I wanted to share some images from a few recent weddings Lisa and I shot. I am really looking 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 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.
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!
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.
One of the great things about shooting a destination wedding (besides the free food and rum punch) is that you really get to know the couple and their families. I can honestly say Terri and Al and their families are nuts but that is a good thing because so are mine. This couple were a blast to work with and Terri was so open to go anywhere to get great photos and I am sure you can tell by the images below what a difference that makes. I suggested we get off the resort and go into the real Antigua and without hesitation Terri said “Ya, let’s do it” and Al said, “whatever you want Terri” which is always the right answer for a happily married man. Off to town we went and the taxi driver thought I was nuts because I wanted to stop at old burned out buildings little snack carts and old stores. I loved these images and I was so lucky that my roommate Tony agreed to come along and be my assistant and helped make these photos. I am grateful to Terri and Al and hope their family never comes to Toronto and want to stay with me. I am so kidding, I really hope I do run into all of them again soon.
What an incredible day it was for Terri and Al. The weather was amazing and the wedding on the beach was pure magic. Everyone had a blast and it I can’t believe I get to do this for a living. Let me know what you think.
This is the second day I am in Antigua for Terri and Al’s wedding and I am having a blast. The first night we all got to know each other by hanging out in the bar, chatting and drinking way too much rum punch. Thank god I had the good sense not to participate in the Karaoke in spite of the punch. This could have brought me more ridicule than one man could handle.
Terri and Al are awesome and I am looking forward to shooitng their wedding tomorrow. Then on Friday we will be doing a day shooting in town and a trash the dress session and I know this will be a blast. Terri is so into the photography so my job is easy and so much fun. I will post more photos as the week goes on.
This weekend was a really busy family weekend for me. My eldest son Owen had his cub car races and a hockey pizza party which kept us busy all weekend. For most social events we take a small snap shot camera and this time I decided to take something more substantial to Owen’s cub car rally. Editing these photos tonight remindeds me what first drew me and still draws me to photography and that is the way it can evoke emotions like nothing else. When I look at great moments captured in newspapers or magazines or even snap shots I feel some emotion even if I am not part of the event and the image can draw me in. This set of photos of Owen for me remind me how lucky I am and as the kids say “I am keeping it real” Ok, maybe they said it and now only old guys who think they know what the kids are saying use it, but you get it.
I wanted to share with you some images I shot at Nancy and Rob’s wedding that was on Feb.2nd. These guys were so much fun to hang around with and Nancy is gorgeous, which I am sure you can see from the photos. Let me know what you think?
I saw this cartoon on a site that talks about photography lighting and I thought it was really funny. The character looks like me and apparently he too likes using small compact strobes. The only difference is my head is larger compared to my body than his.
