Photo Booth

Photo Booth
As physical memories become more and more a thing of the pass, now with Intelligent Phones, that we snap an image and put online as soon as we do something.

With the Photo Booth, when a bunch of friends taking crazy post, or two lovers taking that romantic moment to share as one leave for other city, they were able to share the slice in two or four part and keep it in their wallet and look at it.

Soon they will be thing of the pass as Polaroid.








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BERNARD BRAULT

> What are the steps that you took to get where you are today?

Ça fera 35 ans le 8 décembre prochain que ma première photo fut publiée. J'ai débuté ma carrière au Courrier du Sud à Longueuil en proposant mes photos de hockey junior. Par la suite, j'étais leur photographe attitré pendant quelques années.
Début des années 80, j'ai commencé la pige pour des magazines et agence de presse tel UPC United Press Canada.
Et en 1984, La Presse a remarqué mes images et je fut engagé.

Je suis employé permanent depuis 25 ans...

©Paul Chiasson

> What do you love about being a professional photographer?

Ce que j'aime le plus est la diversité des assignations et la chance de couvrir une multitude d'évènements sportifs et autres. J'ai couvert les neuf derniers Jeux Olympiques depuis 1994. Et aussi tous les Grand Prix du Canada depuis 1978.



> What characteristics do you feel someone needs in order to survive in this industry?

Être à la base un journaliste et se tenir au courant de tout ce qui se passe dans l'actualité et les sports. Aussi s'adapter au besoin tel que faire du vidéo...

> What do you think is the future of the industry?

Je crois que les photographes devront faire du vidéo en plus des photos traditionnelles.
Et avec le web, la diffusion doit être de plus en plus rapide.

> How many young photographer that came to you for guidance and was able to achieve their goal as professional photographer?

Plusieurs sont venus me voir au fil des années et il y en a plusieurs qui ont réussi à percer le marché que ce soit à La Presse ou au Soleil de Québec entres autres.

Specializing in sports, he worked for news agencies UPC (United Press Canada) and Reuters prior to becoming a staff photographer for one of the largest French language dailies in America, La Presse, where he also writes for the travel section and covers news, fashion and the arts. He is a regular contributor to Golf Canada and Fusions with clients including Gesca, the RCGA, Ski-Presse, and Tennis Canada. 

His picture of the Montreal St. Joseph Oratory is featured on a stamp published by Canada Post in 2004.

Since 1981 Brault has received more than 200 awards from four different continents including first prize in France's International Best Sports photo contest and NPAC's Canadian Photographer of the Year. He is a regular presenter at conferences across Canada and has published two book a collection of Olympic Games photographs in Les Québécois à  Lillehammer, and Je réussis mes photos.

He as covered 9 Olympics,  just in the 2010, he shot over 24,000 pictures for the Olympics and total of 168 000 pictures for the full year.

As photojournalism you have to able to work with nature element

under the rain at Olympic games Vancouver 2010 Copyright © ap hovasse

Membre of NPPA, NPAC, FPJQ - Prix Antoine-Desilets http://www.fpjq.org/index.php?id=291

source http://www.lowepro.com, http://www.daymen.ca, http://bernardbrault.com

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Here the Assignement sheet and note

Assignment 2 - Photographer Research and Presentation

Miksang is a Tibetan word meaning "good eye" and a form of contemplative photography coming from the Dharma Art teaching of Chögyam Trungpa.

In 1979, Michael Wood began to combine his photography training, meditation experience, and the Dharma Art teachings that formed the basis of this contemplative approach to photography known as Miksang.

In 1983, Michael began to explore a series of assignments and exercises based on the Dharma Art and his own exploration, which became the first Worksop of Miksang.

Michael Wood is from Toronto and received traditional training in photography at the Sheridan College. He has worked as a commercial photographer for 18 years and for the last 28 years he has been teaching in Canada and around the world. He and Andy Karr wrote a book called Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. They also have a site where you can submit your work: http://seeingfresh.com/


On the Miksang Institute website it states:

"Miksang, at its most basic level, is concerned with uncovering the truth of pure perception. We see something vivid and penetrating, and in that moment we can express our perception without making anything up—nothing added, nothing missing. Totally honest about what we see—straight shooting."

Taking a course in Miksang, you’ll learn the art behind Contemplative photography, and how it is working the eye, mind, and heart, seeing things as they appear, and appreciating everyday things. In other words, it is seeing with your own eyes what you see with your heart, like what Henri Cartier-Bresson wrote:

“Technique is important only insofar as you must master it in order to communicate what you see. . . . In any case, people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.”

As we work as professionals or for the pleasure of  photography, it is possible to apply this technique just like Henri Cartier did, than wait hours to get the perfect a moment to take a picture like we seen in class with this image.

or Nick Brandt that waited 3 days to get this image,
Mitchell Kanashkevich more an question been in the right place and time.


More at
Andy Karr http://www.flickr.com/people/andy_karr/
Michael Wood http://www.flickr.com/people/miksang/
Julie DuBose http://www.flickr.com/people/miksang2/



For the Book "The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes" on Amazon


Video on YouTube View Here


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Here the Assignement sheet and note

After a day of extreme aggressivity with my work about elements that wasn't mine to be begin with, that put a chain reaction before I left my job for other one.

Camera and Light

Exercise in class we had to do use our camera and flash meter to do reading at f8 as start then one f5.6 and f11 on the white, black and grey background, as you can see, trying to do this wasn't easy, using a flash meter was my first time so all the reading were not don't as it was ask... and didn't take any note to why i only shoot 3 times f8 1/50 on the white

Assignment - Concept of Line

• Vertical line
• Horizontal line
• Curved line
• Leading line
• Diagonal line

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Assignment 1 - Photographer Research and Presentation : Francis Vachon

I’m going to talk you about Francis Vachon, his a photojournalism from Quebec City, he graduated from Loyalist College in 2006 one of the few photojournalism college in Canada.

The reason, I got interests in his work is mostly that he share a lot information and try to help out other that show interest.

I found his work, but looking up information about copyright and how to process with action against the newspaper using one of my image.
With his blog http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/, I was able to find some information and was able to contact him, and ask him more details and questions on how to and what to do for my case against the newspaper.

As I look more into his blog, I find more about what was photojournalism, about techniques, ethic, and other projects like his Stock photo site, “Québec urbain” a blog that talk the urbanism of Quebec city and one his most famous time laps that make him and his son show up on a lot of media http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/tva-abc-journal-de-quebec/

the art of using the tool you can use and make it big.

























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Here the Assignement sheet and note

Manual Photography sheet

Manual Photography sheet
Exposure
Aperture
Shutter
ISO

Source:http://bbcicecream.com/blog/2011/06/30/manual-photography-cheat-sheet/manualphotographycheatsheet1/

Classe - Camera and Light with Daniel Malka
http://www.danielmalkafoto.com