vancouver architectural photographer panoramic
Here are some photos shot for new schools across Alberta. These were shot for a joing venture btween construction companies called Bird and Graham constuction. Photographs shot by Curtis Comeau.
vancouver architectural photographer school photo
These were shot with a panoramic technique. Not many vancouver architectural photographers use this, however in some cases panoramic photographs work very well for client needs.
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A few blog posts ago I wrote about my top travel tips, and in it I posted a picture of my reading material for the trip… a few graphic novels (individual compilations of comic book story arcs).
Alot of people emailed me asking if I really read graphic novels, and if so why? Well I do read them, alot of them infact. I even use them as inspiration and research for upcoming photo shoots.
See in graphic novels the artists need to be very aware of lighting and composition. Each panel is used to move a story along, often without words or dialogue. So I study the image composition and the lighting and implement the same techniques with my photographs.
vancouver photographer comic art
Especially in my industrial work. I have to clarify, I do not buy individual comic books though, because I am way too impatient to wait a month to see how a story will progress.
In addition to graphic novels I collect comic art. What is comic art that you ask? Well obviously comics are drawn first…. so I purchase the actual drawings that are used to make the book. It’s a huge industry with prices starting in the high hundreds for one page and often tens of thousands of dollars depending on the artist and character.
I personally prefer collecting only the cover art rather than the inside pages. The art is drawn on much larger pages 13×19 than the actual book.
robert atkins comic cover
An artist will make a few sketches of cover options before they begin to pencil the real cover. These are called “Prelim Sketches”. The Prelims’ and are presented to the publisher for approval. I pick cover prelims that were approved on occasion as well… They are quite interesting because you get to see the progression of the art to the final cover.
I collect alot of Robert Atkins GiJoe work right now. He’s one of the hottest artists out there and a super cool guy to deal with. He also does the art that you see in Heroes the TV series.
Anyways this post was ,not so much photography related but a little about me personally.
enjoy,
C
Here are a series of headshots I did for a few realtor friends of mine. They needed a few for new bus bench ADs so they came by the studio and we knocked out a few shots in about 15 mins. Vancouver offers quite a wide range of realestate services, so its a pleasure to shoot some of the people involved in the real estate scene.
headshots for realtor bus bench ADs
Whats cool is that these realtors are going to go with black and white benches… so its pretty cool and a little different from a realtor stand point.
vancouver headshots
enjoy!
C
recruitment photography campaign for Safeway
Here is a shot for Safeway Pharmaceuticals. It was shot for a Vancouver recruitment agency. I quite like this image. I’m not sure if Safeway ever used this one in any of the recruitment campaigns… but I still like it. We shot this series in about a half day.
Enjoy!
C
photo with the elinchrom ranger.
I currently use Elinchrom lighting and am very happy over all with the product. I use 3 of the self contained heads, and the ranger packs for location work. I am off to Europe on April 5th to shoot for a few weeks. The work will all be on location, which normally would be suited for the elinchrom ranger packs.
The only problem is weight is a serious consideration this time around… So the other day I was visiting Vistek in Edmonton and my sales rep showed me the Elinchrom Quadra packs. If you have never seen them, they are seriously the smallest packs on the market, and the heads are smaller than my 580’s. And they pack 400Wts/sec. I was blown away at the size.
The problem is that the Quadra kit comes in at $1500-$2500. I am so heavily invested in Rangers, I keep asking myself do I really need another power pack.. then I think about lugging the Rangers across Europe and of course Vancouver and I really think to myself that maybe its a good investment. Im not saying the Rangers are huge… by industry standards they are quite nice… but the Quadras are just so damn small, its hard to simply ignore them as being an asset to a photographers kit.
Anyways, I thought I would post a pic from ranger pack lighting just for kicks… In fact Im shooting an interior tomorrow and will be using the rangers… but the Quadra may be oohhh so nice..
Enjoy!C
Vancouver Photographer Curtis Comeau photographs Mike Percy
I could days ago I was contacted by the Journals Les Affairs in Montreal to photograph the Dean of the UofA School of Business. The Dean who was a very very nice man, had little time but did everything I asked… and never made us feel rushed. The stressful part of the shoot was the ridiculously fast turn around time. This shoot was seriously last minute. The deadline was 5pm Montreal time which was 2pm our time. Here is a breakdown of the crazy morning.
Vancouver Photographer Curtis Comeau photographs Mike Percy
8am – arrive on location set up lights, and block the shoot
8:45am The dean arrives, we begin to shoot
910am I am in my car heading to the studio (its 12 noon in Montreal)… assistant tears down without me.
940am I arrive at studio, process proofs and send them off for editorial choices
10:15am choices made… processing x2 images for final out put.
10:45am FTP the final files…
11:10 am head out to shoot an editorial home piece I need to have be at for 12:30 start time.
enjoy!
C
spa photo taken by vancouver photographer
There are no shortages of spas and hair salons in Downtown Vancouver, so its a natural that I end up shooting for a few of them. I enjoy shooting beauty and spa work. In part because alot of the times I get to create “fresh” feel images, which is what I like…
vancouver spa photography
The other reason are that spas smell nice… and Its always enjoyable to work in an enviroment that smells nice.
Enjoy!
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Calgary Airport
Shooting in Airports is fun. I work quite often for NAS a Vancouver based recruitment advertising agency. This series was shot for YYC – Calgary Airports.
YYC image stock
A while back we ended up photographing some recruitment stock for NAS and YYC. I thought these images are a lot of fun, and they are of real employees, and not mo
YYC stock
dels.
Enjoy.
C
Studios in Vancouver
Shooting in
Shooting in studio is a lot of fun. Many Vancouver photographers who don’t own a studio like to make negative comments about shooting in a studio, labeling the images as lifeless or less dynamic than shooting on location. Most of these comments are made out of simple jealousy or to present themselves as a more “real life” photographer. But the fact remains most Vancouver photographers who own and operate successful studios are also dynamic location photographers as well. A Vancouver photography studio is simply another tool for a photo shoot. Its not meant to be a replacement for a location shoot, but simply a tool to be used for certain projects.
Here is a studio shot I did of Jen, shot in the style of one of my favorite photographers of all time Patrick DeMarchelier. Simple, yet elegant. I love shooting on grey. If I had photographed this somewhere in Gastown, the effect would not have been the same. So to say that a studio is “boring” or less dynamic is simply absurd.
Enjoy.
C
I tend to spend alot of time in the Edmonton and Vancouver airports traveling back and forth. Here is a picture I took at the Vancouver airport during the 2010 Olympics. Its nothing major, just one of the really interesting scene that unfolded infront of me
Normally when a gate attendant announces the boarding of a flight everyone crowds the jet way as if the plane was lifeboat on the titanic (which really annoys me by the way).
But in this case the attendant made two announcements and people just ignored her watching the Canadian Olympic Speed Skater. It was kinda funny… imagine being the gate attendant seeing this mass of people completely ignoring you… by the way we didnt get a gold on this run… and I was first on the plane!
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