Ok so spring is almost here and wedding season is now here! I want to offer a free engagement session to a couple who has a wedding coming up this summer. This is a great chance to get some excellent photos and really take advantage of my services as you will receive a great final product that you will truly have to call your own. I am also looking for a feature wedding to use in an upcoming  publication where your wedding could be featured as well as i will give you an enlargement of your favorite image as a gift. So if you or anyone you know is getting married soon and needs a photogrpaher call me up!

Just so everyone knows, my website has been and will continure on going a little construction for about a nother week or so- Every this is runnng fine im just make some little changes. Make sure to keep an out out in the next few weeks to see what ive done! yay

Here is a fetures wedding that was absolutly beautiful. Small wedding usually carry a little bit more charm and you can really feel the connections which is why i love them.

So, i havnt updated my blog latley and i apologize but i have alot of work to add and to catch up on. I ll start by saying i have been working here in canada as well as taking a few trips to New York. Im posting a large variety of images from the past few months. i hope you enjoy and i would love to hear your thoughts.!

So  this is a book that i was given in college and i must say it has been my bible in the photography business. Its a great book to referace quickly as well as it teaches you and gives you access to copy right agreements and infringement policies. i really suggest this as a starter book for anyone entering the photo industry.

Contents in the Book include-

1.The Business of Assignment Photography

2.The Business of Stock Photogrpahy

3.Pricing and Estimating

4.Negociating Fees

5.Business marketing strategies

and much more!!!!

Go to amazon .com and the

ISBN is: 1-58115-197-7

Sticker Price is $ 29.95

1. CREATING A VIGNETTE: 

Sometimes you just need a border of fram of a sort to help pull together an image and a vignette is a great and classy way to do so. 

Step 1- Double Click your background layer to unlock it

Step 2- Once the layer is unlocked you will then want to create a new blank layer.

Step 3-Select the blank layer, then you will go to the bottom left of the layers menu and click on the mask tool (a rectangle with a circle in the middle)

Step 4- Once selected on the mask you will the hit the paint bucket tool and paint the layer the color of your choice for the vignette.

Step 5- Once you have painted the layer, stay on the same layer and select the mask that you have previously created. take the gradient tool and click the center of the image and drag the mouse out to a corner. you should then see the vignette and you can choose to minimize the appearance by lightening the opacity and erasing some of the vignette with a fluffy brush.

Here is a photo of Lyne Francoeur, owner on Moonshadow Breeders with her Brude Mare Olympica D

Photo Courtesy-Keely Tate

Photo Life invites photographers worldwide to participate in its annual photo contest, Image International, by submitting their best shots in the following categories:

PEOPLE

Who they are
What they do
How they do it

NATURE
Landscape, urban or natural
Wildlife, domestic or feral
Environment, old or new

TRAVEL
Here, at home
There, beyond
Everywhere, without borders

You could win some of today’s hottest photo equipment and a VIA Rail travel credit! Plus, you could see your image(s) published in Canada’s  #1 photo magazine. To view/print the complete Image International 2008 prize list, click here.

Go to this Link to check out this contest- if your interested in photographing nature and you love canada then this is a great constest to enter plus its fun- i myself have entered and would love to see others join as well

http://photoclub.canadiangeographic.ca/cg/Contests/photocontest/