City girl

Hey dudes!!

So Easter weekend eh? Finally I have some kind of break from school for a bit... But then again... Not so much!
Actually I really don't have a break considering I have to study for a big exam for wednesday morning, I have a bunch of pictures due on wednesday and that I need to create a new concept for spring fashion!

But in between the deadlines and stress etc etc I feel somewhat excited and I feel like yelling '' BRING IT ON!''. I think when you find a real passion like for example photography you never want it to stop, even if it brings you to some kind of anxiety! Hahaha, okay well if it brings you there I think you need to sit down with someone and talk but as you already know me I was speaking (or writing I should say) metaphorically!

I did make it down to Toronto for Easter weekend tho! Nothing beats spending time with family, although I'm leaving tomorrow already....
I might of mentioned my grandma is like a chef(well she really isin't a LEGIT chef but she could be and I don't know why she isin't) well she already has been stuffing me with amazing foods like penne pasta, with loads of parmesan and banana cake etc.... Now I woke up this morning and she told me she's going to be making an Easter dinner including a huge grain chicken, with stuffing, gravy potatoes etc etc etc!

I should probably go for a run, just re reading that last paragraph scared me a little in coming home with an extra 10 pounds...
Or I could just be mentally prepared to be coming home fatter than before and THEN start working out.
Spring is around the corner which means summer is near and I need to get into my beach body soon! As celebrities would say!

Anyways, yesterday I flew down to Toronto and it was so nice out! (I might of chosen the wrong shoe selection considering I was in black platform booties but hey I looked good so I shouldn't complain!) My father and I walked down to the pier and sat there enjoying the warm weather, watching people, relaxing as time goes by until we decided it was time to leave and head over to my grandmothers for dinner. I managed to take my camera out and fiddle with it, and took some interesting shots of Toronto. I find this city so interesting and I'm magically lovestruck by it. The sky scrapers, the people, the atmosphere, Toronto is truly NY little baby, and it will forever be a part of me. I'm a true city girl when it comes to big cities like this! There's something about it that just grabs me and drifts me a part from gravity, and to be quite honest it's hard to understand.

I highly suggest you go visit Toronto if you have not already been, and these pictures below are some city pictures I took yesterday.

Now I better go now I need to get ready for my first spring shoot! Enjoy,

Models and Fashion

Hey dudes!

So another week just started woot woot! I'm just thinking about easter to be quite honest, chocolate, yes lots and lots of chocolate.
I should really be cutting back on it but how?! I just can't help myself, especially when my dad just gave me a pound of chocolate over the weekend. 

And no I didn't eat the whole thing already but... It's practically almost finished so.
So yeah, while I was sick, (I'm feeling a lot better, actually I can drive now which is GREAT) I was dead bored and watched a ton of shows and movies thanks to Netflix and my dear old mac!
And one of those many movies I have watched was a documentary about the life of models. And that documentary gave me the shivers! 

People don't realize that modelling is incredibly hard. Most people just think ''Oh they're too skinny and they get paid too much for what they do etc etc.'' But honestly.... Go watch that documentary and come back to that thought.
Girls from all over the world from foreign countries get enrolled into modelling to make money and make a living, and most of those girls are from poor countries, or poor families who just want to find a way to support themselves. They get into it a a very young age(by far 14 is way too young, you're still a child and you need to live a child's life and be happy and care free.... Not work) That's why they look so skinny, because they don't have their curves yet. They travel, and non stop have shoots and shows to do, and hardly get breaks. It's a really hard job, you don't realize how hard it can be. Most designers or photographers won't even see them as true people. They see them as accessories and use, use and use them.

Thankfully this is changing slowly with time, many designers now are starting to realize the true meaning of models and how they should be treated. Which is a good thing, though this documentary made me realize how unfair the real fashion world can become.
The fashion world is a vicious circle, where being behind the camera is actually more glamorous and better than being on front. 
This documentary made me realize also how when I become a fashion photographer that I will treat my models like gold, because after all they are the fruit to the whole package.

Fashion is probably the hardest thing to get into, to make of a career! You pick a path but any path could lead to failure.
To be able to have a good life in the fashion industry and to be successful, you must believe in yourself and keep pushing yourself to the limit. You must create a name, and do all your mistakes at the beginning before getting contracts because after a couple of contract mistakes you're out.

To me fashion is thrilling, it gives me butterflies in my stomach because of how intense and hard it is. Being subscribed to Vogue is probably the best thing I've ever done because it cultivates my fashion senses and helps me get inspired with photography concepts.

One of the hardest things I find is to keep track of everything. Twitter, magazines, Facebook, Websites, Tumblr, Pinterest AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON! Sometimes I don't get the time to check my twitter and once I do it takes me an hour to read everything and then there's more and then I totally feel behind. 

So when that happens I just eat chocolate in bed and sleep.

LAZY. Haha no but seriously!

Anyways I feel as if I'm babbling a little too much about fashion on this blog, I'm sorry I'm in the middle of finalizing my first photo fashion project which I'm presenting tomorrow and since a week ago I've been filling my head with fashion to be able to have lots to say for tomorrow! 
But here is the shoot of my 50s shoot which is my last shoot for my project hope you enjoy it :)

Dead of boredom

OH MY GOD I'M SORRY I'M NOT STARTING OFF MY BLOG WITH ''HEY DUDES'' OR WHATEVER AND THAT I'M STARTING IT OFF IN CAPS LIKE THIS BUT OH MY GOD PLEASE CURE MY HEAD BECAUSE I'M SICK OF BEING STUCK AT HOME IN PAIN ALONE DOING NOTHING BUT SLEEP AND EAT AND BE BORED OUT OF MY MIND!

Seriously it has been DAY 9 today that I have been experiencing drastic pain in my head and that I have been jumping to clinics, hospitals, scanners, disgusting liquid crap, morphine pills etc etc.

Now I'm just tired and I want it to be over with and to get back to normal and jump around in puddles, take pictures, go hike, go ride, go work, go to school.

But no. Again I have just woke up from a nightmare and realizing I'm still sick chilling here in captivity in my apartment listening to my neighbours TV which is super loud across the other room.

BUT, I was a little more productive today because my father came down yesterday to take care of me and today we actually left the house and tried going to the mall to only last what about half an hour because I was starting to get a huge headache again.

BUT, I managed to get a speaker for my music, laptop etc. which is pretty cool considering I will finally have music on and not hear the old guys TV from across from me!

Hourray for that seriously, Alex 01- Old guy-00 !! 

Now In my head right now I can picture myself in a super cute cheerleading outfit jumping up in down in awesomeness knowing I will have some kind of sound in my apartment and not hear that TV!

And it literally plays from 6am to like 2am... Every single day. 

Now honestly you must find this quite boring, but honestly I have nothing really much to say! I've been locked up and surviving my pain basically....

I sound so intense when I say that but seriously this sucks I'm so bored.. If I could I would go to a pet store and buy a fish and play with it.

But thought to self that at least my father is there... So it's a little less boring and knowing there's a human being in the house with me seems a little more comforting. 

But still.

Other than that I had a shoot last week before I got terribly sick! Yes dudes! My 80s shoot! Which are the pictures I just posted underneath here and hopefully you enjoy. 

Also I will be having another shoot tomorrow! 

YES TOMORROW AND I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT. 

I have to, it's for my project deadline on the vintage fashion project so I really have to do it but yeah.... This will be interesting and definitely worth blogging about after hahahaha!

Wish me luck, no but seriously I can't wait cause I miss playing with my camera and tomorrow's shoot is one of my concepts I've been really dying to do it has been written in my concept book for a while now!

Anyways, I will let you go now, it's time for me to go back to bed for a bit, feeling kind of sick so, but hey enjoy these pictures and hopefully I will be back on my feet soon! 

Being sick won't stop me!

Hey dudes!

So wow seriously, after checking up on my last page views and seeing how over 100 people read the last blog I wrote I'm kind of happy! 
Like.... I'm popular, yeah I'm a cool cat a matter in fact!

I never got over 70 reads on each blog and now this! Huge and I just wanted to thank everyone for supporting me and reading my blogs, sharing them and helping me on my way to my future dream career!
Now I hope you guys had a great week, I felt like this week took forever and not to mention I was sick all week! And it wasn't your average cold sickness, it was like the huge package of fainting in metros, barely eating because every time I ate I got sick, head spinning, feeling all week I could barely take my clothes off at the end of the night...
And the list clearly goes on and on so on my part I really didn't do anything exciting... Although yesterday it was nice out, my class and I decided to go outside practice our composition and our aperture which was a nice sunny moment in my week until I got back into college and started feeling all dizzy and gross again.

Last night I got home at 6 and fell right asleep and here I am this morning! Okay well, I still feel kind of sick, I tried eating a bowl of cereal but it didn't go too well but with this beautiful sunny ''spring is almost here'' weather I feel somewhat less sick than I was all week!
It's like I want to go outside with my camera and go shoot a bunch of random things just because of the sun hahahahaha! Yet I have a photoshoot today I'm quite excited to go take my camera out and shoot!

Today's shoot is part of my vintage project. 
RECAPITULATION: I'm recreating the old style of fashion back in the days. (Okay well not all the years because that would take just way too long and I have a deadline for March 20th, but you know what I mean!) And today it's the 70s and 80s shoot! I mixed the looks together because I won't have time to include them both in and let's just say I'm quite excited to see the results already!
And then tomorrow I have my 30s shoot and let's just say that shoot will be very sophisticated as you might ask!

Note to the world:
I find the word ''sophisticated'' is very charming and I love to use it whenever I can. You should perhaps spend a day trying to compose sentences with that beautiful word and see how amazing and sophisticated you will feel.

So part of feeling gross, I'm super excited to shoot and hopefully tomorrow will be as sunny as today! Spring is coming, time to start shopping for spring musts, think about what flowers to plant outside in our little gardens and get ready to wear pastels!

And photography wise I'm quite excited! I'm planning on photographing a spring fashion shoot and I have a couple of concepts in mind and let's just say they are amazing!

Now I must leave and get ready because my model will arrive soon and I'm still in bed chilling!
Have a great weekend everyone! xxxxxxx

When Artists Collied

Hey guys!!

Hope you all had a good weekend! I had a very busy one myself!
Friday after college I raced down to the airport to grab a flight to Toronto for a fashion shoot on the Saturday morning and also to visit my dear grandma I love so much.

Then Sunday morning I woke up super early to take another flight back home to Montreal!
And then Sunday I stayed in pjs, Netflixed with my Boyfriend, made a fort in my living room and ordered Chinese takeout and went to bed early.

So as you might of suspected my weekend ROCKED! 
And now let the week restart and go back to our normal lives eager to wait what's going to happen for the following weekend! 
On my part I hope finishing my photography project I'm creating right now if only I get some models to actually want to shoot! It's so hard sometimes to find good reliable models so hopefully luck lucks out with me and I get to finish it this weekend!

So now I just wanted to get back to the photoshoot I had on Saturday. It was by far probably one of my best photoshoots I have ever done in my whole life. Why?! Because first of all with all the new knowledge I have over photography I'm getting a lot more new technic in, and the models were amazing! Also the concept I wanted worked out perfectly and I was so happy of the results.
I find in a successful shoot, you have to be on time, everything organized, good models and a good crew. I had all that saturday it was amazing! The couple who were modelling were amazing and had a super sophisticated yet punchy charm which made the photos look alive and more appealing. 

The whole concept was to reproduce the 60s by doing a little fashion twist to it looking back to the old 60s fashion trends. Because I had a couple, I could of focused and give the female fashion trends as much as the male fashion trends which is so much more interesting on my part I find.

After the shoot we headed back to the models house and had some good coffee considering it was FREEZING. And seriously, I thought Montreal always had the coldest weather... Hey I gotta say Toronto was pretty much right equal to Montreal that day! 
I met her mother which was a charming and unforgettable moment. She loves to paint and showed me all her paintings and how she loved art etc. I saw her beautiful aura right there and then as we talked and she told me the beautiful story of how she met the love of her life, her husband.

I was amazed and yet intrigued. It's amazing how artists communicate through words but with such emotion. We understood each other and it was just an amazing chemistry of two artists talking about the world of things sitting there sipping coffee and enjoying the after shoot we just experienced.

It did enlightened my weekend and even my life, I even told them to come back to Montreal sometime to come visit, hopefully they do!

Now I must leave now and get ready for work but hopefully you guys all have a fantastic week and I will reach back to you soon!

Enjoy,