These days I am not shooting that much, I still am, but not that much.
But I am browsing through some old photos to clean my computer a bit.
Here is a photo I took at the beginning of 2010.
What would I do without outtakes I ask you…
Here is another sneak peek of my latest shoot with Tessa.
You can see the first photo here.
As always, if you want to shoot with me, you know what to do…
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You saw, the version of that photo with August sharp and Ruffle blurry here a few days ago, here is now the photo taken about one second later.
You guys have no idea how much I enjoy shooting with my new 85mm. That lens is so fast and soooo sharp at f/1.2!
I haven’t actually used it at any other aperture so far, and I am not about to, as it is so bokehlicious! (as my friend Thierry M would say.)
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I flew back from Alberta late last night, and I have seen some crazy things in the past 3 days, some incredibly sad and some very fun and intense.
Yesterday, I spent 6 hours outside by -25 degrees, directing 20 people, 6 trucks and 2 trailers in front of a giant oil rig. And at some point the buttons of my camera started to freeze. My face was red last night too.
In the meantime, as I mentioned here a few days ago, during my latest studio shoot with August Wiled, there might have been another model.
Indeed, Ruffle Silkskin, a Vancouver burlesque dancer came by the studio as well.
I have a lot of very cool photos of her, but for now, as a teaser and transition between August’s shoot and hers, here is a photo of the 2 of them together.
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For those of you who wonder how I obtain such stable footage when I shoot videos, here is my big secret:
Always sit on a 5000$ chair with one leg crossed…
Here is a behind the scenes of the behind the scenes… Am I blowing your mind right now or what!?
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When you work as a photographer, all of your friends think that you only do glamor stuff and photo shoots in spectacular locations with models running around half naked.
While you actually spend 90% of your time on your computer, either processing and editing photos or videos, social-networking, quoting or invoicing clients etc…
But 90% in the office means you still have those 10% shooting on location somewhere.
And if you play your cards right, that 10% can be worth the wait.
Yesterday was a “10%” day.
I got to collaborate with Jennifer Williams and Kelly Trerise and a bunch of models (and yes, they where running around half naked…) and we were shooting at the 54th floor of the tallest building in Vancouver, the Shangri-la.
If you’re not familiar with Jennifer and Kelly’s work, check them out, if you’re a woman, be sure to book yourself a boudoir session with them, I can assure you you won’t regret it.
I’ll tell you more about the actual reason I was on set yesterday very soon, when I can show you the result of my hard work. (Yes, it was fun but we still shot for 12 hours straight.)
In the mean time, here is a photo of what we had to work with all day.
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I once heard Vincent Laforet say that he never throws away photographs. No matter how many he took during a shoot. Good or bad being such a subjective concept. You never know when you’re gonna need a blurry photo or a picture with an odd crop where your model has one eye shut. (that might be pushing it, but you get the drift)
Well, like Vincent, I never throw away any photo I take, which results in a certain amount of hard drives (plus the equivalent in backup of course).
But the good thing is that I shoot so many photos that I eventually forget about some of them. And when I decide to go through some of my old shoots every now and then I discover some “outtakes” that I still really like but that didn’t make the cut.
As a proof, here are 2 photos of my friend Nikkey on which I didn’t even stop the first around.
P.S: Can you see the crack on that lens!? It actually still shoots quite well.
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When I am at the studio, I sometime take an afternoon and invite some people to pose for me.
It’s a great exercise, to work on my directing skills, lighting skills and also it’s the perfect opportunity to learn how to shoot a different photo in a space I have used many times.
So this is Jaime, in one of the corner of the studio, she was actually getting ready when I grabbed this shot. I came back to my love of Candid photography for a few seconds, when people are not aware that you are shooting them.
