Gabrielle Touchette is a professional photographer specializing in portraits, wedding photography, and headshots in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Blog: January 2008

lumière

January 29th, 2008

This is what happens when you look up in a gritty 101 year old basement...

Poetic Interpretation

January 25th, 2008

I've been working on a Poetic Interpretation board assignment this week. I picked out a song by the Weakerthans ("Without Mythologies", my favourite) and created an image to go along with it. I've chosen the last one in the following series to be "the one". I had so much fun in the darkroom! This turned out to be a lot easier than I thought, though if I had more time, I would fix a lot of it (so excuse the bad technique and the really cruddy scan quality). I will not post the Weakerthans song on my blog - no, that will be reserved for the board at school. But, I will attach a poem that Dallas emailed me after she saw my prints yesterday. It's pretty cute.



HEADACHE
Having a tree growing up out of me
Is often a worrisome thing.
I'm twisty and thorny and branchy and bare
But wait till you see me in spring.

-shel silverstein

Yellow in January

January 22nd, 2008



Our darkroom assignment for this week was to shoot 2 rolls of film on one single image in the style of a still life. Still life work has really been growing on me and this afternoon the idea to shoot rotting bananas on our piano came out of the blue. I grabbed a few digital shots of this because I couldn't not blog about it.

Exiting

January 21st, 2008

I'm trying to break from the conformity of my conventional shooting style. It's a start. April was my unsuspecting model.

Cold? Bah! Not when you're shooting!

January 21st, 2008

We haven't been sent outside to shoot a mini assignment a lot lately. But today we were. A mini assignment is usually assigned at the end of every morning class, generally due by 4pm that day. And today must have been one of the coldest days of the winter. But a photographer never complains!

Actually this was a great opportunity to get our butts out the door and into the frigid streets of Winnipeg. The shoot was rewarding, even though I had to sprint for the last block back to school. Being cold hurts!

Here are a few images, inspired by the Straight and Surreal photography styles we learned about this morning.




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