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Sean
Sometimes you just know when two people were meant for each other.
Fort Gibraltar is a great setting for a wedding any time of year, but in the Autumn (or Fall as you crazy North Americans like to call it!), with the leaves turning rust and the rustic wood textures everywhere, it gives the whole thing an old world charm that I absolutely LOVE! The whole day had a wonderfully relaxed feeling to it. I think, in large part due to the relaxed Bride and Groom! You guys were just wonderful to spend the day with!
I will post more about this later but I really wanted to share the intro video I did for the wedding. I distressed the footage with a matte and vignette to give it that old world feel. I used some fantastic, folksy music which I think suits the feel of the place and the day perfectly. Thats enough talk from me… check it out:
click to watch the video on vimeo
Every so often a great idea falls into my lap.
Chandra and Jared are getting married on December 12th. Jared is an engineer… the kind that works with trains… so then it hit me: let’s make a video with a train. I originally wanted to shoot in a train yard and do a gritty black and white style video, but somehow this feel wasn’t quite right. Besides, with Chandra feeling a little unwell, spending 3 hours outside in sub-zero drizzle and snow would not have been the brightest plan! I needed something a little more original. Then the toy train idea hit me.
I decided to do a stop-motion effect with a little wooden toy train.
What you see in the video is nearly a thousand photos put together at between 8 and 14 frames per second.
Chandra and Jared also agreed to brave the cold and take the dog out for a walk. She was such a good sport too. The shot where she walks up and sniffs the train is priceless!
Thanks for being so patient with me guys… I can’t wait for the wedding!
Click to watch the video on Vimeo
On Friday the snow came down. It must have been 10cm, at least. For a moment it looked like Shauna and Ryan would be my first winter wedding of the 2009 – 2010 season… but then the sun came out for a while. That’s not to say it wasn’t cold on Saturday. All you have to do is look at the frozen clumps of grass being battered by the stinging wind on the corner of Portage and Main, just outside the Fairmont, to know it was a bit brisk!
Shauna and Ryan, you guys were great. You handled everything with great aplomb. The day came together down to the minute. It was a blast!
The highlights for me had to be the planes. One doesn’t really appreciate how big they are when they fly overhead. To get right up close makes one feel a little insignificant. It was a privilege to be allowed into the hangar.
I just want to also take this moment to say a BIG thank you to Ryan and all the men and women in the forces for putting it on the line. Both you and your families have chosen a difficult life, and no matter one’s personal opinion about the profession, you deserve our thanks. Looking after the little ones while Ryan is away (even when he’s in Vegas!) is an act of courage as well, Shauna!
I wanted to show you all the Intro chapter of the video below. I love how the reveal turned out. Its at the end…
Click to watch the video on Vimeo
Sometimes I really can’t believe how much fun it is to do what I do.
I met Chris and Michelle at a wedding of all places! They were shooting photos and I was doing video. You can see their website here. We hit it off right from the start. They are so clearly just right for each other and, as is so often the case, watching them exchange their vows just makes me fall even deeper in love with Janelle, my wife. Is there any better job in the world? I very much doubt it!
The photo shoot kicked off with us all getting aboard a city bus which Michelle’s uncle was able to get. The perfect way to transport the team of people in the wedding party. I say team because if we were playing soccer we could have fielded two full teams and still had reserves with the number of people in the entourage!
Madeline’s did a SPECTACULAR job with the Caboto centre where both the ceremony and the reception were held. There must have been a thousand candles and the ambient lighting was in a word: perfect! I look forward to working with them every time to see what magic they have weaved.
Curtis Moore did an amazing job with the photography too. The “Rockbooth” photos were stunning. A definite must for any wedding I would say.
I laughed. I cried. I ran around like a mad man until way past midnight! From start to finish this was the epitome of how much fun a wedding can be. So in closing I want to say thank you to Chris and Michelle for having me there to witness their big day.
Click to watch the video on Vimeo
We have snakes in South Africa. They would just as soon bite you as stick their tongues out at you. And if they bite you, you die. When I was about 8 years old I made the mistake of throwing stones at a Cape Cobra that was being kept in a snake pit by the herpetology department of the school where I grew up. (My dad was a teacher there so we lived on the school property). The snakes were not happy but the master in charge of them, Mr. Armstrong, was even less so. He threatened to make me go down into the pit and fetch every stone I threw in there. A fate exactly equal to a death sentence by poison! Suffice to say… I have not had a very close relationship with the slithery suckers since.
Until Friday that is.
Bond was to be shooting Scylla`s TTD/Vogue Bridal/Fearless Bride session and asked me if I wanted to tag along. There were going to be smoke machines and serpents involved… how could I pass that up? I decided to film it from Bond’s point of view as a “Behind the Scenes” kind of video. I wanted to capture the way he works and try to get the feeling of his photographic style translated into moving pictures.
Scylla was fearless, the pythons were perfect and Bond was brilliant as usual.
Check it out…
Click to watch the video on Vimeo
My good friends Chris and Michelle will be getting married soon.
This video will explain why that is a really good idea! LOL.
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