Diane Ippersiel

Diane Ippersiel
Diane Ippersiel, a McGill University graduate who manages a firm called Une affaire d’Anglais in Quebec city. Photo Francis Vachon for McGill News Alumni Magazine.
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/320 at f9 with a 24-70 at 46mm – ISO 200 + one direct flash camera left

When you look out for new clients, don’t only look on the magazines you see on the stand. There is a ton of magazines that do not target « normal » consumers that you would never imagines they exist. Twice I did a job for a magazine called « Metal Cutting magazine ». It’s hard to be more specialized than that!

Kevin Strain

Kevin Strain
Sun Life senior vice-president Kevin Strain poses at the Chateau Frontenac hotel in Quebec city August 25, 2009. Photo Francis Vachon/ The National Post
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/320 at f5 with a 70-200 at 110mm – ISO 400 + one flash through an umbrella on camera right and one direct flash behind the subject on camera left (this flash created the two highlights on the « object » beside the subject)

Base jumpers for Les Pieds dans le vide
Martin Dumas, left, and Bertrand Cloutier pose in their wing suit for base jumping at the Observatoire de la Capitale at the last floor of the Marie-Guyart building in Quebec city August 5, 2009. Cloutier and Dumas were involved in the new Quebec movie Les pieds dans le vide where they base jumped off of the Montreal stock exchange tower. Photo Francis Vachon/THE GAZETTE

The story is online.
During the shooting, all of us kept looking at that mock of the National Assembly president’s chair. When we where done, We all said « we HAVE to try to do something with it. » So I put them in it and I asked them to goof a bit. The result is, I think, hilarious.

Base jumpers for Les Pieds dans le vide

This is what I discovered about putting on a historically accurate, 18th-century British officer’s uniform and standing on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City pretending I was General James Wolfe: I might have looked like an overgrown lunatic playing dress-up, but when I actually slipped the coat and hat on, it felt surprisingly grave. It made me want to be serious.

Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown came to spend a couple of days in Quebec city to know more about the Plains of Abraham, the canceled re-enactment, and the various groups who battled for this cancellation.

Taking an Ontarian journalist, dressing him up as a British soldier for a photo shoot on the Plains of Abraham on St-Jean-Baptist day (Quebec National Day)…. That was daring, but fun!

Globe’s article on the web includes a very neat audi slide-show with many of my photos.

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Globe reporter Ian Brown, dressed as a British soldier, takes note as he speak with reanactor Harry Hunkin on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City June 23, 2009. Photo Francis Vachon for the Globe and Mail

Ian Brown
Globe reporter Ian Brown, dressed as a British soldier, poses on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City June 23, 2009.

RRQ
A police officer blocks RRQ (Reseau de resistance de Quebec – Quebec Resistance network) protesters from approaching a small group of counter-protesters on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec city July 1, 2009. The RRQ held their annual protest against Canada in front of Wolfe’s monument. Photo Francis Vachon for the Globe and Mail.

Wolfe
A Quebec and a « patriot » flag fly in front of Wolfe’s monument on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec city

RRQ Patrick Bourgeois
RRQ (Reseau de resistance de Quebec – Quebec Resistance network) leader Patrick Bourgeois gestures as he speaks during a protest in front of Wolfe’s monument on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec city

Azbar
Robert Blouin, President and owner Azbar Inc., poses at his company in Quebec city. Azbar manufactures and puts on the market various systems and services for drinks and foods sales, control and management. Photo Francis Vachon/Canwest News Service
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/80 at f7,1 with a 24-70 at 30mm – ISO 400 + one flash through an umbrella on camera left and one flash through a grid on camera right (almost behind subject)

Azbar
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/200 at f5,6 with a 24-70 at 48mm – ISO 800 + one flash through a grid on camera left aiming subject’s face and one flash through an umbrella on left aiming (and very close to) the control panel held by the subject


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