Happy Holidays! / Joyeuses Fêtes!

For the Holidays we've prepared a special electronic card to send to all of our friends.  We wish you all the best during the Holiday Season and look forward to seeing you in 2009.

Don't forget to check out the recipe!! 

Pour le Temps des Fêtes, nous avons préparé une carte electronique pour envoyer à tout nos amis.  Nous vous souhaitons de Joyeuses Fêtes,  au plaisir vous revoir en 2009.

N'oubliez pas de regarder la recette!!

How Sweet it is....

Well it's finally here...

We started the project in Oct. 2007 and finished it in Feb. 2008...  and now just in time for the holidays, Larousse is launching the newest "Le petit Larousse du Chocolat".  It has been published in 5 languages and is being sold all across the world.  The project was done in conjunction with Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute, 3 of it's chefs and our team at Photolux Studio.  The "Le petit Larousse du Chocolat" contains 170 chocolat recipes to suit all tastes. Each recipe is accompanied by a colour photograph and each chapter contains several step by step descriptive images to help you in the preparation.

It's a great honour for Photolux to have been involved in the visual production of this book and we are quite please with the printed results!

Although you may have a hard time getting your hands on a copy, they were sold out at Chapters & Amazon when I last checked...  it's well worth the wait.

Featured Studio YSI Newsletter

We were recently featured in the YSI newsletter. YSI (You Select It) is an Australian based Company that creates Wedding Album Design Templates and sells them Worldwide. They are one of the most recognized names in the Industry.

YSI's founder,  Martin Schembri, along with his son Ryan,  are also two of the World's Finest Wedding Photographers whose work has been recognized Worldwide.  They have become great friends of ours over the years. We always look forward to seeing them at WPPI, the International Photography Convention held annually in Las Vegas.

Double Click on the attachment to have a look.

OLD SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO

Well....back from Puerto Rico.
Old San Juan was just spectacular and the people were wonderful. Lots of beautiful buildings, scenery and culture to enjoy!
I was invited to Speak at The Caribbean Photography Associations Annual Conference and to put on a full day lighting workshop. It was very well received.
I have included a few pics from the workshop and of Old San Juan. Definitely one of those "must see" spots in the world.
To all of the great people I met there....THANK YOU for inviting me and for making it such a great experience!

Next Workshop- January 25th-February 1st. Frank and I are doing a 4 Day Workshop in the Myan Riviera in Mexico for PPOC Alberta.

Our Ottawa workshop will likely be held again in August....we may even add an April date.

Please email us for info.

"Buddha" Stephen Leafloor

Back in August, I had the opportunity to photograph "Buddha" aka Stephen Leafloor for the October issue of Readers Digest. Buddha is one of the longest-practicing B-boy in Canada. Still a big part of the Canadian Floor Masters, he now does social work with the youth in the arctic through blueprintforlife.ca. The staff at Readers Digest loved the images so much that they decided to do a telephone interview about the shoot and put together an audio slideshow for some of their favorite takes from the shoot... You can view this video at rd.ca/dance

Big thanks to "Buddha" for making this a memorable assignment!

Ottawa Workshop A Success!

We are pleased to say that our Ottawa workshop was a success. The numbers were down a little from our usual sold out 20 spots. Nevertheless, good times were had by all. We had photographers join us from Canada and the US and some great laughs and information were shared.

If you are interested in one of our workshops, please contact us at info@photoluxstudio.com. We are planning a Spring Tune Up in April and our Summer Workshop in August.

Our next wedding workshops are in Puerto Rico October 17th & 18th and in the Mayan Riviera January 2009. Chris will also be hosting a Master Class in Vegas at the WPPI Convention.

Here are some images form the workshop.

A Tale of Two Cities...

A Tale of Two Cities…

Hated the novel in high school….
Finally got some images together from the two Londons. London England in January and London Ontario in May.
Here are some images from the workshops I lead.
The images are shot on location in the hotel and facilities that hosted the programs.
They were both full day programs.
The images were created showing various posing and lighting techniques. They are basically camera files with Chris Lalonde’s Camera RAW presets applied to them.

Next programs are a 3 day workshop in Ottawa here at PHOTOLUX and then again October 18th in Puerto Rico.

Check out our website for availability.

Both should be a blast….and good learning experiences of course.

Enjoy!!
Anthony

Bill Kong, Rangefinder WPPI wrap up issue

We'll the 2008 WPPI convention was great this year and in the latest issue of Rangefinder Magazine, the WPPI wrap up issue, I was asked to write an article on the image I did of Bill Hurter. Here is what I had to say... Christian Lalonde's "BILL KONG"

Photolux Commercial Promo Video

Here is the first of many to come...

This is a compilation of images that have been create for a variety of clients as well as for personal projects.  This is our first attempt at putting video onto this blog... hopefully this will work.

Destination Weddings

Looks like 2009 is the year for destination weddings!

If you are planning a destination wedding, take advantage of the Flight & Hotel savings if we are already there!

This is where we will be in 2008-2009.

Dominican Republic June 5-14-2008 (confirmed)

Puerto Rico Oct. 15-19-2008 (confirmed)

Mexico-Mayan Riviera- Jan. 25-Feb. 1st 2009 (confirmed)

Mexico-Puerto Vaillarta- Feb. 7-14 and Feb. 14-21 2009 (confirmed)

Portugal March 2009-Confirmed

Spain September 2009 (tentative)

Let us know....our bags are packed!!!

We will post pictures as they become available!

New Arrival!!

For all our commercial clients  (yes we'll also use it for portraits!!) 

We now have our hands on a sweet, sweet Hasselblad H system camera with a full range of lenses complete with all the bells & whistles.  39 Megapixels of RAW power combined with the world's best optics...  Our clients have been blown away by the results... and so have we.  

Ask for it on your next shoot.

 

Back from Vegas...

WPPI was a great time as always, it was fun to catch up with all our friends from around the world.  We always look forward to this convention to relax and get inspired by others.  It was another great year for awards... We picked up 4 trophies (very sweet). 

Here are the winning images

      Bahhh...Whatever!   -1st Place Bridal Party
     Grunge  -1st Place Portrait
Quarry #5   -3rd Place Industrial/Scientific
Moving Day  -2nd Place Illustration