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My photography style is evolving to include documentary portrait

Richard — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:33:21 +0000

I like to say, I’m documenting pop culture along the way in describing my primary style and interests.

I decided in 2010 to introduce another style into my shooting arsenal – the documentary portrait.

Whether its street shooting, celebrity news, or documentary portrait – never hesitate to contact me about photography assignments.

photographer Steve Carty by Richard Budman

Branded video is a great way to market shot7.com photograph services

Richard — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:39:15 +0000

Even with the business of shot7.com being photographs – I knew a branded video strategy and shot7 youtube channel was something I wanted utilize. There would simply be too much good celebrity video content to not take advantage of. And recently – a shot7 video even got the blogs talking.

The opening graphic bumper was made from some Megan Fox video I captured during the 2009 film festival. I remembered video from that Fox night on the red carpet from the sounds – the intensity of all those camera clicks and photographer shouts were sounds I would not soon forget. It would make great source video for the opening, and after some playing around in Adobe After Effects – we would have our shot7 bumper.

Social media marketing and Twittering Film Festival news with The Cadillac TIFFinsider

Richard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:10 +0000

During August and September of 2009 I was the TIFFinsider on behalf of General Motor’s Cadillac brand in a project for the Maclaren Momentum agency. Over the course of the film festival, over fifty blog stories were posted to the TIFFinsider.ca site.

I further developed the Twitter.com/tiffinsider account. Over the course of six-weeks, the Twitter account amassed over 1,400 followers. Hundreds of exclusive tiff photos were shot and uploaded to twitPic and Flickr which saw tens of thousands of views during the campaign. Also established the TIFFinsider YouTube channel, and with nineteen videos uploaded has seen over 25,000 views cumulative.

I consulted and made recommendations to the Maclaren Momentum technical people regarding blog design, SEO, and issues related to server security, maintenance, and plug-in recommendations on the Wordpress managed blog.

When Prince Charles visits Canada – a great time for KayvonTV content marketing

Richard — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:38:22 +0000

When we heard the future King, Prince Charles and Camilla would visit Canada on an official Royal Tour – it was something we had to get KayvonTV rolling for. Sure, the content was a natural fit for the underlying theme of the show, that is, Kayvon’s British heritage.

But in gearing up for the premiere of the show in early 2010 on cable TV in Canada – the shots I got from Kayvon’s meeting with Prince Charles provide the perfect content to mark-up with some graphics and provide some promos to distribute through Facebook and Twitter to tease the coming soon of the show. This type of content marketing proves even more effective when done in the midst of a news cycle event that is been heavily reported, like the Royal’s visit to Canada was.

Curious to what went down between Kayvon and Prince Charles? While you’ll have to tune into AUX and BITE TV (in Canada) during early 2010 to exactly find out – I can say it does involve Kayvon’s quest to have TEA with Charles (what else for two distinguished British chaps to do?)

Toronto Jazz Festival main stage events 2009

Richard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:00:31 +0000

Did my annual gig at the Toronto Jazz Festival again this year. Pretty happy with most of what I shot. Jamie Cullum was the show that really blew me away and was my surprise of the festival.

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This was a good week for shooting Usain Bolt news pics and KayvonTV viral video

Richard — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:33:35 +0000

Two cool photo opportunities crashed together on the same day this week. The world’s media was focused on Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt who was making an appearance in Toronto for a race this week.

Over at Toronto’s City Hall – Legendary rapper KRS-one was holding down a town hall. A classic KayvonTV episode went viral from the event. Besides seeing the video picked up by lots of music news blogs, I also noticed that Toronto Mayor Miller’s right-hand man sent the link through his twitter network.

A good exclusive I kinda blew – DIANE Keaton tours Union train station in Toronto

Richard — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:14:29 +0000

The Scrawler, Mr. Joe Warmington, of The Toronto Sun picked up on my Diane Keaton at Union Station story and published a photo in today’s Saturday Sun. Nice, big, and in colour – which is always nice.

Its been good to see my Keaton story travel to so many news sites – and make it into print in a couple of nice places. But I personally will never be totally happy with that shoot. I will always feel I blew the Keaton exclusive. My shots should have been better considering the circumstances. I just didn’t get close enough.

When other aspiring photographers ask me for that one good rule. I never hesitate to say, “get as close to your subject as you possibly can.”

Toronto Sun: Billy Bob Thornton the day after his CBC interview at Massey Hall

Richard — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:09:29 +0000

It was a little surprising to see the Billy Bob Thornton interview blow up into such a big story. But when it did – and realizing he still had another show to do at Massey Hall hall that evening, I decided to head to the venue and see what the scene was like before the show. Sure enough, the story was now big enough that a large group of media and fans were buzzing about the stage door at Massey.

shooting Paul McCartney: Going over the crowd with my Canon S5 and it’s tilt screen was the right choice

Richard — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:49:27 +0000

After having such great success shooting the press conference inside Radio City with Paul and Ringo the day before – I decided I would set up outside of Radio Cty for the soundcheck arrival of the participants.

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