Giving some time for others...

Hi,

I wanted to share an experience with all of you! I was a volunteer at the Grande Séance held at the Montreal local photography studio " Studio4fun". The "Grande séance" is an open event held to bring the opportunity the photographers to shoot with pro grade equipment with help for a little budget. These have been held numerous time by the owner Hai Au Bui. This year, he got 140-150 participants. At one time we had around 40 models share between 5 studio's. There was 2 seminars on lighting and 3 other studio just for shooting images with some help and to play with the lights and setups.

I got there at 9am. and I finished at 9h30 pm. It was a long but very fun, exciting and rewarding day. I got to meet photographers, models, friends and MUA. I also got to help others create amazing images of their favourite friend, family member or else. I got the opportunity to share some lighting setups that I personally use for shooting portraits.

For more information visit

www.studio4fun.com

Here are some results to show you the day...

Running low on creativity!

If you are ever running low on creativity, go outside of your regular shooting style. I read Chase Jarvis blog and he is always talking about creating differently and shooting other stuff that you usually don't.

I decided to shoot a series of images at 25 600 ISO just to change the look and feel of my images. It's been fun and helps work on the style.

What can you do differently and do it for a month. Then change and learn once more and create differently!

Sébastien D'Amour