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Corrie Side

I am an honours student currently in my second year of Photographic Technology study at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

My specialty is capturing the world in a quirky, slightly off way. I shoot beauty and fashion, editorial and commercial work, and my absolute favorite past-time is retouching skin and photo manipulation in Photoshop.

Please feel free to contact me for job inquiries, or if you'd like me to talk at a photography workshop. I hope to work with you soon!

Category Archives: Black and White

02.07.12

Solitude Theme

I was given a theme of solitude/mystery to shoot, so I told my dear friend and model to grab a hat, trench coat, and a large knife and we’ll head out and do a shoot. Unfortunately he shot me down, concerned about the legality of carrying a knife in public. I guess it’s probably not legal to be around downtown at night, waving a knife around? So instead we grabbed an old suit case for a prop instead. In the end, we didn’t need anything to capture the mood.

I also hope it’s not illegal to share this amazing cat with you. My biggest worry is that my instagram will become overloaded with cat pictures. Is it a crime to love your pet? Is it a crime to spam everyone with photos of it 24/7? Okay, probably. I try to restrain myself as best as I can

02.06.12

Fine Art Experimental Portrait

One of my favorite classes at the NAIT Photographic Technology programme is Fine Art photography. Our first assignment was to remove ourselves as the photographer from a portrait. You could ask people to take a picture of themselves while they felt comfortable, tell them something silly and snap their shot when they didn’t expect it, etc. My “thing” is self portraits, so I decided to do an experimental self portrait in which I had a natural smile. Something that is extremely rare when reviewing my 200-something self portraits.

To do the experiment I simply set up a black background and a simple two-light set up on my couch, in front of the tv. I set my camera to take a picture ever 25 seconds, and watched SNL reruns until I got a natural cracking up, smiling like an idiot capture. I think I got about 600 photos from the couple-of-hours long session, of which about 30 were interesting looking expressions – not the bored t.v. stare.

Here are two of my favorite/most idiotic/infectious looking smiles

12.15.11

Last NAIT assignment of 2011

Yay! Finally it’s almost Christmas break…

Here is my final portrait class assignment for this year… a self portrait for an editorial assignment. I pose with my best purchase ever, Margarita, the bald head. She helps me with lighting set ups, however she really needs to get some hair quick.

One more semester at NAIT until I graduate! What an incredible experience! I have improved so much as a photographer – coming in with the bare essentials and now I feel like I theoretically conquer any lighting dilemma! I have also very much improved at transforming theoretical solutions into a real solution with experimentation – flagging lights, gridding lights, it’s such a magical world!

My dear friend Sabine Shabbits also took my photo for her assignment… I’ll post it below, but all the credit belongs to her! Please check out her website at http://busybean.zenfolio.com/. She is my partner in crime for very many things that happen at NAIT…

11.23.11

Shane Gibson Headshots

Recently a local Ukranian dance instructor, Shane Gibson, asked me to take some head shots. Here is a preview from the shoot! Shane was a blast to work with, and I’d love to take some photos of him or his students dancing.

As a totally random side note, I dabbled in Ukrainian dancing in my past. Check out the above slideshow for the evidence…

03.11.11

Wendy Black & the Body Snatchers Shoot

This March I had the privilege of shooting the talented local musician/photographer/artist Amanda Trajkovski, at the NAIT studios. Below are some of the photos from the shoot.