Saana at Kensington Market

We love any and every excuse to photograph someone, and sometimes the best excuse is no excuse! We loved taking these 'just because portraits of Saana at one of her favourite places in the city, Kensington Market. It was a busy evening and not feeling the most comfortable with the crowds (I feel that!) we ducked into various alleyways for some privacy and to shoot against the colourful graffiti. All shot with natural light on a beautiful summer evening.

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Headshots with Becky

It makes all the difference when we are collaborating with someone on their headshot session vs. an office headshot day. While we also love the latter, with the former we can work more intimately with the subject to create the images that they will be happiest and most confident with. In this case Becky wanted to update various profile photos while also incorporating her love (and part of her job) of biking into her feature as well.

We met up with Becky at our favourite time of day, in the evening close to golden hour, to shoot around the Corktown Commons and then took a ride around Rosedale Valley for more ‘in action’ shots with her bike.

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Portrait Session with Fran at The Guild

it’s been such a long time since we’ve had a no pressure, casual, photo session

So when Fran approached us about shooting we were so excited! We had a few ideas of location but narrowed it down to The Guild as it was somewhere both sentimental and familiar to her. We worked on a few other logistics like outfit changes and then later popping back into her house for a few extra indoor photos, but overall it was a hang out with a camera more than an actual formal photo session. This was something that we didn’t know we needed and was a really great refresh to our creative juices.

When we planned this session we didn’t know for certain what the weather was going to be like. We had actually planned to shoot more in summer but kept (unintentionally) scheduling on days with severe heat warnings that we felt just wasn’t safe, or comfortable, to be outside in sunlight for a couple of hours. We lucked out on this day in that there wasn’t any end of summer storms happening, but it wasn’t a crystal clear day either. We worked with what we had though and shot with the ambient, sometimes overcast light. We did not have a permit to shoot around The Guild so we opted to not use any off camera lighting in case we had to pack up and quickly leave.

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President-Elect, Morgan Hoffarth, for the RNAO

AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS OF SHOOTING FOR THE RNAO WE FINALLY GOT TO MEET THEIR TEAM IN PERSON!

We normally shoot for their in house magazine, Registered Nurse Journal, and are sent out on assignments with other nurses so, we recently realized that we haven’t actually met their team in person yet! When they gave us a call to shoot their new president-elect, Morgan, at their office no less we were so excited to finally meet everyone!

To no surprise their team is as wonderful as we’ve always known them to be, and Morgan more specifically was so personable and easy to photograph (despite how weird it feels, we know that feeling!) Morgan needed new headshots to accompany her new position and we were aiming for 4 final images meaning we shot a lot of different set ups and outfits for her to select!

Before our shoot we spent a bit of time around the office location scouting and testing; we lucked on having a good weather day so it was easy for us to hang outside and get some environmental portraits. We took over a small portion of an upstairs foyer and set up a couple of backdrop options for the classic, clean, portrait look as well, all shot with natural light (our favourite)!

In our world a good problem to have is having too many good options so after we sent this gallery out and heard those words back we were thrilled!

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