these accents in using Photoshop. The top image is the overall exposure and the image below it is the finished retouched image and I think the results are brilliant. Thanks Tracy!


Dinner in the sky

July 7th, 2008

I shot a job last week for CP Images and when I first found out I was shooting an event called Dinner in the sky I pictured a job at the restaurant at the top of the CN tower. When I told them I would do the shoot I later found out what it really was. Eating dinner suspended a couple of hundred feet in the air. Holy crap I said, I don’t like roller coaster so I am not too sure about this. So I do the job and loved it. It takes a few minutes to get use to it but not only was it a once in a lifetime opportunity it was also an amazing vegetarian meal. Below are a few images and the two guys were sitting beside me and I had so little room to move I just held my camera up and told them to look in the lens. I really loved the shot but wished I had a little wider of a lens so you could see more. Guess I will have to tell them I need to go up for dinner again.