Dave White | Judge - 1st Year Portfolio

Photo By Dave White 

ALGONQUIN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 2013 We are proud to once again have Dave White judge our First Year Portfolios.  Dave is the Commercial Account Manager for Western Ontario and Ottawa for Henry’s.

Previously he was a Product Manager for Lisle Kelco, Hasselblad, Leica, Broncolour and Sinar distributors, for 10 years.  Dave was factory trained to be a photographer for both Hasselblad and Leica.  He has been in the photo industry as a buyer, product manager, account manager, store manager, and outside sales rep for over 16 years.

This award was sponsored by Henry's.

Michael Ross | Judge - 2nd Year Best In Show

Photo By Michael Graeme Ross - Series Abandon

By Rémi Thériault

ALGONQUIN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 2013 Alumni Michael Ross graduated from the gonk in 2007 and quickly entered the industry as principal photographer with Lee Valley Tools publications department.  (the very same position Algonquin Photography legend Garry Carter once held).

After 5 years of commercial product photography Michael joined the Ottawa Police Service's Forensic Identification section as an imaging specialist.

An upcoming fine art photographer in the community with some of his recent prints being sold to the City of Ottawa Art Bank, Ross uses large format photography to capture urban landscapes.

Visit www.leftwithout.com to see some of Ross' additional work. This award is sponsored by Apple.

New Hall Banners

We have finished putting up the new Hall Banners thanks to graduates Riley, John, Joy, Ria, Allie, Colin and Jordan for letting us use their images. 

To see Jordan's banner come by the Faculty offices, it is hanging just outside.   

Lightroom 5 Beta Released

The Ligthroom 5 beta has been released for testing, download it here.

There are some interesting new features to find out more about them check out the video above and this set of tutorials from Adobe.  Thanks to Professor Trevor Pearson for passing along these links.

First Year Portfolio Drop Off 2013

This year we wanted to step it up and do something a little different for our Annual First Year Portfolio time-lapse.  Along with setting up two cameras to shoot every 15 seconds we put radio slaves on both the cameras and one in the hall so the students could take their own pics if they wanted.  We also had a secret radio slaves in a Faculty members office, just for fun!!

A Kino Flo light was used to give us more illumination and the other camera was setup in the first film loading room to capture more of the action.

Here is all the gear we used for this setup:

7 - Manfrotto Magic Arms
9 - Manfrotto Super Clamps
2 - Manfrotto Spigots
4 - Pocket Wizards Plus IIIs
1 - Kino Flo Tungsten Diva-Lite 401
2 - Nikon D3s
2 - AF-S Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED Lenses
4 - 8 GB Sandisk Cards
2 - Photoflex 5-n-1 Reflectors
9 - Dedicated and a Little Crazy Faculty and Staff
58 - Awesome First Year Students

We shot close to 10,000 images over 7 1/2 hours and it took a total of 8 hours to sort, edit, keyword, export and render the video using Adobe Lightroom & Premiere Pro.

And it was well worth it, congrats to the First Years on finishing their Portfolios!!!  To check out all their work come out to the upcoming 40th Annual Algonquin Photography Exhibition, details here.

Music by Scomber - I Spy (with my little eye)

Second Year Portfolio Drop Off 2013

Well it is Portfolio time again here in the Program.  The Second Year portfolio consists of 12 images that our student's put their hearts and souls into.

Our Portfolio Interviews start today and the 40th Annual Photography Exhibition is coming up, for more details checkout the Program website.

Kayla Hannaford | Student Profile

Second Year student Kayla Hannaford has been published in the latest edition of Canadian Geographic.

Congrats to Kayla, she has images on p. 9 and on p. 65 so check it out.  To see more of her great wildlife and fashion images check out her blog.   

Creativity & Education

Here is an interesting video we just received from Adobe about the value of a creative education.

For more on Sir Ken Robinson views on creative approaches to education check out this link.

Dan Neutel | Alumni Update

A few years ago we received a request from a Algonquin Journalism Student Dan Neutel, he wanted to  brush up on his photo skills and take a few of our courses.  

Dan is a keen observer of the world around him and quickly took to the increased class workload with zeal.  He was a pleasure to teach and we all enjoyed his enthusiasm for the art and craft of photograph.

Well on CBC's Ottawa Morning yesterday who do we hear being interviewed, none other that Dan himself talking about his new photo project, Project Rooftop.  Congrats to Dan on the great photo project and we love the A.KA., The Batman Tour Of Ottawa.

Colin Gaudet | Student Profile

Colin Gaudet our resident fashion photographer has been very busy lately.

He has an editorial published in Fave Magazine and another editorial and the front cover of Press The Fashion Magazine.

Congrats to Colin on the getting published and creating some beautiful images.