Jen Grantham / Toronto Photographer

February Family Portraits

Jen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:00:39 +0000

I haven’t posted in over a month (!) so I wanted to add some new family portraits. I met Kathryn at a holiday party in December, and this past weekend I went over to her place to take some pictures of her adorable boys. After taking a few pictures at home, we headed over to Allen Gardens and took some pictures in the warmth.

I love photographing babies. They have the best facial expressions!

And finally, I want to share this outtake because it makes me laugh every time. This was when I was doing a few close portraits of 5-month-old Dominik and he decided to put his hand in his mouth. Kathryn pulled it out and he made this face:

Awesome.

SidePonyNation

Jen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:28:45 +0000

Happy New Year!

Before the holidays, the Toronto Strobist Group met in the studio for a fun shoot. My job ended up being to organize our models for the day, so I put up an ad on Craigslist and found these two girls. They’re in a band called SidePonyNation, and they were hilarious. So much energy and lots of fun to work with. They were posing even before we had the lights set up.

You can see more pictures on Flickr.

Maria

Jen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:16:03 +0000

I have a massive backlog of pictures to post. I’ve been spending a lot of time shooting and even more time editing. Here are some more from my Photography of People portrait photography class.

This time last year, I had literally zero interest in studio photography. I was all about candid portraits in natural light. Well, I was wrong. Studio portraiture is fun.

This is Maria. She is a makeup artist and super cute model.

James

Jen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:44:11 +0000

This is James, a dancer. Another model from my Photography of People class.

Anna

Jen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:30:10 +0000

This shoot was from back in September.

Model: Anna
Makeup: Elisa Doyon-Vachon

Ben & Andrew

Jen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:31:54 +0000

I have been meaning to post more pictures from my “Photography of People” class (see: Danica and Daniel).

This is Andrew:

This is Ben:

These pictures were taken at the end of September, which feels like a million years ago. I am finally making my way through my editing backlog, hooray!

Daniel

Jen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:24 +0000

Here are some more pictures from my class at George Brown College.

This is Daniel Mais, a great model who also happens to be a very talented photographer!

Toronto Zombie Walk 2009

Jen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:25:26 +0000

Here are a few pictures from the 2009 Toronto Zombie Walk, which occurred this afternoon.

I’ll be adding more to Flickr very soon!

You can see last year’s pictures here.

Danica

Jen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:06:46 +0000

I’m taking a night class at George Brown College called “Photography of People”. Each week, we take turns working with different models and lighting set-ups. One of last night’s models was Danica Kotsopoulos, a jazz singer. She was fantastic, and it was only her first time modelling! Here are some pictures:

I’m catching up on all of my editing for class, so I’ll post more pictures soon.

Chelsea + Eric’s Engagement

Jen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:43:09 +0000

I had an engagement photography session with Chelsea & Eric and their adorable daughter Lila this past weekend.

The day started out as a little bit of a disaster, because our location was completely packed! I got there about half an hour early and drove around, got lost, pulled over onto a side street, and ended up at Todmorden Mills completely by accident. It ended up being the perfect location! We only stayed for around an hour because it started to rain, but we still managed to get some fun shots.

I’m very excited to be shooting their wedding next August in Israel!