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.
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 of Speedlites and fired away.
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 the light show only to find the area clouded over. We scouted out some locations and waited for the skies to clear.
When the conditions improved we started to drive out of town towards an abandoned gravel pit we had found. We hadn’t gotten half way when Andy started to say he thought the lights might be starting. We pulled off on the next gravel path that presented itself and drove 4×4 down a quickly narrowing and water filling trail, only stopping in front of a large puddle that someone else had blocked with a log, an obvious proceed-no-further warning.
Scrambling in the wet and dark we managed to unload the truck, setup, and capture about an hours worth of the most spectacular natural light show I have ever witnessed. Living in Canada I’ve seen the northern lights before but usually as nothing more than the shimmering curtain on the horizon. But what we saw that night and unfortunately being only able to capture a small amount of, filled the skies from end to end.
This little video is a capture of about an hour of what we saw.
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, skis and snow boards. A crushing workload only made possible by having a great team of dedicated photographers and photoshop ninjas. Many thanks to Danny Cougil of Cougil Media, Andy Buffy, and Jasmin Poon. A extra-special shout out to Danny Cougil who has over the last couple years provided me with invaluable help and now has fled these wacky Calgary climes for the the more temperate Vancouver. Best of luck buddy.
I’m going to have to get caught up on all the posting I have missed over the summer. Stay tuned as I will be posting some how-to videos on some of the techniques we use in the studio when photographing catalogues. These will range from some lighting tips to photoshop magics and various other studio tid-bits some of you might find interesting.
Sometimes you just have too much time on your hands.
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Well I’ve been hard at it since my return and seriously behind in getting my images from Italy edited. The catalogues and ad work pays bills and has a much tighter deadline than my own personal work, but that is life.
Part two starts with a landscape shot of San Gimignano ‘the Manhattan of Tuscany’, famed for it’s many towers some of which are still standing.
We then have three shots of the lovely Maira at the Fortezza Medicea in Cortona. We shot all day there with both Maiira and her sister Nicole.
Looks like Mr Brainwash lost his legal battle. This has me of two minds. As a photographer its good to see that our rights are being recognized and protected. As a fan there wouldn’t be bands like Run DMC if remixing was not allowed on some level.
Well it’s been a hectic couple of weeks over here at Matador. We’ve travelled to Italy and back on a photography excursion of epic porportions. Capturing gigs of images of beautiful models under the Tuscan sun. Many thanks to Mark Laurie of Inner-Spirit Photography, one of Canada’s top nude photographers, for putting the whole thing together.
I’ve still got many hours of editing to do but I’ve included here a couple of photos for a teaser.
Rob.
