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Beverage Photography…it’s been awhile, but we’re back!

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Kevin
at September 1, 2009 in Commercial, Food, Kevin Clark, Photography and Vancouver Photographer. 3 Comments

The past few years for Kevin have been a steady focus on plated food on his  website www.kevinclarkedibles.com. Everything from pizza to gourmet entrees to candy. But we all felt it was time to get some new beverage shots under the studio’s belt.

As luck would have it, one of our headshot clients was chatting with Trish while getting her hair and makeup done and mentioned that her family owned a old fashioned botanically brewed soda pop company. Not long later, she brought in several of the bottles for us to sample and also photograph. It was perfect timing, especially since the design and packaging of their product was very classic and unique for this time.

When photographing the product, Kevin set out to recreate the classic yet industrial feel that the bottles were designed with. Something that we hadn’t tried with drink shots as of yet. Here’s the results of that shoot.

Fentimenstest-WEB

As soon as this shot was complete, it was already time for more as Kevin aimed his camera at his personal favourite, Scotch. This Balvenie shot (below) was meant to compliment the Fentimans shot, but also have it’s own feel as the product itself requires a different style to convey the proper message and hit the right market.
Balvenie-comp-WEB

Since then we’ve got plans to shoot some wine (that’s happening today in fact) and also some beer which we’ll be posting to the www.kevinclarkedibles.com website soon. These two shots can be found there along with other new work you may not have seen if you haven’t visited in awhile.

The Fentimans Soda’s are currently chilling in the fridge and we’ll be giving them a taste test later this afternoon. I bet they’re going taste just as good as the bottles look cool.

– ROBERT MARKS
Studio Manager
Kevin Clark Photography | Headshots | Food | Lifestyle
Vancouver BC

Applied Arts Award 2009

Published by
Kevin
at April 19, 2009 in Commercial, Fitness, Kevin Clark, Photography and Vancouver Photographer. 0 Comments

As many of our clients know, Kevin has been an avid food photographer for almost as many years as he’s been shooting headshots. In that time, just as with headshots, his food photography has evolved and improved constantly with new concepts and lighting methods.

We’re pleased to announce that our latest series “Baked Greatness” will appear in the 2009 Applied Arts Magazine Awards Annual with a win in the self-promotion category. Here’s a shot of the series that was awarded in case you’re interested, or need some inspiration for a snack.

Kevin Clark Photography Applied Arts Award 2009 Baked Greatness

Kevin has been more inspired than ever lately to create images that have emotional impact, even if they are just simple shots of bread like these. We all work together to study the images during and after shoot to see what we can do to bring the most out of them. These are some of our favourite shots as of late, which seem to capture a nearly renaissance era feel.

Applied Arts Awards Annual is one of the largest and most well respected awards publications in the visual arts community, so we are of course honoured to be recognized along with all the other great talent in the book. The awards issue will be released sometime in May, so make sure to buy a copy or browse through one at your local magazine stand to see these images in print. Once the issue is released, you’ll also be able to see the images on their website at www.appliedartsmag.com. But until then, last years winners are still up and definitely worth browsing through as there are some great shots in that group as well.

Keeping up with the momentum, we came up with a plan to shoot another simple product…candy!! This shoot definitely needed a different feel than the breads, so we went in the completely opposite direction, getting most vibrant colour and dynamic motion possible for a static subject. It’s also something our studio has never shot before, so we’re always happy to do something brand new.

Candy - 4up

We’d love to hear what you have to say about this new work of Kevin’s. And if you’d like to see more of our food photography, please visit our food site at www.kevinclarkEDIBLES.com.

 

– ROBERT MARKS
Studio Manager
Kevin Clark Photography | Headshots | Food | Lifestyle
Vancouver BC

Happy Halloween // Funny Client Commercials

Published by
Kevin
at October 31, 2008 in Actors, Commercial, Entertainment, Headshots, Kevin Clark, Make-Up and Photography. 1 Comment

“Hey Andrea, any plans for Halloween? What are you going to be?” Rob asks casually over his shoulder while retouching an actor’s headshot.

Andrea answers quite simply, “A Bear. And Jake is going to be a Pump-a-kin.” delivered with a proud nod. Amazing. Work rules.

Kevin found a soulmate of a costume with what appeared to be a child’s pirate costume. He even re-punctured his old earring hole for a very authentic silver hoop earring. He got to say “Arrrr” without even sipping coffee, his usual quirky and fun ritual. Trish put together a great Zorro costume, complete with fake forehead eyebrows, a twirly moustache and a makeup mask under her real mask. We insisted on calling her Gorro as she was the female version of the sworded hero. She accepted this eventually. I missed Zombie Walk this year and am one of the world’s largest zombie fans, so I used up my leftover makeup to Zombie-Up for work today and frighten some of our clients. I came in normal, complaining of stomach pains and extreme hunger….heading into the washroom, I put on layer one of zombie transformation, simple discolouration of skin and some slight limping. Then throughout the day revisited my little cave to complete the transformation, full with fake nasty skin and blood. The people at Costco were quite surprised to see me as I returned my crappy little camera I bought last week. I think I actually took the breath out of one guy as I walked around the corner glaring directly at him. Fun!

So luckily we had a not-s0-old client, actor Steven Powell, come to hang out during the shoot of his friend Nolan Fontaine, a movtivational speaker.  Steven was able to snap our group shot all dressed up. Wonderously, for all of Kevin’s expensive equipment, we don’t have a simple 10second timer on the camera! I guess pro’s never want to take a photo of themselves in a group, right Canon? We only took a few shots, but they turned out great….we’ve all had fun all day getting into character. I had to stop Andrea several times from scratching her back on the large wooden post in the lounge area of the studio. I wouldn’t normally mind, but the growling was un—uhhh—BEAR-ABLE! oh that’s right, I said it. So here is the now instantly famous picture of your friendly neighbourhood studio team at Kevin Clark Photography:

Kevin Clark Studio Team Halloween

Clockwise: Kevin ClARRRRk, the pirate. Rob Muuuuaaaaarrrrks, the zombie. Tricia “No Capes!” Clark, Zorro. Andrea Roarrrbertson, the bear. Jake the Pug, aka the Pumpkin.

Thanks to Steve for taking the shot for us. I don’t think he knew what he was in for when he came in today. Steve told while he was here about some commercials he was in for Canadian Direct Insurance. They are hilarious, check them out here. Good work Steve!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween! Boo!

– ROBERT MARKS
Studio Manager
Kevin Clark Photography | Headshots | Food | Lifestyle
Vancouver BC

CTV BC News Team, Breast Cancer Run for the Cure, and Vancouver’s Pride Parade.

Published by
Kevin
at August 6, 2008 in Charity, Clients, Commercial, Digital, Entertainment, Fitness, Headshots, Kevin Clark, Photography, Portraits, TV, Vancouver Headshots and Vancouver Photographer. 0 Comments

So, first things first…no it ISN’T possible to have a longer title, I ran out of characters on the blog title input. Actually that’s a lie, but it’s more interesting that way. Written on a blog = fact. Everyone knows that. The next question you may have is how exactly these three things fit together for us folks over here at Kevin Clark Photography. Well, it’s been awhile since the last post, so I suppose things have been building up, but this all sort of hit us with one big awesome wave.

Let’s start with the CTV BC News Team. Is that okay with you? Okay then, I’m going to start with that anyways.  Starting back in April of this year (Tuesday, April 15th 2008 to be exact) Kevin began several days of shooting all the On-Air Talent for CTV BC. And here we are now on Wednesday, August 6th and finally have worked through the entire lot of images and have supplied CTV with 60 total headshots of 31 different personalities. Here are two samples of Pamela Martin and Bill Good. Most of the rest can be found on Kevin’s Headshot website at www.kevinclarkheadshots.com under the “feature” section.

Pamela Martin and Bill Good CTV: Kevin Clark

I didn’t have a chance to be at the shoot, but Kevin mentioned that all of the Talent were just great to work with. Being on TV constantly, I’m sure they are used to exactly how they should look in front of the camera. None better than Bill Good, who after looking through his shots, I nick-named “The Rock”. He is amazing, 60 shots apart and his smile is dead on. Sincere, trustworthy and friendly, everything a great anchor should always be. Many of these headshots are already showing up on the CTV BC website (www.ctvbc.ctv.ca) including promos for some shows such as Bill Good’s “A Good Point”.

Bill Good A Good Point Kevin Clark

As for the ‘CIBC Run for the Cure’ supporting Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, we were just finishing up the retouching on the CTV images, Kevin was called out to shoot Pamela Martin one more time for a brochure they were putting together for “Team Pamela”, a training and donation program. They needed it shot and the image produced fast. Luckily Kevin had an opening only a day or two away and we were able to retouch and submit the final image the same day which was quickly sent off to the printers. Kevin shot Pamela on location down at Stanley Park, running on the beach. Always a fun challenge to shoot motion on a bright day and have your lights balance with the Sun. Luckily Pamela was game for anything so we got some great enthusiastic shots of her running repeatedly in the same spot and crossing an imaginary finish line. Kevin’s assistant David DuChemin was great help that day too, wrangling everything together so all Kevin had to worry about was getting the best shot. And as always Kevin got some great looks which turned out to be the perfect shot for the brochure.  *Notice how clean that beautiful Vancouver shoreline looks? You’re welcome.
For more information on how to donate or participate in this years Run for the Cure, please visit their website by visiting this site: CIBC Breast Cancer Run for the Cure

Pamela Martin Run for the Cure Booklet Kevin Clark

So if I hadn’t been so busy with these first two topics the last few weeks, I may have actually have had time to blog about them and then the Pride Parade wouldn’t have made it in this post. But since it’s been so busy around here, time just goes by and luckily all of these fit together quite nicely. It just so happens that also because of how busy the studio is, I haven’t been able to spend any quality time with my dear ol’ Mum lately, so I called her up on Saturday afternoon and said “So Mom, how would you like to go to the Pride Parade with me?” And of course my Mom, being the wonderful lady she is, was delighted and said that she was actually already going to ask me. Cutest…Mom…Ever (Sorry Trish!). I’ve always been too busy in past years, but this year with my Mom by my side, we finally had a chance to take part in the amazing celebrations that literally filled Robson Street (and I mean ALL of Robson Street) and several others. We were actually almost in the parade for a short time, but when the bustle near the beginning of the parade cleared out we headed for the sidewalk so we wouldn’t get in the way. And yes, we both caught beads…and then went to Batman! (different blog post altogether). If you haven’t been to the Pride Parade yet, you really should next year. It’s one of the most touching events in Vancouver by far. It’s great to see a half million people come together to support equality.

Pride Flag

This brings us to why all these topics are related today. A small group of these half million people were none other than CTV’s Pamela Martin, Colleen Christie, Tamara Taggart and I think I saw Mike Killeen out there too on a giant TV shaped float. There were probably a few more, but those were all I could make out through the crowd. Here is a link to the story on CTV’s website: Read More… There were so many amazing floats and just great people walking through the parade. From the first appearance of the RCMP in the history of the parade, to the revolutionary Sikh float, to the random naked old men, Vancouver really had a chance to show what a great city it is that day. Hopefully we keep it up.

– ROBERT MARKS
Studio Manager
Kevin Clark Photography | Headshots | Food | Lifestyle
Vancouver BC

Kevin Clark Photography NEW WEBSITE INDUSTRY PORTAL

Published by
Kevin
at March 13, 2008 in Advertising, Business, Commercial, Headshots, Kevin Clark, Lifestyle, Photography and Vancouver Photographer. 0 Comments

After many months of selecting and processing hundreds of images and collectively deciding what is website worthy and fighting over which images we loved but just couldn’t fit, we are very pleased to present the Kevin Clark Photography Industry Portal. This landing page allows viewers of Kevin’s work to transport easily between our four different websites which cover his three main specialties in photography plus this blog. The portal can be found just where you’ve always looked for Kevin’s work: www.kevinclarkphotography.com.

Portal Screenshot

The only difference now being that instead of separate limited galleries for each category of Commercial, Food and Headshots, you now will be viewing an entire site similar to the others style-wise yet dedicated to each industry of Kevin’s work.

Commercial Photography links you to www.kevinclarkstudios.com
Edibles (Food Photography) links you to www.kevinclarkedibles.com
Headshots (Actors/Kids/Corporate) links you to www.kevinclarkheadshots.com
And of course the Blog brings you here.

All of the sites have a ton of fresh content, so please take a good browse through and see what we’ve been up to lately. We’d love to hear any feedback you have on the sites, the content, the design or if you just have general comments on life you’d like to share, bring it on.
Thank you so very hugely much to Andrea for helping me retouch all these images and get them ready for the site, and to Kevin for taking some time away from family and shooting to help me decide which ones he wanted to put on display for the world. Go team us!

– ROBERT MARKS
Studio Manager
Kevin Clark Photography | Headshots | Food | Lifestyle
Vancouver BC

Client Update: Cheryl Bear CD Nominations

Published by
Kevin
at August 22, 2007 in Clients, Commercial, Digital, Events, Headshots, Music, Photography and Portraits. 0 Comments

Congratulations are in order…our client and friend Cheryl Bear released her second CD a short while ago, titled “The Good Road” which has now been nominated for several Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards. A few months ago, Cheryl and Kevin completed a shoot for the CD cover and a few interior booklet shots. In post production, we worked closely with Cheryl to make sure we gave the images the feel they needed to represent her and her music to her fans. It’s always hugely important to us that the images convey our clients in the most accurate way possible. Here’s a note from Cheryl about the nominations and how you can get involved and vote!! But of course you need to hear what you’re voting for…so below the note is some information on how you can get your hands on one of her CDs.

Cheryl Bear ~ The Good Road has been nominated for the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards in the following categories:

  • Best Songwriter
  • Best New Artist
  • Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year Online voting has now opened and I welcome your support. Submit your vote at: http://www.aboriginalpeopleschoice.com/signup Signing up is Free and allows you to log in to vote!! (It will take about 10 min depending on your computer speed : )
    Thank you!
    Peace, Cheryl

Cheryl Bear - The Good Road

You may order your copy of “The Good Road” by sending a check or money order for $20 (Canadian or US funds, includes shipping) to:

Cheryl Bear Barnetson
PO Box 4444
Santa Fe Springs, CA
90670

Cheryl’s first CD is also available.
For $35 we will send you a copy of her first CD and her new CD.

Proceeds raised go into our Missions and Evangelism efforts.
We’ve gone to over 30 Nations around the world,
and to over 200 First Nations communities in North, Central and South America.
Plans are underway for more countries in 2008.

Wholesale prices for quantities of 10 or more.
Please inquire at cheryl@cherylbear.com

Thanks for the update Cheryl…and best of luck with your nominations! You just got a vote in each category from me, but I suppose I am a little biased. Regardless!! The rest of you get to it and help Cheryl make it to the top. It takes less time than reading this post!

 

—ROB

Client Update // STUDĒO 55 New Website Launch

Published by
Kevin
at August 12, 2007 in Advertising, Business, Clients, Commercial, Digital, Fitness, Lifestyle, Photography, Portraits and TV. 0 Comments

Our Clients at Studeo 55 announced only a few days ago that they’ve launched a brand new website with a completely new look. The Founder of Studeo 55, Nathan Mellalieu has built up an amazing repertoire of staff and professional atheletes and trainers which help him maintain his spot as the most exclusive fitness club in Vancouver. Nathan and Kevin have been shooting together for the past couple years including the latest shoot which had Kevin photograph every single member of Nathan’s Team for use on this recently launched site. They didn’t just want the standard portraits however…they had a concept in mind to push the status of the club’s image even higher. With a few samples emailed over to our studio, Kevin and I worked together to build upon the “gritty” look they were after. After a few hours of playing around with some basic techniques, and then expanding on this to create something as original as we could, we had the basis for what became the final shots we submitted to Nathan and his designers for approval.

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(Looks easy doesn’t it? Go ahead…try it!)

Once they saw the preliminary samples, they immediately expanded their request to include similar processing on many of the shots Kevin had done over the past few years. I was a little hesitant at first as the older shots weren’t lit with this style in mind, but luckily the images worked perfectly and were able to fit in right along side the new shots.

studeo552.jpg

We’re very happy we were able to so closely match the concept they had in mind. It’s also been great to expand into a different style of Ad Work. So thank you to Nathan and everyone at Studeo 55 for working with us towards this great new look for your site. If you haven’t checked it out yet, go to www.studeo55.ca and see what all the hype is about. No matter how you like to get your workout, they have a trainer that specializes in that…seriously.

studeo554.jpg

Here’s a note from Founder Nathan Mellalieu about the launch:
Hello everyone,

We have worked really hard creating our new website and creative identity.  We have created a great team here in which we have not had any turnover in 8 months (astonishing considering our industry and our size)  We are proud of this team and have decided to make them a huge part of our identity.  Everyone in these pictures is a client or a team mate here at studeo55.  As you scan our team you will find 2 world champions, more then 5 national champions, two National team members, 2 professional dancers, 1 golden gloves champion and the list goes on.  All in all more then 30 unique stories make up who we are.  Please enjoy the site and the team that makes this place so special for so many people.

Yours truly,

Nathan Mellalieu
“The star of the team is the team” John Wooden

PS: special thanks to
-Peter Desmet at Terrain Design for the web design and tons of design work over the years
-Kevin Clark photography for every single shot on the site
-Chip Wilson and Lululemon for supplying 95% of the clothing for this site
-Mathew and Roy at Subplot Design for months of conversation

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Iris Sighting…No Pun Intended?

Published by
Kevin
at June 13, 2007 in Advertising, Business, Commercial, Digital, Photography and Portraits. 2 Comments

Okay, yeah it was super intended. Kevin has been shooting for Iris for awhile now, producing razor sharp images for their large format national advertising campaign. This is one of the more modest samples around Vancouver where Kevin’s Iris work can be seen. This particular location on Broadway and Willow which is right near my place. I was lucky enough to be wandering by with my camera after dark which happens to be when the store front is best balanced for lighting since it faces north during the day (it also faces north during the evening…ah-hem). I swear I didn’t do any photoshop work to make the poster the most prominent part of the image. I barely know how to save a Jaypeg for the email.

Iris Store Front Display

We’ve recently completed a new shoot for Iris which should be on their posters around the city soon. The shots are looking pretty slick as we’re working our way through post production.

And congratulations to Claire, the winner of the Iris contest who just happened to be an excellent model for her shoot with Kevin last month!

[ROB]

Welcome to the New Blog of Kevin Clark Photography

Published by
Kevin
at June 12, 2007 in Actors, Advertising, Business, Commercial, Digital, Food, Headshots, Lifestyle, Photography, Portraits and Travel. 2 Comments

Thanks for reading our first blog post! Kevin has been wanting to get a blog up and running for quite some time now, but unfortunately he’s kept extremely busy shooting Food, Lifestyle and Headshots. I’m Kevin’s Studio Manager, Rob and therefore I’ll be your host for most of this blogging adventure. But just in case someone else does have a chance to make a post, lets give a quick overview of who you might run into.

 

Kevin Clark. The photographer and lighting master, owner, business visionary, original photoshop guru and the guy that supplies me with all the nice gadgets that make my job easier (easier?…yes, easier). Kevin’s been in this game for 17+ years and still finds ways to improve his work and keep his headshots looking dynamic. Most of his work comes out of Vancouver where we’re based, but with years of travel experience Kevin is willing to go anywhere for the right shoot.

 

Tricia Clark. The make-up artist, hair stylist, art director, posing instructor, fashion consultant, time management engineer and of course Kevin’s wife of many years. Trish is also the one that helps persuade Kevin not to buy so many gadgets so that we can be around for a few more years. A perfect balance.

 

Andrea Robertson. Originally brought on soley for administrative purposes, Andrea’s background in photography and digital environments continues to prove extremely helpful as we abuse her abilities to the utmost! She’s our resident digital cosmetic surgeon and the Queen of proofs. How soon do you want your proofs back?? Be nice! I’m not excluded from that…she prints out my cheque!

 

Keith Race. Keith is a photographer himself, but helps us out by retouching from home when we’re on Actor overload. A fine combination of sqeed and quality. I’ve never met Keith yet as he lives on the Island, but hopefully he’ll be down for a visit sometime soon….he types emails in a very friendly and nice way. aww.

 

Robert Marks. That’s me. I’m Rob. I’m the dentist. As is often needed, drastic surgery must take place within photoshop and so far I haven’t found anything I can’t make look real. Missing a tooth? No problem. Does your hair kind of look like a mullet from that angle? Done (I can also add mullets on special request). I’m around to make sure everything gets done. And I’m also around to sort of think up new things that later on I will need to make sure get done. And lets not forget my most important role…Studio DJ. I haven’t thought up a cool DJ name yet, but I will accept requests. Kevin’s and Trish’s daughter thinks I’m weird. Correction…”very very very very very very very very very weird”. Seems to me like they’ve raised a sharp kid. Let’s hope for my sake the other two aren’t so keen. But that’s enough about me, I just realized I made my paragraph the longest. All the more reason for the rest of the team to login and add their own comments.

 

I’ve only been around a short while as Kevin’s Studio Manager. I took over for Ariana who couldn’t resist her travel bug any longer and is definitely missed. Lots of things have changed in the last few months while I’ve been around. Hey! We’re blogging now! And within about a month, we’ll be launching the new Kevin Clark Order Center. A revolutionary site designed by Steven Luscher of www.stevenluscherdesign.com for our clients to order all their proofs, repros and more all from one site directly through our studio. Here’s a sneak preview screen shot of the site:

 

Kevin Clark Screenshot

Once again, thanks for reading our first blog post. We’ll be on here often with updates and whatever else we can think of that might be of interest. Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions. If you’d like to check out Kevin’s work, you can visit his sites in the blogroll to the right. Or if you’d like to book a shoot or a consultation with Kevin, just call the studio at (604) 669 -7577 or email us at info@kevinclarkphotography.com.