Ashleigh and Kyle

A friend of mine is about to compete in her first fitness competition and she asked if I could take a few photos of her and her boyfriend.  The two are 3 days out from comp and look fantastic!!! Good luck guys!!

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Battle of the bands

Last week I shot pictures at a "Battle of the bands" concert.  It was actually really hard because I couldn't use a flash.  For some reason they felt the need to use an incredible amount of fog from the fog machines and every time i would try to use a flash I would get a picture of a grey cloud.  I had to shoot the concert with no flash, just using the light provided by the "disco lights" that were flashing and spinning around.  My pictures came out really noisy, but I actually don't mind the effect.

Dear 16 year old me..

A couple of weeks ago I posted a video on my facebook page called "Dear 16 year old me".  Yesterday I received a message from a friend of mine regarding the video that made me feel really good.  I won't say my buddy's name or anything, but I thought I'd share this.  

Hey bro, how ya been? Anyways just wanted to say thanks! And not for your photography this time, I watched that commercial about melanoma you put up and it made me get a mole checked, and they removed it today. I don't think I would have done it without seeing that, so thanks, it really hit home. See ya Saturday bro!

Here's the video

Call of Photography: Black Ops

HAHAHA Oh man.. I was going to leave this blog strictly original work, but I had to throw this into the mix.  In some ways it feels like photography is so competitive.  It feels like a cut throat business.. especially with doing photos in the club scene.  There are so many photographers willing to do the job but only so many jobs to do.  With that being said, this video really does a great job of making light of the subject.  Sometimes it feels like "we at war bitches!!" hehe.. good thing the crew I roll with's LEGIT!! haha.. playin!! :P

Mr Spads

Just dinking around having some fun playing with the new strobes.  Tonight I shot DJ Spads just for shits and giggles.  We had some fun playing around with props and some old DJ gear of mine!!!

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Ridha and La-Thea

So like I said in the previous post I've been doing a lot of studio shots.  I've recently aquired a set of studio strobes from my good friend Gustavo Gimenez and wanted to test them out, so I asked these lovely ladies if they would like to pose for me.  Here are a few shots I did with them.
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DJ Bent

Over the past few months it wasn't really too much fun to try to take photos outside.  I went with Steve Haining to do a photo shoot in 2 feet of snow at an outdoor fire pit.  Another shoot (Epic Shoot) on a rooftop in Toronto.  When it's winter in southern Ontario, models with short dresses don't like to do outdoor shoots.  So I've been doing quite a few studio shoots.  One of my more recent shoots was for a DJ friend of mine.  He goes by Kid Ransom, but I think I'll forever refer to him as DJ Bent.

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Post Number 1

Why start a blog? I don't know.  I suppose it may be to document my progress and growth as a photographer.  It might be a way to show and display current photos I've done.  It might even be just a way to express myself and vent.  Whatever the reason may be, this blog is now officially on the internet.

Honestly I kind of think It might be a little late.  I probably should have started this blog months ago.  I am in no way shape or form a professional photographer; However, There has been lots of progress on my end as far as photography is concerned, mainly due to 2 photographers specifically.  Steve Haining and Gustavo Gimenez have been a huge influence on me as a photographer over the past 10 months.

These two have helped me to learn different lighting techniques as well as post editing techniques.  Steve has brought me along many different photo shoots from having fun taking a picture of my motorcycle to shooting Protest the Hero for universal.  Gus has sat with me talking about photography up to some pretty crazy hours and helped me edit photos.  I'd like to thank these 2 for their positive influence on me.

These are but a few of the photos from the past 10 months of photography

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For more photos feel free to look up my facebook page "Pix by Rix Anthony"