Trojan Women
Surprisingly, after two years of working with Fast Forward Weekly (FFWD) and almost two years at a university with a drama department, I’ve never taken photos of a play before. I’ve photographed actors. I was lucky enough to cover some improve at the Loose Moose Theatre once (I feel this is different from a traditional ...
New Spaces
I’ve been taking photos at the University of Calgary for over a year and a half now. Even though the campus is huge with lots of great locations for photos, I find myself wanting new locations. Thankfully, several new buildings have recently opened up so I have some brand new spaces to work with :) ...
Guy
This set of photos was supposed to follow a yoga theme. But when I started going through the images, I thought they looked too much like stock photography. It was a style I didn’t want. In the end, I decided to drop all the yoga photos and just use these outtakes where the model has ...
Convocation
Even though I have been to many convocations to take photos for the University of Calgary, it is still challenging. Part of the challenge is that most of it takes place in a pitch-black gymnasium, which is the last place a photographer wants to be. But a lot of the difficulty is in capturing genuine, ...
Student Life
When working as a university photographer (that is a real type of photographer btw, just look here) one can never get enough “student life” photos. The basic requirement is that there be young, happy students (with books, computers, backpacks, pens, notepads, etc.) caught in a candid moment on campus. The student life photo is to ...
Tiare
Things don’t always go as planned at photoshoots and you are forced to improvise at the last minute. This was the case for my shoot with Tiare. Despite making reservations, I couldn’t take photos at the 50-year-old vintage motel that my whole concept was based around. C’est la vie… So these photos are the result ...
Exaggerated Motion
As I slowly expand my post production skills, the aesthetic of my photos change. I really wanted to bring out the warm colours in the artificial wood walls and use dramatic light for the subject. The look reminds me a little of the deep yellows and oranges found in some Baroque oil paintings. Model: Tiare ...
Famous and Interesting People
I am fortunate to meet a lot of fascinating people when I am working at the University of Calgary. Sometimes it’s a researcher in a lab or a really interesting student, other times it’s someone whose achievements have made them famous. This a small collection of some of the amazing people who have passed though ...
Morning Coffee
I’ve always wanted to do something with these leftover photos I shot a long time ago. I played around with different aesthetics, but in the end I decided on black and white to imitate the newspaper’s appearance. If I could go back, I would have shot everything with a single light source because I feel ...