The Art Gallery of Mississauga has been running a series of profiles on artists whose work is appearing in the current exhibition, VAM35.
Mannequins, when they're at home, a set on Flickr.
Photography, Retouching: Bruce Walker
Huge thanks to Conn Burke of Recycled Displays for hosting and entertaining us!
Minatory from Jeffrey W. Pike on Vimeo.
This is an enjoyably creepy short flick by a fellow Mississaugan: Jeffrey W. Pike. He toured it all summer in film fests and now has made it available online. Check it out!No more lazy sails around the lake with Great Gatsby-esque folk standing about on deck sipping champagne.
My view of yacht ownership may be more romantic than realistic. :-)
I've been working on a lot of still-lifes lately. Concentrating on getting the light just so. Here's one from last evening.
Common name: Autumn Crocus.
It's a fall flowering crocus that was in bloom a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't get a shot of it in situ as the flowers were all flopped under a very scruffy shrub. Louise okay'ed snipping a couple of stems, so I headed into The Studio.
K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 50mm/f:5.6, ISO 100, 1/160th.
AF540 flash in Fotodiox 24" softbox right, white card left, black
foamcore behind and under.
Cowboy Studios wireless trigger. Lr 4.1, Ps CS5
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| Matt Campagna, Festival Co-Founder |
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| Stockings and garters and heels -- oh my! |
Another image from the Hollywood Glamour creative shoot I did with Dorothy Weiss at the end of May.
Full description here.
Model: Dorothy Weiss www.dorothyweiss.com/
Photographer/Retoucher: Bruce Walker www.modelmayhem.com/1440574
MUA: Vivian Orgill www.modelmayhem.com/135165
Hair stylist: Ladylyn Gool www.modelmayhem.com/2096721
Photo Assistant: Marzi Leszczyk www.coroflot.com/marzidesign
Location: The Gallery Studio Cafe www.thegallerystudiocafe.ca/
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| Now, if only my meter had a hotshoe mount on it ... |
via the Mode button), and so does the Sekonic L-308 and L-358. I imagine that any decent modern flash meter does.![]() |
| Cellphone holder |
Why is Marzi so happy, you are wondering? It's because my Postmodern Pinups exhibit is now held-over for the entire month of June, that's why!
Theme of this shoot was Hollywood Glamour ala George Hurrell. Played fast'n'loose with that though. George would have used about 4 or 5 fresnel-lensed hotlights. I used my Pentax portable strobes. The secret sauce though is a ringlight installed inside an 18" softbox, attached to a monopod and hand-held a few inches above Dorothy by my assistant (who is probably nursing sore arms today. Sorry, Marzi!). Other lights in this shot: AF540 in a 42" bounce umbrella camera-left, and a snooted AF540 hairlight well back camera right.
Huge thank-you's to Dorothy, Vivian, Ladylyn and Marzi. You guys rock! And a giant thanks to Derek for letting us crawl all over his Cafe. Go down and catch some jazz, and have a steak while you're there. Tell 'em I sent you. :-)
Model: Dorothy Weiss www.dorothyweiss.com/
Photographer: Bruce Walker www.modelmayhem.com/1440574
MUA: Vivian Orgill www.modelmayhem.com/135165
Hair stylist: Ladylyn Gool www.modelmayhem.com/2096721
Photo Assistant: Marzi Leszczyk www.coroflot.com/marzidesign
Location: The Gallery Studio Cafe www.thegallerystudiocafe.ca/
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| "The Artist" |