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’s RTD Featured on the Wedding Bells Blog
Recently, I shot a Rock The Dress session with Katie. I’m really happy with the way the pictures turned out and I submitted them to Wedding Bells who choose to feature some of my pictures in an article on Rock The Dress (or Trash The Dress) sessions. A quick synopsis of the article: “Trash The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Creative portrait shoot with Erin
I’m not sure Erin should live in Canada. Every time she’s modeled for me she complains that it’s cold. Granted during the “frostbite” shoot it was cold, but this time it was the begining of June. Oh well next time I’ll know to rent an industrial heater. We had a great time shooting this creative [...]
Amanda
Amanda is an amazing lady I met through Facebook, yay for social networking! She is truly a lovely lady, I hope to shoot her again soon. It was really great to have someone let me experiment with different ideas. That can be a tough sell sometimes, “Hey, I have a crazy idea that probably won’t [...]
Jenny
Jenny was referred to me by my close friend Sonia. Jen’s a teacher and an all around very cool lady. I had an awesome time shooting her and I think her portrait session turned out great. These are some of the shots we got walking around Barrie’s waterfront and downtown area. I love downtown Barrie. [...]
Tessa in the cold… again.
I’m starting to figure out why so many photographers end up in Los Angeles. In Barrie, Ontario I haven’t been able to shoot outside comfortably for six months now. This winter really dragged itself out. I used the snowblower in April fer crissakes! Somehow I managed to convince Tessa to come outside with me and [...]
What else is going on at a wedding?
Here’s an image that was taken at a wedding with no bride or groom in it. It’s the groom’s dad lighting up a cigar. He had a bottle of whiskey given to him as a Christmas present when the groom was 2. At that time the dad had promised to keep the bottle and share [...]
Softness
This is a neat little shot that illustrates the love between the bride and groom. White roses represent innocence and purity and are traditionally associated with marriages and new beginnings. The roses in the front of the photograph mirror the sentiment of the moment. The selective focus and subdued lighting from the overcast sky gives [...]
Lensbaby!
I got a Lensbaby! What’s that? Never heard of a Lensbaby? Allow me enlighten you. A Lensbaby is a lens that has the optics mounted on a flexible barrel. To focus you push and pull the lens until the image is sharp (-ish). You can also flex the barrel in one direction or another. This [...]
Tessa
So the best part of being a photographer is getting to meet and work with really cool people. I first photographed Tessa with her boyfriend Luke, you can read about that here. I have since had the pleasure of shooting her on two other occasions. These are some of the shots from the last time. [...]
so tired…
This past weekend I shot at two weddings. Friday started at noon ending at 1:30am. Saturday was a lighter day, with no reception coverage, but was still a full eight hours. Oh did I mention that I was working until midnight all week, and had to be up for 7:00 so I could take Sydney [...]