"The Tourists are Coming"

Jake + Jess from Kamp Photography have been posting videos in anticipation for their Caribbean wedding. This one I thought was great, check it out:

Friday Funnies

Have a fantastic Friday! And a great weekend.

Cheers - From Winnipeg Wedding Photographer Jeremy Dueck.

ArtBook again

And we have another ArtBook show up on the door step today. I made a studio sample as well, only with Metallic paper - come by and check them out.

Smoking Ribs!

We're going to deviate from photography for a moment and talk about food. Yeah! I love BBQ and tonight my wife and I are having ribs.

The secret to award winning ribs is thinking like Low-Riders. "Low and slow" is their motto. We need to do the same. Ribs need a low temperature (~300F) for 2 hours. It makes the meat so tender, it falls off the bone.

We take it a step further and do them on the BBQ instead of the oven. Now you can add the second secret - wood smoke. I prefer using apple or maple wood. It tends to add a nice "sweetness" to the ribs. The tough part is keeping a modern BBQ at such a low temperature. They tend to want to creep up to +400F. Here's what you do: light only one side of the burner and put the ribs over the unlit side. You might need to prop open the lid a centimeter or two. With the burner on low it should work and stay around 323-350F.



You'll notice my ribs are loosely wrapped in tinfoil. Inside they are coated in BBQ sauce (pick you favorite). The sauce (and water) tends to steam the ribs and keep them so moist and juicy. Why waste that sauce dripping all over the grill either? It just makes a huge mess! Use it to help cook the ribs. At the end of the cooking you can put them on a hot grill just to get some grill marks on the meat, adds a bit of depth.

Lastly, ribs need a good dry rub. The spices and ingredients you use make or break a good rib. Before you soak them in sauce and wrap them up in tinfoil, you need to rub the spices into the meat. Get it right in there - don't just shake the spices on - push and rub it into meat.

Tonight our ribs are a take off inspired by our trips to the Caribbean, Jamaican Jerk Ribs.

Oh and never boil your ribs - it just sucks the juices and flavor right out of them. The slow and low cooking will keep them tender.

Following these 3-4 secrets will reward you with ribs that have a depth and complexity of flavor that no restaurant can match. If they can - you know they're doing it this way.

Cheers!

Jeremy

Books and More Books

Got another shipment of client's books today. As mentioned below, I love it when they come in. I get to see the completion of all the hard work that went into photographing the wedding and designing our client's books.

These are without the Metal Cover.

LOST

Just been catching up on LOST. Man I love that show - one of the best shows ever. (Although the scheduling of the shows suck. The rhythm of the show gets lost too many times with the episodes so spread out.) Other than that it's great.

I was going to talk a bit about it but just thought Trev and Lois might not have started season 4 yet and I would just ruin it for them. (he does the same thing as me, download them off torrents. - no commercials and HD to boot!) Trev, if you are reading this - get on watching! Let's just say the plot just gets bigger.

I'm still waiting for more answers. It might too hard to wait till season 6 to get them all.

That would blow.

Summer Heat

Looks like Monday is suppose to get up to a high of 23C. YEAH! Looks like I'm going to the beach early this year. Anyone want to come along?



Tonight we're having some friends over for steak. This is the smell of spring; fresh warm air and the lovely whiff of red meat on the Bar-B. Man I love spring and summer!

ArtBooks - Like Christmas in April

One of my favorite things is when the UPS truck pulls up to my studio with another Bride Book from over seas. It's like Christmas all over again! Honestly I think I'm as excited to see the ArtBook as my brides are.


If you have never seen the ArtBook in real life you have got to come down and have a look. Most people are surprised at the weight of the book when they pick them up. It is heavy! Of course that's due in part to the metal covers, and the build quality is tops! Every book is hand made for our clients by select ArtBook elves.


Some great features are: photographic paper pages giving the best quality to your images - better blacks, brighter colors, smoother tones. The metallic photo paper option takes it one step further and adds a wonderful sense of 3D to the photos with amazing pop and punch!

Check out the seamless gutter, allowing full page panoramic spreads - no more parts of your photos getting lost in the gutter! and a lie flat stitched book binding that will last generations.


You can also get Parent copies and the ever popular PocketBooks.



I love to see the end result of a beautiful wedding day and craftsmanship come together like this. It makes for a fantastic heirloom for our clients! But it's tough - tough for me knowing that I have to give the book to the Bride and I will never see it again.


These are not your auntie's white paper albums with plastic sleeves over the photos.

If you want the best, this is it.

Ciao, from your 2007 Wedding Album of the Year Photographer -

Jeremy.

How do you See?

"The whole word inspires me. Photography is about the play of light on the world, capturing the deep emotions we feel and what matters to an individual. Photographs are as much about the photographer as they are about the image." Robert Cavalli

Well said Robert, well said...

Shooting film in the old days was an art, and I miss it. You know what that film is capable of doing with special processing; and how you see differently through the camera depending upon what film you used.

One of the great things about film is that when you put it in your camera, you stretch yourself to see things in the light of the commitment you made when you picked that specific roll in the first place. You force yourself to see in accordance with your decision.

Unfortunately that seems to have been lost in the digital world. That pre-visualization of what your are going to do with that image is lacking. It's too easy to fix it in Photoshop.

Go out and shoot a roll.