Crazy For Love with Jessy Cortes

This story was inspired by love, love that end, a tragic story of a woman that became crazy after her lover left her.

We had a lot of fun doing this one, it was done at my friend David Café , "León Café Bar". It was an opportunity to set a small studio in a different environment.  For this session I used  2 Canon Speedlites 600ex-rt with a radio transmitter Canon ST-E3-RT, a small LED light, a soft box "Lastolite Beautybox 38cm x 38cm for one of the Speedlite and  a circular white reflector for the second one. To be able to control the exact amount of power I wanted from each flash I  used manual setting.

All the photos were done with a Canon 5DMarkiii and a Canon 24-105 and a Lensbaby soft optic. We also did some glamor shots that day that will be part off my next post.

Jessy was amazing like always, her play was so intense, my goal was to capture the intensity and let the photos echo how great her performance was.
 

The story,

" after her lover left her she went out for a drink, got drunk and became sad, and crazy.

Second part,

That poor woman got obsessed and crazy, obsessed with her reflection wanted to kill this reflection...
As you can see  Jessy got into her personage like a pro, she had no fear, she was amazing, a real actress a real star.
To get her to look as bad as possible, we used make up and harsh lighting, and the rest was Jessy play!!! I was only taking the shots, to get the mood she created.

I like to take the time to say thank you to my friend David, his Cafe was the perfect setting for our story. I also wanted to mention how lucky I am to work with Jessy, she is so talented and so generous, thank you Jessy:)))

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Family Matter

My son and I at Moraine Lake Alberta, Thank Sandra for that great shot!

 Like a lot of modern family, we are all spread out, some living in Quebec, some living in British Columbia and us in Alberta, with a country that large, transportation can be hectic especially in winter, this year was difficult, with our biggest airport "Toronto" shut down few

times, causing major delay across Canada. It's a real treat when you can visit or get a visit from family, that was the case last week when our son and his wife came from Vancouver for a short visit.

Our son Sebastien and his wife Sandra are the best kid in the world, and I don't say that only because I am a mom, but because they are really great, and passing time with them is so much fun.

I think one of the best part of getting older for me is to be able to share with my adult son, he will always be my little boy, but he and Sandra are more like our best friends, that's is so great.

I wanted to do a small intro about them, they are so important in my life.

Sandra and Sebastien fall in love about 5 years ago, meeting for coffee, at that time they both lived in Calgary, they moved together right away, after what they decided to move to Vancouver. Last year they got married in Hawaii, you can feel their love just looking at them, as you will see in the following photo.

Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markii, 100-400 at 290mm, f6.3, 1/160sec, ISO200, Black and White using onOne Perfect BW 8

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Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markii, 24-105 at 35mm, flash bouncing to the wall, f4, 1/60sec, ISO200

Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markii, 24-105 at 28 mm, flash bouncing to the wall, f4, 1/60sec, ISO200

Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markii, 24-105 at 35mm, f4, 1/40sec, ISO200, Black and White using onOne Perfect BW 8

Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markii, 50mm prime lens,  f7.1, 1/25sec, ISO200

Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markii, 24-105 at 105mm, f6.3, 1/20sec, ISO640

Sandra, the best daughter in law, enjoying the warm sun of Vancouver on their new ride, their first new car. Canon 5D Markiii, 24-105 at 75mm, f4.5, 1/1000sec, ISO125

Sandra and Sebastien love story, enjoying their new car under Vancouver sun, Canon 5D Markiii, 24-105 at 75mm, f4.5, 1/1000sec, ISO125

 Sandra and Sebastien love story, Canon 5D Markiii, 24-105 at 75mm, f4.5, 1/200sec, ISO125, Black and White using onOne Perfect BW 8

Sandra and Sebastien love story getting married, I don't have the data for the wedding we were not able to go to Hawaii. I transform some of shots to bw  using onOne Perfect BW 8

Next Post, Our lunch at Tribal Connection Market in Okotoks, a great place to stop for funky shopping, coffee and light lunches!

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