Posts Tagged ‘Portraits’

Toronto Band Promotional Portrait Photos | August 7, 2010 | Maybe Refuge

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

It’s interesting, my good friend Joey, known as Ni to some started this band Maybe Refuge and two of my other good friends Hiu and John also joined the band. As the band progressed in this music world, I’ve taken the honour to be shooting their first band promo shoot. This was taken in around Newmarket, in the east end. One of the hardest challenges of performing an on location photo shoot is the unstable sunlight. With the sun soaring at us and at times it staying behind clouds to give us some gorgeous light, every moment was a waiting game and the shoot took a lot longer than we expected. In the end, we have pulled through and got some amazing photos for the shoot. The actual photos will not be posted in this entry just so it’ll remain mysterious, but I assure you these photos will surface all over their myspace, facebook pages really soon.

Even though, I’m not posting those images, but here’s a few behind the scene photos. As you can tell, we had tons of fun.

John the guitarist from Maybe Refuge, having his glamour moments with my umbrella.

John the guitarist from Maybe Refuge, having his glamour moments with my umbrella.

Light test, with Joey the vocalist and John the guitarist of Maybe Refuge

Light test, with Joey the vocalist and John the guitarist and producer of Maybe Refuge

Hiu, bassist of Maybe Refuge showing his sexy side.

Hiu, bassist of Maybe Refuge showing his sexy side.

We also documented our shoot with some stop motion videos. Enjoy the video, song by Maybe Refuge.

20100807 Maybe Refuge band promo shoot video. from Chris Pun on Vimeo.

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

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

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

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

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.

Baby Portraits for Harratt | Dec 13, 2009

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Before I even start this post, I wish everyone had a great Christmas break and wishing everyone have a Happy New Year!

I’ve known Harratt’s parents half my life and they were probably the third couple I shot a bridal session for and a wedding session for. All those were done with my Nikon FE 9 yeas ago. Fast forward to Harratt, let me being to introduce him as my god son. Harratt was born in Scarborough General Hospital 2 years ago on Victoria’s day and I was the third person in the world to holding him after he was born. As much as I love taking photos, this session is really the only second time I took for him since the first day he was released from the hospital.

Two and a half years since that day, I can conclude that Harratt has grown quite some what, being very energetic, running all over the place all the time. When he is not moving, he is on “his” Apple iPhone 3GS playing games. The crazy thing is, he seems to know what he’s doing and I probably don’t!

This photo session was held in an empty apartment with all the room for him to run around. This was quite a challenging task as he never stood still for any photos. It really reminded of my wedding work when I’m running around to chase down moments, emotion and angles. This was quite an easy setup, one speedlite on a shoot through umbrella on the left and another speedlite bouncing off a silver reflector on the right. Of course, the reflector I had seemed to stir up some funny topic to be better off remained in the silence.

Here’s a few of my favourite images from this session

Photo session with an energetic kid

Natural High

Photo session with an energetic kid

Being Himself

Photo session with an energetic kid

Being Cute

Photo session with an energetic kid

Starting to get even more energetic

Photo session with an energetic kid

Playing with the balloon

Photo session with an energetic kid

Running into the kitchen

Photo session with an energetic kid

Playing with the iPhone

Photo session with an energetic kid

Concentrating playing games