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Yesterday was something new for me. It wasn't the fact that I was making photos left right and center, but that I was taking fashion pictures.

My girlfriend's best friend, Adam Aucoin is launching his new business Adam Holly. Becoming a stylist is what "Adam Holly" is all about. Launching this month is the Ottawa area, Adam Holly will be working with many clothing stores.

Some of my favorite pictures!!

So people just keep asking for more photos to look at and I guess i'm going to put a few up for looking. So everyone can stop bugging me about having more photos on my blog. 

Racing in the water

This year marked the 15th annual Dragon Boat Races in Ottawa and the first time I was part of it. That's right people, i was on the Media boat taking pictures. 

About four hours later of picture taking on the open sea, I was brown as Christopher King. It was a good time. The event was done well with no problems with getting my media pass and getting access to media heavy areas. It was so cool riding along side the dragon boats while taking a pictures. The weather was great and couldn't have asked for more.

I'll be honest, I don't really know what to write about so Im just going to put some pictures up for you guys to look at.

Ottawa Fashion Week???

Some people just try to hard to fit in and end up looking like a sore thumb. If Ottawa Fashion Week were a person... well lets just say they would look like that loser kid in grade 9 that came from some far off country that you never knew was a real place. 

I cant say that I've been to many fashion shows but it was really easy to tell this was not going to be that great. When you hear the models trash talking their own fashion week... thats gotta tell you something. 

No matter how bad the actual event was, it seemed that there was always a picture to be taken and a creative look where ever i went. We were given full access to the change rooms ( ooh yeah) where many pictures of models preparing for the run way were found. There was a lot of models getting make up and hair done witch made for fun photos. Some funny pictures were of models spraying their feet with hair spray but the best would have to be of a model playing on her PSP while waiting for the next run way walk to start. 

Once things got started, most of the photographers quickly found out that the layout of the cat walk was not done well. Us photographers were placed in an area were our lens would face a white background and have a black side wall that just drained all the light from the pictures.We had to move. We now were situated at the side of the cat walk, leading to a lot of walking motion pictures. This meant that we could not capture the picture of the model posing for the camera any more. 

When I came back to the paper, I was not sure what my Editor-in- Chief was going to say about my pictures. Mind you, Elise likes everything and anything so I shouldn't have worried that much. She loved then and now its going to be on the cover of the paper so I guess they turned out good. 

Uncle Jack

So once a year ( thank god), Carleton Student Government invites all their little friends to come to Ottawa to have a big meeting on how to better run, student government programs. At lest this year C.U.S.A managed to get Jack Layton to give a few words.

After Mr. Layton was done talking, I was given the chance to have a one-on-one photo op with him. But before that he was to sit down with my writer so she could her her quotes. While they were talking I took a few pictures. They were turning out so I continued to snap away. 

Once we were done inside, Mr. Layton was to take a cab and in between the time from when he was done with the writer and the time he got his cab, was when I was to take his picture. So I sat Jack down on a rock and asked him to pose. he was all over the place. The pictures came out like head shoots, nothing much and will end up going on file.

So in the end, the time that wasn't even the real photo op... became the real photo op. So I guess this really goes to show that, as a photojournalist don't set your self up, always have a few different things to choose from because we never know how photos and subjects can and will turn out.

James and Bay

So, many  times, my good friend Chris King and I end up playing with camera gear, taking pictures of each other, when we have nothing better to photograph. Last Friday, the two of us had nothing going on and thought that busting out so lighting gear would be fun.

Some of the gear that we were using was even older then the two of us. Because we didn't have all our gear with us, we used a Canon XT for our camera body, Vivitar 283 ( old model with high voltage trigger) for a flash, Wein peanut pre-flash canceling optical trigger as an old skool Pocket Wizard, and a 30" shoot-through umbrella. 

We mounted the umbrella to a Manfrotto lite-tite umbrella adapter and used a shoe mount for the Vivitar flash. From there we popped the flash on the camera and put it to the lowest exposure we could and had the flash at around medium, shooting through the umbrella. The reason we had to pop the flash was because, with not have actual Pocket Wizards, the Wein Peanut pre-flash triggers only worked if it was able to read the signal from the pop flash. 

We were going for just a little bit of light on the center of the face. We were doing this in Chris' bedroom so there was not a lot of space to do this but, in the end I think what we had to work with, we made something decent. 

A FIRST FOR EVERYTHING

Oh man, I guess it was time for me to get my own blog. I mean, if Blair Gable and James Park have one, why don't I have one?

So today I went to shoot the funeral for Arthur Kroeger, former chancellor for Carleton University. It was a situation that I had never had to photography before. While talking to the Ottawa Citizen's Bruno Schlumberger, it seemed everything I had learned and read, quickly went out the window. I had always been told that when shooting funerals to be as quiet as possible. But after Watching Bruno go up to the front of the church to take pictures the family members, I felt like I could get what ever picture I wanted.

 

Thankfully my readings from Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach by: Kenneth Kobre kicked in and said, "Wait... Bruno has been doing this since 1981, I think I'd better just keep taking pictures from the balcony. 

So it turned out that me staying up in the balcony would do me good. As Bruno made his way outside to get the shot of the family coming out the doors with the casket, I got the aerial shot of the pallbearers and family. Looked real good. 

I will have the picture posted tomorrow due to the fact that the only copy is at work and sadly, I am at home.