Wide-Eyed and Wonderful
My name is Brianna.
I'm an amateur photographer, videographer and social media enthusiast! I'm also an avid theatre lover and dabbling in writing short stories.
I'm hoping to use this blog to share my own works as well as give and receive feedback on anything related to the stuff I love.
Also, I hope to use this as a place to explore and share the wonderful and the wacky, which is really what I'm all about!
Feel free to share anything you find interesting or worth talking about too!
Thanks for visiting!
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Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place…
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i love how the professor is like: whatever’s cool with me
because he loves his daughters...
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Who wants to play video games?
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You’re beautiful.
And not the kind of beautiful
That merely resides in the flesh
But the kind that’s buried
In all your layers
In the way... -
Just chilling with #KateMonster. I’m going to miss this gal… Thanks to everyone who came out and supported me with #avenueq. This show meant more to me than I can say.
This was a series of postcard/poster covers that I was commissioned to make for the MacLeads program at McMaster. It was fun to get creative and make some new vectors :)
This past Sunday I was lucky enough to I get to be a part of something so special. Watching Erikson John Canaria and Megan Lehman get engaged was beyond beautiful and I now know what the Grinch felt like when he discovered the true meaning of Christmas and his heart grew three sizes.
Congrats to you both! I can’t imagine a better pairing ♥
The video is a little shakey because I was so damn excited. Also, I tried to do all the edits real quick, so pardon some of them.
Everything was shot on my 5D Mark ii with a 50mm 1.8.
These are some behind the scenes shots from the film I’m producing for my senior thesis project at McMaster.
My partner Brad Dunn and I are remounting a production I co-wrote for my theatre thesis (thank you previous degree) based on the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman.
We were cast, rehearsing and filming all within a month and I cannot stress how amazing these people all were throughout this insane process. The talent just poured out of them at every moment and they are the loveliest, most positive group of actors I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with (save the original cast, who were also amazing).
I can’t wait to start working on the editing process and putting the film together, but at the same time I am desperately sad that I don’t get to see this group of chums all the time anymore.
All shots were taken on my Canon 5D Mark ii with either a 24mm f1.4, 50mm f1.4 or 85mm 1.8.
The Cast:
Charlotte: Hannah Itner
John: Michael Patricelli
Rachel: Taryn Crankshaw
Jenny: Samantha Curtin
Henry: Joseph Keca
Wallpaper Woman: Sarah Granger
These are my beautiful siblings. They are wonderful :)
Today they came down (along with my grandparents) and we took photos for my dad’s Christmas present! He doesn’t have Facebook or any idea how to use twitter, so I can post them without fear.
Overall it was a quick but really fun shoot. They’re great models.
Everything was shot with with my 5D Mark ii with an 85mm 1.8 at apertures between f2.0 and f2.5.
Time is a strange mistress.
She moves at her own pace,
one that is undefined and unfailing.
Once you think you have a grasp
of her secrets in your hand,
she turns a somersault,
jumps lightly to her feet,
and runs in a new
unreadable,
unfollowable,
direction.
With no rhyme or reason,
or definitive pattern to see,
Time is an strange mistress,
cunning, agile,
and full of ancient grace,
that hearts as young as ours,
can never hope to understand.
Looking back on the last few years
I can’t help but wonder
if I should feel happy,
sad, grateful or ashamed
of all the people who have passed
in and out of my life.
Some I miss,
some I don’t,
But most,
if not all,
Have left a mark on my soul…
Yesterday I had a fun fall photo shoot with my friend Margaret!
She wanted some new head-shots done for kicks, so we set out to Mac and spent the morning finding opportunities for the perfect shot.
It was wonderfully overcast and just a little bit misty, the perfect weather to bring out the colours I was hoping for.
We eventually made our way to the studio in Lyons New Media Centre as well, just for a few minutes to try out some shots with lightboxes.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the results. It was my first time shooting with the Canon 85mm 1.8 on my 5D Mark ii, and I think it might have sold me. I’ve been trying to decide between it and the Sigma 85 1.4 but seeing how the Canon works, for the price difference I think this lens holds its own.
Also, I thought I’d try a few different editing styles. I like to play as much as I can :)
Again, great morning of shooting. I miss doing portrait work.
My Curriculum Vitae!
I think it looks pretty shnazzy.
I took a couple of ideas from various other resumes and CVs that I saw in order to try and make something that looked clean and professional.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the end result!
I made almost all those little vectors myself too.
What. Up.
I sit here in silence,
or what seems to feel like silence…
Now, as I begin to quietly listen,
I realize it is anything but.
The dull hum of a computer,
the rattle of the pipes,
the hiss of florescent bulbs,
a plane passing overhead.
And I begin to realize,
I know nothing of silence.
