Hey there everyone! My name is Melissa Carriere and I shall be your guest blogger for the day!
I’m a second year student in NAIT‘s Photographic Technology program and I had the lovely privilege of spending my two week work experience with the Scade’s at Scade Photography. These two weeks have been so informative as well as so much darn fun which is always a bonus. The first week of my stay here Shaun and Stephanie were out and about on their vacation to Vancouver so I got to spend my time with the lovely Gordon Scade. I learned so much about natural lighting in one day I couldn’t believe it. Gord showed me all sorts of approaches to lighting and it blew my mind at how little I knew about natural light, but I know much more now thanks to Gord! Also, taking his tips and applying it to my work and the way I shoot added so much more direction and drama to my photos which I love.
There’s Gord! (Just a little outtake from my shots during when Gord was teaching me.)
Stephanie and Shaun soon returned from their trip and a whole different learning experience began. Stephanie started off by showing me how they sort and start to put together albums for their clients. I came here knowing nothing about InDesign and now I feel quite comfortable using it, admittedly I am no where near fully knowledgeable about the program but it was still so fun to learn about it. Blogging was another big thing we discussed (I’m testing my skills now) and I learned it’s such a huge part about promoting a business and its so affordable! The Monday morning of my second week Shaun surprised me with an assignment, at first I was a tad nervous but once he told me what it was it sounded like it would be a great one. Shaun told me about a group on Flickr started by Kelly Redinger called the Lunch Box Photographers, which is all about going out on your lunch break and shooting the assignment of the week as a chance to just get out, shoot and have some fun. This weeks assignment was to photograph something that looked like a letter and to do everything strictly in camera, meaning no post processing at all(not even any cropping!). I found a ‘v’!
Wednesday I arrived to yet another surprise, we were going on a photo shoot! Overnight Shaun and Stephanie had set up a 50′s themed photo shoot with models, props, hair the whole works! The specifications were to provide 10 photos and a blog post to show everything off (so this is taking care of that last part). It was so much fun to work with Tammy and Izabela, they looked awesome. Here’s another big thanks to the two of them! We spent a couple hours shooting at Hermitage Park and left with a ton of killer images.
Thursday morning Shaun and I went to the Art Gallery of Alberta to attend a free lunch lecture on Yousef Karsh. After that was over Shaun showed me more on Aperture and PhotoMechanic (I am in love with PhotoMechanic now), he even showed me an awesome site to set up a website. Shaun showed me showitfast.com and it is so easy and customizable, not to mention reasonably priced. Yay for finding an awesome site to help with my project for school, thanks Shaun! I spent the rest of the afternoon playing with the program and got a great start on my design. Now that leaves us on the final day of my work experience, sadly it has to end sometime, which I have spent blogging and it seems a lot easier then I had first thought (likely due to me being a talker and the fact that I tend to ramble).
So thats the gist of my two weeks here with the Scade’s. I had a fantastic time working with Gord, Shaun, and Stephanie from Scade Photography, they’re a blast to be around! I’m so glad they let me spend two weeks with them.
- Melissa Carriere
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