Photo-graphs?

So, thanks for the feedback on the abs! The more I've looked at it the more I've noticed how the abs are very over done in that image of Adam. I've fixed the shot now. I must have been very tired when I posted that.

So, what's new? We recently got two new photographers in the studio! I'm excited to have them in the studio! I think with their addition the studio is going to head in a more professional manner. So yeah, welcome Alex (http://www.alexlukey.com/) and Christine!

I edited a few more photo's of Christine from our last shoot. I like the way they're similar.





Also, I recently shot a good friend Danielle in the studio. I was able to use Andrews newly purchased umbrella - it's super big so was able to produce a nice soft light! Also, Christine provided us with some nice black roll paper. I think shooting on black roll paper is my favorite.

Check the first edited shot... it's wide so you may have to stretch your browser. Or click it.



So, who want's to buy me a new camera?

Eh?

Okay, quick update.

I recently edited a photo of Adam from our shoot a while back.

I edited more than I usually do but I think I like it. There's some things I don't know if i'm happy with it yet, tho. So... I thought I would set up a Before and After and show a few people to see what they think. I'm concerned about it.

I'm mostly concerned about two things:

- I don't know if I dodge and burned his abs too much or not.

- I don't know if I like the vignetting in the background. I feel it gives the image more edge - which I like. Buttt I don't know if I want to get into the habit of doing that to all my images.

I still don't know if i'll change it or not but i'm interested if there's any feedback? Maybe something else I could do with the background?

Here is the before and after.



Cooooool.

Guy And Girl Fashion.

Blog.

It seems like it has been a busy last while.

I did a shoot with Adam recently. He's a model from Barrett Palmer (http://www.barrettpalmermodels.com/). It went really well! I don't usually shoot male models so it was cool to switch it up. He brought everything and did his hair himself so that was easy, and we enjoy the same music so we rocked out to breakdowns the whole time.

Here are his shots:




If you want to see before and after just ask me.

I also shot Chrissi. She contacted me over modelmayhem.com and asked to do a shoot with a local clothing artist. Everything ran smoothly and we were able to get a few outfits done in a minimal amount of time Although the shoot went well - it made me realize I need to practice more lighting schematics at the studio. Here are some photo's from that shoot. I didn't put my signature on the one with the yellow shirt because I felt it'd throw off the symmetry of the photo too much, just don't take it hah.




What else?

I updated my website! There's a photo from the shoot with sarah a while back as the background now. You guys can check that one out there.

http://www.dylanleeder.com

I also did a shoot with two of my good friends. They wanted to get some photo's for their myspace. We decided to just head over to the Algonquin garden area. Such a beautiful place. It'd be such a cool program to take.

Here is a shot from the shoot... but again, all the colors are off and it looks really dark. Full view the image at this link to see it correctly

http://itsdylan.deviantart.com/art/Jaden-and-Shamus-135708693.



Gah. I need a new camera. Damn money.

I also finished my first album for Baz. It was frustrating at times but I feel that after doing it more it'll become more of a second nature. I think it will be good practice for the design aspect of photography.

I wanted to mention a website. Ted.com. It's a website full of amazing speech's that cover a large variety of topics. I recently watched one on motivation - it was really interesting. There's also some speech's by photographers as well.

http://www.ted.com

Also here is the link to the speech on motivation:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

A few other photographers that are going to the same college I went to are putting on an exhibition called Face and Film. It should be interesting. The images are all shot on film so it'll be nice to be reintroduced to the beauty of film. So, if you're in the Ottawa area you should go check it out!



Okay, I think that's good for now.

You guys should check out the song Candy by Paolo Nutini and if you're into heavier stuff check out August Burns Red's new CD.

Have a good day!

It's late.

Hello.

So, I am very tired so I don't know how much i'm going to put on this.
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I recently started working for a photography named Baz. I am building digital photo albums of his wedding photo's and I'm pretty excited about this - I feel like it'll improve my wedding photo's as I will see a lot of wonderful examples. I'm happy to be working with such a talented photographer. You can check his stuff out at http://www.fiveriversstudio.com/.

Also, I recently uploaded my website. I'm really excited to have it finally up. I designed and built it myself. Took a long time and is not completely done yet - I feel like I'll be constantly working on it. But, that's okay with me. It will only get better. You can check it out at www.dylanleeder.com. I built the whole thing with Adobe Flash and tried to maintain a simple easy flowing design. Before I finished it I forgot how to use masks... which is frustrating because it would have made it a lot easier/smoother. Oh well. For anyone interested I decided to do a print screen of the building process.



And you can see the "after" at the actual link.

What else is new...

I shot a wedding on Saturday for Diane and Dustin. It went really well! The weather was perfect and the location was amazing. The ceremony was held at a beautiful home on the top of a hill overlooking the water. It was my first wedding I had an assistant for and everything ran very smoothly. I huge thanks to Jaden for sticking through the day with me - with no previous camera training or experience shooting such a large event he pulled it off very well! Thanks Jaden! Also, a huge thanks to Christian Mackie for allowing me to borrow his D300 and to Andrew Cottingham for letting me borrow his equipment as well! I'll have some photos from the day later this week.

Recently I also took some photo's for a family. They were all very nice and we got lucky with some nice weather and a very short distance from the river to take photo's.




Both the kids had a lot of energy and were really fun to work with! As you can see here:



For some reason the photo's look a bit darker/saturated on here. But you can get the general idea.

Also, I recently went and took photos of a few friends bands. All played well. The Roaring Frog is very dark so getting well lit pictures was kind of difficult. Lighting conditions such as this make me want a better camera so bad. I need a camera that produces little amount of noise in a high ISO.

Here are some examples:






... and more.






okay. Uhmm I probably have more so maybe i'll update again in the next few days.

Also, everyone should check out Said The Whale, Fever Ray, and August Burns Red. Check em out.

Have a good day.

First Personal Studio Shoot

Last week I did a photo shoot with Sarah Sheldrick. It was pretty exciting to have finally done a shoot of my own in the studio. It inspired me to do more of them... more frequently.

You can check out her Model Mayhem at http://www.modelmayhem.com/sarahsheldrick.

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So, this week has been a pretty stressful one. I recently had 300 dollars stolen from me (by someone I hope I don't trust). The most frustrating thing about it is that I finally felt like I was gaining some lead way in terms of supporting myself with my photography. This has set me back, it sucks.

Also, tomorrow I have an interview with a photographer that I hope to work with in the future. I'm pretty excited about this. He wanted some examples of my digital imaging so I made him some before and after examples. I think i'll post them on here for anyone that may be interested.

Picture time...

Here are the shots from the recent shoot I did in the studio. All images are saturated on here for some reason. So, you can also check them out at http://ItsDylan.deviantart.com - click them then full view them (by clicking the picture) to see the correct colors/saturation.

All images are shot in Studio 77.

Uppddatteee

Where are we?

Okay, so nothing really exciting has happened in the area of photography.

I've been doing shoot's for Stock Foundry - today I did a shoot in the studio with a karate theme. It was pretty neat! The model worked really well for us and everything went smoothly.

And... I'm still trying to get my friggin website up. It's been overly frustrating. Once I think I have everything in order... it just doesn't work. So I call them, and now i'm waiting for a response. I'm about to give up on this company. Let it be known that I do not recommend Webserve to anyone as a web host.

Well, lately I went to Montreal with a few friends and climbed to the top of Mount Royal. Here are a few pictures of it.




And the cross at the top:





Also, I recently went and saw The National the same night as Kiss. Here are some photos from The National.






Alright. That's all I've got for now.

There's a cow in this one.

Ah! It's been too long since I've done this!!

Well, what has happened.

We had our Studio opening! It went really well! A decent amount of people came out and had a grand ol' time! Drinks were had, people were met... and people were impressed :D. Pretty exciting.

Heres a picture later in the night when it started to become more of a party:



What else! Oh! I got my business cards! Except the host of my website has been screwing me around. It's been almost two weeks and they havn't given me a host! And i've called them 4 times - each time they say the next step will fix the problem. DOUBLE YOU TEE EFF.

I decided to go extremely simple with the design of the card. I used the Eurostile font. (which I use for most of my business stuff). I also chose to not put a picture on it because I get sick of my photo's really quick; so seeing the same one over and over would drive me insane and i'd be frustrated it's on there.

here they are:




... So I just got the website host. Now it's a matter of getting it online. It's more confusing than I thought it would be. I'm hoping I can get it up tomorrow night. I'm excited. I think this will be a good step in getting things going. Now my business cards will actually link to something. hah oh man.

Things seem to be getting more busy. I kind of like that. Bring it.

Some pictures.

I forgot to put my signature on them... but please don't take them.
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