Francis Vachon Photographe

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September 21, 2007

High noon portrait with one off-camera flash

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Inside David X. Tejada’s Lighting Bags

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September 20, 2007

Bouchard-Taylor commission

Wednesday evening, I drove 200km to get to Jonquière, now known as Saguenay, to cover the Bouchard-Taylor commission (not from Quebec? Explanation here).

So for 3 hours, you have a president of commission listening to a bunch of people taking the mic to speak their mind.

What do you do?

First, you go for the obvious. You get the president as he speaks; you take people in the crowd who are not just reading a paper to explain their point.

And after a while, you try to go for the less obvious. You see shadows, and you go really artsy fartsy. You go for the detail. Anything to get something different.

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September 18, 2007

The power of Google

I made it. If you google photojournalist Quebec city or Editorial photographer Quebec City, I’m right there in the first 3 spots. Today, one of my two jobs was for a magazine in Toronto that needed someone to get a portrait of a restaurant owner. I did not asked, but I’m pretty sure that they found me thru Google.

So 2 jobs today and a job for the Gazette last Thursday, just before leaving for the 3 days equestrian event in Bromont. That adds to 2 requests I got today to cover upcoming events (one thru Google) in the area and 2 stock photo requests. Yep, things are rolling pretty well!

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September 17, 2007

2007 Quebec equestrian game in Bromont

I spent the week-end in Bromont with Proaction-Photo to photograph the 2007 Quebec equestrian game. Got some neat shot, including a pretty bad fall.

2007 Quebec equestrian game in Bromont

2007 Quebec equestrian game in Bromont

2007 Quebec equestrian game in Bromont

2007 Quebec equestrian game in Bromont

2007 Quebec equestrian game in Bromont

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September 13, 2007

Featured on TV

New client: Infoman TV show on Radio-Canada (French Version of CBC) with their “photoshop this photo” game. God bless a good archiving system for selling stock images!

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September 4, 2007

Reuter staffer follows Bush in Iraq


It was supposed to be a quiet weekend in Washington (…). I had just put on my mountain biking shoes, ready to clip into the pedals for a ride around the forest near Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, when I got THE CALL. It was a White House staffer, asking that we meet in three hours at a secret location known only to Reuters correspondent Matt Spetalnick and I, where we were to be told details of a special secret visit by U.S. President Bush to Iraq.

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September 3, 2007

Craving du jour

Some things never change, apparently. Pregnant Cindy = Cindy’s weird craving du jour. And today’s craving du jour is…. Beans!

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