Chris Bolovar from Optamedia

I work quite a bit for Chris Bolovar at Optamedia http://www.optamedia.com an Ad Agency here in Edmonton.

Recently I photographed Chris and his team for their new promotional materials. If you know Chris he is a very professional Ad man. Naturally I took some inspiration from the hit TV series MAD MEN to shoot Chris's portaits.

For some of the images Chris really played it up with a “hard ass” MadMen look. Initially we shot on a white seamless. We shot on seamless because the Creative team at Optamedia was going to do their own post with the images and needed them shot on pure white.

Two weeks later I was photographing Ethan Moreau of the Edmonton Oilers on a 20 story roof top. While shooting Ethan the image of Chris popped in my head. I could almost see the picture of Chris in the chair with the cityscape view as a backdrop. It was really weird.

So I shot a slate of the city scape.. then later I found the image of chris and merged the files.

Now this portait of Chris is one of my favorite pics... Funny how photography works sometimes.