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Movember 2011

Matthew — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:42:44 +0000

As some of you may know, Movember is the month formally known as November. The name was changed in in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia when a couple of “Bros” took it upon themselves to change the face of men’s health. That year there were 30 participants. Since then there has been over 1.1 Million registrants at Movember.com and over $176 million raised globally.

The goal is to change established habits and attitudes men have about their health. Through education about the health risks they face, getting them to act on that knowledge thereby increasing their chances of early detection, diagnosis and treatment. In 2010, nearly 119,000 Canadian Mo Bros and Mo Sistas got on board, raising $22.3 million CAD. This year, I will join them and I would love for you to assist me.

Over the next month, I will be growing, no, cultivating a mustache in support of prostate cancer and men’s health. I’ll be updating my status on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ as much as possible so you can follow along in awe. If you would like to support the cause, head on over to my donation page and drop some coin.

For more information about Movember go here or here. Pictured above is Justin Guthrie, Movember veteran (no that’s not his real ‘stache).

Summer Wedding

Matthew — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:42:23 +0000

I had the pleasure of going to my cousin’s wedding early June in Parksville. It was a very beautiful day and the Jonathan and Kathryn couldn’t have looked happier. Since I wasn’t the photographer at the wedding, I decided to shoot an old Minolta srT200 with a 50mm f/1.7 Minolta lens on some very expired Kodak Gold 200 film. The result was fantastic and I really enjoyed being so restricted by my focal length and speed.

I have talked before about not having the luxury of zoom lenses or digital ISO settings. You tend to focus more on the creativity, because, that’s all you can change.

All of the pictures were scanned on my Canon flatbed and then cropped and edited in Photoshop. Only a few minor colour corrections and the contrast was punched up a bit. I wanted to preserve the film “look”.

The happy colour changes were a complete surprise with the expired film.

As you can see, I left some dust on the negative.

Fashion for Cancer

Matthew — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:29:35 +0000

A colleague of mine decided a couple of months ago that she was going to cut off and donate her hair for the Cops for Cancer cause. A very noble thing to do. She asked me if I would take some pictures of her before she lopped it off, so she could remember what it was like. I was happy to oblige.

To view a couple more from the shoot, go to my photostream. The link is in the side bar. If you’d like to make a donation, please visit any bc cancer website or click here.

Tasty Tuesday #18

Matthew — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:56:52 +0000

Here it is folks. Another edition of Tasty Tuesday. This is another shot from my portfolio selection while I was in school that didn’t make the cut. This is the same model that is in the Editorial Photography post from January, Eve is her name.

Bouldering

Matthew — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:30:16 +0000

One thing that I enjoy doing in my spare time is to go climbing. When I was in New Zealand, my girlfriend and I stayed with some friends who were really in to climbing. Almost every evening they would head out to the Jardines Boulders (just below The Remarkables mountains) for a couple of hours. The boulders were rocks that had fallen off the adjacent mountains and rolled in to a sheep paddock. You really had to watch your step while walking around. The sheep were everywhere.
Reese (pictured left) was working on this for quite a while. The crux being the third move, he’s pictured in the starting position and his first move is to reach up to the crack seen at the bottom of the picture. The second move is to get his legs out and the third is to get his other arm over. He did eventually send the route after a few attempts. If you climb, let me know. I’d love to hear your stories.

Tasty Tuesday #17

Matthew — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:21:15 +0000

Shot in Victoria, BC, this was a runner up for my school portfolio. I worked with this couple all over Bastion Square and along the waterfront. It didn’t make the final cut because it didn’t flow with the rest of the images. What do you think of this one or my other Tasty Tuesday’s?
Leave your comment below for others to see.

Conversational

Matthew — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:16:24 +0000

I’d like to get some conversation going on this picture. What do you think of it? What are your thoughts, feelings, or interpretations? I’m open to anything, so hit me with it.
This was shot one very early morning down at the water of Esquimalt Lagoon on Royal Roads campus.
No need to “create an account” in order to post a comment, I just need an email so I can verify spam or not. Nobody likes spam.

Tasty Tuesday #16

Matthew — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:49:36 +0000

Here’s an outtake from a portrait session with Kaitlyn. We were getting near the end of the shoot and we were both a little tired I gave her the stereotypical “you’re a lion” pose to work with and this was the result. Priceless.
For those of you just catching on to what a Tasty Tuesday is all about. Here’s the rundown: scroll through your archives until you find an outtake, random image, second choice, or happy mistake and then post it on Tuesday. The goal is to keep it up weekly.

Editorial Photography

Matthew — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:17:05 +0000

Textbooks define editorial photography as interpreting the facts of a magazine article in a creative way. For me, it is all about telling stories. Editorial photography should engage viewers and interact with them. It should prompt the audience to imagine how the story unfolds, who the person is, and how they can find out more. That’s partly what my little project called “Who Are You?” is all about. Using photography to tell the viewer a story. The story is you.
This is Eve. She has a dog named Elsa and she loves cooking and photography. What else can she tell you?

Have a story to tell? Send me an email and we can do it together!

Facebook vs. the Job Interview

Matthew — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:21:58 +0000

We’ve all been told before that story of how someone was not hired (or fired, demoted, sued, etc.) because of something that their soon-to-be employer (or former employer) saw on Facebook or some other social media site. It’s not uncommon for an employer to “Google” an applicant prior to offering them a job. So, you’ve gone and “removed” all that incriminating evidence. Now what? My thoughts are that you should flood it with good stuff. The stuff that employers want to see from a bright, committed, respectable and trustworthy team player such as yourself. I’d start off with a great profile picture from Kerr Photography (it’s the first thing I look at).

Who would you hire?

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