Sunday, May 30, 2010

Film Photography, First Roll

So this was the first roll of film I've taken on my Pentax, the first 7 photographs were a complete surprise to me because I wasn't able to get the camera working so I didn't know if it was taking a photograph. Though I do however like the one I took below me. I believe these were the photos from the first and a bit of the second day of my trip.


















Friday, May 28, 2010

Photoshoot with Lindsay

No behind the scenes today to my dismay. Next shoot I promise. Anyways this was a simple shoot, I wanted to take shots at these two gorgeous trees, one near my house, the other near a graveyard. It was perfect weather out, cloudy which is my favourite.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

May Long Weekend pt.3

Last day of endless photoshoots.

We started off with some photographs in the water because we failed so miserably the day before, so I wanted to make up for that loss. Also, Madi did the shoot she was supposed to do the other day, this day.

So we started in the water and Gabrielle and Kaitlyn (Madi's sister) watched us. We went into the lilly pads and it was quite pretty. However I was covered almost up to my bum in silt from the water.

After that I had promised Kaitlyn I'd do a shoot with her and her friend so I did that, we biked down to this open field and we were going to go inside except there were cows everywhere and there was a bull that was staring right at us, so we figured it would be best to stay on the otherside of the barb wire fence. It took awhile to do all of Kaitlyn's hair and makeup, but I think we ended up with a pretty good job. Earlier, we had Gillian and Gabrielle wheel down all these mattresses for them to sit on. Actually, during their shoot it ended up raining which was quite delightful.

Right after, we ended up doing a shoot with this boy named Erik, whom Gillian, Madi and I all go to school with. I've never personally talked to him before, but I've known him since grade 7. Anyways, he was willing to do a shoot so I paired up Erik and Gillian together and they looked wonderful. Someone (I don't know who), said that it looked like a Teen Vogue shoot which kind of made me smile a little inside.

We went to the same field as before, except the cows were gone so we went inside, and we managed to get the double bike over the barb wire without popping any of the tires. To add, I was able to convince Erik to put makeup on, so Madi did the makeup for me.

I would have done more shoots with Erik but he had to leave which was quite unfortunate, but oh well. Instead I did four other shoots with Madi and Gillian (seperately), we went to the beach for two of them and then we did one of Gillian on this old swing Madi has, and in wedding dress and another with some cloth and corset in the very same field that I shot Gillian and Erik. However the sun was lower in the sky, so it gave me gorgeous lighting.

Now before the night ended, we did a shoot in our trailer. I have couple photographs of Gillian on digital, but all my photographs of Madi were on film. (Yes! I did film, it was quite exciting.)

Also, I let Gillian and Madi dress me up and do a shoot with me as the model, and they did all the planning : wardrobe, makeup, taking the pictures etc. So I put one of the photographs I liked in the results below. I'm not sure who actually took that one. So I just give credit to both of them.




The Results: