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Squares

james — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:42:37 +0000

Squares.
A various assortment of photos that I had exported to play around with during a design project.
I thought I’d share.

BOMBSHELL – Hair Beauty

james — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:01:54 +0000

BOMBSHELL
A motion hair beauty project I shot and edited for my Friend Charise. She’s an instructor at Avada and needed a video to enter an internal contest.

(Be sure to watch in 720 HD) We better win!

If you would be so kind, The video is taking rating reviews. So if you’d like, rate it up. Voting can happen everyday and requires no login. Ratings close July 31st.

New Promo Cards

james — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:50:11 +0000

I just got my new promo cards in.
I’m really impressed with the printing.
They look great. However, sadly they screwed up the back of one of my cards, put it upside down on the flip.
Annoying, and it took some convincing, but I managed to get them to refund me the cost plus shipping in a credit so I can reorder them.
Which is alright.

Aveda Prom

james — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:03:36 +0000

Emergency photoshoot.
A couple frantic calls one night had me in a cab and rushing to shoot this though a friend of mine who works for Aveda.
To say this all came together as it happened would be a bit of an understatement, however All things considered I’m quite happy with it. — It’s good to stay out of your comfort zone sometimes.
no plans, no studio, no light, no prep, just GO.

It pushes you, makes you think on your feet.

This is looser edit.
I’d edit tighter for presentation, but eff, whats a blog good for if you don’t put a lot of things on it?

Assistants

james — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:30:11 +0000

The lovely hired help!
There are always silly, or banal photos of assistants from every job. So I decided to post a few of the wonderful Kira and Rico.

Dr. Yang

james — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:53:20 +0000

It’s not everyday you get to photograph a brain surgeon

Dr. Yang, a researcher at Ryerson University is a pretty amazing guy. When he’s not inside peoples heads, he works with lasers and imagery, building new technology. Pretty impressive guy.

I shot this for the Ryerson University Magazine (alumni mag). One of the best pieces of advice about photography I ever came across was about how when you work within restrictions, it brings out the best in you. The lab we shot in was tight and filled with stuff. I normally prefer to the “less is more, lots of white space” kind of thing, but I was in a position where I had to use what I had, so I decided a nice low-key, spotlight look would use the space as best as possible and make my impressive subject look, umm impressive! The result worked out really well, so much so that I got a really nice hand written letter from my editor thanking me for the work.
Which, I must say, really made my day.

Thanks Colleen!

PS The wavy colour overlaying the photograph is actually a new form of imaging he developed that is “more exact than ultrasound, more economical than MRI and safer than X-rays.”

Magenta: Flash Forward Boston

james — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:50:00 +0000

Thanks to the lovely Magenta Foundation,
I had work from my series “Beacons” installed in Boston as part of the Flash Forward Festival there. It should be up all summer long too, which is quite exciting! There’s nothing quite like having one’s work right beside the OCEAN

my boys and I! Boston rollin’

and… here is a video of the festivals director MaryAnn speaking about the festival, (my work is in there too: at 1:56.)

Toronto Maps

james — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:05:07 +0000

I recently did some work for blogTO.
These will be for the new Toronto Maps.

Mark

james — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:18:08 +0000

Mark is rad.

Glitch

james — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:01:59 +0000

Oh man, why does my computer hate me?
On a positive note, all I have to do is force quit firefox (I think… it has something to do with Adobe Flash Player ugh…)
Though, positive is it can make some really cool looking visual glitches while working in photoshop!

Mark, you’re looking crazy!