Work Experience week and lots of fun!

This past week I was able to go to GP to do a week long work experience with a professional photographer. I had a great time with her learning how her business works, how she organizes everything and I even got to help her out at a president's ball last Saturday night! It was a really formal event and she had a booth set up in the corner where people could come and get their photos taken. The theme was "New York, New York" so she had a new york landscape painted to hang in the background with a street sign and a new york park bench! She was going to have a yellow taxi cab brought it, but I guess there were some problems, so she was a little disappointed, as was I because that would have been so neat! Then throughout the week she just showed me around her office and her studio. It was really great! We also had a girls day at Brent & Chantelle's house on Friday with Janessa, Jillaine, and Maryn. The power was out when they first came over because it snowed a foot in 2 days, but when the power came on Chantelle and I did the girls hair and makeup and we had a photoshoot! I had brought up some lights for the week because I needed Logan and Davis to pose for two projects I had to do, so we used the lights and had a photoshoot with the girls! I don't have any of the girls photos finished yet. I was only able to finish Logan and Davis' because I'm actually home sick from school. My immune system has been out of whack for quite awhile and was just starting to get better, but while in GP I was in contact with a lot of sick people with who knows what they had. So that was great...as for now I'm planning on relaxing today and getting in some much needed rest! I have a few photos to post from Davis and Logan's shoots, and actually, one of the photos of Logan I think is my most favorite photo I've ever taken in my career so far! Lighting turned out great, I love the composition, his expression is good for the mood of the photo, I just like it. I'll show it to you now :)

Here are some of the other ones from the boys'

This one we laughed at because with the washing machines in the back, it looks like he's sad that his vest shrunk hahah.
*Note* November 9 - I showed my teacher that shot of Logan because I wanted to use it for a high key portrait for class and I wanted to make sure it was high key enough (which it was) Then he asked me "Did you take that photo with Lori? (The lady I shadowed under) And I said I took it when I had my free time, and he said, I quote, "Holy Crap Girl!" He was so impressed! Woo hoo! :D

Yay!

Phew! Huge relief! Due to my awesome instructor making sure everything worked out for me for this work experience week, I will be going home! I leave Saturday morning because she has a president's ball photobooth at the Crystal Center, so I get to help her with that on Saturday evening! So happy everything worked out! :D

Another disappointing day...

So next week I was planning on going to GP for work experience for the whole week and I was REALLY looking forward to it, but then I got an email from my instructor this morning telling me that the person I was going to do work experience with is going into back surgery this coming week so I won't be able to do work experience with her. This means I most likely won't be going to GP next week at all unless I can find someone today or tomorrow to take me on. *sigh* Whatever the circumstances, I hope she has a safe and successful back surgery.

Funny funny!

There's this website called www.yearbookyourself.com. Marlys and Terry showed it to me. You put your picture in and it takes yearbook photos from from over the years and puts your face into them, SO hilarious! Here are a few of myself!


I almost look exactly like my mom in this one hahah!

And here's my favorite of Marlys:And of Terry:

1st wedding ever!

Yesterday I figured out that if I get booked to photograph weddings every saturday for a month, I'm giong to be exhausted for an entire month. I had the priveledge of helping out a classmate yesterday shoot a wedding he had booked quite awhile back. His regular second shooter accidentaly double booked himself and was unable to help out this weekend, so my classmate asked me to help. I was a little wary at first, but I realized that I really need to start getting the experience if I'm ever going to do weddings for a living so I figured it would be better to do one now while working with someone experienced rather than try to figure it out on my own. It was actually really really fun! It was stressful of course because you have to make sure you catch all the key shots because they won't happen again. Anyways, I'll have to upload a few of my shots to show you guys. I think some of them turned out really well, especially for it being my first wedding ever. He actually asked if I would be interested in helping him out with future weddings, even after I move back to GP, and he'd pay the travel. Pretty sweet deal! I'm also going to get the chance to do work experience for a week with a lady in GP at the end of October. I'm looking forward to that. She actually graduated from NAIT awhile back, so it'll be interesting to shadow underneath her for awhile.

Family Pictures

We went down to Medicine Hat this past weekend for both Terry's 25th birthday party and Evan's baby dedication. While we were down there Mar wanted me to take their family pictures for them. Here are a few!Needless to say, Terry is a huge Oiler's fan :) Mom also wanted me to get a new picture of Kyle for the wall. The most recent picture of him was from when he was in grade 11, 6 years ago. Kyle is a goof, and hates posing for photos, so this is my favorite from the whole session...

It's official!

I now have a logo for my business when it begins! Thanks to Mr. Kennedy for the name idea. I love it :)