I absolutely hate it when technical issues come up on a shoot… yesterday was such a day. Our instructors at Langara [where i'm taking the Commercial Photography Program] often tell us that most of our time as photographers is spent ‘trouble shooting’ a photo session. Trouble shooting can mean anything from wrangling your photo subject(s),…
Editing is a thankless and sometimes endless part of photography, but call me a weirdo – I love it. I love seeing my vision for the final photograph coming to life right before my eyes. I love how the subtle changes in an image can really really make it suddenly ‘work’ so much better than…
Often an image, particularly a fashion oriented one, is shot in studio and needs to be layered into another environment to achieve a certain look for a client or project. The images below featuring Isis Noir as an urban geisha. The first image is the original image shot in Vancouver. The second image is a…
Often [like 90% of the time] for fashion and lifestyle photo sessions, I shoot on location. For the geisha shoot with Isis, we decided for a more ‘studio’ like atmosphere and luckily my friends were willing to loan me their hairsalon space on a day when they were closed. The super high ceilings, off white…
