:: 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!  (11020 81st court north, west palm beach, fl 33412)

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 located at 19752 N. Riverside Drive, Tequesta, FL 33469

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

March Meetup Images!

location: worth ave, palm beach island

Hey ladies!!! hope you’ve been having a great week full of productivity…seems we are all super busy these days and Praise God…because that is good!

I am glad that our first meeting was really about interacting with your client and soft-posing. My philosophy on the whole “to pose or not to pose” issue is this: there are many types of clients in the world. Sometimes, you’ll get these rad people who are so in tune with one another and their surroundings that you need’nt give them a lick of instruction, and they pose and vogue and get it the entire shoot. LOVE when that happens! However, the majority of people in this world aren’t supermodels and sometimes it’s scary to get in front of a camera lens! ( i know i am not a fan! which is why i shoot people, instead of people shooting me! haha!) These clients WANT instruction, they want for you to tell them what to do or how to act and how to sit, etc. And that’s fine! However, I do firmly believe, and most of my clients are perfect examples of this…that yes, some guidance is wanted and often needed. However, photography to me is all about the moment…whats happening “involuntarily” so to speak…LIFE. Real life…which is unscripted. I believe that once you’ve given them a little “how to”, then they become comfortable….they ease into each pose, they become acquainted with your style and what looks good and doesnt…and for most of the rest of the shoot, you are pretty much capturing what they do, because they will trust you and THEMSELVES at this point to make it work. I learned a lot on Monday from watching the rest of you! THANK YOU!

Here are some images from Mondays Meetup…for those of you who couldnt make it, it really was a great learning environment…lots of client and photographer interaction and most of all, we had fun. To see images from Kat and Laura Leslie, stay tuned for the slideshow Kat is putting together with MORE images!!!

For now, here is what Jess, Jenny, and Katie sent me…as well as a few of my own shots!

First….Jessica Lorren Photography

Your Events Captured

KT Photography

Kallima Photography

Hope you don’t mind Bek, I’m adding a couple of mine into the mix.

STAY TUNED FOR KAT’S SLIDESHOW!! with even more picture goodness……

peace out,

**rebekah**

:: sneak peek – MARCH Meetup ::

Hello ladies! (and those gentlemen who may follow this blog as well:) ) We had our monthly meetup yesterday and it was truly a blast! I will recap and post TONS more images later (so girls please email me 3-4 of your faves that you took, edited with your logo!) but for now here is a sneak peek of what went down….

This is a shot of our bride and groom model who were ultra fab…and pretty much willing to do anything, which is good because i’m all about getting down and dirty for the good of the shot.

a HUGE THANKS goes out to our models for the day! you were all stellar!

Adam & Diana Nelms*

D.C. Lawler & Vanessa Galindo

Mike & Rebekah Yohe**

*Diana is an artist and designer with a degree in Fashion Design. She was wearing a beautiful handmade piece in her hair yesterday that she whipped together for the shoot…TOTALLY hot and chic. you’ll be able to see it in MANY images coming soon! Anyhow, visit her facebook to contact her if you are interested in handmade awesomeness. She is a great resource for BRIDES!

**please check out Rebekah’s art blog…she has some really great stuff up there that she posts to sell as well as to inspire. LOVE IT!

Will post more soon! Ladies I am expecting my inbox to blow up with your images!!!

March Meetup Details!

Hello ladies! I’ve been so swamped and I meant to get this up last week, but well…here I am a week of! SO excited for our first meetup where we are doing what we do best…shooting!

As far as location! I really loved the idea of a junkyard, but after doing some research and getting some feedback from Jenny, it looks like no one wants 15 photographers in their junkyard…too much liability:( Geez people are no fun! There were lots of comments about Worth Ave area so I guess thats where we are going to end up! I was skeptical at first i admit, i shoot there so much….and i really really wanted to find a spot that REALLY challenged us aka a junkyard…thought that would be perfect! So we are just going to have to challenge ourselves to not take the easy shots and really work to get something different! I am super stoked to see what we all come up with.

So our meetup/shoot starts at 4:3opm sharp! Lets meet down by the fire station on Palm Beach Island, the one on S. County Road right down the way from Worth Ave (where the big fountain and the Rapunzels Closet are located) Remember we are going to have fabulous models ready to go, so be on time!

PLEASE COMMENT this post confirming that you’ll be there so we know who to expect!

Keep in touch with one another, carpool if you can, and get excited! See everyone THIS MONDAY, March 30th, at 4:30pm!

*peace*

rebekah

April Meetup

For those interested in attending the meetup which Lena Hyde is graciously hosting at her CityPlace Loft Studios, please leave a comment below. Lena wants to keep this to under 30 persons, so between this group and the Florida Flick Chics group, I wanted to go ahead and start a sign-up list.  Copy and paste the name of the person above you and add the appropriate number so it’s easier to keep count.

Just a reminder, the meetup is on April 27 at 4:30PM

Have a great day, ladies!