Les Chasseurs de Reves – Curious beasts

February 15, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Dream dreamy saga continues. Although this definitely would have made a better "intro" image I really like how curious the birds look… as if they were entering a new world for the first time. Here's to new beginnings!

The video's are still being worked on! Shiloh's putting together an amazing documentary while Pakdi … well, he's going on a forced vacation for a little while… but hopefully things will be sorted soon!

In other news, I have a crazy photoshoot coming up with THE AGONIST in a couple days… stay tuned. Short deadline on that one so shots will probably be up within weeks!

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The craftmanship of these hand made birds was absolutely fantastic and it was impressive to see how much detail went into the design. Go check out Jocelyne's website to learn more about these fantastic creatures: http://www.leschasseursdereves.com/fr /

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Troupe Les Chasseurs de rêves/
Jocelyne Meugnier: directrice de la troupe , designer des costumes / La Bergère
Les oiseaux: Marykristñ Simoneau (l'oiseau bleu), Gabrielle Garant (l'oiseau multicolre), Simon Rioux (l'oiseau rouge) /
www.leschasseursdereves.com/fr /

Photographe: Benjamin Wong / Von wong photography/Montreal based photographer
www.facebook.com/vonwongphotography /

Styliste / costumes: Jocelyne Meugnier /
MUA: Les Chasseurs de rêves /
Assistants: Jessica Chiasson , Kaleena Jay, May Lim,Jared Reid,Christine Claire Deita /
Videastes BTS: Pakdi Decnud, Shi Loh /
Photographe BTS: Monique Guilbault /

Behind the Scenes Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.305134882837009.95338.100000214982840&type=3

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Les Chasseurs de Reves – A walk in the woods

February 5, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Hey guys! I've finally had the chance to catch up a bit on some editing… here's a shot I did with some wooden birds a couple months back! We've been working hard on the behind the scenes video as well as an interview we just completed Sunday so more on that pretty soon !

Great fun shooting this and we even had some passerbys volunteer to help us throw leaves to make this shot possible!

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Photographe: Benjamin Wong / Von wong photography/Montreal based photographer
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Behind the Scenes Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.305134882837009.95338.100000214982840&type=3

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BJM – Fuel – Cayetano Solo

January 17, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Yet another shot from the same dancer series. I'm wondering how many of these I should put up… got a whole bunch but scared to have them too repetitive!

Had some great feedback so far though, glad you guys love what you see

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About 3 months ago I was hired by Ballet Jazz Montreal to have a live photoshoot at la Place des Arts to represent a choreography of Cayetano Solo's piece – "Fuel". For the shoot, we rented a 200$ dry ice fog machine that we actually overused to the point of freezing haha… the smoke output was pretty amazing though! Was an amazing day… and everyone loved the results !!

I finally got permission to release a couple shots… hope you like them!

Alan Khol was on site hired to film a BTS and if you're interseted, please check it out here: http://vimeo.com/32205689

Strobist Info:
2x Einsteins and 2x WL X1600s on either side of the models (about 90 degrees) in extra large/large softboxs respectively
Triggered with Cybersyncs

Credits:

Artistic Director : Louis Robitaille
Artistic Coordinator : Céline Cassone
Dancers : Christina Bodie, Kevin Delaney, Alyssa Desmarais, Alexandra Gerchman, James Gregg, Morgane Le Tiec, Andie Masazza, Brett Taylor
Photographer : Benjamin Von Wong
Retouch: Jessika Chiasson
Assists: Monique Guilbeault, Nadia Zheng, Richard Blouin
Videast : Alan Kohl
Make up Artist : Holt Renfrew
Hair Dresser Company : La Boite à coiffer

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BJM – Fuel – Cayetano Solo

January 16, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I finally got permission to release a couple shots… hope you like them!

Alan Khol was on site hired to film a BTS and if you're interseted, please check it out here: http://vimeo.com/32205689

Credits:

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BJM – Fuel – Cayetano Solo

January 15, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I finally got permission to release a couple shots… hope you like them!

Alan Khol was on site hired to film a BTS and if you're interseted, please check it out here: http://vimeo.com/32205689

Credits:

Artistic Director : Louis Robitaille
Artistic Coordinator : Céline Cassone
Dancers : Christina Bodie, Kevin Delaney, Alyssa Desmarais, Alexandra Gerchman, James Gregg, Morgane Le Tiec, Andie Masazza, Brett Taylor
Photographer : Benjamin Von Wong
Retouch: Jessika Chiasson
Assists: Monique Guilbeault, Nadia Zheng
Videast : Alan Kohl
Make up Artist : Holt Renfrew
Hair Dresser Company : La Boite à coiffer

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Wheelie!

January 3, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Hey guys !

A second shot of the shoot we did for the fstoppers 2011 BTS video contest ! Really wished his entire body would have been lit on flames but…Ahhhh … summertime we shall make this more epic…

I prob won't have internet by the time this uploads (on delayed upload) so please tag yourselves!

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For this shoot I wanted to take things a little farther than usual… so I shot a stuntman performing sunt combos on motorcycle… but of course just that wouldnt do it… sooo we lit him on fire !!

Be sure to check out the BTS contest video by Erwan over here and see all the sad mishaps!

http://fstoppers.com/btsv-contest-entry-man-on-fire-literally

Credits:

Photographer: Benjamin Von Wong
Video: Erwan Cloarec
Stuntman: Felix Famelart
2nd Camera: Shiloh Sheray
3rd Camera: Eric Bindman

BTS: Monique Guilbault

Assistants:
David Garand
Juan Francisco Leyva
Jo Gorsky
Guillaume Briand
Kalan Carlier
Kelso Rebel

FIREMAN

December 31, 2011 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Hey guys !

Here are the results from a shoot we did for the fstoppers 2011 BTS video contest !

The pictures turned out, despite the problems and mishaps we had to face during the shooting.

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For this shoot I wanted to take things a little farther than usual… so I shot a stuntman performing sunt combos on motorcycle… but of course just that wouldnt do it… sooo we lit him on fire !!

You can see the video here !

http://fstoppers.com/btsv-contest-entry-man-on-fire-literally

Dont forget to check out stunt.ca as well !!!

annd… HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE !!!!

L

December 20, 2011 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Uploaded from the Toronto airport. Wish you guys all a great evening… !

I may be out of contact for a while … heading off to Namibia to take some awesome safari photos !

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I was recently offered the chance to give a review on an Igus w1080b slider review from www.igus.com. Deciding to make things a little more exciting by adding a little bit of shine and sparkle, I used the opportunity to shoot local visual kei guitar player Yameki and create some DIY bokeh in the video review.

Head off to DIY photography to check out the full post/video!

http://diyphotography.net/igus-w1080-b-slider-review-and-dollarama-bokeh

Credits:

Photo: Von Wong
Model: Yameki
Retouch: Jessika Chiasson
MUA: Jessica Lefebvre
Assists: Laurie Pigeon, Jessika Chiasson
Video: Pakdi Decnud

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