INTRODUCTION:
Debbie and Jason’s wedding is quickly approaching and we decided to do one more engagement session to fill out their engagement guest photo books. For this session we decided to hit up the largest national fair in Canada. The CNE! Or The EX as they like to call themselves now. We grabbed some popcorn, cotton candy, and candy apples and had a fun time at the midway and exhibitions.

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Low light photography is when my fast prime lens shine the most! Also this was the first time I got to test out my new Canon 5D Mark II which is supposedly pretty good with it’s high ISO noise control. I’d say from this first outing it’s good but not a massive improvement over my old 5D Mark I. I would use 3200 ISO on my 5D1 easily and now I can use 6400 ISO on the 5D2. I haven’t played with 12800 ISO yet but I hear it’s pretty usable as well. Just don’t be afraid to push your camera to it’s limits when shooting in low light as long as you capture the feel and emotions of a scene.

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A couple weekends back I was invited by Donna and Lenny to head up to Montreal to shoot one of their engagement sessions. It was a real treat for me as it was my first time there and I had a great time with them, plus I got to spend the weekend as a tourist with my girlfriend and some of our close friends. Some highlights of the trip were the smoked meat and Montreal bagels! Yum!

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I haven’t posted anything in the “Technique” section for a long time but I wanted to let you up-and-coming photographers know that along with lighting and posing, seeing lines and symmetry in the backgrounds is very important as well. A good photographer can use the background elements in good composition to focus the viewers attention on their model. Check out how I used the trees, and lines created from the buildings to do that in this set.

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Lindsay and Scott finally tied the knot last week in a beautiful ceremony in Cambridge Ontario. It was a lot of fun working with this fun loving couple. The ceremony was held at a church located in the Doon Pioneer Village which provided for some gorgeous scenery to take our photos in. It was a pleasure to be part of their wedding and I could definitely feel their love and joy in every moment of their big day! Special thanks to the always awesome Ryan of Ryan Lau Photography for helping out as a second photographer.

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Sorry for the lack of updates but I’ve been extremely busy and haven’t had too much down time to work on the edits which take 5x as long as actually taking the photos. Here is a teaser from a session with Angela and Anthony from a couple weeks ago. The two are gorgeous in front of the camera and I am sure their wedding will be extremely beautiful as well. Looking forward to editing all the rest of the photos and seeing how we do on our Trash the Dress session! One neat and interesting prop that Angela brought was her Polaroid instant film camera which we worked into our shoot together.

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