Yesterday I teamed up with fellow Lethbridge photographer Starsha Battrick (as assist) to shoot with Ravi Seyedmahmoud – University of Lethbridge student who recently volunteered with the Flying Doctors of Canada. I wanted to use an aviation location for this shoot, so I set off to get permission to shoot in Hangar no. 7 at the Lethbridge Airport; home to QL Aviation, Airwest Flight Support, and Executive Flight Centre. The staff at Airwest Flight Support were super friendly and eager to help, so I arrived with a Tim Horton’s gift card to thank them for their trouble.

Ravi was just in the process of visiting Lethbridge from Edmonton, so he was able to shoot with us on short notice. We hauled gear through the maze of airplanes parked on site, and proceeded to set lights and use some of the gorgeous available sunlight coming through the giant windows that surround the building. Ravi was fantastic to work with, and Starsha was an excellent extra set of hands for the day.

This was my first commercial shoot to use almost all manual focus prime lenses, I’m still getting the hang of focusing at such wide apertures – but I think you’ll agree the resulting photos benefit from such a shallow depth of field.

Here are some of the photos we submitted to Management Matters Magazine.

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1. Management Matters Magazine