Pin Up Photo shoot

I took a workshop at Vancouver Photo Workshops, to inspire my workflow and get some studio time. I had the pleasure of working with 4 models over 2 days.  The instructors were great at pointing us in the right direction for the feel and look of pin up, then letting us be creative and work with the models to create the shots we wanted.

This is one of my final edits from the shoot, Model Lincoln Electra:

Panning Action

I took a trip out to Mission Raceway to See the Westood Motorcycle Racing Association's Fifth Round of racing on July 1st, to take in some action of the races, and do some more work in the "Action" photography realm. This was a great place to hone some skills, as the riders are flying by lap after lap all day, so you have a consistent model for your shooting all day long!  I've read up on the subject of panning action and motorsports and its reccomended that you shoot as low as 160 to get the background really blurred out. While that may be a great place to be, it turns out its not a great place to start!!!  I had acceptable results panning as high as a shutterspeed of 400, with aperture at F4.   I found I could get decent results as low as 250, but I think it'll take some practice to get any lower.  This is a great technique to practice, as it really comes in handy for when your trying to capture the feeling of motion in your shots. Your kid riding a bike, a dog jumping for a frisbee, wakeboarding, or other sports where just a fully freezed subject is going to loose the sense of motion in the photo.  And if you spend some time practicing the art of panning you'll be ready to capture those get it before its gone moments!   One tip, REMEMBER to adjust your shutterspeed to a higher value when your not doing a pan, otherwise you'll get motion blur in highspeed subjects. I had a quite a few fuzzy shots after forgetting to adjust the shutter speed after my panning sequences!!

From a recent portrait session

This head shot was taken for a head shot for a local business.

I set up 4 flashes to get this shot, 1 shoot through umbrella, 1 small soft box, one for back lighting, and 1 for rim lighting the subject a little.

I love experimenting with light and tweaking it bit by bit to get the shot!  I recently got a remote trigger, so I can do this on myself before a client shows up, to get a base line.  However all models/ customers/ clients are different so its important to be prepared to tweak your set up a bit when the portrait session begins!

Portrait shoot from today.

Ok so I picked up a new lens recently and here's a one of the candids from my test shoot with it.  I'm pretty happy with the shot and so is she!

Recent Wedding Shoot

Here's a couple recent photos from a wedding I got to shoot down in California.  Great Couple Great Trip!

Drive Days

Yesterday was the first Italian Drive Days on Commercial Drive in Vancouver.
It was a pretty cool scene with Street vendors selling soccer jerseys, sausages, pasta, hats, clothes, well a pretty diversified mix, which shouldn't surprise anyone as it is Commercial drive.  I think its great that the city closes of the street to vehicle traffic like this. It obviously attracts a lot of people, and business.  Here's a few shots from the crowds.

The coolest pizza delivery car in town:


A little girl dancing to the beat:


The guys making the beat!


A fiddler on the Drive

T-Bird

Shot at the Grease N Grind Show and Shine on the weekend. It was a little Soggy out, but it made for some nice moody photos. View the rest of these at

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