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Toronto Time Lapse Video of a Portrait Production | June 19, 2010 | Hiu

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:16:33 +0000

Just for some fun, during Hiu’s photo shoot, I’ve set a camera on a tripod nearby and kept snapping away during the whole portrait session. Here’s the time lapse video for our entire shoot from setup to end.

20100619 Hiu’s Portrait Shoot in Time Lapse from Chris Pun on Vimeo.

Toronto Portrait Photos | June 19, 2010 | Hiu

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:16:30 +0000

Interestingly, last month when I had a day off, my good friend, Hiu from Maybe Refuge/Violet and Viruses and I drove all the way up on Kennedy Rd to its very northern end and decided to do a shoot there. Originally we were going to scout for places for our upcoming band promo shoot for one of his bands, Maybe Refuge but we decided that day is good for testing some shots out. Instead of doing having a mind set of “this is a test for a band shoot”, I decided to make it a little fun and try different things. Here we were, at the end of Kennedy, walking through trails and woods and decided it was not worth it to bring all the equipment in and get our fleshes bitten all over by mosquitoes, so we decided our shoot right on Kennedy Rd!

Here’s a few photos from out shoot.

Timelapse video of our shoot will be posted soon!

Toronto Engagement Fusion Slideshow | June 20, 2010 | Hannah and Albert

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:37:53 +0000

Here’s a fusion slideshow of Hannah and Albert’s engagement session at Richmond Hill, Ontario. Check out the photos here!

20100620 Hannah and Albert’s Fushion Engagement Slideshow from Chris Pun on Vimeo.

Toronto Engagement Fusion Slideshow | June 12, 2010 | Gigi and Mike

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:45:55 +0000

Here’s the engagement fushion slideshow for Gigi and Mike’s photo session.

20100612 Gigi and Mike’s Engagement Slideshow from Chris Pun on Vimeo.

One more month till the wedding, can’t wait!

Toronto Engagement Photos | June 20, 2010 | Hannah and Albert

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:10:27 +0000

It’s pretty amazing how people meet each other. Some people meet their friends through school, work, at a bar, or other sort of social events. Perhaps for me, it would be easier as I meet all sort of nice people, unique people, and especially fun couples through photography. I met Hannah and Albert last year and I’m sure glad I did. Last sunday afternoon, we had a pretty sunny engagement session. Originally we wanted to perform the engagement shoot in downtown Toronto. Yet again, because of the G20 summit, we had to change places at the last minute. Nonetheless, we walked thorough many streets and explored a totally new area around Yonge and Major Mackenzie, finding all sort of interesting places to take some photos, chill and chat for a bit. One of most peculiar places we came across was a park, named Ransom Park!

Here are a few of my favourite photos from the day.

From Ransom Park!

It’ll be three more months till the wedding day, but I’m already eager for that day to come faster!

Location: Richmond Hill, On

Toronto Engagement Photos | June 12, 2010 | Gigi and Mike

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:08:50 +0000

Last saturday, I had a very fun time photographing Gigi and Mike’s engagement session. We all had a good time laughing throughout the shoot, sometimes none of us can stop giggling. Previously, Gigi and Mike did a bridal session so we wanted to do something a little different, something romantic but more edgy and modern at the same time and the play with more multiple exposures. Originally we wanted to perform the engagement shoot in the downtown Toronto area but that plan back fired when most of the area were pretty much barricaded. Nonetheless, we made some last minute changes to the location and wounded up in some really nice but weird areas in Markham. Namely, the back of First Markham Place and another street nearby.

Special thanks to my assistant, Billy for helping me throughout the night with lighting and setup.Here are a few of my favourites from the night.

More photos from my facebook page!

Very much looking forward to shooting their wedding in August! Their fusion slideshow will be posted soon!

Location: Back of First Markham Place
Location: Markham

Toronto Engagement Fusion Slideshow | June 5, 2010 | Kay and Wayne

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:17:21 +0000

2 weeks ago, we had beautiful weather and a lovely couple. As a result, I had a great time shooting some beautiful engagement photos for Kay and Wayne as seen from a previous post. Here’s a fusion slideshow with more photos and video clips from our photo session.

Location: Kensington Market
Location: Willow Creek Park

Toronto War game/airsoft time lapse video | June 5, 2010 | Benny and Cedric

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:38:02 +0000

Here’s a quick video of our photoshoot last week of Benny and Cedric in air soft outfit. The time lapse video was captured on my old Canon 5D at 15sec per shot from pretty much setup to tear down.

20100605 Benny and Cedric’s photo shoot in timelapse. from Chris Pun on Vimeo.

Click into Vimeo to watch the HD version.

Toronto War game themed Photos | June 5, 2010 | Benny and Cedric

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:16:38 +0000

It’s not often that I have a chance to take different photos, and on June 5th, I had the chance to do that. After a morning engagement session, we started shooting the war game themed photos at night. Big thanks to Henry for assisting with the shoot and big thanks to Hi Tech to lend out their garage for this photo shoot. Benny has been obsessed with his new found love, war game and he went out and bought a lot of gear for the game. Instead of just using it for the game, we decided to do some army, war game themed based photo session for the equipment.

Here are some of my favourite photos from the day.

To see the entire set of photos, visit here

Toronto Engagement Photos | June 5, 2010 | Kay & Wayne

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:18:12 +0000

Last week, we’ve been checking the weather forecast every single day as they kept saying it was going to pour during our engagement shoot. As it turned out, it poured on friday night and we were blessed with some sunny weather during the our photo session. I had a great time meeting Kay and Wayne again and along the way, we chatted, had lunch and took some really nice photographs!

Here are a couple of them from the day.

Very much looking forward to documenting the wedding day in September!

Location: Kensington Market
Location: Willow Creek Park