Hey everyone, I’m off to Vegas and before I get on my flight (in about 2 mins), I wanted to let you know that I’ll be doing random updates through out the day of my experience there.

Catch me if you can… on Twitter

Follow me on twitter. I will give out a clue or two each day to let you know where I am. If you find me, you’ll get one of my t-shirts!

What is Twitter you ask? I have no time to explain except to say that you should get one if you don’t have one by now. Here’s a link to Wikipedia that explains it better.

See you in Vegas!

The long awaited season finale version of The Longest Day Big Reveal" is here! In this finale episode, Ron recaps everything that has led us up to this point, then reveals the teams’ videos.

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

After viewing the video, go to the poll below and vote for your favorite pair of videos. Voting ends 11:59 PM PST, Tuesday, February 17, 2009. The winner will be announced at the WPPI Awards ceremony Wednesday evening. In the recap video Ron mentions that the charity donations would be $1,000 and $500, respectively. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the winning team’s charity will bet $3,000 and the other charity will get $2,000. That is AMAZING!

Visit the link here to view the final episode & cast your vote for your favorite "ahem, A" team. !~

Canon 200mm F2.0 with Kurt & Leila

Today I got to do something special. First I got to spend the afternoon in Chicago with Kurt & Leila for their engagement session (I will post about their eSession later on but I wanted to talk about something else from this shoot) Second, Canon regional rep Ed Meyers was gracious enough to loan me the beastly lens 200mm F2.0 to use for WPPI next week. So I decided to test this baby out by bringing it to this engagement session. Let’s just say that this lens is sick. I’ve never shot anything so sharp. Granted the lens is pretty heavy and when you open your aperture to F2.0, the focusing plane becomes very shallow but the quality of image makes your jaw drop! Here’s just a few images from the shoot using the new lens:

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WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International)
The biggest convention for wedding & portrait photographers is just around the corner. This will be my third time attending and it looks be very promising! I’m very stoked as I will be involved with various things:

1) I will be the official photographer for this conference. Big thanks to Skip Cohen, Arlene Evans and staff for giving me this opportunity.

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2) Pictage – I will be speaking with Robert Evans at the Pictage booth from 12pm to 1pm on Tuesday 2/17! I’m really excited but nervous at the same time. So please come out and support me if you are free! Check out other line up of photographers. This is kind of a big deal for me because 2 years ago I was attending WPPI for the first time feeling very intimidated to be there and wondered if I’ll ever get a chance to do something like this. The funny thing is back in May 2007, I made a blog entry about Pictage PartnerCon in Chicago – and to be humorous, I created this image to supplement my post. Little did I know it was going to be true little less than two years from now! It was fun looking back at this image so I wanted to share it with you guys.

3) There’s more things but I don’t want to bore you guys with the details. Come say hi when you see me wandering around and we can catch up!

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Workshop with Joe Buissink & Jason Groupp in NY!
Two of the finest J’s are coming together to have this one day, back to back workshop in NYC. Unfortunately I cannot attend due to scheduling conflict but I think it’s definitely worth checking out. Click here to find out more info!

That’s it for now. I’ll try to blog more often! I’m still waiting for my new blog to launch soon. Have a great week!

Hosted by Bob & Dawn Davis

This week I had a chance to help out Bob & Dawn at their one day workshop just outside of Chicago, IL. If there’s one topic that many of us struggle with I believe it is working with our flash/strobes. Bob, Canon’s Explorer of Light spend the entire day with 10 photographers going into the details of working with light sources that are available to us. It was about working with the basics to create professional studio looking images. I think it’s safe to say that all the attendees, at the end of the day, walked away empowered and challenged to continue to work on their craft. Most of them were extremely pleased with the results that they got and amazed at the kind of beautiful they were able to achieve with their strobes. Bob spent the first half of the day going over the flash presentation and the rest of the afternoon we got to practice different setups of light in various station as Bob went around working with each individuals. We ended the night by doing some night shoot outside then had dinner followed by a gathering at their house. I think some of us stayed until close to midnight! What a blast! We had so much.

I’m pretty sure they will have something like this again in the near future – I highly encourage those of you who need help in this area to attend this workshop. Most of my knowledge on lighting I learned from Bob in the past. I picked up a few new things at this workshop and I’m excited to discover even more things as I continue to work on my craft. Here are some behind the scenes images from that day:

Kenny Kim v3 T-shirts
They are selling like hotcakes! I spent the first half of yesterday just getting them packaged and mailing them out. I’m only selling about 100 shirts this time so order one today and support a great cause! Please see the previous post to find out how you can order.

And those of you who already purchased one, please take a photo of yourself sporting it and email them to me! Here’s my new friend Amee who ordered hers and braved herself out in the freezing weather to get this shot. Thanks Amee!

Hey guys, with WPPI around the corner, I am making my Kenny Kim Photography Shirts (version 3) for sale!

I’ve been releasing new ones each year to celebrate the number of years I’ve been in this intdustry. Well this is my third year and I’m proud to annouce that this time I am partnering with Thirst Relief International by donating 10% of my sales to this amazing organization. Click on the link to find out more information about them.

The shirts are on sale for $26 and couple special $50 (for 2). This includes the cost of shipping. Students get a $5 discount so you only pay $21! Here’s how to order:

Name
Mailing address
Email Address
Phone #

Indicate size(s) desired:
Women’s S, M, L
Men’s S, M, L, XL, 2XL (please add $2 for this size)

Payments can be made via PayPal by sending the payment to kenny@kennykim.com

Once payment is confirmed I’ll send you an email with confirmation of your order. Thanks everyone for your support.

Here’s a cool video (big thanks to Anton Lorimer of Lorimerworks for this swanky video about my shirt.) Click here if you can’t view the video:

Here’s my friends Justin & Mary Marantz sporting their KK shirts: