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Over the past year I’ve been shooting a lot with Alison Law from Studio A Interiors , photographing her interior design portfolio for her website. This specific project was a special treat as Alberta Home Magazine picked up the story of the interior renovation, and ran a feature article in their April issue.

On the photographer’s side of things there was some special challenges, namely including people in some of the imagery. Alison and I agreed it would be a great image to have an image of the home owner’s children in one of the shots. Photographing children and interior design are two incredibly polar opposite types of photography, and capturing both in one image at once proved to be an interesting challenge. When photographing interior design you have quite a bit of flexibility concerning when you take the shot, things don’t move very fast. Children however, have split second unpredictable photogenic moments, and a very short amount of time they’ll be happy working ‘on set’. After a fair bit of coordination with all the adults we had on hand, we managed to get the first image of the little master baker in his element. At the end of the shoot we even had the opportunity to sample some of his creations.

If you’re in Alberta in April, you can find Alberta Home on the magazine rack, the article ‘Forever Home’ is on page 41

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.

Getting freedom from clients is a blessing, however it can be daunting at the same time. Our Last Crusade contacted me looking for new promos and individual shots, and all they gave me to go on was; dark, spooky, epic. For the group shot it was to have them all together standing in a line shoulder to shoulder. It gave me freedom to try some fun ideas, however it can be difficult to gauge if the concept is what they’re looking for.

Given the restriction that the guys were to be standing in a line for the group shot, I couldn’t do much in the way of making a story or narrative because they won’t be interacting with each other or the location. So I had to do all the theming with location and lighting.
The location we ended up picking is in the middle of a city park, just a group of trees which are generally nondescript. However when the trees are backlit the warped crooked nature of the trees is really highlighted.

Light setup;
First I setup two lights which illuminate the trees behind them. they are located behind Garret and Brady’s heads (2nd and 4th in the line).
The third light is a shoot thru umbrella about 2 feet above my camera.

Light test;

To avoid having the umbrella illuminate the trees too much the band is positioned quite far away from the trees, and quite close to the umbrella.

Individuals;

I always enjoyed working with bands. I the most appealing part is the band themselves, they have no reason to be together if they didn’t like each other. So every band is always an awesome group of guys. Trash talking, innuendos, backtalk, complaining, but its all in good humor.

My most recent band shoot with Annalyce was no exception. It was a great way to spend a Wednesday afternoon. I haven’t heard the guys play yet, (not done recording) but it should be cool to see where these guys go, and the other bands I’ve worked with for that matter.

Click Here to see a couple more Annalyce shots.

Click Here to get to Annalyce’s myspace

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