#373 Last week’s work

Last week was a busy one. It included:

Photography for Communications Professionals was an all day session on Wednesday hosted at the National Gallery in Ottawa.

Event Photography - Ottawa

Photographing Events for Communications Departments - Ottawa

It’s a day of practical and classroom learning from photo fundamentals, use of flash, covering speeches and events as well as technical photo elements (file types, colour consistency, white balance, etc) and other considerations (consent forms, usage, copyright and archiving issues, etc.)

Photographing Events for Communications Departments

Photographing Events for Communications Departments

Students said:

Excellent. Adapts really well to everyone’s level of experience and equipment.

Worth recommending to other amateur communications photogs.

The class was full (eight students) and we have inquiries for the next session on May 24th, 2010.

The Creative Business Seminar was a two day session covering direction for people starting a new business in creative fields. We had 10 participants that created lively discussions and shared experiences from many different people.

Saturday covered elements of business from understanding and evaluating our own strengths to psychology of selling to exercises to develop skills. Sunday took an in depth look at the world of web opportunities.

We’d like to thank the Council for the Arts – Ottawa for their support! The weekend went well. Students said:

“Motivating, stimulating, informative.”

“A great opportunity to learn the basics of starting a creative based business.”

One of the participants wrote a review of the weekend and posted a photo.

#372 Ottawa Portrait Photo Workshop

Last week we ran a portrait workshop for a mother and daughter and brought in two models – a mother and daughter! The session was a Custom Course based on our Natural Light Portraits coming up in January.

Custom Photo Course - Portraits

Custom Photo Course - Portraits

Custom Photo Course - Portraits

Custom Photo Course - Portraits

One of the mothers sent a message today: “We had a wonderful experience on Friday.  I’m looking forward to having my photos critiqued.

Custom Photo Course - Portraits

Custom Photo Course - Portraits

There were many smiles and fine photos. Shown here is a selection we shot of everyone hard at work! – Posted with permission.

Custom Photo Course - Ottawa

Custom Photo Course - Ottawa

Custom Photo Course - Ottawa

Custom Photo Course - Ottawa

The adult model is in our ProProgram. We often ask students to model as they learn about portraits from the perspective of the subject. It’s a valuable experience being at the other end of the camera.

#371 New Ottawa Gatineau Photo website and blog

One of our Pro Program students, Nathalie Madore, launched her new photo website and blog on Sunday. She presented the site at the Creative Business Seminar over the weekend. Her site:

NathalieMadore.com

has been under development all fall and benefits from influences of different people.

Nathalie Madore self portrait

Nathalie Madore self portrait

Have a look, send her some encouragement and follow her path as she develops in the world of working photography.

Félicitations, Nat!

#370 What happened to our blog, cont’d

Remember we told you about the blog troubles that plagued us for ten days? And there was some web infiltration too? We seem to have patched the holes and be cruising at full speed.

So what happened?

Here is a good article about what happened to our site.

It was a widespread hack of websites first discovered in May of this year and named Gumblar. There has been a recent resurgence.

Gumblar steals ftp info and uses that to inject malicious code into sites. (We’re not entirely sure why — either just to be generally disruptive or to scam google adwords.)

The code isn’t the same every time, so it’s hard to detect. In May, people were saying it had infected 60,000-200,000 sites. The latest strain is harder to detect, but that could mean it’s more widespread.

Tricky, disruptive and not very fun for us at Harry, Inc!

Thank-you for your patience!!!

#367 Busy week

It will be a busy week:

• Wednesday we are running the Photography for Communications Professionals. It sold out a while ago and have already posted dates for March.

Photography for Communications Professionals

Photography for Communications Professionals

• I will be editing a portrait session for a couple shot last weekend. It’s their first official portrait session in 40 years.

• Friday morning is a Custom Course for  two women based on Natural Light Portraits. There will be portraits of youngsters!

Portrait Photo Workshop Ottawa

Portrait Photo Workshop Ottawa

• This weekend we will be hosting the Creative Business Seminar on Saturday and Sunday. So far we have a good turnout.

• Next week “On Assignment with Andrew Balfour” starts on Thursday. Andrew will be leading photographers through a studio based lighting assignment. Spots are still available.

On Assignment with Andrew Balfour Photo Workshop Ottawa

On Assignment with Andrew Balfour Photo Workshop Ottawa

#366 Canadian Geographic follow-up

Remember the David Trattles Social Documentary Photo Workshop in October?

We highlighted some student photos from the workshop in posts 353, 354 and 357.

Canadian Geographic has posted more photos and comments from the David Trattles workshop. Have  a look!

Canadian Geographic and David Trattles Social Documentary Photo Workshop

Canadian Geographic and David Trattles Social Documentary Photo Workshop

Canadian Geographic and David Trattles Social Documentary Photography Workshop

Canadian Geographic and David Trattles Social Documentary Photography Workshop