DYLAN LEEDER

Big update on my DJ series with Zeds Dead, Kids & Explosions, and DJ Barletta.

An environmental shoot with Candice of Elite Models.

DJ Medley – First feature in my DJ series for BlogTO.

Days three and four of my coverage of OccupyTO

My coverage of the Occupy Movement in Toronto.

Portraits of friends, the Polaris Prize, and Laura Marling photos!

A friend of mine, Zach Gordensky, is taking a trip to Finland to listen to some music. He needed a photo so I offered to take some for him. Here’s a few photos from the shoot. Living downtown Toronto can sometimes become overwhelming. Leaving my front doorstep I instantly become submerged in a sea of ...

Kensington Market

Street photography during the Caribana festival.

Skateboarding has been a part of my life since I can remember. Because I was surrounded by it growing up I have naturally taken some skate photos before. The biggest difference between my old skate photos and these ones are that this is the first time I’ve used flash. Since college i’ve been excited to ...

Toronto’s Freedom Festival was last week and having enjoyed last years I made a point to check it out. The festival is a celebration/protest of marijuana – it’s basically live music, various food vendors, and other entertainment with a lot of high people in a park. If you’re interested in the festival you can check ...

So my laptop recently crashed. It’s pretty frustrating being a photographer without his own computer. Luckily I live with a roommate who is nice enough to let me use one of his until I know what’s up with mine – I will hopefully find out today. No computer problem is going to stop me from ...

Did I just start another series…? I have a feeling my career will have a lot of series. Series’s?Serieses?… Serious? Anyways… introducing my next series: People Watching This was interesting to do considering how obvious I was when taking photos of strangers. I stood in the middle of an extremely busy corner at Yonge and ...

I was with Thomas on New Years and quickly took a photograph of him in the crazy crowds. At the time he was wearing the same coat/hat that he’s wearing in the following photos but the original was out of focus – apparently I still can’t focus a camera. I decided to take advantage of ...

I recently photographed Cieraugh in studio… and by “in studio” I mean in my living room. Don’t have much else to say… Oh, Strange(r) People has been on my mind. I will be updating it soon, I promise. Also… I know I’ve said it before but I WILL be updating this with Newfoundland photos soon. ...

I recently photographed Caitlin from Elite Models. Because my roommate is also a photographer I was lucky enough to be able to shoot Caitlin after he did. It was a productive day in the apartment! Big thanks to Cait too! It’s nice to be getting back into studio lighting. I’m excited to keep practicing my ...

Happy New Year! Hope you’re all excited for the next year! I guess here is where I’d go on about my resolutions and goals and stuff but to be honest I haven’t really set any solid ones. I think I’m just going to do what I usually try to do and TAKE OVER THE WORLD ...

As many of you may know I’m a very social person… I basically just love people. I love meeting new people, hearing new stories, and discussing different perspectives on life in general. Because of this portraits are a huge part of my photography… nobody is the same and that captivates me. I’ve done a few ...

So, I’ve made it to Toronto. After six days of saying my goodbyes to all my amazing friends and what seemed like almost continues packing, moving, and unpacking I finally made it. I haven’t even been here for a week and I already have a good feeling about it all. One of the worst things ...

Lately has been a very interesting time in my life. As I become closer and closer to moving to Toronto I find myself becoming so busy that days seem like minutes. I can’t stop thinking about my move. I’m so excited. I’m hoping to take advantage of the studio as much as I can before ...

So, here we go. Lately has been… well, interesting. hah I’m moving to Toronto! I have been planning to move to Toronto since I did my field placement there. I loved the environment and have been told it was the best place for photography in Canada. I’m taking the move as the perfect time to ...

Hello friends! So, I haven’t updated this in quite a while. Eesh! I’ve been super busy. I’ve picked up a job at Blacks so I’ve been constantly busy this last month or two. I’m finding it challenging balancing my photography with work but I’m getting used to it as time passes. I’m actually starting to ...

So I recently did another shoot of little Quinton! I took his photo’s about a year ago. The shoot went awesome! He’s such a funny kid and seemed to dig the whole photo thing hah. Here’s a photo of him from the first shoot like a year ago… And here are a few from the ...

Hey! I edited some more photos. They were both from the same day as the shot of Shamus and Danielle in my other posts. Another one of Jaden. Here’s another of Danielle from the shoot. It’s so genuine! ahah awesome. Also, I was looking through my Deviant Art (a website that I love) and noticed ...

So, what’s new? I finished re-reading the last harry potter book? It was better the second time I read it. I’m SOOO amped for the movie to come out. Okay, well I recently went to Camp Fortune with a few good friends to photograph some mountain biking. Saying that I bet you can guess what ...

So… what’s new? I’m working at Blacks photography part-time now. It’s interesting teaching old people about cameras. I met a really nice lady the other day and sat with her for an hour showing her the Nikon D5000. She was so excited about the “Macro setting”. I don’t have too much to say. This is ...

So, thanks for the feedback on the abs! The more I’ve looked at it the more I’ve noticed how the abs are very over done in that image of Adam. I’ve fixed the shot now. I must have been very tired when I posted that. So, what’s new? We recently got two new photographers in ...

Blog. It seems like it has been a busy last while. I did a shoot with Adam recently. He’s a model from Barrett Palmer (http://www.barrettpalmermodels.com/). It went really well! I don’t usually shoot male models so it was cool to switch it up. He brought everything and did his hair himself so that was easy, ...

Hello. So, I am very tired so I don’t know how much i’m going to put on this. I I recently started working for a photography named Baz. I am building digital photo albums of his wedding photo’s and I’m pretty excited about this – I feel like it’ll improve my wedding photo’s as I ...

Last week I did a photo shoot with Sarah Sheldrick. It was pretty exciting to have finally done a shoot of my own in the studio. It inspired me to do more of them… more frequently. You can check out her Model Mayhem at http://www.modelmayhem.com/sarahsheldrick. … So, this week has been a pretty stressful one. ...

Upppdddaatttee!! So, I got hired with Stock Foundry Images as a “Shoot Coordinator”. Basically I just plan the shoots… conceptualize, find models, find locations, get everyone together… then the photographer shoots it. They were talking about getting me shooting quickly, tho. I’m happy about this I just hope it’s enough money to live off of. ...

Blog blog blog. Things are starting to speed up when it comes to “Dylan Leeder Photography”… I may have to put it on a halt for a while until I make some more money tho. It’s frustrating… “Spend money to make money”. I just want to be able to do incredible shoots. *sigh* So, what ...

Yo! Okay, so first off a bit about a recent world event… They recently found a new fossil that apparently is the “missing link” in the evolution process. This means that there’s even more evidence of the evolution theory… therefore making it even harder for me to understand how people can deny it. It’s science ...

So… i’ve been meaning to do this for a while. I’m just curious as to how much I will actually update it. It’s basically going to be about my life – mostly my photography. Life’s been pretty busy lately… got back from a trip to Toronto for the filming of the commercial of the international ...