City of Red Deer Emergency Response Banner

The City of Red Deer used one of my photos from the summer to use on a trade show booth.  My photo is featured under the "recovery" section.  The banner looks awesome and I think they did a great job.  Check it out!

Photos from City of Red Deer's Activity Guide

A view looking down onto the ice of Red Deers "Arena"

Working with the City of Red Deer, I recently photographed a number of facilities for usage either online, in brochures, or activity guides as seen below.  A graphic designer then puts the pages together with the content and then they are ready for print and mail.

New Years Eve Wedding Red Deer

This past New Years Eve I shot a small wedding for a couple that lives in Red Deer.  They hosted a ceremony and reception in their home with their close family and friends.  Unfortunately the outside temperature that day was almost -30 which made it difficult to stay outside for more than minutes at a time.......

Red Deer Ross Street "Winter Nights"

ISO 1600 F4.5 1/25th 

 These were a couple of photos I shot to test the ambient light on new years eve in downtown Red Deer......

Red Deer College Nursing Class Graduates

I recently had the opportunity to take photos of the graduates from RDC's nursing class.  We began shooting a series of portraits of each girl in a portable studio set up I brought to RDC.  I used a 4 foot softbox with a strobe and experimented with a bit of cross lighting.  The Softbox sat camera left at about 45 degrees while the naked strobe sat high over their shoulders camera right.

B.C.'s Sunshine Coast

5D Mk II, full RAW, Rapid Fire shutter, AF servo, 195mm zoom L series lens, ISO 400, F 4.5, 1/6400 sec

Original photograph

I came across these two photos this evening and thought I would share them with you on my blog.  I was in the mood to post something other than portraits.

The first photo is a very cropped down picture from its original as you can see.  I used full RAW mode on my camera in anticipation of the major croppage I was going to have to perform.  Not bad considering how far away the bird was.  It was a good test of resolution on my 5d mk II's maiden voyage.

The second photo is a 1 second exposure of a waterfall on Goat Island on Powell lake.  I am not sure why I used ISO 200.  I must have forgot I could push the camera to a low ISO 50 and get an even longer exposure to soften the water.  Oh well.  For whatever reason, that was the exposure I took and it worked just fine.

Please let me know what you think or some of your experiences with similar photographs ;)

Performance Edge Olympic Lifting Clinic

This was the second time I have worked with Andre of Performance Edge Consulting.  Andre is a personal trainer and has been instructing Olympic lifting courses at PURE fitness in Red Deer.  This shoot brought me to the new PURE facility near downtown Red Deer.  It was a large spacious enviroment with an industrial feel that definitely said "crossfit".

Andre was looking to capture content for his website, multimedia advertising, and general archival purposes.....

Fish and Aquarium Photography

I met with Al and Kim in Smoky Lake earlier this month to lend a more "professional" hand capturing the vast amount and variety of fish they own and breed.....