Taking Photos of Sushi

This past week I ended up taking photographs for a sushi restaurant here in Edmonton called Kyoto Japan.

Although Im not known as a food photographer I do shoot the monthly drink features for Cargo and James. I have also shot some food for editorial puropses as well.

I quite enjoy shooting food. Mainly because it doesn’t talk back and stays super still when you need it to…

For this specific project I ended up using Trevor as my assistant as opposed to Nick. I this Trevor is more suited for the attention to detail rather than Nick who is much more technical and enjoys working with people.

Anyways I am quite pleased with the overall work. We decided to keep the styling simple and let the food speak for itself as opposed to heavily styling each image.

ENJOY!
C

You have 5 minutes....

Here is a fun invite with a Blues Brothers concept. Its of the owners of Wayward Steel, INLAND cement, AGRA foundations and Expocrete.

The owners were all light hearted and laid back guys but they were all very busy the day we were shooting.

So Nick and I arrive on location at Characters Lounge in Edmonton Alberta to set up at11:25 and one of the owners is like “sorry I have a phone conference at 11:30 sharp. I give the typical answer, which is a slight bending of the truth. - “No problem.”

So we shot the concept in 4 minutes and 45 seconds. It was busy, no room for error, our lighting had to be bang on pretty much from putting the soft box on the stand...

This is not the first time we have been thrown a 5 min time limit on us when we were supposed to have an hour... anyways with 4 busy company owners i was par for the course.

Im pretty happy with the turnout.

Olympics are over

Well the Beijing Olympics are finally over.

I am happy to say Karine Sergerie landed a sliver medal in Taekwondo, Sebastian lost out in the quarterfinal and unfortunately Ivette Gonda lost out in her first fight albeit due to some very controversial decisions by the referees.

(a cool article the sun wrote about my olympic taekwondo exhibition)

I was really hoping that Ivette would have done better, but I guess the refs didn’t feel Ivette should have moved on. Im serious it was really bad reffing and caused quite a stir in the Taekwondo community.


Anyways my Canadian Olympic Taekwondo photography exhibition featurning the aforementioned athletes will still be online for a while until I complete the next one either on the Edmonton Fire Dept or I hope on the Edmonton Tactical Unit. You can see the exhibition at www.photographyexhibition.net

Here are some recent pieces of work I shot of Tyler Christopher who also attended the Olympics, but was battling the flu, and thus had a sub par performance… No worries though Tyler will be in London in 2012.

C

Photographing Jamie Coutts in Southern Alberta

This past week I was working with Jamie Coutts from Original video in southern Alberta. The project was for Growing Alberta and encompassed a 4 days shooting taking us from Fort Macleod to Acme Alberta.

During our four day shooting schedule I photographed Jamie himself in Drumheller located in the badlands of Alberta. The badlands are the home to the most extensive and spectacular displays of dinosaur skeletons in the World.

We visited the tourist center to get some ideas of where to shoot Jamie. This is where we stumbled upon a brochure advertising these cool looking mushroom-capped rock structures called the hoodoos. So we decided to shoot there.

Once we arrived at the location we were quite disappointed. The hoodoos themselves stood only about 8 feet tall, a stark contrast to the brochure photo that made them look like towering formations standing a least 20 feet tall.

We decided to shoot at the hoodoo location regardless… but in the photographs we didn’t include the hoodoos.
Enjoy.

New Style of Photos

(Don Iveson - Avenue Magazine)

Here are some new images from I style I have been shooting lately which is lacing all pages of major US magazines and AD agencies.

(Miner for Gordon Group AD agency Ottawa)

I knew about it back in November but a few months ago I finally figured out how to land these "new" images, which I am confident, can be used for my commercial and editorial clients.
(Tiger Taekwondo Demo)

Although this look seems to be more for editorial purposes, I think it could add a certain feel for specific commercial projects, which need something a little surreal.
Basically for the past few months I have been "sneaking in" some of these images, when I provide my final images to my clients… the response has been very positive, but I have yet to see these specific images on any billboard campaign or editorial shoot.
(Nick Carlson - Photographer)

Keep an eye out for the September issue of Avenue magazine perhaps I may have "convinced" the art director to use this look in the story I shot of Don Iveson. Either way I think it’s a really cool style of shooting, it’s a little more complex but the results are very unique.

(miss canada competing for Miss Galaxy)

Take care,
C

New Photographs from the Yukon

What has been going on lately? Quite a bit.

Last week I was I was in Whitehorse Yukon. Here’s what I found on my trip in the Yukon. The landscape is simply breath taking and well worth a trip, however the town of Whitehorse not so much.

Amongst shooting some wonderful stock landscapes you can see above, while on a hike with the Zawrony family, I also shoot some very cool photos of OJ, Killer, Jeff jumping off a 45-foot cliff into the icy cold Yukon River.



Simply crazy. I mean this because they just looked down, and rationalized that the river “rose 15 feet”. This seemingly reliable info came from Dimitri who is OJ’s brother.


Now keep this in mind Dimitri is from St Paul, Alberta. Not your most reliable tour guide in the Yukon.

OJ went first and once he survived, Jeff and Killer decided to jump. Dimitri was getting married the following day so it would have been unwise to do this, but you could see he really wanted to.

Needless to say I didn’t jump.


Why? because it was REALLY HIGH. And I’m not Crazy.

enjoy and feel free to pass these along!

c

Travel Photography In Coba Mexico

This past week I was photographing in Coba Mexico with Jamie Coutts of Original Video productions.

(taking a break shooting Coba ruins)

Coba is a large Maya city of the located in the state of Quintana Roo. It is located about 2 hours east of the Maya site of Chichen Itza and about 1 hour west of the Caribbean Sea and Tulum.

(the main pyramid at the Coba site)

It has been reciently connected by a modern road making it more accessable, but it still has not been popularised like Chichen Itza.

(Jamie Coutts checking out a large monument in the small city)

Infact they are still excavating parts of Coba. Its still surrounded by lush jungle forests the site is built up in an area which extends over some 80 km².

(me shooting a monument in between cites at the Coba site)

This meant that Coutts and myself took quite a bit of time to shoot Coba.

Enjoy!

C