On the evening of Canada Day I had the priviledge to shoot a great Canada Day Party put on my Diamond Productionz, and Nights by Design.
The event was hosted in an old Bank of Nova Scotia, with 60 foot ceilings, 2 balconies, tons of marble, it was a truly awesome party.
To see the rest of the images from the night click on the picture above to go to Nights by Design’s Facebook Page
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Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot designer Colleen Booth’s new work shortly before she jumped on a plane in a move to the bigger, and more fashionable, city of Toronto. Here are select pieces of her sleepware lineup on a Midsummer Night’s Dream themed editorial shoot.
I don’t have terribly much to say about this shoot. What can you say about five guys in a bathtub?
Well, I’ll break it down to give you the basics but there is no way I’m going to be able to write creatively on this one.
Who; For the Weekend (Pop-Punk Band, from Calgary, Click for their Myspace)
What; Well, dudes in a bathtub, promo photoshoot
When; Less than 24 hours before i went in for knee surgery
Where; Band Member’s house
Why; I’ve been wondering for a long time, if anyone finds out let me know.
Click on the shot below to see more of my band and live music photography.
Behind the scenes of a beer photograph;
Inspiration
- I wanted to make some photographs where gravity is acting strangely; photographs where the viewer’s perception would throw them in loops, questioning what they see, if its real, and how it was done. My first little attempt at this technique was this self portrait.
- The second major piece of inspiration was this Stella Artois Legere ad;
From those two pieces of inspiration I had the idea of beer pouring up against gravity -lighter than air beer- into a glass. Next I had to figure out the best way to do it.
Wanting to most of the shot done in camera I needed to get all the ‘live action’ in one frame, then I could use photoshop to finish and clean up the rest of the shot. I setup a bottle of beer in the studio suspended from the bottom of a large board.
I opened the beer upside down and using a glass in hand catch the beer pouring out. Over several takes with beer pouring into a bucket on the floor (i’m sorry beer lovers I did lose a beer or two to the battle) I got a great action frame.
The shot below shows the studio setup for the live action (Only half the lighting is firing in this frame)
The raw ‘live action’ frame is above to the left, and one of the final bottle’s live frames above right. I photographed the bottle separately, using a lot of transmitted light from behind to complement the very beautifully designed bottles. In photoshop the live action and bottle shots were put together making the final image.
