Afropunk fashion shoot final instalment

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Here are the final edits from a recent fashion shoot I did with Chineye Ifedi (MUA), Erica Iffil (wardrobe), Nesserine Haidar (hair), and Lareinaa Aloysious (model). This is a very different look from the other two series. I also added another image from the first series as well. Please let me know what you think?

Afropunk Fashion Shoot Continued

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Here is more from a recent fashion shoot I did with Chineye Ifedi (MUA), Erica Iffil (wardrobe), Nesserine Haidar (hair), and Lareinaa Aloysious (model). I am very slow at post production, I literally sit there for hours playing around with very little change. I hope you like this series in the sunset.

Tory Tait

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Here are a few looks I did for Victoria recently in the studio. When you are super smart like her, people ask for your headshot so they can publish things you write about. Me, I can barely write three sentences correctly to make a paragraph, and even then it takes me 45 minutes. How then am I suppose to write more "engaging" content to get more "likes" the way those email marketers in my junk inbox suggest? I guess, I will stick with what I am good at; taking pictures. Is that how you use a semicolon? I learned how about 20 times in the past two years but forget within 48 hours and revert back to my grade 6 muddy explanation.

Afropunk Fashion Shoot

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Here is a teaser from a recent fashion shoot I did with Chineye Ifedi (MUA), Erica Iffil (wardrobe), Nesserine Haidar (hair), and Lareinaa Aloysious (model). I have been brainstorming concepts with Chineye all month, so we have lots of great stuff to come for the summer, but this is this first shoot we worked together on. We probably should have worked together first before brainstorming on a million projects, but artists are not the most logical.  Regardless, everything worked out and as team we all worked well together.  I can't wait to keep editing the rest of the images from the shoot. Thanks ladies for a fun time.

 

 

 

 

 

Aquaman

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Francois is businessman by day and scuba instructor by night. He makes million-dollar deals during the day and fights monsters under the sea on the weekends. Actually, I have no idea what he does but he looks good infront of the camera, don't you think?

Patricia Lee

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This is a recent shoot I did with Patricia Lee Personal Training. She provides fitness training and nutrition counselling to individuals or groups in the Ottawa area. Actually, Heidi (my wife) just had her first class with her yesterday and she can't wait till her next. Did you make a new year resolution to eat better or work out? Have you stuck to those commitments? If not maybe Patricia is what you need to motivate you back into shape?

Lisbon 2015

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It has been 5 months since my trip to Europe. I finally got around to Lisbon, Portugal images. To be fair, Lisbon accounted for over 65% of the overall pictures from the whole trip. I condensed it to about 170 photos, which I won't post here obviously. Here are just a few to a more general audience. 

So, I can't say enough about that fuji x100 camera. I took it to Orlando and loved it, and this time I took it to Europe and it was fantastic. It is amazing because I don't care that much about it, so I can bring it everywhere even when I am drinking hard for the night. It is also small enough to put in my jacket or small bag if I get sick of carrying it. The most important part of course is the quality and ease of use and... it passed. The quality is very good especially since I am shooting jpegs with this, and the metering is phenomenal. I wonder, what the more expensive brothers of this camera would be like?  I normally use a Nikon d800 and sure I can slap on a 35mm lens and it is basically the same, but it is not. It is a little heavier, little bulkier, and little everything, but mostly a lot more expensive and not a camera I bring in some unknown alleyway super wasted.  Sure it will take 10 percent of the shots I can't make with the FUJI, but the key here is FUJI is more than good enough. What it lacks in image quality and functionality, it makes up for always being there to take the images I wished I would have taken but didn't because I didn't bring my D800.

Anyhow, Lisbon was truly an amazing city to visit. The climate, the lifestyle, the view and the people are amazing. It is kind of like a warmer, super densely populated version of Ottawa with more history, and a nightlife. Beer was cheap, people were super nice, lots of outdoor hangouts, food was cheap, can walk everywhere, and the place is just beautiful.

Dillon

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Recent shoot with Dillon. Dillon is a director for plays and theatre here in Ottawa. He came to me for a headshot and something non-traditional. We collaborated on a style, and this was what we ended up with. Funny thing was during the first revision,I had it real dark but figured Dillon would not have liked it this dark. So, I sent him a lighter version. He replied back, "Could you make it darker?".  This almost never happens.