“One” Photography Contest | Challenge Accepted!
This March, Luca will be participating in a wonderful charity event. This is the first year that the “One” Photography Contest is being held and Luca is very excited to be a part of the process. The contest has Luca and eleven other talented professional photographers tossing their digital cameras, PhotoShop, computers and lighting equipment [...]
Leah + Vik | Family Session
Before it got too cold this fall, we were lucky enough to get to the lakefront in Ajax for a family portrait session with our long time friends, Leah and Vik. The weather was being agreeable and we were able to get some great outdoor shots at the beautiful Rotary Park, on Lake Ontario. We [...]
Kristi + Matt | Engagement Session
A few short weeks ago I had the pleasure of shooting Kristi and Matt’s engagement session. It was a beautiful day at Sunnidale park with lots of great colour but it was wicked cold. By the following weekend the weather was considerably warmer but all the leaves had fallen. I’ll take a few hours of [...]
Halloween | Photo Booth
We’ve always had a ton of fun running photo booths at weddings and this Halloween we thought that it might be fun to set one up and get some pictures of the neighbourhood kids dressed up in their costumes. We built a quickie custom backdrop in the garage and set up some studio lights to capture [...]
Lindsay + Shawn | Engaged
Here’s some favourite shots from an e-session with Lindsay and Shawn from a little while ago. I’m always excited to try shooting in new locations. I can be a little nervous about it sometimes, since I don’t really know what I’m going to find when I get there. When Lindsay wanted to do her engagement [...]
Toronto Gay Wedding Show Delta Chelsea
I’m going to have a booth at the Toronto Gay Wedding Show! I’ll be running a wicked show special, if you want to find out what it is be sure to stop by and see us on Sunday, October 16 between 11am and 6pm. It’ll be a great show with a ton of awesome vendors [...]
Mary Ellen + Cathy + Barb + Bruce + Les
Some of the highlights from a family portrait I did on the weekend. I learned one thing, Bruce loves him some tractors. And then I took some shots of Mary Ellen with her beau Ken. For some reason I kept humming “Thank God I’m a country boy” as I was lugging my lights around the farm.
Rachel | Portrait Session
I was talking to the lovely and talented Nicole Miller, one half of Miller Ellis Photography, and we decided to go play with some lights and take some pictures. We enlisted the always eager Rachel to be our victim model. It was a wicked fun evening of running around downtown Barrie and it was great [...]
Rachel + MacLaren Art Centre | Portrait
Rachel is a beautiful, up-and-coming model hopeful who I’ve worked with in the past. We met up recently to do a portrait shoot at the MacLaren Art Centre. The MacLaren is one of the few places in Barrie where photographers are welcome and it’s ok to shoot within certain limits. Beyond that, it’s a stunning [...]
Second Shooting at Deer Creek
I don’t have a lot of time to craft a post today, I’ve been on the phone all morning trying to straighten out some suppliers and I gotta run to grab Syd from school soon. Since I’m such a sharer I wanted to post some of my favourite images from a wedding I second shot in [...]
All Nighter Shoot | 2010
Like all my posts this one is WAY behind. Meh… whatcha gonna do? Last year a bunch of us got together for a shoot at night. It was called the “All Nighter Shoot” and it was awesome. Well this year it happened again and we rocked it. I love shooting at night. I get to [...]
Katie | Rock The Dress
Do you remember Katie? How about now? Do you remember Katie now? I got together with Katie the other day for a “Rock the Dress” session. Katie didn’t get married but we had a dress and she rocked the heck out of it. What’s a “Rock the Dress”? Well some photographers call it a “Trash [...]
Melanie + Aaron | e-session
Melanie and Aaron are one of my awesome couples. I usually like to shoot an engagement session about a month or two before the wedding but Melanie was super excited to get the shoot done so we did it back in the fall at a secluded spot by the lake in Barrie. I’ve just been [...]
Awesome Wedding Pro – Flowers by Design
Nicole is another fantastic wedding vendor here in Barrie. She has a wonderful little flower and gift shop tucked into the corner of Huronia and Big Bay called Flowers by Design. I’m not going to pretend I know a lot about flowers, but she put together a bouquet for my wife that I’m still getting [...]
Jessica
Jessica is a very talented ice dancer here in Barrie. I’ve been fascinated with photos of dance, especially ballet. There’s something about the grace of the movements and poses that captivates me. I’ve been wanting to shoot ballet dancers and capture some of that grace in my personal work. Ice dancing and figure skating have [...]
And the winner is…
At the wedding show at the Monte Carlo Inn in Barrie last Sunday I collected ballots for a draw for a free engagement session. So here’s how the draw went down. Here’s my lovely assistant. We started with a bin full of ballots. Shake – a – shake – a Congrats Whitney! Your gift certificate [...]
Portrait Session With Dee
I met with Dee last summer to do a portrait session at the Adamson Estate Park in Mississauga. We only had a short time to shoot, which is really too bad since it’s such a beautiful place. We were able to shoot in the shade of the old barn and around the main house a [...]
Portrait Session With Tessa
I shoot Tessa a lot (see here, here, and here). I suppose she likes my work. We met at the lake shore in Barrie for a quick portrait session at sunset back in August. Here’s a few of pictures from that day. We started out by the spirit catcher as the sun was raking across [...]
Purple Hair and Broken Glass
I shot Laura for the first time almost a year ago. I guess she liked the experience enough to let me shoot her again. This time we waited until the weather was warmer and we tried something different. There’s an empty industrial building I see on an almost daily basis in Barrie that I thought [...]
Courtney
Courtney gave me a call back in the summer. She was interested in a creative portrait shoot and wanted to use some of the images as part of an acting portfolio. I called and booked a professional makeup artist, Ashley Dinning, on Courtney’s behalf. Ashley was able to join us for the duration of the [...]
Adjusting vs. Retouching
There’s a difference between the images that come out of the camera and the ones that I deliver to a client. Straight off the memory card the images are flat and lack punch. A lot of times I need to fine tune exposure (sometimes it’s more than a fine tuning). When I deliver digital images [...]
Morgan
These are some pictures of Morgan that I dug up from a couple of years ago. At the time Morgan was an aspiring model that was working with my wife. I was starting to build a portfolio and needed to shoot people. All my friends and family had long since run out of patience with [...]
All Nighter Shoot
I got the awesome opportunity to shoot with some very talented photographers and models last summer. The best part about the shoot was it was at night! It was LEGEN – wait for it – DARY! I love shooting at night. It’s instantly mysterious and daring. The shoot was already partly underway when I met [...]
Violet
I met Violet after I finished a shoot with another model Amanda. We were walking down the street going to get a cup of coffee when Violet came running up. It happens that Violet is a photographer in her own right and had been assisting for another photographer on a shoot with Amanda the night [...]