Sandy Nicholson, Author at Sandy Nicholson Photography

Brother Printer

We worked with Brother USA & Bridgemark – Integrated Branding to launch the new MFC-J6560DW MFC-J6960DW Printers. I love practical effects—shooting everything in camera and creating magic through editing and lighting. So thats what we did for this shoot.

We wanted to show all the ways the printer can work and feature prints made with it. This was shot with the camera locked off, while the set changed around the printer. Super simple. Shot in one day stills and motion !

The printer is the workhorse—staying centered, calm, and reliable.

We also worked with a great team from the Bridgemark – Integrated Branding

Erum Safeer – Executive Producer/ Account Manager

Jeffrey Boulton – Creative Director

Natasha Sarracini– Group Account Director

Luke Saagi – DOP

Cheryl Thompson – Props

Alexis Honce – Stylist

Sophie Hsin – Hair and Make-up

FUZE Reps

Daniela Favot

Christina Thé & Wes Malik – Actors

Civic Headshots

End of Summer Portraits with the Growing Team at Civic Developments

Civic Developments is focused on finding equitable and creative solutions to the housing shortage facing Canadians. The team is led by Matthew Cohen.

Matthew organized after-work drinks and games in the Morrow studio grounds — a great way for the team to relax and hang out while I photographed them in the late-day light. It made the process much less intimidating; after all, no one really wants to update their headshot, but we all know it’s something we have to do.

www.civicdevelopments.ca

Google Pixel Pet Parent 🐕🐶

We made a Google pixel pancake.

Why? Because dogs are awesome, random, and unpredictable — they never do the same thing twice. We teamed up with the brilliant folks at @Cossette and @Google to show off the new features of the Google Pixel 9 Pro.

The challenge: how do you show each function both off and on, with perfect match cuts — while shooting in both 9:16 and 16:9? You know, that classic director’s line: “Can you make it work in all the formats?”

Our fix: four phones — two horizontal, two vertical — each pair showing the feature off and on. Then we just needed a bunch of dogs and let the chaos unfold.

To keep everyone in the loop, we rigged each phone with @teradek transmitters sending live feeds straight to video village. Massive thanks to the dogs’ best friends — the amazing FUZE Reps team: Heather Blom, Olivia Chow, Joseph Thomas, Sarah Smith, Daniela Favot, Priya Belliappa.

#GooglePixel #Pixel9Pro #BehindTheScenes #TeamPixel

The weather also was bonkers we had a ice storm and rain the day before the shoot.

Dog welfare and safety were at the core of our all our animal shoots. Our trainer and handler, along with their assistant, were on set, as well as an independent observer. All shots and the shoot plan were discussed with our head trainer beforehand. If there were any concerns, we addressed them and found solutions before we were on set.

Fuze Reps + the Cossette team – Olivia Chow, Joseph Thomas, Sarah Smith, Kelly Carpenter, Heather Blom) + Melissa Millet and the_ultimutts

Dove + Raptor – shot on an iPhone

I love working with wild animals and children. Toronto’s Raptor is a strange combination of both. The Raptor is a cheeky, fast-moving, furry dinosaur wild animal with youthful energy and a little bit of flirtation. We were asked to tail the Raptor and his wingman, Devo, after a game in Toronto to showcase how the Raptor stays fresh with Dove Whole Body Deodorant. It was a sprint keeping up with him—through the city, then to Real Canadian Sports, and finally riding the TTC. We chose to shoot everything on iPhone Pros so we could move quickly and post just as fast. We also had a great team who helped get model releases signed from all the people the Raptor and Devo met along the way. Thanks to the team at Edelman for inviting us to hang out with the Raptor!

Capes on, Spirits high

The Cape for Kids campaign is on now. We worked with the team Weaymouth Creative and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation to show this years hero’s in Capes. We donated our photo services and made a financial donation to Cape for kids. In a time where the disbelief in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and actions is taking over the world. We are choosing push back with joy and kindness, and what could be more fun than putting on a cape and wiggling / running / jumping around for the camera or at any time of the day.

Becoming a Superhero

During Capes Week, participants wear red superhero capes everywhere to spark conversations about accessibility and inclusion. Every dollar raised supports life-changing programs like music therapy, independence training, and groundbreaking research.

Capes for Kids runs from Feb. 28 to March 7. Visit capesforkids.ca to register, donate and learn more.

A Raptor, Aisle 5 and the hunt for Hellmann’s Mayo

I love Mayo on on almost anything and i was stoked to find out the Raptor does too. So when I was asked to photograph the elusive raptor in the wild I grabbed the biggest wild life lens and headed to aisle 5 and waited.

The Raptor ransacked the Mayo section and we had to run to keep up with him it was the moments of genuine surprise and joy that unfolded as he interacted with the shoppers around him.

The raptor is random and bounces around so this is a awesome way to work, you never know where it is going.

Big thanks to everyone who made this shoot a success, and to the Raptor for filling his cart—and our hearts—with so much fun!

Fuze Reps The Raptor sandynicholson.com

Tkaronto Open II

It was great to work with Fall For Dance North. Toronto’s Premier International Dance Festival who hosted the Tkaronto Open II. Tkaronto Open II celebrates and honours indigenous dance forms.

Tkaronto Open II, is a Powwow style competition. Dancers dance at the same time in front of a set of judges. The music is live from Drummers singing and drumming one single drum. The sound shakes your whole body. The dancers move forward round by round until the last two dancers battle it out to win the cash prizes and title.

It is epic to see the speed and physical stamina of the dances mixed with regalia and the crowed cheering.

The event was produced by Freddy Gipp and Thunder Jack for the second year.

For many years, Indigenous dance was illegal in Canada. To experience a multigenerational Indigenous community of dancers coming together to dance openly is a symbol of the strength of many generations.

Thanks so much to dancers for taking a moment to be photographed after rounds and rounds of dance battle.

Thanks sooooo much to Freddy Gipp Producer

Acosia Red Elk Head Judge and Arena Director

Adrian Harjo Master of Ceremony

Ryland Moore Arena Director

Fall for Dance North FUZE Reps @neighbourhoodstudios

TD Small Business

It’s great to see the TD Women in Enterprise images out in the world.

I have always been proud to be part of the FUZE team, a Women owned and operated production company here in Toronto. We worked with Ogilvy & TD to feature TD Women in Enterprise. Classical Music Conservatory CMC’s Lusiana and Wanda, partners in business and life. Arnold St Agency’s Emily Silverman and Kids Physio clinic owners Jennifer Halfin and Hillary Abramsky.
Their business are super inspiring.

Bird Vision / Human Vision with live birds

Birds see a wider spectrum of light than humans can , Birds can see UV light, because their lenses and other ocular media transmit UV light. They have special photoreceptors that vary by species and are sensitive to deep violet and UV light.

How do birds detect ultraviolet (UV) light? The human retina has three kinds of cone cells (receptors used for color vision): red, green and blue. By contrast, birds have four kinds, including one that’s specifically sensitive to UV wavelengths. There’s also another difference: In birds, each cone cell contains a tiny drop of colored oil that human cells lack. The oil drop functions much like a filter on a camera lens. The result is that birds not only see UV light, they are much better than humans at detecting differences between two similar colors.

We have worked out how to photograph live moving squawking animals with our “Bridvision” set up. We are shooting with two cameras at the same instant so we have matching / overlaying files. One camera see the spectrum a bird sees the other the human vision

Keel-billed toucans have zygodactyl feet (or feet with toes 2 and 3 facing forwards, and toes 1 and 4 facing backwards) – two toes face forward and two face back. Because toucans spend a large portion of time in the trees, this helps the birds to stay on the branches of the trees and jump from one branch to another.

Thanks so much to @ravengalleryto for the space to work in keeping and and Hands-on exotics for great models

McCain Holiday Part 2

I love love. Most of all I love to work people who love each other. We are often asked to photograph couples and great moments with friends. So we cast real best friends and lovers for these rolls when McCain’s needed a bunch of besties to hang out and chill with fries. We worked with Milo Casting and found a bunch of real best friends, Storm & Daniel and Taehyun & Nick…. then spent a day hanging out with them as they giggled and trash talked each other every which way….

Thank you to the awesome McCain team – Matt, Nita and Liza for making it all happen…