University College Revitalization Project

It has been so exciting exploring this new avenue of photography! In school we took an architecture course and while Ethan enjoyed it, I (Stef) did not necessarily find it to be my calling haha. The more we balance our time between editorial work and weddings the more I begin to love the stress of a high pressure day; when things are moving quickly, when you get so few chances to get things right, when you have to know how to improvise; high risk high reward you know. And interior / architecture photography is not quite that; it is a lot of patience and making small, intentional, adjustments along the way.

I wouldn’t consider ourselves full-fledged interior photographers but when the opportunity came up to photograph the newly revitalized spaces at University College we couldn’t say no. The spaces themselves are beautiful and having worked with the University of Toronto many times before we know we’re in good company.

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Lifestyle Session with Rebecca Hay Designs

ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS IS TO WORK WITH REPEATING CLIENTS TO CONTINUE BUILDING OUR RELATIONSHIP TOGETHER

The last time we shot with Rebecca and her team things were different. There were contractors finishing up, plastic wrap everywhere, and it was chaotic. When we started planning this new shoot we said, let’s slow things down. Rebecca Hay Designs were working on putting together a showroom for a new development in Aurora and before going in to shoot we made a game plan that included a moodboard, outfit changes, and even a make up artist!

Our last session together was very documentary focused, shooting as things were happening and being a fly on the wall but for this session we took a more intentional and lifestyle approach to shooting.

Rebecca put herself into her showroom demonstrating how this model home can be used everyday by the on-the-go, always working, woman and even the “where do these toys even come from?!” real life mom.

For most of this shoot we rotated between individually shooting setups, reflecting, giving direction, and even a little bit of prop styling (a la effortless throwing toys everywhere).

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