Kaylee Gauthier

It's a good year ago since Kaylee and I have been communicating to schedule a portrait session. With all my travels back and forth to the Philippines and my very hectic Canadian schedule, we can't seem to finalize anything. Kaylee was also in school and working so its not the easiest to make our schedule fit each other. Despite the long wait we finally booked a date for her session... we decided to go to the best indoor location in Winnipeg, the Manitoba Legislative Building. The "Lege" is a very cool location... it offers a ton of variety in one spot, providing you have the proper lighting set-up.

We picked an indoor location due to the sub-zero temperature outside here in Winnipeg. Only one model so far braved the -20 degree temperature to do a shoot with me, Heather B., my official concept model. It is not easy to work with someone for the first time in REALLY COLD weather. Too much chances of wasting each others' time. She will be shivering and my hands will feel like it's about to be amputated..not much good photos can possibly come from these conditions..lol.

November 24 2010 was snowing very badly... almost like blizzard condition, good that we did decide to do the session indoors. I met Kaylee inside the Legislative Building and as I was registering with security to get in, he advised me that I am not allowed to put up any lighting accessories. I was like thinking... how can I make this work, the building is quite dark inside and with the snow on the glass roof makes it even darker. I decided to ask security if I can use strobes without any light stands...and he said OK. So we went on with the session.

Here's some of my faves from our session.