Archive for April, 2010

Kiss Wedding Book

Not only had I been working in my basement, part of it was spent on designing a wedding album for an amazing couple.  This was my first experience dealing with Kiss and I must say I’m quite impressed with the results.  The leather quality is awesome, printing is accurate (if your monitor is calibrated) and the paper quality is fantastic.  I’m thrilled and can’t wait to deliver them.

Kiss Wedding Book
Kiss Wedding Book, 12inch with brown leather

Dealing with Kiss has been really simple, even if it was the first one I created with this particular company.  Their moto is “The World’s Simplest Book Company”, sure there are others out there that may be similar but… it still ain’t a Kiss Book.

Everything was super easy, uploading, preview of the book before printing and submit and that’s all you have to worry about.  Once it was uploaded to their site the next day it was already printing and the day after it was binding time.  If it would not have been for shipping/customs , it would’ve been here in about 3-4 days max.

The only downer was the brokerage/customs fees I had to pay.  This is something I had not thought about initially and in our area UPS can be a pain since they don’t cover this area so it’s a subcontracted to another company.  It then becomes harder to track your parcel or even get the hand on it.

Kiss

Hibernation is now over

It might appear as if I was in hibernation mode all winter but in fact, I wasn’t.  I’ve somewhat became a handyman for most winter doing plumbing, flooring etc… to make room for the new member of the family, see : http://blog.micael.ca/archives/267.

There are times were you need to prioritize things you wouldn’t feel like doing vs. things you would want to do, like shooting.  Aside from shooting for various clients, it was barely possible to find the time to do my own photography.  If I had an hour or so to spare, me and my wife would go out for dinner or relax, and to be clear, this is something I enjoy.  I mean, shooting is my passion but love comes first.

Last year, around the same period I had spent  part of the day in an old abandoned house, see : http://blog.micael.ca/archives/203
The house was able to withstand another cold icy Canadian winter so I venture once more, this time with a model.  I need to give credit to my mom who kindly made the remark that it would be a good location for a photo shoot.  Never before I had shot a model in such a decrepit house.

Those were all shot with one flash off-camera with a shoot thru umbrella about 2-3 feet away from the model.   Here are a few from the photo shoot.

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Shot thru broken glass window.

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