ALP2_final

ALP2_ass#4_shop

1. What worked well for you on this assignment:

The model and the chosen location.

2. What you would change in your preparation if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

Maybe find another location with a bit more space

 3. What you would change in your Photographic Approach  if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

Used a different machine

10 items listed: 

1- I use flash with green gels as main and ambient as fill

2- I did used my 50mm

3- I shot F8 

4- I shot at  1/10-1/8th

5- I did need any available light for a fill

6- I would have needed maybe another flash

7- Fluorescent light

8- Green gels for fluorescent 

9- I did the white balance in capture one with my grey card.

10- Should have brought another flash

ALP ass3 final

1. What worked well for you on this assignment:

The model and the chosen location, the ring flash was ok.

2. What you would change in your preparation if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

I would have gotten a more powerful ring flash

 3. What you would change in your Photographic Approach  if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

Used a couple of different lighting approach and maybe using one more flash with a beauty dish.

10 items listed: 

1- I use the available light, used my ring flash as a main

2- I did used my 85 mm f 1.2

3- I shot F10 

4- I shot at  1/30th

5- I did need any available light for a fill

6- My ring flash wasn't powerful enough

7- It was a cloudy day

8- No need to filter since it was daylight

9- I did the white balance in capture one with my grey card.

10- Should have brought another flash

The whole idea is simple yet powerful, 6 years after the shooting at dawson are the student any safer? Do they have any new safety features or plan if it happens again. Is name is Larry Shinberg and he was present when the shooting happened. He was quite scared and was surprised that something like this would happen here in Montreal and or in Canada, he was also quite angry that even after the Poly technique massacre that the authorities didn't have quick response plan.

ALP ass#3

1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?

I plan on using the available light as a fill and for the background.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?(Do you want the compression of a long lens or the exaggerated perspective of a wide angle, fixed focal length or zoom)?

I will be using a fixed 50mm f1.4 Zeiss standard lens because I want a classic style portrait with no distorsion or compression. I want it to look like that's what we see with our eyes.

3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?  Explain!

I will use f11 or f13 because I want the background to be sharp, I don't want a shallow depth of field, it's too easy and expected.

4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?  Explain!

Since I'm shooting at f11-f16 I will need a slower shutter speed so I can get my ambient light in my shot. probably around 1 sec on tripod.

5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?

Yes I do.

6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?

Yes I will use a ring flash 1000watt

7. What type of available light will you be encountering?

sun 

8. How will you be addressing this mixed light situation?

I have a light color meter so first thing I will do is meter the ambient and depending on what I get I will put the necessary gels on my ringflash, also do 1 shot with a grey card

9. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?

With my shot with the grey card I will be able to color balance in capture one.

10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot? 

Camera, 50mm lens, color meter, light meter, LB and CC gels, grey card, tripod, extension cords, laptop, pocket wizards, spare batteries, model, reflector just in case.

ALP2 ass#2 Final

1. What worked well for you on this assignment:

Well the lighting was fun and the brush metal background really brings something interesting, the colors of the food also brings life to the plate and the 90 degree shot from above is really graphic

2. What you would change in your preparation if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

I would have got a better food stylist that knows that green lettuce should be fresh and should look cripsy, so I would have brought some different fresher greens, also would have set up a tripod to shoot leveled perfectly at 90 degree.

 3. What you would change in your Photographic Approach  if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

I would have maybe brought a couple different lens to try out a couple of different thing and perspective, maybe my 100mm macro or my 85mm.

10 items listed: 

1- I didn't use the available light, used my strobe and the reflector

2- I did use the 50 mm lens

3- I shot F5,6 

4- I shot at  1/160th

5- I didn't need any available light

6- My strobe was way enough

7- It was fluorescent lighting

8- No need to filter since I used my strobe and the reflector bouncing the light from my strobe

9- I did the white balance in capture one with my grey card.

10- Should have brought or go by some greens to replace the dead lettuce.

ALP ASS#1 Final

1. What worked well for you on this assignment:

Well since it was my brothers wedding on saturday I had to shoot in a different location, since I was shooting the president of Swordfish skateboarding and he really wanted to shoot on his loading dock and I found the idea really interesting and quite liked the location, I think between reflector, beauty dish and ambient lighting worked pretty good, and Mr Swordfish was really into it and he brought his inspiration responsible for his company's name.

2. What you would change in your preparation if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

Since we did the shot on a day off there weren't any boxes or truck or people passing by on skateboards, some action in the background would have been cool, I would have brought a full gel conversion kit just to be as precise as possible to match the fluorescent lighting. I would have called in advance to get boxes and skateboard so we could have used them for the shoot.

 3. What you would change in your Photographic Approach  if you had the opportunity to go back and do it again:

I would have maybe brought a couple different lens to try ou a couple of different thing and perspective, maybe a wide from down low.

10 items listed: 

1- I did use available light for the background

2- I did use the 50 mm lens

3- I shot F13 to get a sharp image

4- I did shoot at a slower shutter speed on a tripod, 1/20th

5- I did have enough available light

6- My strobe was way enough

7- It was fluorescent lighting

8- I used some green and blue lb gels to match the fluorescent

9- I did the white balance in capture one with my grey card.

10- I had all I needed.


 

ALP ASS #2 Food photography

1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?

I plan on using the available light as a fill and for the background.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?(Do you want the compression of a long lens or the exaggerated perspective of a wide angle, fixed focal length or zoom)?

I will be using a fixed 50mm f1.4 Zeiss standard lens because I want to a normal point of view which wont be distorded and use the shallow depth of field.

3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?  Explain!

I will use around f1.8 to have a shallow depth of field

4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?  Explain!

Since I'm shooting at f1.8 I will use a faster shutter speed to get just enough of the background ambient lighting

5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?

Yes I do.

6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?

Yes I will use a profoto d1 air 1000watt

7. What type of available light will you be encountering?

neon
8. How will you be addressing this mixed light situation?

I have a light color meter so first thing I will do is meter the ambient and depending on what I get I will put the necessary gels on my D1, also do 1 shot with a grey card

9. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?

With my shot with the grey card I will be able to color balance in capture one.

10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot? 

Camera, 50mm lens, color meter, light meter, LB and CC gels, grey card, tripod, one light stand, smaller reflector, extension cords, laptop, pocket wizards, spare batteries, umbrella and reflector, glycerine, tweezers, can evian water, toothpicks...

ALP2 ass1

1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?

I plan on using the available light as a fill and for the background.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?(Do you want the compression of a long lens or the exaggerated perspective of a wide angle, fixed focal length or zoom)?

I will be using a fixed 50mm f1.4 Zeiss standard lens because I want a classic style portrait with no distorsion or compression. I want it to look like that's what we see with our eyes.

3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?  Explain!

I will use f11 or f16 because I want the background to be sharp, I don't want a shallow depth of field, it's too easy and expected.

4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?  Explain!

Since I'm shooting at f11-f16 I will need a slower shutter speed so I can get my ambient light in my shot. probably around 1 sec on tripod.

 

5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?

Yes I do.

6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?

Yes I will use a profoto d1 air 1000watt

7. What type of available light will you be encountering?

neon 

8. How will you be addressing this mixed light situation?

I have a light color meter so first thing I will do is meter the ambient and depending on what I get I will put the necessary gels on my D1, also do 1 shot with a grey card

9. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?

With my shot with the grey card I will be able to color balance in capture one.

10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot? 

Camera, 50mm lens, color meter, light meter, LB and CC gels, grey card, tripod, one light stand, beauty dish or just smaller dish, extension cords, laptop, pocket wizards, spare batteries, model, umbrella and reflector just in case.

APD2 assignment #4

Since that "Pole dancing" class are more popular than ever, well it gave me an idea for a advertising campaign for a Pole dancing school, the concept is simple and funny, "Send a stripper home, Learn to Pole Dance". The girls where shot in studio and the backgrounds are shot at night.

ALP1_Assignment #4 _ photo story

ALP1_Assignment #4 _ photo story

Comfort food not so comforting. 

My photo story is an editorial for a magazine like Urbania (http://urbania.ca/accueil)that does all kind of cool and humoristic editorials but with always a deeper meaning behind them and they have a different approach to photography for there editorials.

So I decided to tell a story in a different way then your typical "photojournalistic" style which is boring as hell to me. So I used object photography and portrait to tell my story and use a strong style and a careful thought up use of color and art direction, nothing was left to chance. The pastel is to accentuate the "I'm gonna be sick" feeling and the almost unrealistic illustrative feel, I didn't want my images to look like realistic snapshots. I wanted them to be like emotional events.I believe it's a fresh interesting way of telling a story.

The story is fairly simple, sometimes we crave certain "comfort food" but it's almost like they are made to make you feel bad after so you buy something else to make you feel good and it just keeps you consuming. Is it on purpose or is it just that comfort food is not so comforting in the end.

 

 

 

APD2 - Assignment 2 - Conceptual Image

I chose the location in the class because the color accentuated my concept of "boringness',
my concept is that when I was in high school and cegep I was so bored and I really thought
school was a waste of time and I was always daydreaming and had problem just to stay awake. This picture was shot using a mix between flash and the room lighting to give it a really flat lighting again to accentuate that sometimes school is boring.

One day after noticing that is toilet was clogged Mr. Anderson took matter in is own hands,
armed with his plunger he started to unclog is toilet but he found all kind of weird and unusual stuff. After emptying the toilet, Mr.Anderson got sucked in by what it seems to be a magical force. However a couple of questions comes to mind, where the object there before? What got Mr.Anderson sucked in?

For this picture I chose a white location because I wanted the props to pop and it adds to the weirdness, since nobody was able to help me I had to create the feeling that somebody is present in the shot.

APD2 assignment3 street photography

I believe that sometimes there's a fine line between street and even photography and that some can be both at the same time, my photos where shot on St-Patrick's day but I didn't want to shoot the boring parade and stuff, I wanted to see what was happening on the sidelines.

When I saw I laughed really hard and took many shots, the one shot that did it for me was this ones because the owner of the dog is posing exactly like the dog and it's really a decisive moment and it's funny and priceless. This was shot with my mark II, 50mm 1,4 lens at f1,8 iso 100 at 1/250

A guy in a speedo downtown is not something you see everyday but it's funny, when I was walking on the side street and I saw him coming I prepared myself, I took 2 shots, one was blurry and crappy and this one was really timed perfectly pointing me looking at me and saying "hey man this is not in my contract". Shot again with a markII, 50mm, f1,8 iso 100 and at 1/1000sec to freeze the subject.

Being a goofball myself I really like humour and when I saw pigman I just had to shoot him because that something I would do myself. I really like the lighting contrast on this one and the way that pigman is lighted, just makes him pop. If you walk around a lot you can spot all kind of weird and funny stuff like this. This was shot with a markII, 50mm f1,6 iso 100 at 1/5000.

I spotted that guy in the middle of the crowd, he seemed to be happy and quite relax. Just having a nice nap after a couple of brewskies. I like the contrast of him sitting and everybody else just standing there and the negative space around him. Was shot with markII, 50mm, f5 iso100 at 1/100.

ALP1 architecture & interior

This is a picture of westmount square, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This was shot with a medium format 55mm lens at f14 at 100 iso and the lines where corrected with a lens correcting filter to have the vertical lines parallel to the edge of the frame. I gave it also a 1960's treatment to replicate a photo from the era when the building was built.

This is a picture of Mies van der Rohe’s gas station on Nun’s Island outside of Montreal was part of a grand vision for a much larger development. Originally built in 1966, the gas station was designed to be a prototypical gas station and included space for car service, sales and gas pumping. At this point, the city decided to make it an activity center for youths and seniors and FABG was tasked with the renovation and conversion. This was shot with a 5D markII with a 50mm lens, f13 iso 100 for 1 second. This picture is a composite and I use the light inside and the light from outside and matched everything with a color meter.

This is a picture of my Lobby, located at Nuns’ Island entrance, the Sax complex includes 3 buildings offering a unique contemporary living space environment. Designed by the architect Dan Hanganu, who also designed le theatre du nouveau monde, cirque du soleil, HEC, pavillon du design UQAM, and many more. The name of the complex is SAX and it's all inspired by jazz, this is why there's a big mural in the lobby of a jazz player. This was shot with a markII with again a 50mm because I didn't wanted a realistic what we see feeling. Was shot at f18 iso 100.

Well this is a picture of school, it looks like bad 70's design a bit kitsch, it looks like it just needs a guy dress in a bad baby blue suit. I desaturated the picture to feel even more that sad feel and this is also a composite to show the trees outside the windows. I like the emptiness and sadness of the picture, it had it's day but now all the chairs are empty and nobody care anymore. This was shot with a medium format 55mm lens at f13 iso 100 for 1sec.

more of the ALP1 shooting

ALP1 portraits

For my portrait I've chosen to shoot a photographer since it's a photography class it made sense to me.So I shot Martin Girard one of the best and busiest advertising photographer in Montreal. His work won many awards, he works for Rogers mobility, loto quebec, sid lee, and many more but on of his most famous campaign is the one for Rogers.


My shot could be used in photographers magazine or art magazine like applied arts or marketing magazine or communication arts or more urban magazine like Urbania.

Since Martin likes humour I decided to shoot him in different pose in his studio that recalls the Rogers campaign which made him famous.

This is my ambient light portrait shot using only 2 windows in the studio, shot at f2.8 at 1/25 to get a shallow depth of field so the background is a bit blurred.
iso 100 and 55mm lens

This is the reflector shot, using the light of the window with a huge white board with 2 silver reflectors attached to the white foam core to highlight specific area so he is detached from the background. I gave the picture a old film treatment since we had a 8x10 in the shot. Shot at f2.8 at 1/25 to get a shallow depth of field and at iso 100 with a 55mm lens.

This is my flash shot, I used one flash on my right to create a split light but also used the window light on the right as a fill light. This was shot at f13 and 1/6 to get some of the ambient light, iso 100 and 55 mm lens. I really like this one and I gave a little treatment a bit like Martin on his Rogers campaign, a bit of a retro feel which works well with his jacket, the camera and the background.







The biggest problem I had with this project is that I had to reshoot since my camera card malfunctioned and I had to resend it to the company and they sent me a new one but the pictures where gone.

APD 2 - Assignment 1

For my three images I didn't want to use any random pictures or concept.
My concept for this assignment is "I miss summer".

I used simple mostly snow white background with objects that have a strong color that
reminds us of the warmth and fun of summer. The used of a small F number was used
(f 2.8) in the picture to really create a strong focus on the main element and create a soft
pure bokeh, the snow helped a lot to create this. The rule of third is respected in all the picture to create images interesting to look at. The white snowy background is used to create some kind of sadness and depression that often happens in the last months of winter.