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, flyers, magazines or anywhere else you might be looking.

Lighting consisted of a six foot Octa to camera right, 2x 4 foot soft boxes left and right slightly behind the model, and finally 2x lights on the background to blow it out.

Modeling the clothes is Christian Cantius.

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 a small section of this massive building.

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.