Monday, December 7, 2009

How to Steal Fruit and Look Cute Doing It


I have a friend who's a fashion student at Quantlen right now and recently I volunteered to take photos of one of her class projects. As it happened, Jamie also managed to coerce her roommate/classmate, Cheryl, into being a model for a day. Her project was meant to be a light, cute spring dress, and indeed it was, the only problem being that it's bloody winter. Thankfully, it was really sunny that day, so (with a little photoshop) we were sort of able to fake spring. I was really impressed with Cheryl's lack of diva-ness, especially given the fact that it was so cold that all of the color had drained from her legs (again, thank you photoshop) and Jamie and I were both in big jackets and pants. She was a real trooper. Main Street ended up being a great place to shoot and then we all got cinnamon buns at Solly's (yes!). Jamie's dress looked really good and Cheryl found a Perry Como record. Huzzah.


Tuesday, December 1, 2009

I Heart Food Photos



So my good friend Karima recently asked me to take some photos of her, and after twisting my arm (literally) and bribing me with food I was right on board!. She runs a great cooking blog called I Heart Big Flavour! This is where she does crazy awesome things with food and even posts lots of vegetarian recipes (she gets an extra gold star for that one). So a couple of weeks ago we spent the better part of a particularly rainy Saturday shooting in her rather, uhhh... cozy kitchen. The idea was to achieve a kind of classic LIFE magazine feel with just a little (a lot) more attitude. The best part was she cooked the whole time! I left well fed and with several rolls of kick-ass material. I shot half the day with Provia 100 and the other half with Reala 100 and I couldn't believe the difference between my positive and negative film in terms of tonality and skin colour. We also played around with lots of diferrent lighing tricks and I leaned heavily on my cameras super fast sync speed to achieve the narrow depth of field in the photo above. I even got to throw open my scrim, only instead of shooting through it, we used some black fabrick and created a dividing wall to separate the light sources. All and all it was a lot of fun, I taught myself a few new tricks, and I think the photos turned out rad. Cheers Kari!