Tuesday, December 08, 2009
A New York Poem
" . . . and then night arrived with its purple legions as I entered the town of my birth . . . I was ready"
Inspired by JM
Inspired by JM
And this one takes the cake? Or was that the Apple
New Jersey is the best view and best place to live if you like sunsets! This was that magic moment just before the sun ducked below the water
Monday, December 07, 2009
Sunset over Manhattan from New Jersey
Here is one of the many shots I plan to feed out onto the blog as I have gone back to my NYC stuff.
Maureen and I are off to Ottawa Wednesday am and not back til the weekend.
Maybe one more report until then.
Many new things are in the works for the New Year so as soon as I can tell you about them, you will have to wait.
All related to Maureen's writing and television stuff.
Maureen and I are off to Ottawa Wednesday am and not back til the weekend.
Maybe one more report until then.
Many new things are in the works for the New Year so as soon as I can tell you about them, you will have to wait.
All related to Maureen's writing and television stuff.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Phew!! post production is finished on all the jobs I did.
Over the past two weeks, and since I got back from NYC, I worked on films sets for six different shows and on one of them I worked two full days.
Yesterday I finished post production on the most recent job I did which was for the CFC and their Chatterbox series.
I did four of their Chatterbox films which are short three minute teasers that film makers use to pitch a bigger feature idea to potential producers.
Each chatterbox had a vastly different theme with settings that were all unusual an unique.
One had an s and m theme, one had a western hobo campfire theme, one had a psychotherapy theme with a young boy and a therapist, one had a love relationship theme in a hospital with an attempted suicide as one of the characters,. All of those shoots were 5 1/2 hours in length to make a three minute length short film.
And from a previous job I did for the CFC, the film with the war theme shot up in the sand pit, it was just great, as one of my shots from that show has been used on the CFC invitation to the big screening party next week for all the short films that were made over the fall.
What an honour.
The folks at the CFC are fantastic people all in pursuit of their dreams and goals, thanks to all those wonderful people for having me come out to do stills for them. I have made a whole set of new friends and the film community in Toronto is just an amazing business where magic happens every day on the set.
The other news is that I also got hired to shoot the stills on a feature being filmed in Ottawa this coming January with an academy award winning actor.
Now that is amazing, and what a break!!
I'll let you know more about that soon, but I was so thrilled when I got the call as I have done work for this producer who liked what I did and as a result they have hired me on for this major feature film.
WHoo hooo!!
Maureen and I are off to Ottawa next week as she is the guest speaker for he Crime Writes Chapter at their annual Christmas Dinner.
We are going to meet up with a photographer friend and his wife who live in Montreal and tour the town for a few days.
In the meantime here are some more shots from the Brooklyn Bridge as I finally have time to get back to my NYC stuff.
Vanessa, the dancer from the Joffrey Ballet, is just an amazing model. Joe Mcnally does a lot of work with her.
Yesterday I finished post production on the most recent job I did which was for the CFC and their Chatterbox series.
I did four of their Chatterbox films which are short three minute teasers that film makers use to pitch a bigger feature idea to potential producers.
Each chatterbox had a vastly different theme with settings that were all unusual an unique.
One had an s and m theme, one had a western hobo campfire theme, one had a psychotherapy theme with a young boy and a therapist, one had a love relationship theme in a hospital with an attempted suicide as one of the characters,. All of those shoots were 5 1/2 hours in length to make a three minute length short film.
And from a previous job I did for the CFC, the film with the war theme shot up in the sand pit, it was just great, as one of my shots from that show has been used on the CFC invitation to the big screening party next week for all the short films that were made over the fall.
What an honour.
The folks at the CFC are fantastic people all in pursuit of their dreams and goals, thanks to all those wonderful people for having me come out to do stills for them. I have made a whole set of new friends and the film community in Toronto is just an amazing business where magic happens every day on the set.
The other news is that I also got hired to shoot the stills on a feature being filmed in Ottawa this coming January with an academy award winning actor.
Now that is amazing, and what a break!!
I'll let you know more about that soon, but I was so thrilled when I got the call as I have done work for this producer who liked what I did and as a result they have hired me on for this major feature film.
WHoo hooo!!
Maureen and I are off to Ottawa next week as she is the guest speaker for he Crime Writes Chapter at their annual Christmas Dinner.
We are going to meet up with a photographer friend and his wife who live in Montreal and tour the town for a few days.
In the meantime here are some more shots from the Brooklyn Bridge as I finally have time to get back to my NYC stuff.
Vanessa, the dancer from the Joffrey Ballet, is just an amazing model. Joe Mcnally does a lot of work with her.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Getting my work together and . .
Pant Pant. Trying to do post production on 5 film projects I have worked on as well as a shoot I did at LKYPT in Toronto today for their advance media on the next show. I get to shoot the rehearsal in January.
I have not worked so hard ever in my photography career and this is all going toward my application for the union.
I am also collecting reference letters from my clients and they all seem quite happy to give them to me which is good. They all love the work I have done for them, a great relief to me.
In the meantime I am hearing from a lot of the people I photographed in NYC. So they all want photos as well and then a friend from Orangeville emailed me a photo of his wife that he took and it is a stunning photo by a waterfall in Costa Rica.
He needs me to do post on it and make a print so that he can give it to her for Christmas.
So you can see what I am up to.
In the meantime I did some street photography prior to my cinematography class tonight and put the star filer on my lens.
There was a couple from Korea who eagerly posed for me lit only by the Christmas tree that was all lit up just behind me.
Love this shot, so Toronto.
I will post more later but I am going to bed to face another hectic day tomorrow and Thursday.... come up for air on Friday
Then Maureen and I are off to Ottawa next week where she is a guest speaker at the Crime Writers annual Christmas dinner.
ahhh I'm tired and off to bed now
Ciao
Thursday, November 26, 2009
For all Yannick Bisson Fans . . .
Get a copy of Sharp Magazine for December. 8 page spread of Yannick doing a fashion shoot on the set of Murdoch.
There is one photo in it that I think is terrific. He is by himself seated.
I think it one of the best photos of Yannick I have seen. If you are a fan of his, you want to get this month's issue for sure.
The wrap party last night was a very loud and noisy affair which Maureen and I stayed for all of an hour.
The music was so loud you could not talk to anybody.
I have been working all week, and for two more days, shooting stills on different film sets.
It's been the most intense two weeks of my photography career.
Onward. The days fly by.
I was actually recruited into one of the films to do a brief scene as a doctor checking a patient's heart.
It was fun and they all said I did great. Now I want to do more acting????
No really it was a blast
Tomorrow I shoot more of Hit it, which is a kind of Elmore Leonard, off the wall film about a gal who gets out of prison and is trying to recover 13 million dollars.
All I can say is it is the most fun film I have worked on because it is a complete send up.
I'll show you some stills from it when the producer allows me to.
There is one photo in it that I think is terrific. He is by himself seated.
I think it one of the best photos of Yannick I have seen. If you are a fan of his, you want to get this month's issue for sure.
The wrap party last night was a very loud and noisy affair which Maureen and I stayed for all of an hour.
The music was so loud you could not talk to anybody.
I have been working all week, and for two more days, shooting stills on different film sets.
It's been the most intense two weeks of my photography career.
Onward. The days fly by.
I was actually recruited into one of the films to do a brief scene as a doctor checking a patient's heart.
It was fun and they all said I did great. Now I want to do more acting????
No really it was a blast
Tomorrow I shoot more of Hit it, which is a kind of Elmore Leonard, off the wall film about a gal who gets out of prison and is trying to recover 13 million dollars.
All I can say is it is the most fun film I have worked on because it is a complete send up.
I'll show you some stills from it when the producer allows me to.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Wrap Party tonight and
Here is an amazing review from a Los Angeles Magazine about the show.
TVonDVD – Murdoch Mysteries: Season One – British Cozy Meets Forensics in Canada!
Based on a series of novels by Maureen Jennings, the Canadian Murdoch Mysteries is a delightful mix of several types of classic styles – the British cozy, Sherlock Holmes and forensics shows like CSI. Set in Victorian era Toronto, the series mixes historical fact with dramatic – and occasionally, whimsical – fiction. The series, which follows on the heels of a number of made for TV movies that starred Peter Outerbridge as Murdoch, is a good lighter in tone and brighter in presentation, though every bit as absorbing.
Detective William Murdoch [Yannick Bisson, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye] is an enthusiastic fellow who integrates science into his investigations, to the exasperation of his boss, Inspector Brackenreid [Thomas Craig, where the Heart Is], an old school copper who is by the book at a time when “by the book” was the judicious use of violence coupled with the concepts of motive and opportunity. Murdoch’s usual assistant in his investigations is Constable George Crabtree [Jonny Harris], an equally eager, if not quite as bright sidekick who finds Murdock’s methods worse pursuing.
Dr. Julia Ogden [Helene Joy, Durham County] is the pathologist who operates the city’s morgue and, as a free thinking woman in a position that requires clear thinking and scientific analysis [for all that is a science in throes of birthing], is a natural foil and/or confidante for Murdoch.
The first season of the series found Murdoch investigating, among other things: the death of a woman who was helping demonstrate the efficacy of alternating current; the shooting death of a black boxer; a murder that seems to have committed by his drunken father, and even the death of a well-known philanthropist who may have had a particularly abhorrent dark side.
Over the course of the season, Murdoch also encounters historical figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [twice], Nikola Tesla and even a visiting royal personage. Throughout, the series is smart and offers a cast of interesting characters – none of whom are buffoons – working on original and intriguing cases.
Behind Murdoch’s investigations are some very solid B-arcs, too. In the season’s first episode [originally planned to be aired ninth until it became clear it would be the most effective introduction to the characters], while Murdoch investigated the death of Miss Toronto Electric & Light by electrocution, George is beginning a tentative relationship with a woman who was at the exhibition to protest the use of a dog that was to be used to show the dangers of electricity.
There’s also a lovely undercurrent of possible romance between Murdoch and Dr. Ogden. Though their relationship is professional, they – as series showrunner Cal coons notes – inspire each other, and really get each other. They often seem to know exactly what the other is thinking.
Of course, some of the techniques Murdoch cobbles together weren’t actually invented until much latter, but the actual procedures are accurate – like the manner in which phone calls were originally traced. But that’s part of the fun and the conceit works partly because of the consistently intelligent writing and partly because of the engaging cast who become these interesting and relatable characters.
Grade: Murdoch Mysteries: Season One – A-
TVonDVD – Murdoch Mysteries: Season One – British Cozy Meets Forensics in Canada!
Based on a series of novels by Maureen Jennings, the Canadian Murdoch Mysteries is a delightful mix of several types of classic styles – the British cozy, Sherlock Holmes and forensics shows like CSI. Set in Victorian era Toronto, the series mixes historical fact with dramatic – and occasionally, whimsical – fiction. The series, which follows on the heels of a number of made for TV movies that starred Peter Outerbridge as Murdoch, is a good lighter in tone and brighter in presentation, though every bit as absorbing.
Detective William Murdoch [Yannick Bisson, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye] is an enthusiastic fellow who integrates science into his investigations, to the exasperation of his boss, Inspector Brackenreid [Thomas Craig, where the Heart Is], an old school copper who is by the book at a time when “by the book” was the judicious use of violence coupled with the concepts of motive and opportunity. Murdoch’s usual assistant in his investigations is Constable George Crabtree [Jonny Harris], an equally eager, if not quite as bright sidekick who finds Murdock’s methods worse pursuing.
Dr. Julia Ogden [Helene Joy, Durham County] is the pathologist who operates the city’s morgue and, as a free thinking woman in a position that requires clear thinking and scientific analysis [for all that is a science in throes of birthing], is a natural foil and/or confidante for Murdoch.
The first season of the series found Murdoch investigating, among other things: the death of a woman who was helping demonstrate the efficacy of alternating current; the shooting death of a black boxer; a murder that seems to have committed by his drunken father, and even the death of a well-known philanthropist who may have had a particularly abhorrent dark side.
Over the course of the season, Murdoch also encounters historical figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [twice], Nikola Tesla and even a visiting royal personage. Throughout, the series is smart and offers a cast of interesting characters – none of whom are buffoons – working on original and intriguing cases.
Behind Murdoch’s investigations are some very solid B-arcs, too. In the season’s first episode [originally planned to be aired ninth until it became clear it would be the most effective introduction to the characters], while Murdoch investigated the death of Miss Toronto Electric & Light by electrocution, George is beginning a tentative relationship with a woman who was at the exhibition to protest the use of a dog that was to be used to show the dangers of electricity.
There’s also a lovely undercurrent of possible romance between Murdoch and Dr. Ogden. Though their relationship is professional, they – as series showrunner Cal coons notes – inspire each other, and really get each other. They often seem to know exactly what the other is thinking.
Of course, some of the techniques Murdoch cobbles together weren’t actually invented until much latter, but the actual procedures are accurate – like the manner in which phone calls were originally traced. But that’s part of the fun and the conceit works partly because of the consistently intelligent writing and partly because of the engaging cast who become these interesting and relatable characters.
Grade: Murdoch Mysteries: Season One – A-
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tired and back from NYC
So much to tell you but I am working on shots and have to shoot the stills on a film tomorrow, Thursday, and all next weekend.
The wrap party is Wednesday night.
These shots are promo shots of the Italian American singer from Long Island and now Connecticut, Angelo Ruggiero.
We also happen to be old friends and he and his gorgeous wife Johanna and I got together to eat, drink and be merry.
On top of that I dragged him onto the Brooklyn Bridge to shoot his promo photos.
So far I like these two of him and other is his wife Johanna who's maiden name was Bassone, the Italian version of Bisson.
Funny coincidences sometimes eh?
The wrap party is Wednesday night.
These shots are promo shots of the Italian American singer from Long Island and now Connecticut, Angelo Ruggiero.
We also happen to be old friends and he and his gorgeous wife Johanna and I got together to eat, drink and be merry.
On top of that I dragged him onto the Brooklyn Bridge to shoot his promo photos.
So far I like these two of him and other is his wife Johanna who's maiden name was Bassone, the Italian version of Bisson.
Funny coincidences sometimes eh?
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