Salomon shoot

A small portrait shoot with a good friend and skier Georgie Hunt for this sponsors Salomon. Thanks to Alex Gill (www.behance.net/heygill) for his retouching work on the final shots featured on the website.


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Disney XD with Toby Flood and Kevin Sinfield

 

Happy New Year! 

I was lucky enough to spend the day with Kevin Sinfield and Toby Flood last November with the Disney XD channel to take part in their 'Aim High' mentorship day. The channel were encouraging viewers to "reach their dreams, making the impossible possible and being the best you can be", by offering competition winners the opportunity of a "lifetime" experience playing rugby and learning how to take action photographs.  The winners joined Toby, myself and Kevin at the Leicester Tigers training ground as we each went about giving them an insight and experience into our individual skills.

The competition winners Ben, Sam, Bradley, their dads, the production crew and I, all learnt a thing or two from Toby and Kevin's advice on how to kick between the sticks. The video below was aired through Disney's various media outlets.

Disney XD Aim High video

Kayaker Portrait at Lee Valley

Below are some shots from a portfolio shoot at Lee Valley White Water Centre in Hertfordshire. It was a long day with some experimentation on the Canon 5D Mark 2, a Ewa-Marine underwater housing bag and a roll of gaffa tape. The Lee Valley centre will host the Canoe Slalom event next summer at the London 2012 Olympics. My first impressions of the venue were Superb. It's spacious with lots of parking and has state of the art facilities including a well stocked cafe and bar, essential after those tiresome runs down the course. I can imagine it being a good day out to those who have tickets next summer. The dedicated team at Lee Valley are working hard on new initiatives to get local clubs and businesses involved with the venue which is open to the public daily. 

I must thank the staff at Lee Valley who were really accommodating in allowing us access to the course and being on guard in case of any accidents. We spent the day shooting Chris Kayaking down the course. He earned his lunch and I could not have done any of this without his generosity in time and knowledge to help nail the shots. By 7pm, the sun quickly set giving us an opportunity to capture a couple of portraits with some nature light and one flash/softbox combination mounted on a monopod. The photographs below give an insight into the camera set up for the action shots before they had some post production treatment.

 

  

Golf Portrait

A portfolio photograph taken at Aldwickbury Park Golf Club in Hertfordshire. Thanks to Professional Robin Turley for taking time out to practise his bunker shot.

Lee Valley White Water Centre

Location photographs of the new Lee Valley White Water Centre that will host the 2012 Olympic games for Canoeing and Kayaking disciplines. I was here to shoot a kayaker portrait on the water using an underwater housing for the Canon 5D Mark II.

All photographs Copyright James Canon 2011