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Sarah – Portrait Shoot – Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC

Lara Eichhorn — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:19:15 +0000

Sarah joined me for a portrait shoot on Sunday morning. It was a bit of a dreary day, but it wasn’t raining! We were both a little sleepy from the time change, but we still managed to have a fun shoot. Sarah’s family has been requesting some new photos of her, so she gave me a call a couple of weeks ago. She said she’s not photogenic, but I think we’ve proven her wrong.

Sarah’s a fellow Fluevog fan. She showed up with these awesome yellow ‘vogs, with me in my red Fluevog boots that are coming apart at the soles.

7 comment(s) for this post:

Az:
2010-Mar-16 Lovely set of images, she looks so natural, and the location is perfect.
Eric Kotara:
2010-Mar-17 Beautiful images of a lovely lady in a wonderful location. Love those blossoms on the trees.
Jessica Horton:
2010-Mar-17 Love the bright colors of her coat and shoes! The trees are also beautiful!
Drew:
2010-Mar-17 Good work making her feel comfortable in front of the camera, I particularly like the 3rd shot of her.
Lara Eichhorn:
2010-Mar-17 Thanks for the nice comments everyone! We have a pretty spring here, but it's still kind of cold.

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Candy for your Portrait at Victoria Nuit Blanche

Lara Eichhorn — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:13 +0000

Last Satuday, the 21st of November, a bunch of random artists and performers got together to create Victoria’s first Nuit Blanche. It was to be an unofficial event, unlike Toronto’s Nuit Blanche sponsored by ScotiaBank and invloving government and galleries. The idea was to come out around 10pm and create or display something that would disappear by the next morning. When I first heard about it, I knew I had to be a part of it, but I couldn’t think of what to do. Photography doesn’t lend itself well to outdoor displays, and it’s not typically a performance art.

I finally came up with an idea to recreate our Candy for your Portrait experiment, which my friend Irene and I tried randomly one cold day in February at the inner harbour in order to get some group shots for a portrait class I was taking. Of course, I didn’t come up with this idea until the day that submissions were due, so I spent all day asking friends and coworkers for advice on how to make it happen. I wanted it to be more than just me with a camera and a friend handing out candy, like it was last time. I wanted it to be interactive and fun. I wanted people to see what we were doing on the spot. I had the idea to project the images on a wall as we took them, but I had no idea how to pull it off. With help, I figured out that we needed a generator to run the projector. I spent the next few days trying to figure out how to get and use a projector and generator, with the help of many people.

I wasn’t sure if I could get this all together, as I’ve never tried to put together so many elements and people for one event. But thankfully a lot of people responded to my pleas for help. I learned that delegating to people who really want to help is super easy. Aaron volunteered to get the candy and he brought along his studio light. Phil agreed to rent a generator, since I couldn’t quite wrap my head around how to get or use one (though I did have some great advice on what kind to get). Lynn brought a folding table that she happened to have in her car. A bunch of other people showed up to help out and made the whole process a ton of fun: Irene, Eileen, Khanh, Emily, and Jon. Other friends stopped by throughout the night and a bunch of wonderful strangers posed for us. We got a lot of compliments about how fun it was. I was even surprised how interesting it was to see the photos instantly projected on a building in Trounce Alley. People were captivated by seeing themselves and their friends up there larger than life. Another Nuit Blanche group stopped by with their paper mache deer sculptures, people gave us glow necklaces, people played hacky sack with us, and someone left us a cute bouncy ball in exchange for the candy. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out or posed for us or gave me some technical guidance.

All in all, it was a super fun night. We checked out the other installations and I was impressed with what can come together in the middle of the night in this often sleepy city: a saucy pirate fire show, origami in trees, random art installations, and a whole bunch of smiling people.

See the individual shots larger (click on the grid above to see the full version of it) Other photos in lower quality are on Facebook. Note: I didn’t shoot all of these. Aaron shot a large percentage of them and other members of our group shot some too. I didn’t want this to be my event, but our event. All of ours (the photographers, the helpers, and the subjects).

7 comment(s) for this post:

Mike:
2009-Dec-01 Wow. Never heard of a nuit blanche over here in England, but what a cool idea - the shots have come out great!
Eliza Claire:
2009-Dec-02 Fab! Really fun idea and great portraits.
Monika Szczepaniak:
2009-Dec-03 Well done! It takes a lot of courage to ask strangers to pose for you and the results look great.
Phillip Allen:
2009-Dec-03 Fantastic idea Lara and executed with a great deal of joy evident in the results! Well worth doing for the human interaction, for the practice of the discipline and ... well, just because! It's fun.
Cliff:
2009-Dec-03 Great idea Lara! There are some hilarious portraits in the mix up there. I saw one guy climbing the light pole... and another guy with a huge bouncy ball!? They turned out awesome.

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Candy for your Portrait at Nuit Blanche – First Glance

Lara Eichhorn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:52:07 +0000

A group of friends and I got together, dragged out a ton of gear (laptop, projector, generator, studio light, cameras, etc), and put on an interactive art project at Victoria’s Nuit Blanche. We offered people candy to let us take their photo and I’m putting together a grid of headshots, hopefully to be posted soon. The rest of the photos will be posted on the Facebook event page when they’re ready, also hopefully soon.

Here’s a shot of my posse, and some cool people who came and posed for us. Jon took this shot. More about the event later.

Oh, and thanks for the glowsticks!

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Irene – Portrait Shoot – Downtown, Victoria, BC

Lara Eichhorn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:01:29 +0000

I did a shoot with Irene in downtown Victoria on Saturday afternoon. I love the colourful graffiti around. The first one with the windows is on Fisgard just a bit east of Government Street. I’ve been dying to do a shoot there, because I think the colours are gorgeous. The shots with the darker graffiti and the colourful rolling door are from the alley next to Bastion Square, near the Yates parkade. If you’re a photographer in Victoria, you should check them out.

I used my flash and new 85mm lens for this entire shoot and I think they worked awesomely together.

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oh, rebecca:
2009-Aug-10 I LOVE love LOVE the first one! They are all awesome but that one is my favorite!
Lara:
2009-Aug-10 Thanks, Bex! I love that graffiti wall so much. I'm using the third photo on my business cards because it's so bright and colourful. Come and do a photoshoot with me in front of it!

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Lynn- Portrait Shoot – Central Park, Victoria, BC

Lara Eichhorn — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:40:54 +0000

Did a mini shoot with Lynn in Central Park in Victoria. Tried out my new flash reflector. Playing around with the flash and the sun made for some interesting light.

For the below shot on the left, I told her to look sad about the litter on the ground. She takes direction well.

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Photographers at Play – Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC

Lara Eichhorn — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:33:14 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I got together with some photographer friends for some fun portraits in Beacon Hill Park. Jon Faulknor taught us all a bit about flashes. I’ve been using natural and available light for the past six years that I’ve been into photography and I’ve only recently started learning about using photographic lighting and flashes. I hope to become more proficient with flashes, but I still think natural light is more suited to my style. The first shot is with Jon’s flash setup. I believe the others are natural light, but Jon can be pretty sneaky with those flashes.

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