http://ryancouldrey.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Charlie Winston is on Radio 2 Drive tomorrow, July 29, at 3:30pm, and he'll be chatting about his new work as well as host Rich Terfry's obsession with Audrey Tatou; Audrey is in Charlie's music video I Love Your Smile, and he gets to make out with her. [caption id="attachment_72328768" align="alignnone" ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/07/2-for-1-charlie-winston/ Jason Ball of Hopeful Monster is often in the CBC Toronto building, and the last time he was in I got a few minutes with him for a fun little shoot. A simple, if not cliché, idea of putting Hopeful Monster in a closet. It was fun, and Jason was ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/07/hopeful-monster-in-the-closet/ Eli Glasner is hosting a short-term summer show on CBC Radio One called The Projector. We needed some host photos, and aside from the mandatory "shot on white for easy cutting and pasting" shot, I suggested we make use of the Graham Spry theater in the CBC Toronto Atrium. This ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/07/host-of-the-projector/ Jason Boychuk is one of our developer extraordinaires in Radio Digital. He's been working on some new site templates, as big media companies will often be doing, and needed a placeholder image for host areas in the template. We found a white wall, I set up a an umbrella and ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/07/jason-host-of-the-placeholder/ Click any image to enlarge it Guin and I took her kite board out for a ride in downtown Toronto yesterday. She wanted some shots she could use for conferences, social media, and general fun stuff. She also didn't want the shots to be too drab or dull and to reflect ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/06/the-business-of-kite-boarding/ Click to enlarge Eleanor Wachtel, host of CBC Radio One's Writers & Company, is a special guest on this weekend's edition of Radio One's GO. She'll be talking about her secret love of glam rock, and an idea was pitched to redo David Bowie's Alladdin Sane album cover with Eleanor in place ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/06/eleanor-wachtel-channels-bowie/ Another Book Club shoot with the site's lovely host, Hannah, in downtown Toronto (note the CN Tower in the RBC Building's glass being reflected, heh). This was shot in bright, diffused sunlight (I believe a cloud was over it at that moment, by the look of the shot) at iso ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/06/summer-reading/ Click any of the shots to enlarge... I recently assisted Hamish Grant with a wedding shoot for his friends Ben and Sydney in downtown Toronto. As the assist, my job for this wedding was to cover the groom before the ceremony and to cover other angles that Hamish wasn't covering once ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/06/ben-and-sydneys-wedding/ [caption id="attachment_72328447" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Click to Enlarge"][/caption] Simple stuff: SB600 in a shoot through (camera left for the left shot, camera right for the right shot) plus another one bouncing off the ceiling for some fill from the opposite side (on both). I asked him to levitate the ball in the ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/06/author-and-columnist-john-doyle/ Click to enlarge... The Sadies hit Radio 2 Drive tomorrow at 3:30pm with new songs from a new album. Hard rock with a lot of twang to it, great stuff. I cross lit them with SB600s on either side. These were at ISO 640 at around f/5.6, 1/200 shutter to cut ... http://ryancouldrey.com/2010/06/the-sadies-on-r2-drive/