When we create family portraits (indoors or outdoors) we always include everyone. Some people think we create the one portrait and then it’s done. Not so. We break down the family into individual portraits, groupings, sub families etc.. This ensures that everyone is captured and it also makes it much easier for the family to create wall groupings with the portraits we created. Here are a few individuals of the “kids” from Michelle & Mark’s family portrait (Posted in an earlier post).
Over the past several years James Hodgins Photography has created a great relationship with Cambrian College (even though I dropped out). Every year we are contracted for photo assignments for their Academic Calendars, Course Catalogs, Event Promotions, and just about anything else that has to deal with professional photography. Even their annual Christmas Card card photo is done by us.
Of course. This is just the photography. Behind the photography is the wonderful design skills of Darla Laframboise and her team in the Marketing Department. Check out Darla and Me last month at the unveiling of the new Cambrian College Mobile Trades Unit. This unit will travel across Northern Ontario and deliver apprenticeship and customized training to Aboriginal, rural communities, and mine sites.
Today it is winter, and boy I can’t wait until December 21st. Know why? Because it is the shortest day of the year and that means after December 21st, the days start to get longer, and then BAMMO, summertime is here again Yippeee!. Man did the fall seem to go by fast. I have been meaning to post this one image for awhile but it always slipped my mind, so as I was going through orders I made a point to post it. This is from one of our fall engagement sessions (I posted earlier about this one) and just as we were about to wrap up I discovered the look. You know. The one “as photographers” we see when looking through our viewfinder and we yell “DON’T MOVE!” , “YOUR PERFECT!”. That was the case with this image.
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Saturday Joce and I had the pleasure of attending Ali & Lisa’s Grand Opening Of Urban Flowers located at 1610 Regent St, beside grumblers. Come in and check them out, they do amazing work for any occasion you need (ahm!….think about your Weddings).
CONGRATULATIONS again Ali & Lisa
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Some of you love the winter season, others (like me) not so much. Over the years I have ended up dreading the winter months, especially after I owned my first house and I had to start shoveling my own driveway. I do enjoy the holidays though, spending time with family and friends, relaxing…..EATING TURKEY!. Looking outside today with the big fluffy snowflakes falling and the few inches of snow on the ground I realized. Crap, winter is here. Break out your winter coats, grab your warm gloves and scarves and try to enjoy winter the best you can.
On a good note, I did come up with a great new image for my blah blah blah gallery. The Snowman (coming soon)
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5:30 in the am and there is nothing that keeps me awake more than having one of our cats lick himself while sitting right beside my head. When it’s this early in the morning everything is quite. You know your house. You know the sounds it makes. So when your cat decides to move into the recroom and continue on with his innocent yet disgusting licking, you can still hear it, clear as day. So, it’s early, I’m up and getting a fresh Cup ‘o’ Joe in my system. I thought I would post a few family portraits we have done recently. We love creating family portraits and it amazes me how long some families go without having an updated portrait. Think of a family portrait as an investment in you and your family. When you have a large wall portrait hanging in your house of your family, that is art. Who would disagree with me on this? Joce and I love the expressions on our clients faces when they come to pick up their Wall Portraits, you can tell that they know, at the moment they see it finished, that they made the right decision to invest in their family.
Now the person holding the camera laughing his butt off is my Bro-In-Law Mike (above). 2 weeks ago we portaged into our “secret” lake for some Bass & Pike fishing. Some stupid beaver decided to damn up part of the “river” we normally paddle through so we had to carry our gear and canoe most of the way. Lifting and pulling heavy objects through mud tends to wear you down. You don’t think clearly, you try stupid things…..like seeing just how stuck you can get in some Canadian Quicksand. Now to my defense, this stuff was thick, but if you broke through, it swallowed your foot. We only caught one fish. (of course, I was the one that caught it)
Sunday we had the annual Mark & Michelle Family Portrait. Over the years I have always driven past this location in New Sudbury and Sunday I decided that we would use it for this portrait. It had lots of leaves, trees, some shade and it was central for all of us. If you recall Sunday was warmer (7 degrees) but it was still cool outside. Due to the time of day we photographed this portrait I decided to use one of my monolights and umbrella’s for some fill flash. That, and the fact that I left all of my reflectors in Elmira (Thanks Tina for sending them to me), the monolight was looking pretty good.
Fern just finished his updated business portrait for his Sudbury Real Estate site www.ferncormier.ca Consulting beforehand we knew he was wearing a blue shirt and jacket, so out came one of our blue backgrounds. We always like to match up the background color with the clothing. This makes for a well rounded studio business portrait. Although, we can also change the background and clothing color to anything we pretty well please as you can see below. Not only did Fern get a great Portrait, he also discovered that Earth tones look good on him as well.
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I do enjoy the holidays though, spending time with family and friends, relaxing…..EATING TURKEY!. Looking outside today with the big fluffy snowflakes falling and the few inches of snow on the ground I realized. Crap, winter is here. Break out your winter coats, grab your warm gloves and scarves and try to enjoy winter the best you can.
