Words of a Poet

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Lady Katalyst is a spoken word flowicists with words for every occasion. She is based in Montreal Canada; and has been performing professionally as a solo artist and with the Kalmunity Vibe Collective throughout Canada and parts of the US for over six years. Her styles range from Hiphop to Jazz to melodic flows that will simultaneously remind you of Estrud Gilberto and Lady Bug. Katalyst has been recognized along with her Kalmunity crew mates in the Montreal Mirror’s Best of Montreal’s 1 Spoken Word Act for three years in a row and in 2008 she was voted in the top ten as a solo artist. [...Read More]

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Hired by the Kalmunity Collective, I was given a tight 7 hour period to shoot 14 artists within a dance studio, armed with nothing more than one very helpful assistant (Sean Cronin) and my tiny little flashes.

I have to admit it was a pretty big challenge coming out with a constant stream of unique ideas while being cooped up in one location, but things were definitely not as hard as they could have been. The uniqueness of each artist definitely helped inspire a great number of shots and I had a blast!

Over the next week or so I’ll be throwing up pics as I get feedback from the artists. Hope you guys enjoy!

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The Lady Katalyst shoot was deceptively simple. The concept was simple - to have an artist and her work in one homogeneous image.

Using one strobe on a fully extended lightstand held up by the ever-helpful Sean at a 90 degree angle, I got a very dramatic light that created a nice hard shadow as well as a natural vignetting around the white wall. In three shots, I was satisfied with the result and moved on to take a couple quick shots of an excerpt of poetry written in Lady Katalyst’s journal to later merge them together in photoshop.

More to come … ^^
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1x Sb-800 on a fully extended light stand pointing downwards

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Model: *Katalysta Cinco
Assistant: Sean Cronin
Location: Dance Studio

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Nikon D300
Adobe Photoshop CS4
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