A little poker game...Action

Just a basic video for practice. I shot these video's on saturday while we were moving my friend into his new home. We decided to play a little poker game so I decided to shoot 2 angles to make a little movie of the fun we had.

I have no knowledge of video editing or the rules about this art.

I know some basic mistakes have been made since some editing looks like jump cuts but I only shot images in 2 angles for the purpose. This is real life action, no planning, no rehearsal.

Enjoy:

http://vimeo.com/3931615

Sébastien D'Amour - wedding and lifestyle photographic artist

Dynamic lighting with one flash

I wanted to share how I have achieve this image with only one single Canon 580EXII.

Here is the story:

We are moving my friend into his new house in Aylmer. The house is unbelievably gorgeous. The windows are perfectly place to achieve some remarkable natural lighting shots. So we setup the appliances and the furniture around their home. We place the dining table and I see the father of my friend sitting at the end of the table.  I just had a flash of the godfather movie (except he was not dressed for the shot). I saw that the "sandwich lighting" was just at a perfect intensity that I just needed to had fill flash to properly exposed the face and front of the subject.

I decided to mount my Canon 580EXII on my Canon 5D MarkII and bounce the flash of the ceiling to achieve the desired look. All this took a big 15 seconds to plan, react and fire my test shot.

I then proceeded to ask the subject to stand in this position to achieve the desired look.

Here is the image:

Canon 5D MarkII

Canon 70-200mm f2.8L

Canon 580 EXII

1/640s, ISO 2500, 70mm, flash E-TTL.

Here are some more images from this awesome day:

Thank you and I hoped you have enjoyed, 

A video of the poker game will follow once I am properly trained on video editing.

Sébastien D'Amour - Wedding and lifestyle photographic artist.

Mounting possibilities with Canon 5DMKII and a succion cup

Hi, 

I just wanted to show you a little video made in bad light to demonstrate the possibilities of mounting such a small HD Camera.

I used a Suction cup car mount for attaching the camera to the rear window of the car.

Sorry the clip is not edited since I have yet to purchased a software for editing. I am still in the early learning stages. The decision is not firm on investing in video equipment.

http://www.vimeo.com/3864511

Sébastien D'Amour - Wedding and lifestyle photographic artist

A little walk around the city with my friend...

Hi everyone, 

I just wanted to show you images that I have taken while walking and talking with Sébastien Lavallée.

Here are some Teachers on strike from L'UQAM.

Some people in the Metro.

La grande bibliothèque

Thank you for looking and please feel free to discuss...

Sébastien D'Amour - Wedding and lifestyle photographic artist.

My first little video

I everyone, 

Here is a link the a first little clip that I shot straight out of the Canon 5D MarkII.

http://www.vimeo.com/3760437

There is lots of digital noise since the lighting was horrible. I only had 1/100s at ISO 25600 at f1.8

I just wanted to show the quality of the video even in low low light.

More to come...

Sébastien D'Amour- Wedding and lifestyle photographic artist

Stéphane and Mélanie

I had the immense pleasure of living a photoshoot with my good friends Stéphane and Mélanie that are expecting a little boy in about 7-8 weeks.

They are so lively, so happy, honest and good people. These photoshoots remind me why I am in this business. The joy of creating images for people. The respect that people give us.

I also love how you can simply show the image to them and they go: "WOW that is better then I imagined."

Here are some shots from that sunday afternoon that was supposed to be 2 hours that turned into 5 hours with friends and fun!

Thank you once again for allowing me to live such happy and special moments.

Stéphane just goofing off!

Sébastien D'Amour - Wedding and lifestyle photographic artist.

Finaly...

I am all setup in my apartment in Montreal.

I now have a great looking office for my photography work.

I have now my setup to start my stock photography.

I want to have at least 2500 shots in my portfolio on Istock by the end of the year.

I will be working with various people in various subjects.

Keep looking for some sample images and tutorials on lighting!

Sébastien D'Amour - Wedding and lifestyle photographic artist