Gabrielle Touchette is a professional photographer specializing in portraits, wedding photography, and headshots in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Amanda O and Duncan M came over on Sunday and we had 2 shoots between 1 delicious meal. Here are photos from our day time wandering in the neighbourhood - as well as photos from our night time flash tests. Fun fun fun!
By the way: meal was alfredo shrimp linguine and organic wine.
Dessert: pineapple berry ice yogourt smoothies
(It was so good, I had to record it somewhere)
and I must say that I love that so many former PrairieView students are always up for fun shoots!
Really, what I should be busy with right now is editing hundreds of photos from a shoot last week and prepping for a photography workshop...but instead I'm playing in Lightroom with my stonehenge pictures again. I had to blog another one. It's fun being a photographer, but sometimes it's just too much fun.
I'm part of a small geeky photo club called f/action (new website coming soon!), and last Sunday we went on a fun shooting escapade at a location just outside the city. We call it Stonehenge. The weirdest, eeriest place, but while the sun was still in the sky, we took a bunch of pictures. I haven't had time to go through all of my pictures yet, but these are the first two that I picked out. I'm using LightRoom2's trial right now and enjoying it very much. Here are the first results. More to come later...
The other day I decided to use 3200 ISO and go to the Black & White setting on my camera and use an unlikely lens for candid generic shots at a busy outdoor concert. I had nothing to lose, and I wanted to limit myself to a certain set of parameters to see what the outcome would be. Although having a fixed focal length of 105mm and knowing that I was making the B&W an on-camera decision, I still went and shot and quite enjoyed myself. I got close-ups of strangers walking around that I wouldn't have normally dared to capture (without having to be right in their face), and I embraced the loss of colour and focused on texture, contrast and the quality of light. Results: a breath of fresh air from my usual shooting.
I went to a show on Friday night at the Zoo and used my 50mm lens instead, but with the same settings. I picked out the ones from that night that stood out to me.
