Medici: Relationship between the patron and artist

The title says it all. Following the documentary on the Medici, I'm am going to talk about the relationship between the patron and the artist.

The Medici seems to be one very influential family during the Renaissance. Indeed, many artists we know of today have worked for them. Everybody knows about Michelangelo or Donatello (ok, some mainly because of the Ninja Turtles, but still, they know them) for example.

While I watched the documentary, one comment struck me. It said that the Patron let the artist ''free''. He didn't care about their temper, and he didn't care about what he was doing with their time. When they knew an artist could deliver the work well, he was understanding and accepting these traits.

I was surprised to hear that actually. I would have thought that this king of patronage wouldn't have allowed this. Now I think they were nice in some ways. Yet the artist was not considered an artist on its own, but still, to me, the patron considered them as such and also as important. If they were talented, it was important for them to keep them and treat them well. Its seems like the family understood that sometimes people can't work well if they are forced to do so. It was also a good thing for them to accept their temper for the same reasons. It was a wise choice.

As it was also said,  not all the patrons would have accepted such things. It seemed like the Medici were one of his own kind for this. This is surprising from the idea we have from the powerful families.

This kind of relationship still happens today, but doesn't work for everybody. If a patron would act like that with me, maybe not so many things would be done at the end. When you run a lot of projects, its easy to forget about what has to be done. It can be also hard to know where the priorities are.
In the artistic field, it is sometimes hard to work when other people asks you to, but sometimes you really have to give yourself a kick to get things done. Keeping your own reputation good is a motivation there, but sometimes it is not enough.
Also, If people are working alone, its even harder to manage this. We must learn to say no, even if the job is appealing. If you take too much, you are just going to get lost. I have experienced it!
This is not something that, I guess, was too common during the Renaissance as artists had workshops.
Today, the society is a little bit more egocentric for that. Our society wouldn't understand such way of working.

Bokeh!

Just a little break for 

BOKEH!

It kind of looks like Cyrillic writing to me right now. Guess I'm getting tired.

Because Bokeh is cool!

Critique on the Bernini Video

I finally watched the entire documentary on Bernini's life.

I didn't knew that artist before, it was nice to discover his work and know more about who collaborated into building parts of the Vatican.

I think it was a funny documentary. As well as documenting Bernini's life, it was overdramatized. The personification of the characters were pushed to its limits for this kind of documentary. For example is Bernini's mother. She was useless in the story and the way they portrayed her was more coming out from imagination than from realism. They made her be rude and sufficient, speaking very small but rough comments and quotes throughout the film. The way they presented the characters was also awkward. They did as if the actors playing in the film really were the people they played. It is a documentary, not a movie. When they presented Borromini, they presented the actor as: "Here is Boromini. He is like this, and that and also like this". They refereed to the actor too much for me, in the words they chose.

I felt, at some points, that I was given too much useless information. Some little parts could have been cut off or just explained differently. Again, I would have cut off Bernini's mother comments. Some aspects of his personal life were also useless. It was good to talk about some, but too much is like not enough.

Another funny aspect were the bad jokes, or quotes, the narrator was trying to fit through. Some comments he made were completely useless, moving us away from the main information, the main purpose of this film. It also seemed to me that he was putting a lot of himself into the documentary.

I'm still happy that I got to watch that documentary, I learned new things and I also know a new artist whom, I think, was important in Art History. He is not as well known to the public, but going to Rome and being able to know who made several sculpture and a part of the Vatican is always nice. Knowing about his story is knowing more about what we see today. It makes everything more interesting and now I have great, overdramatized stories to tell my friends or family if they go there someday!

If I compare, I think the Medici documentary we have watched before was more professionally done than this one. It surely was less entertaining and funny though.

A Mistake in the Titanic Movie!

Here is just a small blog post about something I noticed while watching Titanic.
I tried to make a screen capture of the scene but the program didn't allow it, so no picture will be shown to prove my point. You will have to watch Titanic again (yes again, who has never watched Titanic?)


Ok , description of the scene:


Right after she boarded the ship, Rose unpacked her belongings. We see her unpacking several paintings.


What the paintings are:

Les Demoiselles D'Avigon by Picasso or I should say, according to wikipedia Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. 
This name might be quite complicated to fit on a driver's licence.

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler   by Picasso (I'm not sue about this one, I brought the movie back to the video club, so I cant verify, but it looked like a portrait)

And one that seems like on of the Water Lilies by Monet. ( I just saw picture of him and even though I didn't have a preconceived idea about what this man did look like, I didn't expected him to look like this) 

The biggest mistake is: 


The ship sank, these paintings are then gone forever! No one would have had those in their collection now and we wouldn't be there to ''worship'' them. Also, the Picasso's painting would never have been known has they were created not so long before 1912. 


I know the movie wanted to bring back historical facts about this time but still, I thought it was funny to see this. 


Another thing that bothers me: Was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon not known in Europe in 1912? I'm not sure about this fact, but I know it got out in France in the 1920's, so sure, the painting couldn't have sunk with the ship. 


Years ago, this is not something I would have notice, at all. I had modern art history classes this semester that allowed me to think about it more when I saw the paintings in the movie. 


Now the real question is:


Why did I spent 3 hours of my time to watch Titanic after so many years? 
Well, BECAUSE! 






Journal entry written on Saturday, Decembrr 3rd 
Its colder in Decembrr then in December. I bet I'm not the only one who noticed that.

Creative Teams

Written 2011/10/30

I would like to come back on my first blog post. I talked about Jeff Koons and his use of the workshop process. As I said, his idea of a workshop is really useful considering the amount of time it needs to complete a piece of work. During the Renaissance, this process was also used for this reason. At that time, it took so many years to complete one work. 

In my entry, I also made a comparison between the workshop and the creative team. This is something I want to talk about today. 

As a freelance photographer, I realize that it is mandatory to build my own creative team. Nothing big can be achieved on my own. It takes too much time and too much energy. I used to work alone and got tired really fast and frustrated. I spend so much time looking on different websites for new ideas, great images etc. and every time I am amazed by the quality of work I see. When I look back at my own work after that, I get really frustrated. My own isn't as polished as theirs. But why? Yes, I need more experience, its obvious and it is something I have no choice but to go through, but also, the fact that I am working on my own makes me forget about important details. I cant see everything at once and I am not good at everything. If I want to do a fashion shoot, sure I will need a makeup artist, stylist etc. to complete my work. I am not specialized in that field of work. I am the photographer, my job is to understand light, composition and technical photography aspects so I can achieve my goal in having a breathtaking image. Their job is to make sure the clothes are well placed, the makeup fits the model etc. This is one job I can't do at the same time as taking pictures. Moreover, the final result will look way much more professional if professionals to their own jobs. Its logic!

So well, I think I will start looking for a creative team. The more we will work together, the best the results are gonna be, the more I will improve. Also, the more people there are in a team, the more ideas we have. Together, we can build something big!

As a last example of how useful it is to work with other people is me getting involved in the Bishop's Photo Club. I am now the Vice President of the club. The head of the photo club and we complete each other. Without each other, the club would go nowhere. 

After the Test

This week I wrote an entry about my future exam, now I will write about my past exam. 

The exam went well, but I didn't have the mark I hoped I would. I made stupid mistakes as not writing Florence twice. I also have problem explaining things. Well, I know I wouldn't be good as a teacher. 

I said I had links to remember words or important information. We did a group study just before the exam and we mixed our links to create new ones. It was very funny and it made absolutely no sense. 

Mary Anne came up with Ambassadors: Ass adore, adoring ass 

We had different ideas with Vellum. I said Vallorum (Star Wars again) Mary Anne saif Venom (closer to the real word) and I can't remember what Linsday said.

I finally made a sentence with some of these: ''We are adoring Jar Jar Bink's ass while smoking tomatoes''. This cannot be translated I think! 

Before the Test

I just finished studying for tomorrow's exam and I actually think it's funny. This post will not be directly on a subkect we learned in class, but in a method of study. 

I was never someone who liked to study. Actually, the first time I really studied is when I was 15 after I failed a biology class. Even though I loved this course, I was allergic to opening my books. This was until I failed more than one test and got a really bad mark for my whole semester. I forced myself in doing so, having no other choice. I drew the parts of the body and wrote and wrote and wrote until I knew the subject really well. It worked, I had a very good result on my tests later. Still, other than biology, I never felt the need to study.

University is then a big change in the way I approach things. I study, maybe sometimes a little last minute, but it is never as worst as in Cegep. I also write good essays, which is surprising coming from me. I'm not a bad writer, but I was lazy before. Now, I spend more time for school than anything else. But let's say that I dont work and its the first time it happens. I'm work sick and I have good reasons to be. I promised myself I wouldn't work while at university. I have all my life to work after. 

Now I have to find tips and tricks for studying. I wrote down over and over what I remember from my study sheet. I do that until I memorize everything. The funny part is how I memorize the words or names I don't know. I made links between things to be able to remember easily. Sometimes it makes no sense at all, but I still think it's very funny and I hope I will remember all of this tomorrow. 

So here are a few examples. I also notice it is useful to speak more than one language for that. 

• Georg GISZE makes me think of Gisele, my mother's name.
• Hans Holbein didn't have panels
• Rogier van der Weyden = Jar Jar Binks. Yes! Jar Jar Binks! Weyden = Dayden. Den = day in slovakian so then Dayday = jour jour in french, then ... Jar Jar! Easy! 
• All places are Santa Maria
• Dürer love himself, and ugly doctors
• Sfumato: Fumer des tomates. I'm laughing at this one and my cat is staring at me with eyes that says: ''Ok, time to leave NOW!''
• Brancacci = brankar which means goaler in slovakian. 

I hope I will be alright for my exam and I hope I wont make stupid mistakes or mixing words I learned from what words really are! 

Perspective

Written 2011/10/30


At the beginning of the year, I was given my first assignment for all my classes. So, excited to start university. I was seeing big. I always liked challenges and I started my very first project with one big. It may sound bad, but I'm in Fine Arts and I can't draw. Ok, I can draw, but I have absolutely no practice. How shameful! Saying this, you may understand more how much of a challenge it was. 

The assigment was for my printmaking class. It was the only course in which the project was free. I could do my personal work. I started with an idea I had for a conceptual photo that was really complicated to do in real size. Here is the project. 

You can already see where I would have struggled. First, you can't find the eggs at the local grocery store. I had to build it. Second, I wanted here to play with perspective, so I decided to do it an ''esay'' way: drawing a tilled floor with 2 perspective points. Yes, this is coming from the girl who can't draw. I had to calculate and take mesurements in order to complete the floor. I must also add that I had some help from my engineer boyfriend. I must say I sweared, frustated, blamed myself for liking complicated  things and promised I wouldn't do this again. I actually spend a week trying to find a solution and draw it. I finally managed to finish it and I may admit that I am proud of my achievement. I mean that I haven't burnt it down or teared it appart! Ok, seriously, I do like the outcome and I received a good mark for it. 

What made me smile later, was to hear about this in my art history class. Yes, in the Renaissance, some people went into the same process as me. They ended up with a result that is quite close to mine. Back in their time, they might have sweared as much as I did. It seems that the problem is still the same today for those who start trying to understand it. Many years later, I come to the same process and thoughts as they did. Understanding perspective still is something that is very important today. Now, we are lucky, books have been on this subject. Its very easy to find the info we need. People have also pushed it further and everything is more detailed. 

This is one good thing about evolution. But still, the problems remains the same for everyone that is too lazy to do their own research and for those who really want to understand the process by themselves. 

Loneliness

While Im studying for tomorrow's exam, I'm taking a little break and I thought I could share something new. 

As I said yesterday, I wanted to do more conceptual images. Well, I proudly got one today! 

My house is now full of flour, as are my hair, my bed, my cat and my camera. I tried to get that feeling of cold on me before getting on the post editing.

My cat had a lot of fun during the shoot. She's not on the picture but she spent the whole time trying to. She was jumping in my bed every time she could, upsetting me. As I would fight her out of the bed, flour was spreading everywhere. Loads of fun! 

So well, that expresses well how I have been feeling lately. Im getting better now though. My lifestyle has completely changed since the beginning of the semester and it was not so easy to get used to it. Going back to school has been mentally hard in many ways. My courses are very fun, I love the fact that I'm learning new things everyday (I actually more than love it), I know I made the right choice, but going back to a social life isn't easy. Im living far from campus and as I thought I would make friends, I realized it is not as easy as I planned. I'm a little bit older than the first year as well, I'm not in the same state of mind as they are. Moreover, I live on my own. When I get home I have no one to talk too. My boyfriend lives overseas and we both are trying to accommodate ourselves to our new lifestyle (he was the one studying before). Its not easy. 

I also felt like I could not dream anymore. That may sound weird now, I actually really spend my days dreaming. That's what makes me feel good. I still live in this real world, but I've always been more in my mind, in my imagination than most people do. At least its funny. Thinking about funny things is one of my favourite hobby. Thanks to Francois Pérusse for that! 

So well, here is the picture. 

Not able to dream anymore.
Reality is so strong.
I'm feeling somewhat cold.
The whole world is so cold.

Sometimes you just want to close your eyes
and wait till its over.
Feeling lonely.
Painfully lonely.

I wish to make more and more photography this year. I want to learn a lot. I also discovered a digital artist today. He's amazing! What I like the most about his work is the fact that his cat appears in every image he creates. I think I'm gonna try to include mine sometimes, as it seems that she always wants to step in! 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattijn/

Back to Photography

Ok, I was writing this post and it erased itself. Hate it when it does that. Plus, the internet is crap, I experiencing big problems with it lately. 

Well, I'm gonna write something short and sweet I guess. I'm too frustrated to rewrite the entire post again! 

I wanted to make some statements about photography, about where I am now with it. 

First, I am now co-heading the Photography Club at Bishop's. This is great news, it seems like my ideas are very useful. 

I also will be photographer for The Campus, the university newspaper. If they received my pictures on time, I should be published in their next edition. This isn't a big achievement but I'm happy. 

Its good because lately my self-confidence as gotten very low. Trying to make my way in Sept-Iles was hard. Not because I couldn't get any clients or because people would not see me, but because the way people think. It makes it hard for us to break through. People are attracted by cheap prices not talent. That means, while you think you have enough talent to get into photography, some wannabes, with no technical knowledge can take your job because their ''prices'' are very low. Most people can't see any difference between a bad picture and a good one. Its even harder for them to see a difference between a good one and a bad one. Im not blaming them for that. Im blaming the ones who use that for their own profit, while they know they shouldn't do that. It brings the whole photography world down. Some good photographers don't make themselves any publicity. They hope they will be seen with talent (in a small town it should work) but the reality is that it doesn't work. People will see talent, but will claim their prices are too high while their friend can do it for 25$. (yes, 25$...) 

I did not make myself any publicity. I had clients because some people talked about me, which I really am grateful for. I didn't make myself publicity because I know I can be better than that. I know I still need to improve. I am not where I want to be yet. So how can I sell myself? I see some people selling themselves as the best photographers you could find, but are missing so much technical skills. Photography isn't only technical, but to consider yourself as a pro, you must master both the overall feeling (message, emotion) and the technique. Actually some people are selling themselves even though some of these aspects are missing, and make real good profits. People venerate them as if they were the best, because they sell themselves this way. Then, what about the ones that are really good but aren't making any statement about their work, about their talent? People don't care about them, they are forgotten. It is so even though most of these are way much better than the ones who claims they are pros when they aren't. I know many photographers around me who are just as good as they are and even more, way much more. As me, they feel a little depressed about that situation.  

So well, now that I got back to study (after 4 long years!) its time for me to do what I want to. This year, i'm not taking any contracts, I am doing only things that I really want to do. 

I may turn to conceptual photography this year. My last 3 weeks has brought me new ideas. A lot of things as been going on in my mind and photography is gonna be a way to release all these thoughts. 

I'll try to do as much as I can. In december, I will travel to France to visit my boyfriend so most of the pictures I want to do are gonna be done there. Its always helpful to have someone with me. 

Here I post some examples of conceptual pictures I did before...

This one was a test. Levitation shots are very common. See MissAniela or Rosie Hardy's work. These are really fun to make. I would like to take that idea a little bit further, even though I don't want to push it too much. Its been done a lot before. 

This one is from my mind. I wanted to express one idea. I'm laying down on Slovakia for a good reason. It is where my boyfriend is from and going through a distance relationship isn't always easy. This picture needs more improvements to be done though. I will work on it as soon as I can. 

This one is a test with studio lighting. I love the feeling of movement in a picture. Here, no photoshop was used to create the ghostly effect. It was done directly in studio, on the camera. I did beauty retouching I admit though! Testing always brings interesting results. I want to do more of that syle of shoots. 

Last one! The idea is taken out from the movie What Dreams May Come. The images portrayed in that movies are just so surreal and beautiful. This specific image takes its inspiration from the main character's walk to hell. Women were trying to scream but their mouth was inexistent. That image haunted me... 

So well, more work to come later. I hope I will have time to do every projects I have in mind. 

Trip to Italy (Art History)

I'm posting this one a little late. My internet is down and I have to post this from my friends house! 

I also had to take pictures of pictures for this one as my original photos were taken on a film camera!!

This will be a very personal post. Its a thought I had while in my Art History class (renaissance to modern to be more specific)

Back in 2005, I went to Italy on an organized trip with the Cegep de Sept-Iles (oh yes, we have a cegep in there!!) I spent two whole weeks there, during the end of may, taking benefits from the very nice warm weather (in sept-iles, nice weather is maybe in July and August, never both during the same summer!), and visiting a very beautiful country. It actually was my first trip to Europe, my first trip ever.

I got there, thinking I would be jet laged, thinking things would look completely different and maybe I would be disoriented. Well, no! Milan just looked like … a normal city with red rooftops. That's what I thought at this time.

People were excited, realizing ''hey we're in Italy!! How great is this?''. I wasn't. To me, it was like anywhere else. People worked, slept, ate and breathed like anybody else in the world. So, I wasn't in awe, but I was still happy to be there. I always wanted to visit Italy, and I actually always wanted to travel.

During our 2 weeks, we visited museum, visited museums as well as visiting museums. We also visited other museums, talked about museums, visited more museums and visited these other museums as well. We also, visited cathedrals, more cathedrals and other cathedrals as well. We heard about Da Vinci and Michelangelo so much that the sounds of these name would just make our ears bleed at the end of the trip.

What I really wanted to experience is disorientation. I thought it was the main goal in traveling.

So I searched for things that were different from what I'm used to see. For example, the public toilets! How great these were for me! I really am posting a picture of a modern Turkish toilet, yes. I wasted a photo on my film camera to have a souvenir of that toilet!! I was that bored.

I'm thinking about that today and I smile at how much things have changed. I realize that Italy is a country you can't visit without having, at least, a small knowledge about what was going on there before. I didn't knew anything when I went there the first time and I wasn't interested. I wanted to see Italian culture while living with them, but I missed the fact that museums, cathedral et all the stuff I didn't like to see... WAS Italian culture.
I didn't care about these visits because I didn't know anything about it. Today, I would go back there, only to visit again everything I missed. To have that specific knowledge is somewhat amazing.

That trip made me grow up though. Yes I realized the world was the same everywhere. It actually is. Even though the culture is different, the world is the same. No matter where you are, if you are surrounded with people you love, you'll be happy.
I also grew some respect towards religion. I visited the Vatican, the place I thought I would hate. I was a strong atheist and visiting the Vatican wasn't in my favorites plans at all. I got there and saw some works by Michelangelo. It was 3D paintings and I was amazed. Even though the Vatican is the perfect place for suicidal agoraphobic, it made me feel different. I'm not more religious than I was before, but I learned some respect. The fact that so many people with strong faith go there everyday, it leaves some kind of energy that makes you feel different. The strongest moment was when we got into the Sistine Chapel. I actually had tears which did surprises me a lot. I remember the Pope had recently died and the feeling sticked to the room. I looked up the ceiling to have a look at the only thing I knew from Italian art. The difference between what I thought I would see, and what I saw was huge. There was much more up there that I thought I would see. I kept silent for the rest of our visit there.

Today, I would like to go back to Italy to have a different point of view on what I saw. Now that I gained more knowledge, I'm sure I will be way much interested in their culture. I didn't found what I was looking for the first time I traveled there, but now I feel stupid that I missed the most obvious.

Looking back at my pictures from this trip, I also realize how bad I was as a photographer! My album is full of huge mistakes. Fortunately, I improved!  

Workshops Today

 What's the role of the artist today? Does he have to go through all the process himself? I mean, work from conception to completion on his own? If you would buy a painting, what would you think if you knew that the artist from whom you bought it didn't paint the image himself? Well, some artist actually work this way.

Jeff Koons http://hypebeast.com/2009/04/a-tour-inside-the-jeff-koons-studio/ is an artist based in New York. According to culturekiosque.com, he had set a record at auction for selling the ''Hanging Heart'' for 23,6 million US dollars. However, Jeff Koons doesn't work alone. His studio, also based in New Work, employs many employees who work for him. Indeed, Jeff Koons has a workshop. 

So, what is a workshop?

At the beginning of the Renaissance, there were trade organizations called Guilds for different fields of work. Artists, doctors, bakers and many other professions had guilds. They would set the standards and establish the rules of quality for their members. The artists, named artisans, were considered as skilled labourers available for hire. They were hired by Patrons, mostly members of rich families in order to create a specific piece of work for them. Artists were required to produce exactly what the patron wanted them to. They were, then, not considered as they are today. An artist could not create their own work. He was part of a workshop lead by a master. At young age, an artist would start as apprentice working hard to achieve a certain amount of knowledge and then become an assistant. If he showed great skills he could maybe eventually become a master who would then create his own workshop and hire assistants and apprentices of his own. The master was paid by the patron to deliver the work. He would design the piece and his workshop would work on it. The patron could also ask the master to produce the piece by himself for an appropriate increase in the artworks price of course.

As an example, I guess you all know Michelangelo and his work in the Sistine Chapel. He was also a master of a workshop. There were assistants and apprentices helping him. Michelangelo wasn't working alone! He designed the work and many people within the workshop worked on it. His assistants, learned to paint exactly like the master, so you could not make any difference between them. Now, Michelangelo’s work can be seen from different perspective. Not only Michelangelo was working this way, but every artist was.

So, going back to Jeff Koons. He has a workshop. He is the master who designs the pieces on which his assistants will work on. He still remains the one who gets all the credit for the work, as Michelangelo got the only credit for his work as well. It may seem unfair to the others today, because we are used to see the artist as the creator and the producer of his pieces. But what if it takes just too many hours to complete one piece of work? An artist alone would have to spend a life-time working on it in order to complete the piece. Going back to Koons’s Hanging Heart, we can see, following the link, http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/artmrkt/koons_hangingheart.html it took Jeff Koons and his workshop 10 years, i.e. 6000 man hours, to produce this sculpture.

From this point of view, it is indeed useful, even mandatory to work with a workshop.

I'll make a parallel with the publicity industry. Many of you have watched the Dove Publicity showing how edited and distorted an image on a billboard can be. Here is the link if you haven't seen it yet, or if you just want to refresh your memory

As you can see, many people are working on this image, such as the model, makeup artist, hair stylist, photographers, retouchers, artistic director (who we can't see, but he is there), etc. One single person could not possibly do that on his own. It would take ages to achieve this result. Also, one person is usually specialized in one specific work field only. To obtain a professional outcome, they have to hire many people with many different skills. This is the creative team. I’m not saying it is a workshop, as everyone in the crew has their own specific ability which sometimes do not connect with each other. A makeup artist is far from being a photographer. Creative teams are actually better adapted for today’s society than the workshops. Maybe they are some kind of evolution of the workshop. But I guess we can see the purpose of having both.

It may seem, weird, but yes, I would say that the workshop today can still be usefull. It isn't the same as in the Renaissance, but considering the time it actually takes to produce some piece of art, it is obvious that its still needed.   

Wedding 1

Here is my first blog post about weddings. More to come soon!!

This was my first wedding of the summer, but not my very first in all times. Though well, on my own I had only done one. So well, Im happy with the results!

Here I share some moments from that day!!

I was very pleased to be part of this event. Everyone was very nice to me! I met some new awesome people too! I think I like photographing wedding more and more :) 

How to make lunch time more interresting

Today's topic: How to make lunch time more interresting! 

Follow these steps!

1. Go somewhere crowded. I suggest ... a restaurant, if you dont want to be starving in the afternoon! 

2. Bring along your camera

3. Start taking pictures of your lunch, your drinks ....

4. Start taking pictures of every interresting detail in the place!! 

5. Look aroung for people looking at you, if they are, look at their face! They may be scared! 

6. Keep on going and wait until someone comes and talk to you. Someone WILL come. 

This is what I did today. I hadn't planned this, but I had brought my camera and I thought it would be fun to take some snapshots of what I was doing today. So, I photographed everything I saw. 

I was looking for details, interresting stuff into the restaurant etc. 

While I was eating, I had finaly let my camera down for a minute .... A woman came to me. She asked if I was a journalist (Im living in a small town... nothing can be more interresting!) To which I said no! 

That poor woman feared I was taking pictures of her and her friends. And was wondering .... why on earth I was taking pictures of the place!! 

I said: Well ... for fun!! .... with a HUGE smile!! 

I showed her the pictures, as there were no people in it ... to prove her I was really having fun photographing my ... food yes!! 

I still remember the expression in her face. She was deeply trying to understand what was going on in my mind!! Haha! 

But well, I think Im gonna do that more often! I'm gonna try different restaurants and places and see if people are reacting. Its funny how people react when they see someone acting differently then what they are used to see. 

Anyways, here are the pictures!! 

And the T-shirt I was wearing ... it would be quite wierd for a journalist isn't it? 

And the last picture is when I got out. It says Welcome on the board. Its not THE picture of the year, not at all. I just thought it was funny!! Its my reflection in the glass. Yes, it was -30 Celcius outside ... I'm overly dressed! 

Gonna come with more little funny stories soon I guess!! 

Practice Makes Merfect

Hello followers!!

I had a shooting session today that went pretty well!! One boy and two girls, very nice and fun people to work with! It was meant to be some simple shots and I'd say I was really happy to have some open-minded people to work with. They had some ideas and we all shared so that we could do something nice. 

Best thing is, they told me they were really happy with the photos I posted for them today, which makes me really happy too!! We went to the boy's house at first. He'd ask me to take some indoor shots for them and as there wasn't enough lighting, I brought them infront of the living room window for a few simple shots.

What I prefered from that!? We weren't freezing outside!!! 

But it had to come someday... We went ouside, by car ... to a very close place (pathetic you say!!) 

There we got our main photoshoot, having fun even though we ended up freezing!! I'm living north Canada.... 

So there we go, I'll share some with you!!  

And oh, my computer's screen is paler than the other one Ive been editing the pictures (which is too dark and yellow) So I'm not absolutely sure whether its too pale or not. Anyways, I'll have a closer look at that later this week. 

I chose to show the same pictures for all three of them ... as you will see. 

I have also one other picture I'd like to show. It shows how close they tare from each other. 

As my title says ''Practice Makes Perfect''

I do consider this as pratice on techniques and working on location. When shooting for others I can't always test a lot of things of my own. Moreover, its very cold outside, when I want to get that extra time we are already freezing and we cant wait to just go back inside!!

Anyway, I'm hoping you enjoyed!!

And oh, the sky was amazing today!! It was worth the cold!

Colder Winter

Today was very cold here. We still got to shoot outside, though we weren't able to stay there more than 1 hour! 

I got some nice ''wintery'' pictures from today. 

I think you can feel the cold that comes from them!

I wish I had behing the scenes shoots and stuff like that but it was too cold to do anything!

 

 Im happy the sun was with us today. 

It was barely hidden by clouds, its just sad I haven't took any pictures of landscapes

This wasn't the day I planned. I wish I could do more fun shots but with the cold its been pretty hard just to stand there!! 

Here are some pictures I like.

Winter Shot

I got a winter shot with Maygan two days ago!!
It was load of fun!!
Quite a simple session, we stayed in my backyard so it was easier to get inside when we were freezing!!
Here are a few fun shots we got from that day!! I might post a few more later!

Jai eu un shoot d'hiver avec Maygan il y a 2 jours!!
C'était bien le fun!
Cétait assez simple comme séance. Nous sommes restées dans mon arrière cour, c'était donc plus facile d,avoir accès à la chaleur lorsque nous avions froid!!
Alors voici quelques photos de cette journée!! Je vais probablement en poster d'autres plus tard!!

This was the first, first shot from the session! Quite nice for a first!!
Celle ci est la premiere photo prise de la journée! Pas mal pour la premiere!

I think one of my favorite!

We played with snow!! And got some interesting fun shot from it!
Nous avons joué avec la neige! On a reussi a avoir quelques shots droles!!

Hard to be serious! I still love this shot!! I love how the tress behind her created a blured effect.
Difficile de rester sérieux! Jaime bien cette photo! Jaime aussi l'effet flou que l'arbre à créé derrière elle!

Hope you liked this!! Little stories will come from this day again I think!

Yes I'm writing in english and french. I come from Quebec, a french province in Canada. I feel a let down all these people by writing in english only. 

And sorry if my english is not perfect, its a second language! 

Jespere que vous avez aimé! D'autres histoires de cette journée suivront!!