Surfers at your wedding…surely not in Ottawa?
Check out the kid in the front row…I wanna be him when I grow up…
Back seat fun…
Another great coverage by Rachelle….sorry I missed this one. Two brides and double the fun.
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Man o man…it was a hot day to shoot a wedding. The backyard pool sure helped the reception, though I was disappointed nobody jumped in. I would have, but I was working.
The Hampton Inn seems to be booking quite a few weddings these days…the look is industrial
chic if you shoot at the Inn…but there is a great park nearby we really like.
Some locations are trickier than others as far as shooting. Unless you know what you are doing and have the equipment to pull it off, a lot of locations like Montebello, The Chateau Laurier and the Courtyard Restaurant tend to look like giant black holes. Experience is the key…1000 weddings to date!!!….and counting.
With the Olympics coming up this week I though it might be time to post some images from my recent shoot in Iqaluit covering the Olympic Torch run. Little can prepare you for shooting in minus 55, while running alongside the torch in total darkness.
I even found time to get out in the Arctic wilds and shoot some landscapes…great assignment.
http://www.couvrette-photography.on.ca/index2.html
We contribute to many local charities and have done so for over 30 years.
The plight of Haiti touched us especially strongly and we made a point of offering
our services to the CARE dinner at the NAC which raised, with matching funds over
$135,000.
Its the least I could do and I tip my hat to all those photojournalists on the scene.
http://www.couvrette-photography.on.ca/Haiti_Benefit_NAC_gallery/index.html
http://www.couvrette-photography.on.ca/index2.html
Last night at the NAC we volunteered as the official photographers to a Fundraiser for Haiti.
I have been mesmerized by the tragedy in Haiti for some time and leapt at the chance to help.
The dinner, which featured a fabulous meal created by a dozen of Ottawa’s top chefs raised over 60K in one evening for Care Canada’s work in Haiti. This amount will be matched by the
Federal Government, meaning that this one nights effort raised an eighth of a million dollars!
http://www.couvrette-photography.on.ca/Haiti_Benefit_NAC_gallery/index.html
The people from CARE really do care… and their thanks was really the icing on the cake.
http://care.ca/main/index.php?en&nac;_haiti
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I have always felt that the best way to compare photographers is to see a whole wedding, not just a couple of shots…
Serge, a veteran photographer at the studio covered this wedding last fall. Among other claims to fame he is Francophone and was once the PM’s staff photojournalist.
Enjoy
http://www.couvrette-photography.on.ca/slideshow/museum_of_civilization/
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Comparing photographers is a daunting task. Anyone can shoot a thousand shots on a wedding and get a few good ones. Unfortunately you can`t compare what one photographer will do given identical conditions and the same subject….unless….a person is photographed a few days apart in the same room by three different photographers.
Melanie Aitken is a prominent local executive who is smart, pretty and has a great boardroom. Here`s my version and two local wedding photojournalists shots.
http://blairgable.wordpress.com/
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1406550
There is an old saying that a photograph is worth a thousand words. I will let the photographs speak for themselves.
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