Sexual Harassment on the Hill Feature for Maclean's

Last month I was asked to photograph a number of female MP's who would be interviewed as part of a story Maclean's was doing on sexual harassment on the hill.

There were many tight schedules to work with, but it all came together and ended in a double page spread for the magazine.

We used a Profoto D2 with a Deep White Umbrella XL with diffusion coming through a Lastolite 6x6 Skylite Rapid as the main source. We wanted the light to be from a very soft, large source and this combination helped achieve that painterly quality we were after. There was a second D2 head with another XL umbrella/diffusion combo as the fill. Triggered and controlled by Profoto Air Remote and USB.

I use a Nikon D800 with a 24-70mm 2.8 lens tethered via TetherTools to CaptureOnePro. It was extremely important to tether for this assignment to check the placement of each person in relation to one another, and leave enough room for the copy and gutter. It was also great to apply a quick colour and toning treatment to get a feel of the final look. We also had Capture Pilot running to an iPad so that we had two screens displaying everything live as we shot - a very useful tool when you have a few eyes needing to see and approve images on the fly while running around.

An enormous thanks to Liz Sullivan at Maclean's for assigning this important shoot to me and coming all the way down from Toronto for it. Big shoutouts to Josh Hotz for killer assisting work as usual. Notably for rolling an extra massive cart of gear from downtown all the way up the hill (they don't call it that for nothing), digi-teching and doing some quick mockup work on set, taking BTS, and lending me his hand painted canvas backdrops. And finally an extremely enthusiastic thank you to Kyleigh Telford for all her talented retouching work under the pressure of a very quick turnaround!