More “Share the Love” Photographers Announced!!!!!!!!!!!! | South Florida Haiti Relief Effort

Just because we want to, we’ll start with our “Share the Love” flyer.   “Share the Love” has the privilege and honor to have 15 of the BEST, BRIGHTEST, FABULOUS, CREATIVE……(we could go on and on) photographers in South Florida taking part!!  We are so excited!!  Our goal is to photograph 100 families, couples, pets, dogs, best friends………..  (on a personal note, my best friend since I was 9, is coming out with her family!  We’re also going to make a donation to be photographed together.  I’m super excited to have fantastic photos of my bestest  friend and I.)

Meet the “Share the Love” photographers!

Catalina Ayubi

Catalina Ayubi Photography

Tony Schreiber

Tony Schreiber Photography

Lydia Shannon

Lydia Shannon Photography

Help Us Raise $10k!!!!!!!!!!

So excited so excited so excited!!!  One week to go, so all we have to say is, “GAME ON!”  This is such a great opportunity to have fun, funky, and fabulous family photos by some of the most fantastic photogs in South Florida!!  Bring your family, your kids, your boyfriend/girlfriend, your dog!  Maternity, engagement, headshots, family…………the possibilities are endless!!

New Photographers Announced!!!!

Alessandro DiSciascio

Many Many Moments Photography

Kelley Boykin

Marie Kelley Photography

Stephen and Sandrine Flint

Flint Photography

Monica Dyer

Monica Dyer Photography

“Share the Love” Photographers announced!!

We are so excited to announce the first of the “Share the Love” photographers.

Shannon Mathis

Mi Amore Foto

Rebekah Hood

Kallima Photography

Jennifer Weiss

Jennifer Weiss Photography

Kat Braman

Kat Braman Photography

Jessica Cornett

Jessica Lorren Photography

Courtney Ortiz

Courtney Ortiz Photography

Jenny Schartner

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Share the Love | South Florida Photographers Helping Haiti

Some of South Florida’s leading photographers in association with SoFly Photographers, are coming together for “Share the Love” a photography event benefiting The Sow a Seed Organization (sowaseedonline.org).

On Saturday, January 30, from 9-2, 30 minute mini sessions will be held in downtown Hollywood (118 S. 20th Avenue, Hollywood, Florida 33020) for $100 per session. All proceeds will go to benefit Sow A Seed. 100% of print sales profits will also benefit Sow a Seed. People are encouraged to arrive early as sessions will be provided on a first come first serve basis. A representative from Sow a Seed will be present to accept the $100 donations as well as to educate the participants on its mission in Haiti. All images will be available for viewing online and participants will be able to purchase prints for personal use. What a great way to let the love and beauty of your family help those less fortunate.

Click here to join us!

:: september 28th meetup ::

Hi ladies~!! Seems we just met up doesn’t it? Time is flying by this month.

Our next meetup is going to be September 28^th!! We are going to concentrate on marketing (presentation by Jess Cornett!), editing (presentation by Kat Braman!), and we will possibly have a little presentation from Courtney Ortiz on some thoughts from her time at LEARNFEST! (jealous. Lena, we would have ALL loved to go.) Also, the place I’m living in till December has a huge lush green backyard complete with huge swingset, canal with possibly gators (yes!!), a permanent-pet peacock, and an old rusted up truck. (holla!). we all need great headshots for our business. Before we get into the presentations above, we’ll start out our meetup with headshots in the back yard! Pick your place and a few partners and we’ll have some fun.

Date: September 28^th, 2009

Time: 5:30pm

Location: my house!  

What we’re doing: marketing, editing, learnfest recap (maybe!), and headshot sessions.

Also, lets do the bring a dish thing…a few of you take desserts, a few of you entrée/snacky/appetizer deals, and once again I’ll take care of drinks!

PLEASE RSVP by commenting below – in this format:

1. Rebekah hood – bringing drinks

So on and so forth….

EXCITED….hope to see you all at this meetup!

beka

July 20th Meetup!

Hello Summer and SoFly Ladies! its hot out and that makes me even more excited for our July meetup to find. the. light. The Natural light, that is!

Ok so most everyone who responded to me emails voted for the 20th! I still haven’t heard from Courtney, Inta, Jennifer, Liz, Lindsay or Rochelle…so if you ladies are planning on making it to this months meetup, I TRULY hope the 20th works for you!

So I thought it only appropriate since the last few meetups have been about how to efficiently and effectively use artificial light, that this meetup we search for and find some yummy natural light…

“Find the Light”

When: July 20th, 5:30pm

Where: downtown West Palm Beach, to meet at Starbucks on Clematis Street

Provided: 2 gorgeous models….2 very DIFFERENT models!

Not Provided: you must bring yourself, your equipment for natural light shooting, and ONE item/prop for each model that you want to create a portrait with. Something that inspires your art! Look at and study the picture of the model I’m attaching and figure out what you can bring that you can carry, that will add to her beauty, add to the image, and add to your art.

Its not just about finding the light and taking the shot, ya know? I really wanted us to work on our art with this shoot…atleast I know that I could use some work on mine! What do you ladies think?

The models are Amanda, and Burcin (pronounced Bor-chin). I chose them because they are so different in their beauty and their style…it’ll be good for us to get wild and crazy with Burcin and be sweet and sugary with Amanda. OR, vice versa…see?? We are working on our art!!!

Here are our models…

Miss AMANDA!

Miss BURCIN!

(i have no idea who took this photo of Burcin but if you see this i want to give you credit!!)

RSVP below ladies! After the meetup, (if my little Josiah allows…who know, i may have to bring him to this portion…) maybe we could all go back to clematis street for some margaritas and some homeade guac at Roccos Tacos!!

see you ladies monday!

June Meet-up

Hi SoFly-

So it’s high time to announce our June meet-up details and part II of our off-camera flash education.

Here are the facts:

When: June 22 at 5:00 pm (DVD rolls at 5:30)

Where: Kat ’s place

Who: Whoever RSVP’s by leaving a comment below.

What: to bring- appetizer type item or beverages (let us know when you rsvp)

We will be doing some shooting after the DVD so bring your gear and your sofly self and come prepared to work it. 

See you there!

-Jess

May 18 Meetup- SPECIFICS!

hey ladies! I hope you’re all having a great week. Big thanks to Jess for posting a pre-cursor to todays post for me last weekend while I was out of town. We still had some kinks to iron out and i’m happy to say the ironing is COMPLETE and we are SO excited about Mondays MEETUP!!

When: Monday, May 18

Time: 4:00pm

Location: Rebekah’s House (450 Amador Lane, #6, West Palm Beach, FL 33401)

AGENDA: THIS is the exciting part:) Praise the Lord, someone is letting us borrow their OneLight DVD!! We are so blessed and we’ll be putting together a thank you for this amazing woman on Monday. (THANKS LIZ FOR ARRANGING!!) We will watch the FIRST disc which is 2 hours, starting at 4:00pm SHARP. Afterwards we’ll do a Q & A for 20-25 minutes. COME PREPARED with all your doubts/struggles/questions and keep track during the DVD as well. This is a great time for us to spill it and ask and learn from each other…our strengths and weaknesses are ALL different so I’m excited to get other’s perspectives on things we feel we need more knowledge in. Then, at 6:30p we will head across the street from my house to this GREAT overgrown field with these huge green christmas looking trees. There is AWESOME light in those trees, trust me. It’ll give us an awesome opportunity to practice what we’ve learned through the DVD…and YES we are practicing on each other:) So come dressed cute/comfy/in your own style and skin because you WILL be in front of someone’s lens! We should wrap up around 7:30pm or when the light is gone:)

TO BRING:

1. food! yes…we will all need sustenance. I will be providing drinks again, so if everyone will bring a little something that would be awesome. Don’t feel like you need to go all out! just something small and yummy:)

2. YOUR GEAR! we are shooting at this meetup!

3. questions/your thoughts about OCF (off camera flash) and low light situations. thats what we are going to be learning about so come prepared!!

WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO:

wait for my email reminder with the link to this post (will go out today around 5pm!!!). then RSVP back to my email with YAY or NAY about your presence with us Monday, as well as what you are going to bring. PLEASE PLEASE be sure to email me back whether or not you will be coming, because I have to give a list to my gate house with all of your names  36 hours ahead of time, or they will not let you in:) they are kind of nazi’s and i like it that way! so email me back ASAP!

CANT WAIT LADIES! its going to be fun!

email or call/text me with questions!

*beka*

850-980-1274

rebekah@kallimaphotography.com

May Meet-up

Hi SoFly!

Save the date: May 18

More details to come but for now,  OneLight. Anyone know where we can get our hands on a copy?

Watch this!

You won’t want to miss hangin with some SoFly chicks as we (hopefully) watch this dvd and practice our new skills on one another. Yes, that means we will be modeling and shooting. So dress cute. And stay tuned.

-Jessica Lorren for SoFly

March Meetup Slideshow

Well the slideshow from the March meetup is complete, but because of some security restrictions by WordPress, I wasn’t able to post it here. Hope you ladies don’t mind I put it up on my blog instead and I also posted it on Facebook and tagged all of you.

Here’s what ShowIt says about why can’t post it here:

“If you are using WordPress.com to host your blog, they have more security restrictions on the content that can be posted which prevents Flash and thus Showit Web from being posted in their blog pages, see their FAQ here: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/can-i-add-flash-video-embed-other-media/ This is a restriction of wordpress.com and is not something we can change. If you plan to include shows or Flash content, you will need to use another blog such as blogger.com, which is free and will allow you to embed Showit Web shows.”

March Meetup Slideshow:
Kat Braman Photography

– Kat