My fifteen minutes..extended.

The current issue of Ottawa Life features Ottawa's Top 50 Citizens and guess who made the it on the cover. Nice to be in the company of Larry O'Brien and Michael Ignatieff. Read all about it here.

Ottawa Fashion Photography

Executive Portraits on location in Toronto

Here are the behind the scenes shots and final image of a series of executive portraits I shot for Magna International and CBC in Toronto to promote the Next Great Canadian Prime Minister TV show. I have been photographing PM's for all of my career and have done portraits of every last one...from Trudeau to Harper. This year, Alex Trebek was the host and I had time to shoot some great stuff with the worlds most famous game show celebrity. He is a riot off camera...so we had a lot of fun.
This is my fourth year shooting the portraits for Magna International and my third year shooting the show for CBC....and their trust in my work is warmly appreciated. Not many photographers get the opportunity to do the work I do.

The final shots appeared on the covers of 7 major Canadian newspapers today with my credit
displayed from Coast to Coast. Mom and Dad...this post is for you.


The candids were shot by my assistant Frédéric Solenthaler...as you can see...I'm happy to be
out of the limelight.

Fashion and Product Photography

I started my career shooting Fashion and Glamour for Ottawa designers and models. The experience was great and led me to assignments from international cosmetics companies. I keep the rust off by doing some local sessions with upcoming models and actors. This shot is part of a major ad campaign that recently appeared in Vogue and InStyle. We have worked with Jessica
Simpson, Clean, and Fusion Beauty creating websites, ads and posters.
Here is the website for Keratin...which I think is really nicely done. We also shot all the product photography that appears on the site and the packaging.

Paul Martin at Press Conference/Book Launch

Paul and I go way back...how far...my Dad was his babysitter...true story! I have photographed Paul on a half dozen occassions from Time Man of the Year shoots to portraits when he was the Minister of Finance. A memorable one was an exterior portrait on one of the coldest days of January 2004.

My client for this shoot was actually a Scotch company....does it get any better.

Paul was launching his new book...and they even gave me a signed copy...

Ottawa Architectural Photography

This was a shot for a local magazine, Homes and Land, that I was particularly happy with. While I was shooting it, another photog ran around for the real estate company and probably did
50 shots in the time I spent doing one...For some reason they chose mine for the cover of the mag...hmmmn. I have no idea why someone would try to sell a million dollar house with a ten cent picture, but it happens all the time. To date, after a year with this mag, I estimate my work has helped sell ten million in homes. Seems simple to me, large corporations don`t spend the time on their images because they are philanthropists...they know it works.

Corporate Photography Ottawa Annual Report

This might look like a casual snap of the staff at LIVE 88....but every square inch was art
directed by a Toronto Agency.

Ottawa Life/Mayor Larry

My shoot with Larry O'Brien was fascinating. He was not at all what I expected and I
was impressed with his candor and resolve. Best of all, his wife walked up to me at a party
and told me she had a hundred emails saying it was the best portrait anyone had ever done
of Larry....wow.

This marks my 250th magazine cover....and probably my 50th for Ottawa Life.

Welcome to Ottawa Commercial Photographer Paul Couvrette's Blog!

Welcome to my Commercial Photography Blog....

No, thats not me, its of course Rick Mercer in a shot I did for CBC this year at the Next Great
Canadian Prime Ministers shoot. It was great to see that the CBC began using it as one of its
key shots in promoting the show and Rick too.

For more of my Commercial Photography, take a look here.

To look at my entire Blog from the latest post on down...CLICK HERE.


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