Photographe Paul Galipeau Ottawa Canada | lechampiondumonde.com

Dana D @ Disorganized

On Friday, Dana D from Vancouver played in Ottawa! Click for some photos!

What are you doing for Valentine’s Day? Info about what I’ll be up to in a moment or two! Smoooch.

Radio Radio & Jackson 2Bears

This was the closing party for Electric Fields in Ottawa. Radio Radio are sort of like the French-Canadian Beastie Boys. Serious in music but laying thick the sense of humour. First time I saw someone (band members) smoke pot at an indoor show in a longtime (if not ever).

Jackson 2Bears is a mohawk DJ from Victoria. Super ill. He uses different laptops to control both music and video. Tonnes of amazing samples from old western films (see video at the bottom).

Photography portfolio advice

Here are some questions/advice about comparing past portfolios to a new one. The points were put together by the photo editor of a North American newspaper. Good reading for anyone coming up in this profession.

• Have you grown visually?
• Is your currently portfolio vastly different in tone and style? (I’ve had experienced photojournalists change only one image from one portfolio to the next – what does that tell me?)
• Have you been learning how to do multimedia?
• We expect our journalists to be competent in a variety of styles encompassing sports, news, features, and portraits. Does anyone think twenty images from a trip to Africa represents their ability to do local breaking news?
• Is your only contact with the newspaper when you submit a job application? Try following up with your latest work to initiate a continuing dialogue. This shows me that you’re busting your butt to get into a very difficult profession.
• How are you self-promoting? Do you have a website I can look at? Do you change the images often?

I might have already talked about this book but Photo Portfolio Success by John Kaplan is also another essential read. I’ve read it cover to cover and while it isn’t necessary to adopt every method as your own, it is helpful in offering ideas about how to organize portfolio content and tailoring it to those looking at it.

On a related note, the winners of the College Photographer of the Year awards were announced this weekend. I’m pretty into this photo by Jake Stevens who got bronze in the Sports Action category.