Nick & Andreanne : More pics

We worked on a couple of pictures this week, but with the holidays being just around the corner, we we're extremely busy with shopping and family plans for Maddox's first christmas. We'll make some time to post some more pictures soon!

Click HERE to view the ongoing album for Nick & Andreanne

PPP - Paintball, Pizza and Pictures

We had an amazing Friday evening, with the company of our friends Nick and his girlfriend Andréanne. We started the evening by ordering some pizzas (Nick likes pizza... he likes it a lot), to then proceed into having a stock photoshoot with his paintball gear and Christmas shots of him and his girlfriend. One thing led to another, we were eating pizza, laughing at the good shots we took, then played Boom Blox Party Bash and Guitar Hero : Metallica.. until 2am. Sadly they had to leave after, since both were working the following morning and had to drive 50 minutes to get home.

We have yet to work on all the pictures taken to then upload them on stock sites, but here's one of the "almost" finish result!


More to come!

Family, family and more family!!!

Phew, what a weekend! Organizing 2 family dinners, taking pictures with our new studio, running errands and weekend chores... takes up a lot of our time. However, nothing beats having good company that you don't see on a daily basis to catch up. We decided that it would be a good time to put our home studio handy to take some "christmas-ish" pictures. We learned one thing on Saturday.. it's easy to think that you'll have great christmas pictures of a 2 1/2 years old little guy... until you try and convince him to put Santas hat on and smile for you!! Ended up having a great time, and great shots of loved ones... here's some of them!

Note to self : Next time we're shooting with a toddler, MUST BRING CANDY!

Got groceries?

After a nice evening out at our local "All-you-can-eat" sushi restaurant called Sushi Kan, we got a call from a sign company that needed a stock photograph of a paper grocery bag with a variety of vegetables coming out of it. Excited to the idea of using our home studio for other things than portrait photography, we made haste to the closest grocery store to handpick the best looking vegetables of a simple variety. We got home, setup the studio, took a couple of shots and then sent them to the possible new business partner. We enjoyed the experience it provided us and of course, we'll have a nice stir-fry with the vegetable! That's what we call, "shoot n' dine"!

We're hoping to have good feedback on the pictures!

Who has the power?!

It's in! We received everything we ordered to start our home studio! 3 light stands with continuous lighting with umbrellas so now we can use either strobes (flashguns) or continuous lighting depending on the shoots. We wanted to be able to have both and work them both out to see which of them we like using the best. Despite our excitement to have a complete studio kit for under $200, we didn't have the time to set everything up for a shoot - Hopefully we will ahve a test run with family over the weekend! Of course, Kevin had Kelly take a shot of him with the lights and make it look like he's holding some sort of orb... We won't judge him, we will only cheer for his creativity!

Come back to see results soon!

SuperMom Kelly promotes Xmas!

We wanted to start promoting Christmas shoot, to be able to start having a couple of shoot in the next weeks. Kelly, at home mom, decided to go buy some props at our local dollar store, setup the studio and took pictures of a 5 month old baby, all alone!! Most parents know exactly what it involves to try and take pictures of a baby how hard to get them to react to the pose you want. In a studio environment, alone, it's an exploit worthy of blogging about!

Kevin & Kelly Photography are now in their Christmas mood and ready to take pictures of your little ones! Perfect for presents or simply great memories, book a date and time and come on to our home studio! You can reach Kelly at all times at (613)301-2609 or at photography@kevandkelly.com

Happy Holidays!

Studio Samples!

Hey everyone!

Here's a couple of pictures that we took with a single SB-600 on an umbrella. We ordered 3 lights with stands coming from San Francisco, CA along with Wireless triggers from China! We should be receiving everything in the next week, so we'll keep you updated! Until then, here's 3 shots taken!

Our DIY Backdrop stand!

After reading many different blogs and ideas for home-made backdrop stands, we decided to venture with an idea of our own. With some time to kill at home and a bit of creativity, we went to Home Depot and Rona and were able to build our stand for $70. The only thing missing from the whole thing right now, is to possibly put a little concrete into it to solidify the base. Here's a picture of the stand.(picture taken from iPhone) We bought a 53" wide roll of paper to try it out, we will post results shortly!

Cheers!

DIY Backdrop Stand!!

After checking at Vistek and Henrys for a good backdrop stand, not wanting to spend $300, I came across a really good DIY (Do It Yourself) photography site. You can find a wide variety of additions you can make for your camera or studio. Today, I will focus on the DIY backdrop stand found on this website.

I'll try this at home and post my experience on the creation of the backdrop stand. Here's another website you can check for DIY photography stuff!

DIY Photography

Have fun!

Themed shoot to date!

Hey everyone,

Soon after we sent a message to our Facebook group for the themed shoots, we a few that were interested. Dance theme, shoots with animals, even a taekwondo shoot! Booked for the weekend of December 12-13th 2009, a friend who teaches taekwondo and a student will come to our home studio from Montreal, Quebec to have a photo shoot! We should expect the remaining of our studio equipment to be delivered by mail within the next 2 weeks. If you have any other ideas, feel free to let us know on our facebook group (Kevin & Kelly photography), or simply email us at photography@kevandkelly.com!

Cheers!

A night at the hospital

With the pandemic state declared and the constant talk of the swine
flu, Kelly and I had the sad opportunity to see how it looks inside
the Ottawa General Hospital on a Friday night.

Not going to the ER for shortness of breath, cough OR fever, Kevin had
to go have his leg checked out, after having excruciating pains all
day. It looks bad, the emergency room full of people wearing masks and
constantly walking back and forth to the hand sanitizing station, we
could smell the sickness.

In between pain spasm, we kept ourselves entertained by blogging,
talking about stock photography and dreaming of Thai food... Which we
supposed to cook for dinner, rapidely replaced with a visit to the
walk-in clinic, greeted by the rudest receptionist ever saw.. Then
transfered to the ER, after the doctor jokingly made a comment about
the condition of kevin's leg looking like "flesh-eating disease".

Despite the medias with their daily scares on the H1N1, the ER was
extremely fast... We didn't wait a single second to get to the
screening process. At that point, they decided that it would be best
to get some blood work done and plugged Kevin on an IV. Again,
everything so far was instant, bloodwork included. Kelly didn't even
have time to get a wheelchair and Kevin was called to the other
processing booth.

We had fine time with bloodwork, Kelly not being able to look at
people getting needles... Decided to walk away. Good thing since the
nurse, which was very professional, had a little blood mishap while
putting in the IV, spilling blood all over kevin's jeans.

Back in the waiting room, we suddently had the urge to get some
food... So Kelly is now gone, with kevin's debit card, on the food
hunt.... The question now is... How will we eat with masks on?

More to come, in a few hours!

The Event & Co. - Our exclusive choice for Event planning

It all started last March, we were approached by a group of Algonquin College students in event planning to create a logo/web design for a Children's foundation charity event. It would involved a nice classy meal, a silent auction with amazing prizes including a 37" LCD HDTV, airfare to anywhere in Europe, canvas created by a local artist, and so on.

The idea was fantastic, the event that they decided to name "Runway Project Ottawa" was astounding. They were able to gather $10,000 for the Children's foundation and were able to do the whole event with a budget of $0! Since we donated the logo / web design to them, they asked if we wanted to be the exclusive photographers for the event, promoting our business to the fashion world. We gladly accepted and met a lot of people at the event, including Rogers TV hosts, Richard Robinson, Yellowtail representatives and more.

After a long day of shooting, we had our pictures posted on fashion news websites, webzines, which was awesome for us.

Recently, two of the "Runway Project Ottawa" event planners started their business called "The Event & Co.". Again, they approached us for a logo and web design, and then decided to include us as their vendor of choice for photography. This is great news for us! Here's a picture of the first layout presented, and a link to their actual website.

Thanks Tara and Tracie!

The Event & Co. Website
Click here to email them

Halloween fun with family & friends!

We had a great trip at Saunders farm (http://www.saundersfarm.com/) with family and friends. The weather a little colder than anticipated, but the sun showed up after a couple of gray days to give us a little smile. Fun and excitement was found at the farm, where they setup a haunted house, maze and more activities along with their much anticipated wagon ride, where I think our parents had more fun than us and the kids! Right before leaving the farm, we brought pumpkin costumes for Maddox and his little girlfriend Arielle and took pictures of them in a pumpkin patch. Here's a couple of pictures taken on that day.

Enjoy!

Kevin & Kelly

Models needed!

Hey all,

we decided to start stock photography with the recent equipment we purchased. Having almost a full home studio, we thought that it would be a good idea to start thinking about stock photography since it could be a new challenge! On that note, we'll need male and female models for some shoots.

The shoots will be themed, so we thought that if you have a hobby, we could have a shoot with equipment / uniform used as hobbies or even careers.

Let us know if you have any ideas!

Cheers!

Maddox - October 23rd 2009

Last Friday, we decided to have another little photo shoot with our little man, Maddox. He just turned 5 months on the 23rd. We simply used black fabric we purchased at fabric land and used a SB-600 on CLS mode. We also used a DYI diffuser a.k.a a white sheet of paper on top of the flash held by an elastic band.

Shot with our Nikon D200 - 50mm f/1.8

Welcome to our Blog!

Hey guys,

Blogs blogs blogs... it's all over the web, and we had none... so? We decided to create a blog that people can follow, with the photo shoots we do, events, new equipment we get, personal experiences...

Please comment on our post, we're always looking for constructive comments that will make our photography better.

Cheers!

Kev & Kelly