Corporate Headshot

Late last week I was hired to shoot a corporate headshot. Having done these sort of shots before and with my limited studio equipment, I took out my two speedlites and planned on shooting a couple white backdrop shots and a couple with some sort of other backdrop (to be determined upon arrival at the location). The location was the office in which Brent works. Since Brent works for Partners International (in-fact he is the president of the organization!), an organization that is involved with Christian ministries around the world, they had an extremely large globe/map on the wall. Click on Read More to see some more photos of Brent, including the ones with the map as the backdrop.

Michelle and Tony - Wedding Photography Preview

I recently had the great opportunity to start my wedding photography career. On Saturday I photographed the wedding of Michelle and Tony. It was a great experience and I am grateful for the opportunity. The wedding was full of family and friends. It was so easy to see the love that Michelle and Tony have for each other, and their families have for them. Enjoy the preview. (More photos will be available on dpvisuals facebook page soon!)

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Jones Soda

This afternoon I was feeling inspired to shoot some still life photos, but this time I wanted to have reflections in the shots. I got the idea from Strobist and wanted to imitate the shots that he took, and try some that were a little different as well.

If you visit the link to the Strobist website, David Hobby outlines and illustrates how he took his pictures. I did mine following the same basic idea. I had a piece of clear plexiglass sitting on a white table. Under the table is my ghetto speedlite with a wireless remote. Above the table, camera right and almost in-front of the camera is another speedlite (Canon 430 EX) with a softbox.

The speedlite under the table is being fired at a white wall and giving a backlight to the glass bottles. The softbox in-front of the bottles then lights up the front of each bottle.







Click on Read More to see some more set-ups with black backgrounds.

Update on the craziness I call life

As I'm sure you know by now, the blog has been a little bit quiet lately and in this case, quiet has been a good thing, because quiet meant that I was busy. Busy with work. I've had a few video productions going on lately as well as ongoing ones that will continue for the next few months. I also have some great photo opportunities coming up in the next two months as well.

The biggest thing that happened to me over the past three weeks is that I got an internship. The internship was with a pretty big company, where I would be a photographer, helping to promote their internship program. The second biggest thing that happened was that I left the internship program. Ultimately I felt that there wasn't opportunity for me to learn and grow while I was working there, and it was making me lose money.

Anyways, enough of the life update. Below you will find a video that I directed, shot and edited. It was created for Harvest Bible Chapel York Region. The shots of the church services and kids services were taken during one Sunday morning, and the interview was done on another day during the week. It was shot with a Sony XDCAM EX. It was my first time using this camera and I even had to upgrade to a whole new software package in order to edit the video. Because of this upgrade, my timeframe for the editing of the movie was shrunk down into one morning, the morning before it would be shown to the church.

Enjoy!





More to come...