SPADINA NIGHTS

Street photography has always been a point of comfort for me. It's a part of how I got my start as a cinematographer.

I used to spend weekends with friends and we'd just walk around Toronto and go to parties, shooting photos Friday to Sunday. Each week I'd come back with a few thousand shots. Over time that led to the ability to catch and balance compositions more efficiently. Sometimes there's only an instant where everything sits right in the frame. It's the most low stress training ground. Playing professionally.

This set is from Chinatown ( Spadina ) .

Another stack to the process is Colour Grading. Lately I've been spending a lot of time in classes, learning about the under the hood aspects of post colour. With the right information and the right tools ( sometimes custom tools) , I'm seeing that I can really dig in and enhance images as my understanding develops.

It's a little odd looking back realizing how much has changed over the past few years.