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Executive Portraits - Trident Photography
When you have a large company you know that your image is of the utmost importance. That is why many companies get professional portraits of their executive team to hang in the head office. I ended up shooting portraits onsite for about 21 managers and also a couple of group images as well. With my mobile studio, I was able to come to the office and shoot all of the team members in just a few hours. If you need professional onsite photography done, you know who to call.
I was fortunate to be able to work with Dan Biggelow, a photographer from New York, on a project that was shot here in Edmonton. Gilead, a company that makes active ingredients for medications, was putting together their annual report, and needed some imagery of some of the staff. This was a pretty big budget shoot, as there were 3 people from the US that flew in for the shoot, myself, and a stylist. I spent a couple of days prior to the shoot pre scouting locations, and establishing contact with our subject, who is one of the process chemists. I also secured an off site location for us to shoot in on the second day, to fit the theme of the reports designers, and recruited the assistance of a stylist for the two days. Everything went off beautifully, and without a hitch. I also gave our US guests a personal tour of the town on the first evening.
What is a tour of Edmonton in the winter, without stopping at WEM right?
I was shooting a business mixer for the South Edmonton Business Association the other day, which was the first time I was able to put the new Canon Mk IV to the test in low light situations. I have to say the camera did not let me down. All of this was shot at 12800 ISO.
This afternoon I had Kyle come by to get some new headshots for his portfolio. He was easy to work with and had a great style. In styling his shoot, Kyle mentioned that he was working on his ‘unique personality charateristics’, which he felt were his eyes, nose, & mouth. I designed this image so the leading lines directed your attention to his eyes, and the complimentary color of the background to his mouth. I also felt that his personality really shone through in this image because he seems a bit mischevious. Especially with the eyebrow, which was up there all the time.
Got a bunch of women together having some drinks and some fun? What better time than to fulfill some of your fantasies and get a professional photographer in to do portraits of the girls. That is what Amanda thought when she hired me to come out to her sisters stagette party. I met lots of really great and beautiful ladies, and made some incredible images for them. Here are a few samples of the work we did tonight.
Not only is she beautiful, but Fasty McNasty (I name I gave her after seeing her play the drums on Rockband) is one crazy woman. She tried Rockband at my place for the first time, and subsequntly went out and bought it the next day. She then proceeded to play the drums all night for about 6 hours. Not that crazy you say? But she was supposed to be packing because she was headed to the Ukraine for 2 weeks the next day!
I had originally met Celito about 2 years ago when he came to see me for a headshot, and when it was time to update his look, he came back to see me again. We nailed this look in about 5 minutes flat.
I was contacted by two realtors who needed some new headshots for their business and they also wanted some engagement photos as well. They wanted something a little bit different than the normal realtor fare, so they looked at dozens and dozens of photographers before contacting me. I was quite flattered to hear that, and that they felt my website and lighting technique were way better than everyone else that they had seen. *blush* So, I scoped out a good indoor location that would provide us some unique looks for their images. This is what we ended up with.
Passing the Olympic Flame
A friend of mine was one of the fortunate few who was chosen to carry the torch as it made its way through the city today. So naturally I offered to come out and get a few images of him in his spiffy olympic suit. Additionally, I was hired by a company who had 2 of their employees running the torch in St. Albert. Because there were 2 guys I waited at the point where they would be transferring the flame to ensure I got both of them. The runs are only a few minutes long, and about 300m. So I spent the better part of the afternoon running around shooting olympic torchbearers. I learned an interesting tidbit too. The torch flame is brought to Canada by the military in 6 seperate flame pots. I was wondering how it got here. I figured that greanpeace wouldn’t have let them just sail a boat over with a hole in the gas tank and then have the captain throw a match in the water.
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