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June
12, 2010
The trip home: Flying over Manitoba from Thompson to Winnipeg is a really neat
experience as there are thousands of lakes. You can't go 50 meters without a
lake!
Here
is
a
GPS
tagged
map
of
the
flight
home.
I
took
photos
using
my Nikon
GP-1 about every 5-10 minutes:
June 12, 2010
Day 4 of a 4 day commercial photo shoot for the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (all
types of photography from corporate portraits, group shots, architectural photos,
etc)
I had a final short shoot this morning for the Mystery Lake Hotel in Thompson
which is owned by the NCN and then I got lucky to have enough time to get up
to Pisew Falls one last time before returning my huge rental truck and heading
home.
June 11, 2010
Day 3 of a 4 day commercial photo shoot for the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (all
types of photography from corporate portraits, group shots, architectural photos,
etc)
Today I continued the mass of photos of just about the whole town, luckily after
I was done for the day I was able to get somewhere I've wanted to for almost
5 years now: Pisew Falls, Manitoba. The second highest falls in Manitoba.
June 10, 2010
Day 2 of a 4 day commercial photo shoot for the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (all
types of photography from corporate portraits, group shots, architectural photos,
etc)
Thompson is a great place! In Winnipeg we say that you're never more than 20
minutes away from anything, and in Thompson it's a bit the same, but even at
rush hour, you're still never more than 5 minutes away from anything! The people
are also really nice and all the businesses are conveniently close together,
you don't even need a map!
However, the hour long drive from Thompson to Nelson House is nothing less than
painful! The roads have sunk and deteriorated due to the muskeg and what's left
is nothing but gravel to "repair" them.
June
9, 2010
Day 1 of a 4 day commercial photo shoot for the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (all
types of photography from corporate portraits, group shots, architectural photos,
etc)
I arrived in Thompson this morning at 9am after my really nice 2 hour flight
on Calm Air. Which I had to be up at 4am for...which is the time I normally am
going to bed). I immediately picked up the rental vehicle that the marketing
agency had rented for me. Because of the very poor road conditions I had no choice
but to have a truck and the rental company ended up giving me a Dodge Ram 2500
Heavy Duty. For those of you who don't know this truck well, it's one of THE
biggest vehicles and me being an averaged sized guy had to take a running start
in order to jump up into it!
I arrived so early in Thompson that my hotel room wasn't ready yet so I headed
straight off to meet my contact in Nelson House. The rest of the day I spent
shooting many of the locals and local businesses.
June
9-12, 2010
Today I leave for a 4 day commercial shoot in Nelson House where I'll be taking
photos of just about everything from the town itself to the RCMP officers, local
businesses, doing dozens of business portraits. All of this is for the Nisichawayasihk
Cree Nation, AKA the NCN, a community of 2400 local members and an additional
2000 members abroad. These photos will be used in annual reports, brochures and
the band's web site.
During that time I'll be staying in Thompson which is a one hour commute over
some pretty rugged roads.
June
8, 2010
Day 3 of 3: Event photography: CCHSE (Canadian College of Health Service Executives)
June 7, 2010
Day 2 of 3: Event photography: CCHSE (Canadian College of Health Service Executives)
June 6-8, 2010
Event photography: Today is day one of a three day national AGM & gala events
for the CCHSE (Canadian College of Health Service Executives)
I shoot a lot of big national events but this one was a HUGE conglomerate of
expensive tie wearing people who's job it is to keep Canada healthy. It's often
almost daunting to shoot these events because of just how important many of the
people are to not only their field, but also to Canada itself.
June 5, 2010
Live band photography: Rain: A tribute to the Beatles
June 3, 2010
I had 17 minutes free today which gave me time to make this really fun review
of the Gigapan Epic 100, a really neat product for taking super high res panoramic
images!
Read the full review here
June 2, 2010
Today I got confirmation for a very cool three day shoot in Northern Manitoba
for one of Manitoba's First Nations: The Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation. More details
to come.
I thoroughly enjoy traveling for photography and have only started to get the
opportunities to do so over the last couple of years.
June 1, 2010
I recently found another one of my shots is being used for billboards: The following
was from a big shoot for Yellowquill College several months ago and has already
been used in just about every type of marketing material (brochures, posters
etc.)
but
it has
just
surfaced anew in billboard format all over the city.
May 31,
2010
Live band photography: Bachman & Turner concert
May 30, 2010
Live band photography: Bachman & Turner rehearsal
I was very lucky to again get a call to shoot the B&T concert and rehearsal
photos after I did their promos a few months ago. It's a true honor to be a part
of history both local and international as who knows, my photos may turn up in
a book 25 years from now like they do about rock from the 70s!
May
28, 2010
Photographie d'événement pour le CDEM (Conseil de développement économique
des municipalités bilingues du Manitoba): Gala des Pionniers de l'Entrepreneuship
Francophone
May
28, 2010
Today I assisted Tony on another shoot. It's always fun to work with other photographers
when you can help out!
May
28, 2010
Commercial photography for the Jewish Foundation of Winnipeg
May 27, 2010
Commercial out of town photo shoot for the YMCA of Winnipeg
May 27, 2010
Staff portraits and commercial advertising portraits for Hooters (Which can be
seen
in
the
Winnipeg
Free Press On7 edition every Sunday)
May 26, 2010
No time to BLOG
I've had literally NO e-mails over the past few weeks asking if I had died and
gone to hang out with Henry, Ansel and Mikey as I haven't made a BLOG entry for
over 21 days. (Ok, maybe there where a few e-mails, mostly from my mom.)
No, the stories of my demise are quite overblown. I've just been to busy to BLOG
lately and have been doing some REALLY cool stuff, unfortunately I'm too busy
to even talk about it now but you can be sure I'll be BLOGGING about it soon!
Soon as I get time that is...
May 26, 2010
Event photography: Travel Manitoba Tourism Awards 2010
I've shot the TMTA (not to be confused with TMNT) for three years now and ever
year it's really exciting to see people doing such interesting and innovative
things in their field get recognized!
May 24, 2010
Two of my clients have joined together and I'm lucky enough to be shooting for
both of them: Both Hooters and Lone Star Harley-Davidson have joined together
on some events and needed photos for a commercial poster
May 23, 2010
Tonight I shot the fireworks for the Asian festival at the Forks with my photo
club
May 23, 2010
Today and at night I shot some stock photography of the CMHR (Canadian Museum
for Human Rights)
May 23, 2010
Large commercial photo shoot for Johnson Waste Management cancelled due to rain
(rescheduling
already in progress)
May 21, 2010
Tonight I once again delved into my passion for low light work and shot fireworks
over downtown
May 20, 2010
Event photography for Creswin Properties Inc.: Groundbreaking event for the new
Blue Bombers stadium @ the U of M
May 20, 2010
Gigapan & large format photos from Canwest Place
May 20, 2010
Sports photography: Goldeyes baseball
Over the past three years through several of my contacts including Destination
Winnipeg I've been able to get a season media pass for the Goldeyes and this
year I was lucky enough to get it under
my own name!
May 19, 2010
Today I tested the Gigapan I have been given on loan as well as doing some infrared
photography
of
the
St
Boniface
area.
May 18, 2010
Today I tested the Gigapan I have been given on loan but it wasn't a good day
for gigapanning as the clouds where causing major issues with having to take
hundreds of photos in a row uninterrupted.
May 17, 2010
Live band/concert photography: Daughtry
May 15, 2010
Commercial event photography for the Red River Exhibition Association
May 13, 2010
Commercial group portrait for The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba
May 12, 2010
Maternity photos: Dan & Dominique
May 12, 2010
Commercial advertising portraits for Parks Canada
May 10, 2010
Commercial event photography: Rendez-vous Canada for Travel Manitoba
May 8, 2010
Event photography: Manitoba Airsoft Association open house
I only took a few shots as I was playing throughout the day. It's not exactly
safe to bring your camera into the middle of an airsoft firefight so I use a
camera
that's a backup to my backup's backup....if that makes any sense.
May 7, 2010
Commercial event photography: Rendez-vous Canada for Travel Manitoba
May 6, 2010
Sports photography: Stars on Ice
May 4, 2010
Corporate portrait: Photo of Harrow Partners (law firm) president: Dave H for
the JFM
May 3, 2010
Winnipeg Photo Community: Monthly meeting
Tonight I hosted another of my WPC meetings. LOTS of new faces as well as all
the regulars!
I was mainly out to test the Gigapan but the sky was so nice for the first time
in a few days of rain I had to get this one shot:
For anyone who wants a desktop sized version of it, just click it!
My ESP is kicking in...you feel this photo has...nice colours. HA!
The super special secret behind this photo: I took it through my sunglasses!
Over the last four or five years I intentionally wear overly dark sunglasses
at specific times of the day to be able to see the sky in the way I want to.
This
way I can correspond it to what I want to see in camera.
May 2, 2010
I have been given the privilege of being one of the first people in Canada to
beta test the new GigaPan. A very interesting little....well, it's basically
a robot. Here's what it does: it's an automated machine which takes extremely
high res photos, how high res? In the gigapixels. One gigapixel is one billion
pixels...that's right...one billion! (Cue Dr. Evil laugh)
More on this later as I test it more!
April 30, 2010
Corporate portraits for CBC-Radio Canada
April 30, 2010
 
Live band/concert photography: Our Lady Peace
April 30, 2010
Organizational meeting: Travel Manitoba for Rendezvous Canada
April 29, 2010
Event photography: Power97 Stupid money $10000 give away!
April 28, 2010
Today I sold two new super high res images to Creswin Properties for their new
project: "The Elms" which is slated to be a high end shopping facility
near Polo
Park.
Over the last two years I've noticed a serious tendency with clients requesting super
high res images (in the 120-400 megapixel range) and I'm happy that I've
since started to re shoot and catalogue my images in super high res from both
my high res digital camera (24 megapixels) and also with my ridiculously large
format film camera
(800
megapixel
scans).
April 28, 2010
Event photography: The YMCA/YWCA Women of Distinction Awards
April 27, 2010
Today I saw two new photos of mine that I shot for CBC Radio-Canada about 4-5
months ago REALLY big on the side of the CBC building. It's always great to see
my work
in use, especially at that size!
Be sure to honk at my photos as you go by...it may confuse everyone around you
but it will make them feel good! HAHAHAH!
Here they are (corner of Portage and St. Mary Ave.)
April
26, 2010
 
Concert photography: Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper
VERY fun concert to shoot with amazingly bright lighting!
I also got to shoot some meet & greet photos prior to the concert and all
I can say is that both Alice and Rob are great guys! It's like hanging out with
your
buddies!
April 25, 2010
As part of my plan to maintain a healthier and broader lifestyle (in other words
to make sure photography doesn't take over my life completely) today I played
my second outdoor airsoft skirmish. And yes, I had a camera there. These large
events
are way too few and far between to forget your camera at home!
Unfortunately crouching in the bush in the summer has a downside: Manitoba ticks!
That's right, our old nemesis the tick is back and people where picking them
off left and right. My personal tick count was only 2, but there where several
people who where flicking them off by the handful.
HUGE thanks to the organizers from Wolfpack as well as Jay from XT (who put the
poster up everywhere he could and his wife who made the promo poster) and to
Rolly, Rick and all the others for showing me the ropes and making sure I pointed
my gun in the
right direction! ;)
M.O.U.T. Introduction to MILSIM Airsoft Day 2010 (NOOB day)
April 24, 2010
Commercial promotional photography for the Red River Exhibition Park at the Cottage
show
April 23, 2010
Now that it's nice outside, over the last few weeks I've gotten hard core back
into running. I've run on and off all my life since the '80s and today I had
a
BLAST
when I got three of my buddies together to go on a mini group run.
Sadly, at my pace two of the three only lasted 4 and 7 minutes respectively but
I then went on to run 1h9m, 40 minutes of which Simon came along with me at my
pace. It's always great to get out there and exercise and you can really feel
the benefits even when just carrying large camera cases up and down stairs or
shooting a large
event. Photography isn't just about photography you know!
Here's a shot of me and the boyz just before our run (I won't horrify you with
the after shot!)
April 21, 2010
As the photography coordinator for the MTS Centre, as I was busy shooting for
Tony I organized another photographer to shoot the Newsboys for the MTSC.
Thanks Shaun!
April 21, 2010
Today I assisted and was a second shooter for a fellow photographer and friend:
Tony
Nardella,
on
a
large
assignment
for the Engineers of Manitoba.
It's always great to work with other photographers to see how they function and
how they do things and Tony is the best so that makes the experience even better!
April 20, 2010
  
Biker girls Grace & Bre: Teaser gallery
Unfortunately these are just a few quickly chosen photos and don't necessarily
represent the best photos from the shoot as I took over 1600 photos in the 8
hour session and won't have time to sort our the best ones until later. But,
it will give you an idea of how hot bikes and beautiful girls can combine to
make for great
photos!
April 20, 2010
Huge thanks to Shaun G. for the photos of me from my lighting workshop (LW4-3)
over
the
weekend:
April
20, 2010
I've gotten a BUNCH of comments, questions and remarks about the shirt I am wearing
in the photo from the April 18th BLOG entry which says: "Mmm...Caribou!"
No,
this does not refer to the animal but the French Canadian drink "Caribou" which
is a fortified wine. I got this shirt from my job at Festival du Voyageur along
with a couple of other fun shirts with St. Boniface and Louis Riel on them.
Gotta keep it Riel when I'm on a photo shoot!
And BTW, no, I'm not a pompous, conceited jerk as I'm pretending to be in the
photo but that's the only way I don't come out looking like a goof in photos
as I normally do!
April 19, 2010
Commercial portraits for Hooters for advertising to go in the Winnipeg Free Press
On7 Sunday edition.
This is a HUGE series I've been shooting for them for over 3 or 4 months now.
April 18, 2010
Just don't tell my mom...
I started my career shooting models and unfortunately as I've gotten busier have
only been able to shoot a select few over the last couple of years. However today
was one of those
times that the setting and models where too great to resist.
Here is a ridiculous photo from the shoot with the girls and one very lucky photographer:
I'll have a teaser gallery up soon.
April 17, 2010
Today I gave the third in a series of lighting workshops I'm running in 2010.
Had a respectable but unexpectedly low 15 people as all the other workshops I've
run this year have had a minimum of 25 and last year I had up to 60 and 80 at
some of them.
HUGE thanks to Shaun who was invaluable in helping out!
April 16, 2010
Commercial portraits for the YMCA Women of Distinction awards
April 15, 2010
Today my buddy Lori stopped by and had her little guy Anderson (who I immediately
named: "Mr. Anderson" as a Matrix reference) with her and I grabbed
a couple quick and funky shots. If you ever want to confuse a baby, just use
a ring flash!
April 14, 2010
I finally had a chance today to work on some recent concert and event galleries:
April
12, 2010
Ice Fishing @ Lockport, Manitoba
April
11, 2010
 
Winnipeg Photo Community: April monthly meeting & sunset group photo shoot
April 10, 2010
 
Starscapes & star-trails from Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba
April 8, 2010
Commercial portrait photography and stock photography for Manitoba Pork (through
my
good
friend
Lori
of
Wild
Fire Online)
As is quite normal for me being in this industry I saw something I had never
seen before and likely never would have unless I was a photographer: Part of
today's shoot was at Manitoba
Livestock where I got to shoot a whole lot of these little and BIG guys:
You can click for a larger image
To me this was interesting as with many things in life, you never get to see
them personally and get an idea for what you THINK they will look like in real
life but in this case I never knew their eyes where so human like. I guess all
those Saturday morning cartoons I watched in the 80's (which they don't do any
more) made me think they would be either googly-eyed or have completely black
eyes
being
almost shark like. Very
cool little experience thanks to my job.
April 7, 2010
Concert photography: John Mayer & Michael Franti & Spearhead
April 6, 2010
MORE Northern Lights! (And better too!)
And, just because I don't have anything else to do, another (much better) time
lapse of the NL is now available in my Time Lapse page:
Northern Lights active time lapse
April 6, 2010
Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Site progress shots
April 5, 2010
Today I hosted monthly meeting for my photo community: The
Winnipeg Photo Community
Here are some photos from the shoot showing mostly the group:
Winnipeg Photo Community: April monthly meeting & sunset group photo shoot
April 5, 2010
 
Northern Lights
This morning I photographed a fairly small auroral storm which is always exciting
to see!
Please also see this time lapse I took at the same time:
Northern Lights time lapse
April 3, 2010
Sports photography: PBR Bull Riding
April 2, 2010
I'm happy to say that I've already sold the first copy of my GP DVD with a handful
of people also interested for this week.. Huge thanks to Wilf for picking the
first one up!
April 2, 2010
I have officially released my Going Pro seminar on DVD today!
Please see my Going Pro DVD page for full details
and pricing. *This week only
you can save $50 off!
April 2, 2010
Having run this BLOG for so long I get a lot of strange and confusing requests
by e-mail but one type of request I never turn away is people doing projects
for school. Today
I had
another
request
to help a student with her "Career/Life Project" by simply taking the
time to
answer some fun questions about myself and my photography.
These are always fun to do as it makes me think about all the positive things
in
my life and with my photography.
I hope my lengthy answers don't bore you too much Hannah!
April 1, 2010
Today I played a very convincing April Fools day joke on the local photo club
I run and got a GREAT response back on it having duped most of the people.
Sorry about that all!
March 31, 2010
I'm used to running, just not after buses, but when I saw one of my photos that
I took for Power97 on the side of one, I had to jump out of my SUV and run after
it before it left for the next light. All the people getting off the bus where
fairly confused
as was the woman in the window!
Click for a larger image
This same photo as well as others from the same shoot have been used in web banners
on the Winnipeg Free Press' web site as well as on Power's site and elsewhere.
If you see one somewhere, tell me because I'm really happy they're getting such
good mileage with them.
March
31, 2010
Headley Concert photography: Tim McGraw & Lady Antebellum
30 mars, 2010
Photographie à bût commerciale pour le Collège universitaire
de Saint-Boniface: tournée virtuelle, journée 2 de 2
March 30, 2010
Concert photography: Tim McGraw & Lady Antibellum
28 mars, 2010
Photographie à bût commerciale pour le Collège universitaire
de Saint-Boniface: tournée virtuelle, journée 1 de 2
March 27, 2010
Today I organized and took part in the second WPC "film only" group
photo shoot where only film cameras are allowed in order to promote the use of
film.
March 25, 2010
 
New large format work
I'm trying to add as much as I can to some of my new and/or less used sections,
in this case I've added two new sections to my large format area.
March 23, 2010
I'm pleased to announce my third lighting workshop this year, the LW4-3!
A photo from the LW4-2:
Both the LW4-1 and LW4-2 where huge successes with 40 and 26 people attending
them respectively.
The LW4-3 will be a highly sought after workshop as it's all about multiple creative
lighting setups.
Please see the dedicated workshop page
for the LW4-3 here for more information and registration.
March 22, 2010
Monster Jam from March 6th
March 22, 2010
My full VR tours for the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Foundation Home Lottery
are now online!
Unfortunately their servers are being overwhelmed and so the tours take a long
time to load and sometimes you need to close and re-open them but they still
look great!
You can see them by following these links:
Health
Sciences
Centre
(HSC)
Foundation
Home
Lottery home #1
Health
Sciences
Centre
(HSC)
Foundation
Home
Lottery home #2
March 21, 2010
Commercial product photo shoot for Barkman Concrete at the Home Expressions 2010
Home
and Garden Show
March 20, 2010
Live band/concert shoot: Billy Talent
March 19, 2010
One shot: Royal Canadian Mint northern lights manipulation
This photo is a digital manipulation using some of my existing photos of the
Northern lights and a photo I took recently of the Royal Canadian Mint here in
Winnipeg which has large stickers on the windows of the Olympic medals.
Unfortunately due to the light pollution from the city seeing this is rare to
impossible. There has been one case in the last five years where I was able to
see the Northern lights from inside the city but it was still impossible to photograph
them as the orange glow of the city (that you can see from as far away as Grand
Beach) washed them out.
March 19, 2010
Over the last few years I've forgotten about some of the special sections on
my BLOG including the desktops and the planets sections. I will now be doing
my best to update these on a more regular basis.
Here's a good start with two new planets:
 
Click here to view the planets
March 18, 2010
Event shoot: Grand re-opening of the Portsmouth retirement residence
March 17, 2010
Today's photo shoot was with Andrea, one of a couple of girls helping me out
with a series of airsoft themed shoots (see lower in this BLOG for more) as well
as to do a bunch of shots for herself, including this one taken downtown just
after sunset:
If you're interested in coming in for a free model shoot (and can hold up some
pretty hefty airsoft guns and may even have some ideas of your own for photos)
just e-mail me at dan@danharperphoto.com
March
17, 2010
Teaser: No, I haven't gone into the criminal underbelly and become an arms dealer,
this is what my living room looked like for today's shoot.
HUGE thanks go out to Jay, Rolly and Gord from XT for the loaner airsoft guns,
some of which are so unique they are one of only two known in Canada!
March 16, 2010
Today I once again put my life in the hands of the gods to venture up the 180+
meter high crane #1 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to get some new site
shots for them.
It's always good times when I can feel the crane swaying side to side as I'm
switching lenses!
March 16, 2010
Event photography: The Manitoba Moose Yearling Foundation Gala event/dinner including
headliner Cirque le Masque
March 16, 2010
I gave limited usage rights for the above photo of the Provencher bridge to the
City of Winnipeg's Planning and Land Use Division for an upcoming major report.
March 14, 2010
Searching through my site stats today I noticed a very strange/interesting thing:
An article I wrote about how to modify a Nikon APS-C
Fisheye lens for full frame
cameras over two years ago is getting a lot of attention in both Italy and
other places on random BLOGs like this
one. Apparently they like it but think I'm a bit crazy for cutting an $800
lens with a hacksaw. I've been called worse. ;)
March 14, 2010
Advertising photography for Hooters Winnipeg.
These advertisements appear in the Winnipeg Free Press On7 which comes out every
Sunday.
March 13, 2010
Commercial photo shoot for Travel Manitoba: Ice Fishing
March 12, 2010
I see Power97 is making good use of some photos I took for them back in late
January for a new web banner advertisement on the Winnipeg Free Press' web site: winnipegfreepress.com *you
might have to refresh the page several times as the banner is on a randomizer.
March 12, 2010
Stock photography sold for fine art prints to Silver Heights restaurant.
I sold several prints to the SHR after they've just remodeled their restaurant.
March 12, 2010
I often like to help people out who might not normally be able to afford stock
photography and allow them to exchange a few pictures for a link on their site.One
such case was for levyspromotions.com where
I gave him permission to use a couple of the photos you can see in my desktop
section (soon to be updated) for his banners.
March 11, 2010
Commercial HDR VR (high dynamic range virtual reality) tour for the Health Sciences
Centre
(HSC)
Foundation
Home
Lottery. The tour will soon go live here: hschomelottery.com
This is a great return client who I've worked for for over two years now and
been able to do some out of town VR tours for as well.
For this lottery, they have TWO houses and I took just over 3400 photos to create
the HDR VRs!
These homes are SPECTACULAR! If you don't have tickets to their lottery yet,
get them! I'm getting mine!
March 10, 2010
It's been over six years since I started this BLOG. As far as I know I was one
of if not the first photographer in WInnipeg to have a BLOG, creating it well
before I even knew what BLOGGING was or as it became popular.
However, unfortunately the design hasn't changed in that same amount of time
and I thought it was about time to give it a bit of attention. I haven't changed
it much, just made it a bit wider and easier to read. Hopefully you'll like
it!
March 8, 2010
Advertising photography for Hooters Winnipeg.
These advertisements appear in the Winnipeg Free Press On7 which comes out every
Sunday.
March
7, 2010
Commercial photography (donor/recipient) for the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba.
Huge thanks to Mark for being so organized with these shoots and to the JFM for
using me!
March
6, 2010
Monster Jam @ the MTS Centre
March 3, 2010
Xtreme-Tactics interiors
In addition to the interior shots above, I also did two preliminary virtual reality
files that you can see below by clicking the links.
*You need to have Quicktime installed to view these files
The coveted XT gun room.
The new XT store. YES you can now buy airsoft guns locally
March 3, 2010
WOW! It's been almost four weeks since I updated my BLOG last and it feels great
to get back into it.
Hi and thanks to all those who e-mailed me about such a long time off. No, I'm
not dead, nor did I marry a mobster's wife and move to Vegas...I've just been
busy shooting and processing, shooting and processing. SO, look all the way down
to February 1st to see all the new backdated BLOG postings.
March 2, 2010
 
My LW4-2 photos (from my February lighting workshop)
March 1, 2010
 
My LW4-1 photos (from my January lighting workshop)
February 28, 2010
Over the past couple of months I've gotten into airsofting, a tactical sport
similar to paintball...without the mess. My friends like to joke that I just
can't get away from shooting people in one way or another.
Thanks to this new interest I've gained quite a collection of airsoft guns which
make for great props whenever I'm shooting models. This is a collection of two
different shoots on an ongoing project:
 
The girls of airsoft #1
February 28, 2010
Commercial photography for the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba
February 27, 2010
Today I taught the second lighting workshop in this, my fourth series of lighting
workshops to 26 people. It was a great time helping and shooting with so many
other photographers!
Thanks everyone for coming!
Me shooting with a large format camera at my LW4-2. Thanks to Jojo for the photo!
(The upcoming LW4-3 is going to be one of the two best LW's that I teach this
year so stay tuned here for details.)
February
27, 2010
As the official photographer and photography coordinator for the MTS Centre,
as I was teaching a lighting workshop today, I organized another photographer
to shoot the soccer event at the MTSC Centre
Thanks Doug!
February 25, 2010
As regional manager for TPS Sports Photography/Marathon-Photos.com I hired and
organized two other photographers to shoot the Running Room Hypo Half Marathon
for this coming Sunday.
February 21, 2010
Day eleven, the final day of my multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du
Voyageur!
After my final shoot for Festival today, here are some stats from 11 days of
shooting:
-8222 digital photos for 232.25 gigabytes taken
-24 large format film photos taken
-I met a TON of super nice people, many of which where photographers who I gave
WPC promo cards to so hopefully they'll be joining us soon!
-I also met a lot of drunk people (gotta love Caribou...the fortified wine kind)
and got hit on by many of them but despite being single...drunk girls just aren't
that interesting, they're hilarious but also very dangerous to photo gear!
-I got some HUGE compliments from the FDV council on some of my past and preliminary
photos from this year, always good to hear.
-On average I shot 7 separate events a day including bands, re-enactors, re-enactments,
the school program (where the Festival site is not available to the public for
two days), the governor's ball, the VIP night and a ton of other stuff like snow
sculptures and the fire pixies who I got some shots that I'm really happy with!
Thanks to everyone who posed patiently and where pictured!
February 20, 2010
Day ten of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 19, 2010
Day nine of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 18, 2010
Late night commercial photography for Bayview Construction LTD./Rocky Road Recycing
LTD.
Once a year (possibly twice) the City of WInnipeg does a massive cleanup of all
the built up snow on the sidewalks that cumulates when they do the snow clearing.
I was sent out to get shots of Bayview vehicles working on this massive project.
I was also VERY lucky to get my first ride in a front end loader and I gotta
tell you, those things are really comfortable but also really cramped!
February 18, 2010
Day eight of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 18, 2010
HI MOM!
(-Professionalism of saying hi to your mom
on your BLOG: 0%
-Love received from your mother for saying hi to her on your BLOG because she
checks it every day to keep up with you: immeasurable!!!
February 17, 2010
Disney on Ice: Princesses
February 17, 2010
Day seven of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 16, 2010
Commercial photography for Bayview Construction LTD./Rocky Road Recycing LTD.
February 16, 2010
Day six of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 15, 2010
Day five of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 14, 2010
Day four of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 13, 2010
Day three of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 12, 2010
Day two of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur
February 11, 2010
Commercial staff portraits for mf1
February 10, 2010
Today saw the start of my third year in a row being the official photographer
for Festival du Voyageur.
I was in the festival park taking a huge group photo of all the people who work
with FDV as well as the main group of FDV staff. I also took several shots of
the snow sculptures as they where being built.
It looks like another great year for FDV!
February 9, 2010
Power97 time lapse video of recent photo shoot
February 8, 2010
Tonight I hosted another one of my photo club's (WPGphoto.com) monthly meetings.
February 7, 2010
Announcing the Dan Harper Lighting Workshop series 4, #2 (LW4-2)
The LW4-2 concentrates on studio lighting.
Please see here for more details: Dan
Harper's LW4-2
February 5, 2010
Portraits of Alison for entry into the 2011 Hooters International calendar
3 février, 2010
Photographie à bût commerciale pour le Collège universitaire
de Saint-Boniface: Portraits de professeurs.
February 1, 2010
WPC executive committee meeting
February 1, 2010
Commercial group portrait photography: Portsmouth resident council group photo
February 1, 2010
HUGE thanks to all those who attended my first "Going Pro" seminar!
Again, this was also the first of it's kind in Winnipeg and I feel EXTREMELY
happy to have had 17 registered attendees, 2 of which unfortunately couldn't
make it due to a death in the family and my heart and thoughts go out to them.
Thanks to Cory for the photo!
I gave out a questionnaire at the end of the seminar (which people where able
to fill out anonymously to get the most honest suggestions and feelings about
it) and almost everyone felt that the seminar would have been worth it even at
the full price. (Luckily they where all smart and got in on the early bird pricing
of 50% off!)
As this was the first time I ran this particular seminar, there where bound to
be issues, however the only hiccup I had was having the gear portion of the seminar
go long as there where several questions from the attendees, therefore making
it go long and dig into the time for the critique portion which people all unanimously
decided we would skip in order to spend more time on the "how to get your
name out there & differentiate yourself from other photographers" section.
BUT, I have e-mailed all those in attendance and will be giving them a free,
one on one critique session in order to make it up to them.
I will be selling a DVD collection of the entire seminar for somewhere around
$750. Why so much? As most of the people in attendance mentioned that the seminar
would have been a good value at the full price, and as you can FF and RW the
DVD I feel that has added value. Also, if you could buy the DVD for less than
the seminar itself, why bother going at all? HOWEVER, there will be special WPC
pricing AND anyone who attended the seminar will be able to purchase the collection
for around only $300.
Here are some of the comments from attendees:
-"I think it was well worth it. I liked the smaller group size."
-"You where very articulate with your topics!"
-"I found it very informative and like the casual setting."
-"Thanks for taking the time and having the courage to do this seminar!"
Most people had the same thing to say when asked which sections where most helpful:
-"Enjoyed all aspects."
-"All of it was extremely useful."
However the specific parts of the seminar which most people felt where most interesting/helpful
where:
-Pricing
-Usage
-Promotion
-Marketing
Again, thanks to all the GP attendees for your faith and great questions!
February 1, 2010
Commercial group portrait photography: Portsmouth resident council group photo
January
30, 2010
Just a final reminder to those still interested that there is still plenty of
room for my "Going Pro" seminar that happens today. Please visit the
following link if you would like to attend: "Going
Pro - How to break into and help yourself succeed as a professional photographer"
January 29, 2010
Live band/concert photography: Mötley Cruë
January 29, 2010
Event/photojournalistic photography for the YMCA Winnipeg: South branch grand
re-opening
January 28, 2010
Commercial product photography for Barkman Concrete in Steinbach
January 26, 2010
Commercial photography for Power97, billboards, ads and web shots
January 22, 2010
 
Winnipeg Photo Club/Photo Central gallery #3 gala opening
These are photos from the gala opening of my photo club's 3rd gallery. Each winning
member is beside their own print.
Be sure to check it out until Feb 11 at Photo Central!
January 20, 2010
Today I was very honored to have been chosen to be interviewed by two groups
of
students
(seven
in total) from the Red River College Photography program.
This was for one of their courses on marketing but was just a general look at
a local photographer with emphasis on what one does to market oneself.
I was very pleased to be able to help out upcoming photographers (although still
don't know why they chose me, still being relatively new (5-6 years) to
the
business).
It was a really fun time, more like talking with friends, and they all left and
thanked me for all the information.
As many people already know, I'm always happy to help out anyone interested in
photography and do so on a very regular basis. Just yesterday I received an e-mail
form a fellow photographer from the US about some gear I've reviewed and was
happy
to
make
some recommendations
which went beyond the review.
So, if you have a class, project or just questions, feel free to contact me and
I'll do my best to help out!
January 20, 2010
Sports photography: BDO Classic Canadian Open curling
January 19, 2010
Due to some last minute interest I have extended the deadline for "early
bird" pricing to this Sunday. Also, if you would like to deliver
your registration in person to make sure it gets here in time for the early bird
pricing please
contact
me by e-mail to arrange
a drop-off.
*As of this coming Monday, the workshop will be priced at $500 for everyone,
and
you will only then be able to pay at the door.
January 18, 2010
Just a reminder to anyone still interested that the final day for "early
bird" pricing of my "Going Pro" workshop is this Thursday. Feel
free to contact me
if you have any questions.
January 18, 2010
Meeting with Destination Winnipeg to discuss their photo needs for 2010. Lots
of great work from them on the way!
January 17, 2010
Concert photography: Blue Rodeo
January 17, 2010
Commercial photo shoot for Hooters Winnipeg: Photos for advertisements in the
Winnipeg Sun (newspaper).
January 15, 2010
The Winnipeg Photo Community/Photo Central gala opening was a huge success with
well over 100 people attending in just two hours. Thanks again to all the winners
as well as all those who brought
in
food!
The gallery will be open until February 11 for anyone interested in seeing it.
(Always free entrance!)
This is a time-lapse of the gala event itself:
Click for the video
January 14, 2010
Tomorrow I am hosting the gala opening of my photo communities' 3rd gallery at
Photo Central. Anyone who likes photography/art is welcome to attend!
The event is from 6pm to 8pm at Photo Central at 499 Notre Dame.
Hope to see you there!
January 14, 2010
Today with the help of WPC club members Dave B. and Bruce H.we set up the 3rd
WPC/PC community gallery.
Here is a time-lapse I created of the setup process:
Click for the video
January 13, 2010
Concert photography: Guns n' Roses
January 12, 2010
Photographie à bût commerciale pour le Collège universitaire
de Saint-Boniface: Portraits
de professeurs.
January 11, 2010
I just bought a new house!
Well...sort of, check out this video: New house?
January 9, 2010
Had a GREAT turnout to the LW4-1 with several people registering at the door.
The feedback I got was really great too:
-"Presentation was awesome!" -Rick
-"The workshop was incredibly informative and the models stunning! When
you have
your 2nd workshop, I shall be there." -Kristie
-"I learned a lot about things that I was doing wrong, and about a few things
that I wasn't doing at all. **BTW Dan, leave the posing to the models...lol**" -Mukesh
-"Very informative and learned so much even just watching the shooting and
talking
to others." -Shannon
-"I had already attended the previous off camera flash workshop but I picked
up even more from this one. The whole atmosphere was very relaxed." -John
Huge thanks to all those who attended!
The next one will be at the end of February (or mid-March).
January 8, 2010
There are still several spots available for both shooters and attendees for the
LW4-1 lighting workshop tomorrow. If you want to attend you can just sign up
at the door with cash in hand!
January 5, 2010
Today I was absolutely privileged to shoot not one but two parts of the Olympic
Torch Relay as it came through Manitoba.
The first part was for Air Canada, covering two of their international employees
(one from Miami, Florida and the other from London, England) who were both were
torch bearers who's legs were in Steinbach, Manitoba.
Huge thanks to both Deb and Miguel who I didn't ever have to tell to smile as
they were SO happy to be a part of the relay!
Second, I covered the whole event at the Forks for Parks Canada. Which included
thousands of people being right in the middle of the Forks itself which was spectacular
to see despite
the extremely cold weather. Way to go Winnipeg!
This was an amazing event to be a part of!
January 5, 2010
Photojournalism: Olympic Torch Relay at the Forks for Parks Canada
January 5, 2010
Photojournalism: Air Canada torch bearers in Steinbach at the Olympic Torch Relay
January 4, 2010
Tonight I hosted another one of my WPC meetings.
January 4, 2010
Commercial architectural photography: Interiors and VR (virtual reality tour)
photography
for the Wellington retirement home.
January 3, 2010
A special present in the cold of winter for your viewing pleasure: never before
released helicopter shots from over Winnipeg in the late summer.
Helicopter over WInnipeg
January 1, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
In celebration of the new year, here's a big shot from the New Years Eve fireworks
at the Forks which were the best I've seen in five years of addicted fireworks
shooting!
Click for a much larger image
January 1, 2010
Thinking back on all the amazing experiences I had over 2009 was spectacular!
I shot three destination weddings in Cuba, Montreal and Calgary (and several
here at home). I shot for dozens of my regular clients throughout the year and
I was also able to work with several new clients.
Thinking back I just want to thank everyone that helped me in 2009! (Not that
any of them visit here, but it's the thought that counts! HA!)
I also look forward to working with all my return clients including the Canadian
Museum of Human Rights, Power97, Festival du Voyageur, Travel Manitoba, the YMCA,
the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, Destination Winnipeg and several others, I
won't be able to list them all here.
Thanks so much for a great 2009 and I'm already looking forward to 2010
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