I had a portrait to do early in the morning, outside. I decided to arrive early – before sunrise – to catch the first glimpse of light hitting the Château Frontenac. I decided to do multiple exposures to create an HDR photo. As you can see, I don’t like the surreal look that many photographers go for when doing HDR. I prefer a more natural look – the one you would not even know it’s HDR if I would not have told you.

chateau-frontenac-hdr-s
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 5 exposures (from -3 to +3) at f22 with a 24-70 at 30mm – ISO 200

I spent 3 hours at the Laurie Raphaël, the most prestigious restaurant in Quebec City, with Daniel Vézina, the most renowned chef in the city, if not the province. Thanks to Saveurs d’Ici magazine, my client for this job.

l’atelier de Daniel Vézina
L’atelier de Daniel Vézina / Daniel Vézina’ workshop

Baba au rhum revisite au sirop d’erable, yogourt cremeux au citron et cari
Baba au rhum revisité au sirop d’erable, yogourt cremeux au citron et cari

Faisan sauce au chocolat facon ‘mole’ emulsionne a l’huile pimente. Feuille et choux de bruxelle, oignons perle caramelise et champignon king grille
Faisan saucé au chocolat facon ‘mole’ émulsionné a l’huile pimenté. Feuille et choux de bruxelle, oignons perle caramelisé et champignon king grillé

Panacota d’asperge blanche
Panacota d’asperge blanche, pétoncle mariné au vinaigre de cidre naturel et caviar d’algues

chef Daniel Vézina
Daniel Vézina, chef au Laurie Raphaël

I did this assignment this fall for Toronto based YFM magazine. I could not show it before publication. So here is some photos of La Belle Époque restaurant in Montmagny (Qc, Canada).

They wanted a complete coverage of the building, a portrait of chef Lucien Dubé and some of him while cooking, some food shot, etc.

Since I did this a while ago, I don’t remember my light setting, so I’ll skip the technical details for this one.

Cooking food

Chef cooking

Food photography

Food photography portait

Food photography portait

food photographer

Julie Graff

Julie Graff
Julie Graff poses next to her municipal party website in Quebec City February 12, 2009. Started a « wiki » municipal political party with a novel approach – a party that has its principles and platform formulated on the Internet, Graff wants this Internet party to be ready to run a full slate for the 2013 election. Francis Vachon/THE GAZETTE
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/40 at f3.5 with a 24-70 at 52mm – ISO 320 + flash thru a grid on camera left, one direct flash behind the subject aiming at the hair


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