This February I had the pleasure doing an e-shoot for a 2011 wedding;  Nicole and Andy of Peterborough.

Nicole first met me @ the Oct 2009 Welcome Wagon Bridal Show in Peterborough.  She was at the show with her mother and to my pleasure and surprise immediately after the show both her and her mother (separately) called me to schedule a meeting.  Awesome!  We had lots of time to do their engagement shoot however I think they were anxious to spend some time together in the area that Andy proposed and to have their engagement pictures.  Plus they liked the idea of a winter shoot.  I was all for it and we had a great couple of hours at Lock 23.

Below are a few of my favorite images from our time together.

Andy wanted to get an image of him re-enacting his proposal to Nicole.  She’s landed herself a pretty nice guy. 

6 Frame Panorama of Burleigh Falls in the early spring

This is a 4 day workshop spread across three in-class hands-on workshops + one ‘in the field’ outdoor workshop

NOTE: This workshop had a small registration with a request to move to Tues nights. Thus Wed nights are canceled and the Tues group is now coming to my home office.

Dates: Tues March 2; Tues March 9; Tues March 16 and Sat March 20
Times: 7PM to 9PM;  Sat: 5PM to 7PM
Location: My home; Saturday outdoor location TBA (probably Burleigh Falls)

Cost: $50 (due on the first night)

Registration: Send me an e-mail or call

This is part II of the recently complete Intro/Intermediate Digital Photography Workshop.  The Intro/Intermediate Digital Photography Workshop covered the basic theory needed to have a good foundation to experiment with more advanced photography.  In this workshop we will explore more advanced subjects that were briefly covered in the previous workshop.

This workshop will be primarily a hands-on workshop.  Bring your camera, your strobes (flash units) and your manuals.

Course Outline:

Day 1 – Quick review of shutter, aperture and ISO.  Review of metering options and the histogram.  Then shooting practice in both semi-auto mode using exposure compensation (+/-) and exposure lock (AE-L/AF-L).  Also shooting in Manual mode.

Day 2  – Review and hands on experimenting with custom white balance and wireless flash (if you don’t have a flash/strobe, don’t worry!  we will be working together as a group)

Day 3 – Computer software.  I will spend time illustrating image processing and answering questions.  We will review RAW processing, colour correction, cropping and straightening images, adjusting exposure, dodge and burn, histogram, JPEG compression, sharpening, selecting a colour space, etc.

Day 4 – An outdoor session at a waterfall/rapids area for tripod, long exposure photography.  If you have a tripod, bring it.  Shooting in Manual Mode.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me or call (705) 768-1072

- Adam

This past Sunday I participated in the annual Faye’s Bridal Show at the Peterborough Memorial Centre.  Both my wife (Sandy) and myself supported our booth from when the doors opened right to the end.  We had a lot of fun and I had a chance to meet a couple new local Photographers and a couple of other industry related vendors.  All were great people.

There was something I liked and something I didn’t like about the show in regards to the Photography displays.

What I liked to see was the quality of work on display.  Most of the work the Photographers displayed was well shot and finished properly.  This conveys a professional … an individual with a good understanding of what professional wedding photography is.  This is important to me as I am affiliated with the industry and I don’t want to be affiliated where the norm for where I live is sub-par, rural amateur work.  I felt proud that Peterborough and the surrounding area was represented well in the art form of what professional wedding photography is.

What I didn’t like was the number of Photographers that had booths setup at this show.  There were far to many.  The show was out-of-balance.  It was saturated with Photographers which gave less diversity to what the show could have offered and thus less for the other businesses.  I had expected around 6 Photographers to be present, not something up in the realm of 12!  This is a small show (I have been to T.O. …. I know what a big show is) and I felt it was a hindrance and not a benefit to the ‘brides to be’ that came through the door.  Because of being one of the Photographers on display, I then felt like a contributor to the hindrance and out-of-balance element of the show.  Personally I would like to see future shows have a cap of say 6 vendors in one discipline.  Once the quota of 6 vendors in any one discipline have been met, there is no more room unless of a cancellation.

Other than my little disappointment, I felt the show was put together quite well and from what I saw all of the guests that came through the door and visited our booth looked to be truly enjoying themselves.  And in the end, that is what it is about.

Now … to the fun part.  I partnered with Sunshrine Day Spa & Salon of Lakefield for my give away.  Sunshrine graciously donated a $100 gift certificate to their first rate salon & spa.  I had visitors to our booth sign their name, if they were engaged, if they had a Photographer and finally contact info.  The submissions were numbered with the intent of using a random number generator to pick the winner.  I used random.org to generate the winning number.  I’m please to report that #14 was the winner!  #14 was a Jasmine Martin.  I will be calling Jasmine soon to get her mailing address so I may send her her $100 gift certificate!  Congratulations!!

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Here are some of the stat’s I gathered from the info provided in our draw:

78% said they were engaged
Of those that indicated they were engaged, 76% did not have a photographer

Note: these numbers do included three of my own 2010 wedding clients who stopped by to say hi