Lyall's Crow

So my laptop recently crashed. It's pretty frustrating being a photographer without his own computer. Luckily I live with a roommate who is nice enough to let me use one of his until I know what's up with mine - I will hopefully find out today.

No computer problem is going to stop me from taking photos, tho. I recently photographed my friend Lyall. Check out our hangout with his crow:

Lately I've also been shooting a lot for BlogTO - A lot of shows and also continuing with my weekly feature - In The Window.

Some of my latest posts I wrote and photographed:

Mother Mother:

Full review: Mother Mother light up The Phoenix

Listener:

Full review: Listening to Listener at CMF

My In The Window feature:

In the window: Spiritualized, The White Stripes, Nas

In addition to doing the show review for Listener I also managed to get a few videos of Dan doing his spoken word. I really like this guys music.

Yep. So I've basically just been keeping busy, working on my portfolio, and rockin' out. My birthday is on Friday! Exciting!

Thanks!

- Dylan

Whats up? BlogTO.

I recently started shooting for a Toronto blog - BlogTO. I'm pretty excited about it because it's getting me back shooting shows and will hopefully open a few doors along the way. It's been interesting so far because a lot of the job is writing. I'm definitely not the strongest writer in the world but I'm interested in improving. I think it'll be a great advantage in my career if I'm also able to write about my future experiences.

I work for their music section so I'm shooting a lot of shows. With the shows I also plan on doing "features" on local musicians or musicians that are stopping through on tour. The features will be a good way to improve my portrait work and make for some interesting subjects along the way. With the portraits will also be an interview - it's funny because this kind of just plays off of my Strange(r) People project. I guess I just like people.

Here's a few photos and the links to my recent BlogTO articles:

Tennis

Full article HERE

Persian Rugs

Full Article HERE

I also do a feature called "In The Window". It's basically a weekly article about what's in the windows of local record shops. I take photos of the storefront and then ask an employee to talk about a few of them. It's pretty interesting and has already gotten me listening to different music.

In The Window: Criminal Records

Full article HERE

In The Window: Rotate This

Full article HERE

I recently also set up my Paypal. So... I'm going to try and really get into selling prints/books. I find the quality of a photo increases drastically once it's printed. I want to start putting more value on my photos, as I think some of them deserve. I'm going to do a post on specific prices and sizes of prints available in the near future. I'm excited.

So ya... lot's coming up in the future. A BUNCH of shows I'm hoping to cover coming up... Deer Tick, City and Colour, Frank Turner, Cancer Bats, Joe Purdy. I'm hoping to start shooting more portraits (hah I always want to shoot more portraits). Uhmm... Actually, I should go to bed.

I'll leave you with a pretty funny behind the scenes of a shoot I assisted for a Toronto based photographer Matt Barnes. I really admire Matt's work so it's been pretty cool experiencing it first hand. Really good way to learn.

Matt Barnes Photographs Playmate Lindsey Gayle Evans from Westside Studio on Vimeo.

For more of Matts work check out his website www.thatsthespot.com

Take care

- Dylan

Thomas Pound

I was with Thomas on New Years and quickly took a photograph of him in the crazy crowds. At the time he was wearing the same coat/hat that he's wearing in the following photos but the original was out of focus - apparently I still can't focus a camera.

I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and get out and practice environmental lighting. This is what came out of it...

I did not use any gels for any of these photos. These lights just happened to be there. Kind of annoying to be honest.

I also finally updated my Strange(r) People project. Here's a preview image from the most recent entry...

You can check out the whole entry here: http://strangerppl.tumblr.com/

I recently started shooting for a Toronto blog called BlogTO. I'm really excited about this opportunity because it may open a few doors I didn't have before. With it I will be getting back into shooting concerts and hopefully a few interview/portraits in the long run. You can check out my first entry on a local record shop here: http://www.blogto.com/

I've also recently noticed that you can see how many people have "shared" a link on facebook. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many shares a few of the my links have! Thank you so much to anyone who has reposted or told a friend about my work. It helps a lot.

Much love!

- Dylan