Today’s portraits are of divers Christian Zehmer and Kirsten MacDonald, taken at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre in Saint John. Again, a two person shoot made me have to think about to come up with some good compositions. I started off with each of them standing on a diving board. I used a flash for […]
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Today’s athlete is cyclist Justin Theriault, who I photographed outside the Telegraph-Journal office in Saint John. The upper parking lot provided a nice high spot that allowed me to get lower than Justin so I could put some of the nice clouds behind him on his bike. So like many of the previous images I’ve […]
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This was the second shoot done for this series, this time it is soccer players Cassian Ferlatte and Marisa Duguay. As previously mentioned, the first day of shooting was an overcast day. Which is good in that the light is lower and makes for better flash control, but the skies tend to be gray and […]
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Today’s athlete shoot is of softball player Sam DeBortoli. This was the second baseball/softball related shoot that I did, so I started up with something different. (123)
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Today’s Canada Games Athlete portrait is of golfer Jennifer Armstrong. This was actually the first shoot done for this series. I shot her at the Riverside Golf and Country Club where she is a member. So the first day of shooting, the weather was overcast and spitting rain a tiny bit. Not what I was […]
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Today’s New Brunswick Canada Games team member is basketball player Laura McCaffrey. Being indoors gives you total control over the light, as you can use the flashes at higher power levels to overpower the ambient light, or turn the lights down or off indoors! I had previously done an interesting shot of another player where […]
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The second portrait in the series is of Team New Brunswick sailors Alex Black(l) and Kelvin Gilliland, one of the few multi-person shoots. They can be a bit of a challenge as you are trying to get both people into the composition along with the equipment/background, etc that tells their story. The set up is […]
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The New Brunswick Canada Games athlete articles have started, so I can now start posting some pix from the shoots. The first story is about Nicole Barry, who is playing on the women’s softball team for this year’s games in Prince Edward Island, and her grandmother Marlene Vaughan, who competed in softball in 1969. The […]
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Helllo They say not to play with fire…but I had the opportunity to photograph my cousin Drew Chenier, who does fire twirling using Poi, which are little squares of material that get soaked in kerosene and lit on fire! Needless to say, cool shots! (368)
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One of the best things about being a newspaper photographer is that I get to meet lots of interesting people who do lots of interesting things. I was given the assignment to photograph a Luthier. What’s A Luthier I thought to myself… (192)
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