Vancouver Charity Event Photography

Last week BMO held a small charity event in their office downtown and needed a photographer to take some photos of the event. There were a few cheque presentations and handing out of gifts to the various charities that BMO supports in the local Vancouver area. Everyone in attendance was pleasant and friendly and they did a great job of setting up the space.

For the below photos I was shooting with my flash attached for the portrait shots. The cheque presentations were shot with an off camera flash just right behind me. Advantages of using the off camera flash:

• Gives me consistent flash exposure. Shooting with an on camera flash would give you varying exposures unless you shoot in manual.
• No time wasted going from shooting portraits to the cheque presentations. I won’t be the reason why the event is held up.
• Allows me to simply point, focus, and shoot. No worrying if the photo was under or overexposed
• Only had to re-shoot a photo once because of a blinker
• No post processing needed for these shots. Quicker editing time.

The poster behind them and above their heads wasn’t my idea. I like the backgrounds as clean as possible but they wanted to make sure a person looking at the photo would know it was a BMO event.