Daniel Camer – interview du photographe

I am a photographer from Toronto, Canada, and I have been shooting for a few years now, having just recently taken a large interest in fashion.  My hobbies include marketing and a passion of mine is to help my friends yield better profits through the implication of cost-saving measures.

I love steak, medium-rare.  Pizza is also good.

I don’t get up–I wake up on Monday.

Toronto, Canada.

I see myself benefitting from my business background and doing photography on-the-side to grow as an artist.

By accident!  Funny story, but almost everyone I know who can hold their photographic weight has come to the industry by pure coincidence and has fallen in love with the art.

Not at all, I follow my mind, and my mind follows a complex combination of technicalities and art forms.

Realistically, working hard and achieving success one step at a time.  Ideally, being a celebrity and/or sitting on a pile of cash.

I couldn’t.  If I could, I wouldn’t bother shooting anymore.  My style, is to be different, yet the same.  I told you it is hard to describe.  Essentially, my style is about conforming to the general rule of photography and commerciality, but not compromising the fact that I am an artist as well and that delicate care must be put into each image to ensure my photos don’t just look like the next person’s.

Different, yet still the same.

A combination of 2012’s top and most powerful celebrities, with the help of the most influential PR and media professionals, I would like to set up a very artistic shoot, create something magnificent, then sell it for millions and donate the profits to charity.

All shoots are as glamorous as you think.  I define glamor as walking among the celebrities and not bowing down to them as some sort of God.  I see them just as another person that I’m capturing with my camera.  I know you do not see too many celebrities on my website, if any at all really, but the reason for that is due to the fact that I have been on photoshoots where they have perhaps been nearly naked–not something they immediately want shared, and I respect that.

Always with a team, you cannot conquer the world without supporters.

I cannot put down my Canon 5D Mark II, with my Sigma F2.8 70-200 lens.  I literally have tried out every lense out there, but since I shoot people, I love the versatility of my 70-200 lens.  Funny, I was about to purchase the Canon F2.8 70-200 when I compared the two lenses online–not only was the Sigma less expensive, but it was sharper as well!

I’m sure you love the light, what lighting equipment you use the most ?

I’m a huge fan of cheap strobes, unless I’m on set of a really massive production.  For now, my Alienbees have been more than dear to me.

None.  You can be a great photographer with just a Canon rebel, and the sun.

This relates to the last question.  I find myself stepping away from my lighting equipment and back towards natural light, whether it be hard light from the sun or soft light in the shadows, I find that the natural beauty this world has to offer is not captured enough.  I’ve included an image with this interview so that you may see what all natural light (no reflectors) looks like through my eyes.  I shot this during the summer of 2011. [Note: il s’agit de la photo en tête d’article]

I love all films but if I had to choose, I would probably still choose 10.

I don’t follow the work of anyone and thus I could not tell you.  I keep my style original by avoiding looking at the work of others.

My website, as well as some of my work.  Links to other social media are on there as well.

Thanks a lot for your time, i hope to meet you again !