Tag: photography
Huge thanks to Chris Chapman and the whole Silverline Studios crew for hosting an awesome shindig tonight. Free food, free booze and free spirits. Is this what the Toronto photo scene was like in the 80s?!?!?!?
Even if it wasn’t, I welcome it and look forward to more!
There’s been a number of posts and tweets about the new Tiny Planet Photos app by InfoDing (note: their official site is one of the most interesting ‘coming soon’ placeholders I’ve ever seen).
I haven’t had a chance to play with the app myself but the screenshots immediately reminded me of some shots I took on my Nokia 6265i way back in May of 2007 – over a month before the first iPhone launched on June 29th, 2007! (Do you remember life before the iPhone?)
I was assisting on a location photo shoot and we had to assemble a metal table – the type you’d see at European sidewalk cafés. While goofing-off working dilligently, I noticed that the interior surface of the table’s centre column was highly reflective. Fascinated by my newfound discovery I immedately began snapping pix of flowers and co-workers.
Obviously, these shots are more simplistic than some of the cool effects and controls it appears you can have with Tiny Planet. However, it is interesting to consider even an effect as ‘digital’ and ‘otherworldly’ as the one provided by this app still has a corollary in the analog realm.
You can also see a behind-the-scenes video from the shoot at:
http://www.chatelaine.com/en/videos/23913–behind-the-scenes-of-our-canadian-actresses-photo-shoot
I got to work with the photo A-team of Jarret and Emily today and it reminded me to post this photo of them from a shoot earlier this year.
This past summer I had the opportunity to stop by Wallace Studios where my partner, Diana Carreiro, was doing hair & makeup for a motion project directed by Gabor Jurina for Transcontinental starring Russian ballerina Svetlana Lunkina.
You can see the results of the shoot here:http://wn.com/Gabor_Jurina_Photo_session__Svetlana_Lunkina,_Prima_Ballerina_of_the_Bolshoi_Ballet_video
Remember two things:
1) On a fashion shoot this is not considered weird;
2) No one talks back to a man in a mask.
My boy Mike rocked the reflector while I rocked the cowboy hat.
