featured | laura kelly photography

Yay! Back to my field placement! Days with Laura Kelly are always a blast. Today, she suggested we shoot each other a little bit and write up a profile on me. I was totally nervous as I'm on the back of the camera for a reason, I am the furthest thing from photogenic.

I love how much I'm learning already. For example, I am already addicted to the way she goes about working with her website and handling client files. Hoping to get this blog up and running as cute as her blog is!

I'll post a few photos from today's shoot, but feel free to check out her profile on me here! Sooo...here's me!

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concert | shane yellowbird / richmond fair & events

Last Saturday, I went to the Richmond Fair for a school assignment. Not that it's something I wouldn't go to anyway, but some of the things we have to do for school are pretty cool. I am definitely a music and concert addict, let alone country music. Shane Yellowbird was set to perform. As soon as I heard that was one of my choices to photograph, I was all over that.

Convient as it is, boyfriends are for hire for only the cost of lunch; or at least mine is anyway. Mid-afternoon we left for the fair as I wanted a wide variety of shots throughout the course of the day. I am a major horse lover so I did some shooting at the events, however, they were considerably difficult to capture. We wandered through the antique exhibits, machinery, vehicles, midway and petting zoo, stopping along the way to watch the "The Penguins" high diving act and the BMX bike show.

My main focus was the concert, I was super excited. At the same time, I was nervous I had never done concert photography before; I felt like I wouldn't be able to nail my settings fast enough. Blackwell band opened the show with a powerhouse set of covers, as well as a couple of their original songs. Rushing out onto the stage afterwards was Shane Yellowbird, a man full of energy. With myself in the front row, this guy was definitely having fun with the camera. He fed off of the crowd's energy as they chanted for his song, Pickup Truck. Admittedly not his number one fan, being the music girl that I am I still knew 95% of all his lyrics and had a fun time.

To finish up the night, my boyfriend and I walked hand in hand under the lights of the midway, sharing a bag of mini doughnuts (by far our weakness). Tried some long exposure shots, but by that point we were freezing cold. It was a fun night and I'm glad to say I got some decent photos out of it.

 This is definitely my favourite of the night ^

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concert | shane yellowbird / richmond fair sneak peek

Here is a sneak peek at my crazy time last night. Mandatory school assignment to visit the Richmond Fair ;) I chose to photograph the Shane Yellowbird concert. More to come this week. My BlogStomp won't let me register either, so that will be fixed soon too!

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internship | laura kelly photography

Alright, well first official blog post. And I'm actually pretty excited that it is going to be what it is. Today I met the photographer who I have been e-mailing with the past couple of weeks. Laura Kelly is a local Ottawa wedding and engagement photographer. As soon as I found her website, I knew that I had to do my field placement with her. I have probably been creeping her blog everyday since. I contacted her right away, and she responded excitedly. I knew it was meant to be.

Looking at her work, photographically and in the business sense, is everything I wish I could do. She seems happy to show me the ropes and I have never been this anxious to learn. Next week we are going to shoot each other, and take those photos step by step through her whole process. I hope to be creating my new logos and branding soon too.

These are just an extremely small fraction of her work. It was so hard to choose favourites, they are all breathtaking to me.

You honestly have to check her out, I mean, right now....

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