PPOC Image Competition

If you haven't heard of the PPOC it is the Professional Photographers of Canada and it's a great association to get involved with. Anyways, they're having this big symposium conference thing this weekend and as a project at school, we were all required to submit 2 images into their print competition for judging. I decided to enter four since it was the same price to enter two as it was to enter four, so it just seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately for me, only one of my prints was accepted but at least I got one in! So that was nice. It was a long day though. I ended up staying from 9:30 - 4 today to watch them judge all the images, and there were some pretty amazing ones! Anyways, the one image that did get accepted was the one I took of Logan in October! You can see it in this post and it is the very first image to show. It's also one of my most favorite photos to date!

More Portfolio shots...

Here are the photoshoots from the house that I was talking about a few posts back. This house has endless photo taking opportunities! So here's a few for my portfolio

My sister Marlys

My Bro-in-law Terry

And this is the one I'm going to use for my fashiony shot because it has more of a fashion feel and less of a portrait style to it.

Chuck Norris of the Day...

February 23:
"Chuck Norris eats steak for every single meal. Most time, he forgets to kill the cow."

Yesterdays was kind of funny too, but I wasn't at home to post it.
February 22:
"Chuck Norris can body slam an opponent with just the tippy-top of his pinkie finger."

Drum roll please....

Alright, So I decided and I'm going to stick with it this time! I'm happy with the name and I love the logo. Here it is!
The writing looks black here, but it's actually brown! I really like it. I wanted to work a really nice pink into the logo as well, but it wasn't working out. I might try again some other time, but I really like the Teal!

Kyle

My brother Kyle is visiting here for a couple of days, and I wanted to use him in a photo shoot. I LOVE the new "Star Trek" cover and loved the lighting on Kirk, Spock and Uhura, so I decided to try to duplicate it. I realize the quality isn't that great, but I always downsize my images when I put them on the internet so that if people take them and try to print them, they aren't very good quality! But you get the idea. Anyways, this is the result!Annnnd then we decided to take a nice picture for my mom because she wants a new one of Kyle to put on the wall...and as you all know Kyle does not like serious pictures :) We ended up getting one serious picture that's really nice, but I haven't edited it yet. This is one of the outtakes. Meet Kyle:

Yep, he's a goof :)

*Edit* For those of you who haven't seen the Star Trek Covers, Here's the picture:

Name Ideas...

I'm still having a hard time with the name for my business. I know I shouldn't be so picky about it, but I don't want to be changing my business name very often, otherwise it just confuses clients and can just be such a pain! It's kind of hard having to be rushed to do it as well, as I need to make a website within the next two months and make a facebook page. Anyways, I have a few ideas floating around my head but I'm still unsure about them. Here they are:
1.Kayel Photography - my initials are KL but I figured that would be boring so I decided to make a word out of it. Don't know if that's how I want to spell the word, but you get the idea.
2. KLiK Photography - I like this one too, but I'm worried it'll sound too gimmicky. It uses my initials in it (KLK) which is a bonus, but I'm also going for something more feminine?
3. Karilynn Photography - I like this one, but I've recently discovered 4 other photographers (3 of which are in my class) that are using their middle names in their business name and I'm worried it might not be original enough now? I don't know. Tough decisions!!
Anyways, if anybody out there has some input or ideas, leave a comment below! It would be awesome to hear what anybody else has to say!

*Edit* Due to a unanimous facebook vote, I think it's going to be KLiK Photography!
*Edit #2* Nevermind, even though everyone on facebook likes KLiK, most people have been reading it as K-Lick rather than Click. *sigh* back to the drawing board!!

A Bunch of Oilers fans!

About a week or so ago, my sister and her family came up for the weekend for a visit and wanted me to retake some of their family pictures in the studio. Last time I did there family pictures it was outside and they were wearing their Oiler's jerseys, but the background was really dark, so they wanted some family pictures done with a white background. These are the results:

Evan is 11 months old on March 1 and he's just getting so big! He has four teeth now and is super funny! He's starting to "dance" by wiggling his shoulders :) So cute. Anyways, when Mom and Dad got back from Maui, they brought Evan a little Hawaiin shirt and shorts. We also had a ukelele and my grandma's first guitar (which she bough in Hawaii) so we decided to put them all together and get a cute little shoot!
I've started to get some pictures done for portfolio using the house I'm house sitting. I have a few portraits of Marlys and Terry that I love that I need to post, but they are on my other hard drive. But, I did take this self portrait there (first successful self portrait haha) and might use it for a portfolio shot (don't know if it's fashiony enough though...)

Anyways, those are the latest photos around here! I'm looking to do some more "Star-Trek" inspired shots using either my brother or a classmate...who knows?

School Blog!

I Finally made the school blog!! Well, technically I made it before, but I didn't have permission from the subjects in the photograph to have my teacher post it on the blog. Anyways, I made it onto the blog for my "Executive Portrait" Check it out here.

Winter Princess

I had this idea for portfolio that I just thought would be so neat! I'm starting to enjoy doing fashion photography basically because it gives you SUCH creative freedom. You can basically do whatever you want and it will work haha :) So these are the result, I'm again, VERY happy with how they turned out. I also took a leap and did the hair and makeup myself too! Take a look...
This last one, is very odd. But yet I like it. I don't know, it has a psychotic straight jacket look to it, but yet it's very much a fashion shot. It's so strange.

Housesitting

So for the month of February, I'm officially house sitting in Edmonton! It's a really old gorgeous house! It was built in 1915 and still has original molding and floors and everything in it! SO beautiful! I'll definitely have to take some photos to show you guys just how gorgeous this house is. And, as I'm typing this, I have a big himalayan cat sitting on my lap. He's pretty gorgeous, and so far, I'm not allergic to cats ;)