02/18/10 by Michael Lee | Portrait Photography | Comments Off
Two weeks ago a friend of mine, Sam, asked if I could photograph a model for her and a friend who plan to get into make-up and nails. I said sure, no problem! And then she said it was the next evening! 
. Monday nights are for 24 and Heroes, lol. So after work I packed my gear together and headed down to her Richmond apartment with my buddy Wes. I was pretty tired already after work but that didn’t matter. They took a bit longer getting the model ready than we expected. It was suppose to be an in and out type thing but turned out to be a lot later. Thus I didn’t get as much time to shoot as I would’ve liked. I think we shot these off in 20 minutes all in one small room. The apartment complex had an clubhouse I really wanted to try but it was getting too late and we had work the next day and the model had class. We’ll have to try her clubhouse next time!
01/05/10 by Michael Lee | Portrait Photography | Comments Off
Alysha and her family has been good family friends for a long time. I remember when she and her brother were just lil tykes. She’ll be going out of province for her first university co-op experience and her mom wanted some portraits in Vancouver of the family. I gave her a call a week before she was about to leave and suggested that in addition to family portraits we do a set of photos in Yaletown and Gastown of just her. I had just about two hours to photograph Alysha including all the traveling. We spent about 30-40 mins just outside Urban Fare in Yaletown photographing the outdoor portraits. After freezing our butts off (ok it wasn’t that cold) I promised her we’d warm up inside and take a set indoors. We headed over to the new Woodwards apartment in Gastown where we spent the remainder of the time taking indoor shots. We produced a great set of photos given the time I had.
A word of advice for aspiring photographers, a good portrait photographer should be able to shoot in any location whether it be inside in a nice studio or out in the back alley.
12/08/09 by Michael Lee | Personal | Comments Off
I was shooting for Three Sixty Photography two weeks ago and shot this quick portrait of Leena, the bride of the day.
12/06/09 by Michael Lee | Portrait Photography | Comments Off
I had the opportunity last week to photograph some outdoor family photos as well as indoor pictures of the Szeto family. We had originally planned to shoot during the morning but that didn’t pan out so we ended up shooting in the evening. It was pretty chilly outside (Vancouver in December = cold) so we decided to shoot the outdoor photos in the backyard. Their backyard is great for family and children photography. You can achieve different scenes with the different areas in the yard; outdoor forest look, vacation patio, beautiful brick staircase, separated lawn areas and a backyard bbq. For the indoor photos I had them sit on the family couch. In most cases the photos were shot with a two light setup and in some cases just one.
12/02/09 by Michael Lee | Architecture | Comments Off
I had the opportunity this past weekend to photograph an interior of a home in West Vancouver. The color of the wall is how I remember it, it was a bit of an off white and the mouldings were more true to white.
12/01/09 by Michael Lee | Portrait Photography | Comments Off
Continuing where I left off with that impromptu session with Seungyon. These were shot in the district of Wudaokou in Beijing, China in an apartment complex. In the middle of the apartment complex, four towers surrounding a small terrace, we found an inviting park where children and seniors play and pass time. The day was overcast so it was perfect for these naturally lit photos. These are some of my favorite individual pictures from my time in China.
11/22/09 by Michael Lee | Reviews | Comments Off
Just wrote my own review of the Lezyne L Caddy seat bag. Check it out: Lezyne L Caddy seat bag review
11/21/09 by Michael Lee | Portrait Photography | Comments Off
Shot these impromptu photos of a friend while at a birthday party in Wudaokou district of Beijing, China. My friend had stepped out to take a breather and myself as well. Shot off a few in front of her while she wasn’t looking then she caught on and started to ham it up. Wasn’t hard to figure out that she liked being in front of the camera so we did another mini shoot which I’ll post pics of later.
This district is where Tsinghua University, Beijing University and Beijing Cultural and Language University are located. In addition to the local Chinese there are also many foreigners from abroad in this district; finding a cozy cafe or bar where locals speak English isn’t hard (if you can find these precious “hole-in-the-walls”). Often times students will hangout or study at them, nothing different from other countries. In fact, some of the cafes had the ambiance of ones I’ve visited in London and France. The subway stop is “Wudaokou”. When you get out of the stop you’ll be at the main intersection of the district. On the north west corner there’s a pizza hut as well as a nice bakery/cafe called “Tour Les Jours”. If you walk to the south west corner and continue south past the bookstore, you’ll find two cafes on the 2nd and 3rd floors of two buildings. These two cafe are common hangouts for students and foreigners.
11/18/09 by Michael Lee | Architecture | Comments Off
The 2010 Richmond Olympic Oval has been opened now for over a year. I always pass it going home and I’ve wanted to photograph it at sunset but never made it back out there to do it. I had to wait till the brink of winter to do it, lol. Well finally here it is as seen during a winter evening. Photographed this on the No. 2 bridge in Richmond BC. The photo is HDR and is comprised of three layers.
Wallpaper size 1920×1280: Richmond Olympic Oval
