Archive for March, 2008

WPPI Main Event – Young Guns
WPPI kicked off this year with a bang (no pun intended). I was asked by GraphiStudio to cover Sunday night’s Young Guns program which featured 12 of the hottest young photographers in the business. Moderated by Skip Cohen & Ryan Schembri, these guys discussed their innovative styles and demonstrated their unique skills in a combination of panel presentations and live shooting.

I arrived at the event half an hour early to set up not realizing how big this was. There were over 2000 seats and within just few minutes of the door opening, it was completely filled out. I got to rub shoulders with the best in the industry and even got to shoot along side with Terrell Lloyd.

I will try to provide some captions to these photos to help you go over how the event went:

Audience piling in…

That’s all folks. Whew… that was hard work but I had so much fun covering this event.

Thanks to GraphiStudio & WPPI for giving me this opportunity! This blog was part 2 of 3. More to come! Feel free to ask me anything about the event or leave fun comments below!

Hey – I’ve been running around like a mad man here at WPPI. I have SOOO much to blog but no time at all. Be patient. it will be coming soon! Thanks everyone!

Kenny

When you usually hear the phrase “Vegas Wedding”, words like romantic, unforgettable, glamorous, dreamy, are not what typically come to mind. But in this case, it’s very much so. In just few days, Bob & Dawn Davis will be traveling across the states along with 40 other photographers to host their first ever Vegas Love Story workshop – an actual wedding filled with every little dreamy detail you can imagine. We can’t wait to meet everyone. T minus 4 days and counting! See you in Vegas everyone!

Welcome to the family!

It’s a boy! His name is Mark. He was born 4pm on Wednesday and weighs about 3 pound and 5 ounces. He is the newest addition to the Kenny Kim Photography family. Please send him lots of love & congratulatory note!

I just got back from my third wedding of this year. All the weddings I shoot are special but this one tops the cake. Bob Davis is like my mentor in photography and he joined me (& my assistant David Lai) to shoot today’s wedding. All I can say is that it was my honor and privilege to shoot this wedding with him. I don’t think many guests appreciated or understood the treat that they were getting (except the bride & groom and the bridesmaids).

It was a great day – a typical cold chicago weather but Mark & Jinny were brave and more than willing to take some really cool creative shots with us. There’s much more to post but I wanted to share a couple here:

I got a quick lighting lesson from Bob today. Check out the result:

Here’s Bob – always exploring – even in freezing cold weather. I took this shot of him experimenting with light during sun set.

I wanted to give a quick shout out to this awesome florist: Vale of Enna Flowers & Events. The owner’s sister is actually a good friend of mine (Theresa Ha). Check out this awesome job that they did here:

Alright everyone. I’m off to bed. Don’t forget to set your clock forward one hour ahead!

I come back home today and found a pleasant surprise waiting by the door…a bouquet of cookies from GraphiStudio! I actually wasn’t a surprise because they sent them to Bob & Mike earlier this week. Dawn warned me not to look at her blog to ruin the surprise but how could I resist the temptation?! YUM! Regardless it was a nice gesture on them and I really appreciated it.

I didn’t want to eat it because it so cool looking! I had so much fun working with the staff guys at Graphi! Not to be bias but I think my cookie looks the sweetest.

I want to leave you with a photo (that I wish I captured). I was walking around with Bob & Mike in Central Park NY. Bob all of sudden looked up in the sky and snapped this photo (he was using my camera while I was playing with his Mark 1Ds III). I don’t know why but this photo inspired me and I wanted to share it with you guys. It’s such a simple photo but I find myself staring at this image for long period of time while flood of thoughts ran through my mind. Photograph, when done properly, can elicit so much emotion. This is one of the reasons why photography fascinates me. I appreciate people that can trigger this kind of reaction out of people through their work.

(Photo by Bob Davis)

I’ll be on the road again in less than a week – heading over to Vegas for the biggest wedding photography convention (WPPI). I can’t wait to share with you guys some cool things I’ll be doing out there — I’ll fill you guys in about it as it unfolds.