vancouver fashion and portrait photography

Check out the new ION Magazine blog - featuring Daily(ish) Reviews, behind the scenes peeks at fashion and music shoots, and access to guest list and insider info on the by now legendary ION parties.

Recently the Static Photography team had the pleasure of working with up and coming musician Victoria Herrmann. This shoot was a riot! Victoria is a fun loving spirit with a real passion for her industry. We worked with her expressive personality to create the most fitting and suitable photos. When it came to styling, we had her in multiple outfits to keep her fans interested and intrigued.

In November we had the opportunity to travel to Beijing, China to photograph China Fashion Week 2007 at the Beijing Hotel . Static photographer Kris Krug was on hand for 7 runway shows over the course of three days. Above are a couple of our favorite photos from the weeks events. You can find many others over at kk+'s Flickr account . Look for posts and photographs here from each designer's show at China Fashion Week coming soon. :)

Friends Jon Hennessey and Chantal Hennessey have setup a boutique artist management firm here in Gastown called NOBASURA featuring an amazing lineup of Vancouver creative heavy hitters including Fiona Garden , Shiva Shabani , and Ian Daburn .

Their whole list of collaborators are the creme de la creme (how do you say that en espanol?) of the Vancouver fashion industry and are a pleasure to work with... we've had the opportunity to work with them on a couple shoots including this one for Opulence Magazine assisting Fiona Garden .

Saturday night at The Modern we photographed Jason Matlo 's runway show. It wasn't (officially) a part of BC Fashion Week but was one of our favorite shows of the season nonetheless. All our photos from the show are available over at Flickr.

The highlight of BC Fashion Week was definitely the designer runway shows, including this show that we photographed by Ginni Kelley. All our photo's from this show are available over at Flickr . Check out Cassie's review of the Ginni Kelley show over at Exposure Online Magazine...

We shot 6 runway shows last week at BC Fashion Week 2007 . Here's links to the posts that include photographs.

Jacqueline Conoir
Jason Matlo
Ginni Kelley
Christina Darling
Generation Next
Anna Kosturova

Fashion Week was a ton of fun. We met lots of great Canadian fashion designers and representatives from the local fashion media scene. It was also a great chance to catchup with many of our favorite models, stylists, hair and makeup pros.

Static Photography has recently begun collaborations with Seattle-based art director Alan Rowe , founder of AR Imageworks Photo Retouching Services Alan has reworked 25 or so of our images - airbrushing, color correcting, cropping, and various other high-end enhancements in preparation for his new site launch. We plan to partner with Alan for the post-production work on our fashion photography and portrait photography shoots.

Today he launched http://arimageworks.com and the site features some really amazing Flash animations of the retouching process - step by step from beginning to end. He is definitely a master of his craft and the site is well work a look and will help you understand what takes place behind the scenes when prepping images for commerical use.

Much thanks and love to John Chow of Arson for this awesome fashion photography testimonial he gave us for this website...

“This is the first time that I have had an opportunity to work with Kris and I can honestly say that I was blown away. Kris understood what we were looking for. Working in a variety of locations of varying light and context he took it to the next level. His photos definitely captured the edginess and mood of our line. What we got were well balanced emotionally charged photos that resonated not only the personalities of our models but a flare and cockiness that was overtly pretentious. Exactly what we were looking for.

Other than fashion photography some of our favorite shoots are live concerts and bands. Static Photography was at South by Southwest (SXSW) again this year and had the chance to shoot over 30 bands including Bloc Party both live on stage as well as behind the scenes.

We recently had the chance to wander around Gastown and dowtown Vancouver with actor and musician Mark Huculak. He looks like Justin Timberlake and sounds like Akon and he was an absolute pleasure to hang-out with and shoot.

I recently assisted on a photoshoot with awesome Vancouver fashion photographer Trevor Brady. Trevor is an amazing guy with fingers in lots of different creative pies: from the web, to retail, to photography.

Early last year I posted a blog post called Vancouver Photography Blogs and Photoblogs and linked to a several of my favorite photography related blogs coming out of Vancouver. Since the time of that post I've come across several others and figured it was time to update the list with these additions:

This is a very exciting week for me as I prep with the rest of the organizing team for Northern Voice 2007 and MooseCamp.. I'm going to be leading a PhotoCamp as a part of the event and am wondering who else will be there?

Didja catch all that? I know it's a lot... here's a couple quick descriptions.

Northern Voice - Vancouver's 3rd annual personal publishing conference held out at UBC. Saturday, February 24th @ UBC.

I recently stumbled on this great list of photoshoot tips for models (or anyone who is having their portraits taken). Thanks to Vancouver editorial and people photographer Dawn Stenzel for the list! :)

As anyone who has been hanging out and shooting with me has probably noticed I've been shooting a lot of slide film (E-6) this year and processing it as negative film (C-41). This is called cross-processing, or xpro if you're going for the cool factor, and has pretty crazy results. The photos turn out super contrasty and saturated and grainy and you get all sorts of unexpected artifacts and apparitions.