Samantha and Lee

Samantha gave me a quick shout about a month ago on Facebook asking about photos and shooting at flat rock.

Unfortunately soon after Lee ended up in a cast so we couldn’t get together for a shoot right then and of course I took off on holidays after that, soo…  here we are tonight :)

We managed to getthe long over due shoot done, the clouds rolling in yet perfect for the background.  Lee originally proposed to Samantha at Flat Rock, beautiful area, cool breeze coming in off the lake and terrific company to top it all off.

Thanks so much Samantha and Lee, you two were amazing, so much in love and so helpful making this all work.

Country Girl Shoot

Have to admidt, Facebook is a terrific way to organize a photo shoot!

With that said, last week I wanted to get out and shoot some fun shots so put out a question on Facebook about “what could I shoot this week”.  Sure enough the answers flowed in but one in particular caught my attention.

Kirstin, Courtney and Sue volunteered to come out for a “Country Girl Photo Shoot” with the focus being on cowboy boots and such.  We planned on doing some simple shots in the Agricultural Centers’ back field, just some tall grasses, maybe a sunset if the time was right and some old wooden benches.

After all was said and done, we got together a bit too early in the evening for a sunset addition but did manage to get a few simple shots in.  Kirsten’s friend Paige joined in as well and in about 1 1/2 hours or so we managed to walk away with quite a few I’m proud of.

For now… here’s a teaser of the shots we managed to compile..

 

Dryden Saddle Club 3D Barrels and Poles – 1st Annual

What an amazing day for the barrel and pole racers in the area.

Today was short compared to a normal show day, even that of a gymkahna day but talk about seeing some action.

Very simple set up with two runs of the barrels and the best time counted and then two runs of the poles with the best time counting again.

I did these up with a bit of punch yet again as people seem to like it better than straight out of camera, little more artsty if you will.

More to follow…

Edgy downtown shoot with Melissa

Melissa got back to me about being available for the bike shoot right after I had talked to Ashlee.

Not wanting to miss a chance to shoot with Melissa I asked if she’d be up for a shoot downtown, graphiti, plain colour clothes, edgy look… she jumped at the chance.

Well I can honestly say… Melissa was a doll!

She was ready with several outfits, dressed already to the nines, tried any and every pose she could think of and more… it was soo much fun.

Bikes, Skulls and Compositing

So this is a new project, a quick shoot but done in three different scenarios.

I wanted to try a composite photo so I asked around and sure enough managed to luck out with Ashlee and Richard for the shoot.  To top it all off though, Andrew Sherrard showed up to help with the shoot so in all, think Ashlee told me it was around 20 mins of shooting time.

Yes… I could have shot longer, but that sun was out full bore (+26C) and I didn’t want either Ashlee or Richard boiling.

So… these are only preliminary compositions but thought I’d share what I’m attempting so far.

Lessons learned;  use the Canon L glass, full frame camera would have been better simply due to the distance each was from the camera and then later trying to crop/compost the individuals it would have been nice to have more pixels to play with and lastly…. stand back with the 70-200 and bring them in closer together…

More coming on this though, still lots of photos to process…