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Model Shoots for Canadian Retailer
Here are some shots we did for Sport Chek. This was a full day day shoot with four models and many outfit changes. Because we don’t know exactly where these pictures might be used we shoot on a white background allowing for either and easy mask or cutout. These photos usually end up in catalogues, [...]
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Tagged advertising, Commercial Photography, Fashion, Matador Photostudios, Models, Sport Chek
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Projections for Corporate Town Hall Meeting.
Here is a shot we did for FGL Sports Ltd that was to be used as a background projection during a VP address at a Town Hall meeting. This was a last minute idea and hence had a tight deadline. I figured the bright colours would really pop if shot on black and I also [...]
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B-Roll Timelapse Inside Warehouse
A couple months ago I got the call to do some photo work for on of the largest shipping and distribution companies in Canada. While there I set up a second camera on a superclamp and let it run for an hour capturing some of the pace of things being done in what was only [...]
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Winter Apparel Shoot For Sport Chek Look Book
A couple of shots from a Sport Chek Facebook mini-campaign. We did these shots one afternoon just before Christmas to highlight some winter apparel for their Facebook page. Our models were some employees in the building which we grabbed on short notice. They did a pretty good job.
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Inner City Interiors
These are a couple of interior shots we did last week of a million dollar in-fill in the Marda Loop district.
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Run and Gun Quick Shoot for Sport Chek’s Facebook page
Here be a few shots from a recent shoot we did for Sport Chek. These were to be posted to the Sport Chek facebook page and we only had an hour to capture images for 6 pairs of jeans. We grabbed the two models, ran out to a loading dock area powered up a couple [...]
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The Northern Lights and NWTs
Dance of the Spirits: An Aurora Borealis Time Lapse from Rob Berrade on Vimeo. This a time lapse of the Aurora Borealis or northern lights as captured just outside of Hay River, in the North West Territories. My friend Andy Buffy and I had driven up from Calgary, an 18 hour drive, to hopefully capture [...]
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The Lovely Francesca and the Varieties of One Light
Here are two examples of how wildly varietal a single flash unit can make a scene. In both pictures, taken in the exact same room only minutes apart without changing the nature of the ambient light and using only one flash with the same diffuser, I created two very different looks. This was done by [...]
A Very Busy Summer.
Well I’m back in front the computer and for the first time in a long time Photoshop is closed. We are currently in the wind down of a very busy summer which saw us shooting back to school catalogues and fall/winter online catalogues. This included a combination of several thousand apparel items, shoes, boots, gloves, [...]
Posted in Education, Just For Fun, Uncategorized
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Two of my favorite things…
Sometimes you just have too much time on your hands.
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