ENTERTAINING IMAGES

During the summer there are no classes in the Digital Photography program.  But this doesn't mean the faculty are not busy.  Quite the contrary!

Coordinator Richard Beland is preparing for the Fall and Winter semesters with new faculty, course design, and plenty of organizing. 

One of Lambton Digital Photography's strong points is the faculty are all active working professional image makers.  You will be learning from current, experienced individuals who are leaders in their specialty areas.

Richard is an entertainment and music photography specialist.  He works with performers from many different genres covering stars of from all eras.

In the past month alone he has photographed:
 -Serena Ryder (as TBEX the Travel Bloggers Event at Roy Thompson Hall)
-Chilliwack
-Don Rickels
-Russell Peters
-Frankie Valli
-Gordon Lightfoot
-Il Divo
-Sheena Easton
-Trace Adkins
-Aaron Lines
at Fallsview Casino Resort
Ontario Lottery and Gaming

Learning how to work in an industry is key to your success.  At Lambton you will be learning from faculty who are doing it now.

Serena Ryder  Photo by Richard Beland

Funny man Don Rickels with Richard Beland

VIDEO COMMERCIAL

Our newest faculty member Troy Shantz (a more formal introduction to come soon) has produced a fast paced, catchy commercial message about the Lambton Digital Photography program.

The commercial will be on screen at the new eight auditorium Sarnia Galaxy Cinemas. 

We are working hard to get the word out in the community about this special new program and the commercial being played on the big screen is an exciting development!


Take a look!

OPEN HOUSE INTEREST

The Lambton College Digital Photography Open House was a great success.  In attendance were faculty, a present student, newly registered students and a line of interested visitors.  Everyone got to see first hand the state-of-the-art Studio set up with a gallery of images from our first year students.

Faculty met with prospective students and curious community members.  And the three hour session went by quickly as we shared our vision with the visitors.  Thanks to everyone who was able to drop by.  Word about this great program is spreading quickly.  

In addition to the Open House, the main Lambton Program page has been updated with links to faculty websites.  

LINK to Program webpage


Check back often for more updates and news.

Lamton Digital Photography OPEN HOUSE TODAY 4:00-7:00 PM

HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US TODAY!

 

June 20th, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Digital Photography Studio, LI319, Lambton INN,

Lambton College Sarnia, Ontario

 

The Digital Photography Open House will feature a tour of the studio followed by one-on-one conversations with faculty. Student art will also be on display.  Come see your future in Photography
Shuttles to the Lambton INN will be available from the main campus until 6:00 p.m.

For more information regarding the Digital Photography program at Lambton College, visit www.lambtoncollege.ca/PHTD

 

Welcome faculty LORRIE WILLIAMS

Lorrie Williams

Lambton Digital Photography is very excited to introduce, and welcome Lorrie Williams to our faculty team.  Lorrie will be teaching the Portrait/Wedding photography course starting this fall.  

The course is a natural fit for award-winning photographer Lorrie Williams, who for more than 30 years, has created images that capture the special moments and record the milestones for families, friends and couples.

 

Having photographed over 500 weddings in her career makes her a portrait and wedding expert and clearly shows her passion and dedication to the art of photography.

The link between Lorrie’s talent, skill and achievement is something that she is looking forward to sharing as a mentor and instructor in Lambton College’s Digital Photography Program.

www.lorriewilliams.com

Sarnia Photographic Club tour

About 70 members of the Sarnia Photographic Club toured the Lambton College Digital Photography studio on Tuesday, June 4th.   The Club was holding their annual awards dinner in the Lambton Inn and were eager to see the studio and facilities. 

Coordinator Richard Beland, faculty member Dave Chidley, studio manager Katie and student Mary Miller were kept busy answering questions about the program, classes, the studio and the school experience.

It was a very worthwhile gathering for both the school and the Photographic Club.  The club members are keen to spread the news about the exciting new Lambton Photography program in the community.  Many of the club members are eager to explore the possibility of attending the program in some capacity.

Seeing some great photographs from our students, testing out the "Cove" and some studio lighting equipment gave the club members a taste of the possibilities here at Lambton.

If you want to see the facilities and learm more about the program, please join us for our Open House:

June 20th, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Digital Photography Studio, LI319, Lambton INN,

Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario

Who and Guess Who?

Randy Bachman of The Guess Who

I was assigned by The Canadian Press to cover the Season Opening Gala of the Stratford Festival on Monday and then the Opening of the Rock Opera, Tommy on Thursday evening.  

Both photo shoots involved a lot of red carpet, celebrity smiles and interviews.  These are quick and hectic happenings as the guests and stars make their way into the theatre in a short time frame. 

At the Tommy opening a funny twist on the celebrities occured when Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Pete Townshend of the Who both attended the opening.  

 Townshend wrote Tommy and was thrilled with the Stratford production.  

Pete Townshend of The Who

The legendary rockers went un-noticed by a group high school aged patrons despite the close proximity.  

Who and Guess Who, really did apply to them!  Stratford openings are always fun shoots, and it looked like the rockers were enjoying themselves too.  

 

-Dave Chidley, Faculty





DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN HOUSE JUNE 20, 4:00-7:00

June 20th, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Digital Photography Studio, LI319, Lambton INN,

Lambton College

The Digital Photography Open House will feature a tour of the studio followed by one-on-one conversations with faculty. Student art will also be on display.  Come see your future in Photography
Shuttles to the Lambton INN will be available from the main campus until 6:00 p.m.

For more information regarding the Digital Photography program at Lambton College, visit www.lambtoncollege.ca/PHTD

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Lambton Photo Competition

As promised, this week we will post the results of the Lambton College Digital Photography Competition. All first year students in the program were eligible to enter, and all did, presenting their best photos in the four categories of Nature, Portrait, Commercial and Unclassified. The scores from each category were totalled to produce an overall award.

The competition was judged by a panel of professional photographers from Toronto.

The overall award winner was Spencer Drake, who won the Geri Freeborn Memorial Award, this was a plaque and a $200 scholarship towards tuition to year 2. He narrowly edged out Kaitlyn Eastman, who won a $100 Gift Certificate from Henry's Photo in London, and a Henry's tripod. Fera Kennedy took the third place prize of a $100 Gift basket from Paddy Flaherty's, site of the awards presentation.

In the Nature Category, Jeff McCoy won for his photo of a hawk. The prize was a $15 gift certificate from Vistek, and a $25 gift certificate from Toronto Image Works.

In the Portrait Category Kaitlyn Eastman won a $15 gift certificate from Vistek, and a $25 gift certificate from Toronto Image Works.

In the Commercial Category Spencer Drake won  a $15 gift certificate from Vistek, and a $25 gift certificate from Toronto Image Works.

In the Unclassified Category Angela Smolders won a $15 gift certificate from Vistek, and a $25 gift certificate from Toronto Image Works.

We look forward to next April, when the awards will add another category with both first and second year competitions.

Lambton Students Win at Local Competition

Things at Lambton have slowed down a bit over the past few weeks, now that the students have (mostly) successfully completed their first year of studies. The faculty are hard at work producing materials for the second year of the program, as well as getting ready for the new group of first year students coming in this September. 

We have a few items to announce this week. For the first time Lambton students joined those from Fanshawe’s much larger program at the Mary Webb’s Fourth Annual Year-end Exhibition at the Mary Webb Centre in Highgate (near London). We were surprised to discover that two of our first year students won prized. Ann Marie D’Hondt  won the first place Mary Webb Prize, and $75 for her photo (above), while Sarah Di Donato won an honourable mention for the photo below.

Next week we will post the results of Lambton’s own internal competition.

VIP Day

On March 13, 2013 Lambton College hosted their very first VIP day where perspective students got a first hand look into our creative programs. In addition to tours of the college and its facilities, this exclusive event offered a look not only into our digital photography program, but also into the fashion business/fashion sales and merchandising, hairstyling and esthetics, and culinary programs. The day consisted of perspective photography students snapping shots of models made-over by hairstyling and esthetics students, styled by our fashion students, and had lunch courtesy of the culinary students. 

Photo by student Jeff McCoy

Special thanks go out to everyone who made the day such a success, Richard Beland, Don McCahill, Lori Kaempf, Alastair MacKay, Anja Cristensen, and all our amazing students who represented our College well. All in all it was a very successful event for Lambton College and we look forward to seeing each enthusiastic student in September!

Margaret Trudeau Visits Lambton College

 The Workplace Wellness Committee in partnership with the Sarnia Lambton Workforce Development Board welcomed Margaret Trudeau for a Keynote Presentation on March 27^th at the Lambton Inn.

Margaret is well known as Canada’s youngest first lady when she married Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1971 at age twenty-two. While appearing to lead a charmed and glamorous life, Margaret was struggling with bi-polar disorder.

She is now dedicated to helping others overcome the stigma of mental illness, and in her new highly anticipated book, Changing My Mind, she shares her insight about the mental illness that that affected her life so profoundly.

Margaret attended breakfast in the ballroom and spoke about mental health issues and how they impact the workplace, then stopped by our photo studio for a photo-op shot by Richard Beland.

Photo by student Angela Smoulders

Carolyn Grayson Visit

Guest Speaker: Carolyn Grayson

On March 25, 2013, guest speaker Carolyn Grayson paid a visit to our Digital Photography class.  Carolyn is a professor here at Lambton College, teaching Anatomy and Physiology. She considers herself an avid amateur photographer, but in reality she is anything but amateur. Carolyn excels in nature photography and covered topics such as macro photography and flash duration, things she employs to capture stunning photos of Hummingbirds in flight.

Below are all photos of Carolyn's including a beautiful landscape in Ecuador (middle), and a  violet-tailed sylph (bottom).

Photographer’s Forum Magazine Contest Finalist

      Lambton College’s Digital Photography Program is proud to announce that a photo entered by former student Geri Freeborn was selected as a finalist in Photographer’s Forum magazine’s 33^rd Annual College and High School Photography Contest. Geri’s photo was selected out of 16,700 entries from students all across Canada, the U.S., and all around the world. It will also be included in a hardcover book called “Best of College & High School Photography 2013” along with the work of all the winners and finalists. We are very proud that a passionate student like Geri was given this honour, and that her hard work was recognized.

Guest Speaker: Jason Ransom

      Lambton’s Digital Photography Program was pleased to welcome the Prime Minister’s Personal Photographer, Jason Ransom, on February 26, 2013.

     Ransom is a Photojournalist based out of Ottawa, Ontario, and has worked as Stephen Harper’s Personal Photographer since 2006. After graduating from the Fanshawe College Photography Program, Jason began his professional career working for newspapers such as the Woodstock Sentinel-Review, and The Ottawa Sun. He has won several industry awards including being named the Ontario Newspaper Awards’ Photojournalist of the Year in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

      Jason talked to the class about his experiences working as a Professional Photographer, and showed a presentation of all his best work including photos from his days working for newspapers, his various travels with the Prime Minister, and the Olympic games in London this past summer. Jason also took the time to sit down with each of our students and critique portfolios of their best work.