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24 Apr 2010 April 23 Preview Photos
Author: Gail |  Category: Out + About, events, film photography, portraiture  | Leave a Comment

Shots scads ‘o photos yesterday, between Nicole and Jeremy’s engagement shoot in High Park and Jan’s birthday at Sutra Tiki Bar in Little Italy last night. Also, I was excited to see what developed out of my Chinon CE-4 film roll, which was started in 2008 (!) and only finished recently. I picked up the index print and CD yesterday. It’s only my second roll out of that camera, and I am even happier with the results this second time around. I really should use it more often, but between the film and developing it can be rather expensive.

I only have time to upload a few photos before heading back to High Park to shoot another engagement session with Sandra and Jon. Hope it doesn’t rain, it keeps threatening to…

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Reading the menu by the light of an LED duck — it quacks, even! I love this photo. View larger.

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Nicole and Jeremy in High Park.

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Chinon CE-4 film camera (scanned negative). The vignetting is in the camera, I didn’t process it aside from removing a big piece of dust in the corner.

Eric during our trip last August to Montreal, writing a postcard to his grandmother. This is my favourite from the roll.

22 Apr 2010 My Baby Just Cares For Me
Author: Gail |  Category: Music, Videoclips, Working Life, events  | Leave a Comment

"We still hold hands when we watch television."

One of my favourite photos from the art gallery wedding last month, this was taken at the end of the night during the last dance. It never fails to amaze the guests that I stay until the very end (most photographers don’t), but that’s because I like to capture these moments. It’s worth it.

These are the groom’s parents, who’ve been married more than 40 years. She told me they got married and started their family when she was 17 years old. Here they are, grandparents of six, totally oblivious to me and everyone else at 1 o’clock in the morning and looking into each others’ eyes with love and happiness.

“We still hold hands when we watch television.”

I wish this kind of love for every couple.

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17 Apr 2010 Michelle + Jamie
Author: Gail |  Category: Memes, Polls, Quizzes, Videoclips, events  | One Comment

Behold, a video slideshow of a wedding I shot last month in an art gallery. This is the largest number of photos I’ve used for a single slideshow (248) because a) I had a hard time narrowing down the photos, and b) their first dance song (U2′s “All I Want Is You”, running at 6:30) is pretty long, anyways.

It was my first time to shoot in an art gallery, so everything I learned I will apply to my next art gallery wedding in July (different gallery). Biggest challenge? Space, right up there with the fear that I’ll knock over a $900 vase… it is a very real fear! I never drink when I’m working — booze and expensive camera equipment don’t mix — but that doesn’t apply to anyone else, of course. Everyone gets pretty merry!

If you have a fast internet connection and a fast computer, a higher-quality viewing experience can be found at my ImageLegacy site (it’s around 90MBs, so it’ll take a little while to load).

Ahem, there is one slide difference between the Vimeo slideshow here and the version hosted at ImageLegacy. With 249 photos, I doubt you’ll notice what it is unless you view the ImageLegacy version first (though I think it will be pretty obvious why I excluded it from the Vimeo version), but you’ll get a prize if you do…

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16 Dec 2009 Mission Complete: School Winter Concert
Author: Gail |  Category: events  | Leave a Comment

Natalia, videographer

We did it! The three of us joined forces and documented a primary school’s winter concert tonight. Natalia manned Camera A, Sai manned Camera B, and I shot stills with my DSLR while curious parents switched between watching for their kids and watching us in action.

The concert finished a few hours ago and I’m STILL chuckling at the scenes of terrified kindergarteners, parents sighing collective “awwwwww!”s as the curtains parted, and teachers hissing at the kids to be quiet backstage. The scene is so utterly familiar to me, after countless concerts at my primary school in Winnipeg and at my BC township high school, that being there took me right back to childhood. Even 30 years later, I can recall how nervous I was to stand onstage and no matter how much practice we had there would be lines forgotten in the heat of the moment or we’d race through the words at breakneck speed.

Scores of costumed youngsters and a crowd of proud parents makes for easy filmmaking and photography — the expressions, the anticipation, the amusement is all there, natural and unprompted. You just have to run around a bit, but as events go it’s casual and doesn’t have anywhere near the pressure of a wedding.

Our plan is to make a DVD that the school can use as a fundraiser, so I can’t show any more photos. (If you’re friend or family in my Flickr list you’ll see a few in there.) We’re going to have a lot of fun editing the footage and the pictures — it’s cuteness overload! My favourite parts are the little ones in junior kindergarten performing hula dances and holding hands. I don’t even have any kids and I was beaming!

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Oh, and I shot this on the way home:

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Music for today: Muppets Christmas song

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13 Dec 2009 Belly Dancer
Author: Gail |  Category: Music, Videoclips, events  | One Comment

Carassauga 2009

Lighting was a real challenge at the Egypt exhibit at Carassauga 2009 back in May. I haven’t uploaded any of the Egypt photos before today because they need a lot of processing — the spotlights were all coloured in red and such, which made it difficult to see what was going on and I couldn’t use a flash. I like this one of the belly dancer so I did a bit of work on it first.

Music for today: along the theme of body expression, Sia’s video of “Soon We’ll Be Found”

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25 Nov 2009 Wedding Details
Author: Gail |  Category: Working Life, events  | 2 Comments

McLean House

It’s been one of those weeks where I can’t get stuff out the proverbial door fast enough. So I leave you with a few detail shots from the wedding last Saturday, and some vendor links.

cake by Flaky Tart

Had a nice chat with the cakemaker, Madelaine Sperry of Flaky Tart, while I was running around before the bride arrived.

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03 Nov 2009 Beth + Shawn’s Wedding Slideshow
Author: Gail |  Category: Videoclips, events  | 2 Comments

Beth + Shawn’s Wedding from Gail Edwin-Fielding on Vimeo.

Beth and Shawn’s wedding ceremony took place north of the city on October 3 at the home of their officiant, and they threw a big party of a reception in Toronto’s west side that evening. Natalia and I had great fun taking portraits at the reception and printing them off on my portable photo printer, which was a hit with the families and friends in attendance. The slideshow is part of a collection of the newlywed’s favourites, with a soundtrack from their entrance music by the fabulous Otis Redding. Beth and Shawn, thank you for letting me be a part of your day!

14 Oct 2009 Father Of The Bride
Author: Gail |  Category: events  | One Comment

father of the bride

I’ve been editing all evening and my eyes need a break so I’m making beef stew and writing a blog post.

Out of all the photos I’ve been looking at, this is one of my favourites. Personally, I’m a big fan of wrinkles in photographs… I guess I’m not thinking of my own face (because otherwise I’d have to eat that statement!) but of others’. In the modern world, preventing wrinkles and getting rid of them is a multi-billion dollar industry. Youth takes precedence over age and experience. I suppose in a way I create my own little world through photographs, and in my little photo world, wrinkles are a GOOD thing.

09 Oct 2009 Ring Bearer On The Run
Author: Gail |  Category: events  | One Comment

ring bearer on the run

If you’ve watched Julie + Rich’s wedding slideshow, this photo is at 4:53 and one of my favourite photos of the day. His little suit and shoes are simply adorable, and I managed to catch him in action! This is exactly the kind of photo I love to capture at weddings.

05 Oct 2009 More Bandwidth Please
Author: Gail |  Category: Videoclips, events  | 5 Comments

Sheesh! I finished this slideshow not long after I arrived home but it took more than FOUR hours to upload to Vimeo and now I’m waiting for it to convert to Flash… so this is a placeholder for now until that happens. I’m embedding the version uploaded to Blip.tv. (Vimeo won’t play the soundtrack properly, for some reason.)

The video looks better larger on my Image Legacy site.

I did mention a sailor, owl, robot, and cat, right? Not that it makes any more sense in video form, but when I post the photos I’ll add the link to the bride’s blog and get some back story!

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