Trina & Robert Wed

I shot Trina and Robert April 25th at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach. I enjoyed working with Trina and Robert and their family and friends, it was a beautiful wedding!

I love getting shots during the preparations for the wedding, many times some of the best shots of the bride happen during this time when she is less aware of my camera and focused on her preparations. Trina was absolutely radiant. Detail shots help tell the story as well.

See more here: Trina & Robert Slide Show

DJ/ MC's | Lighting | Entertainers

Over the years I have booked and worked with dozens of talented DJ's and MC's during my tenure as an event producer. I have selected the very best of those DJ's and MC's to offer to my wedding clients. I have negotiated a strong value for my clients for these talented individuals.

Book photography services of at least $1000 and save 10% on the DJ/ MC package.

DJ's & MC's
Having a great DJ/MC is crucial to the success of an event. A professional MC will ensure your event runs well and your guests have a great time. I have picked only the best DJ's and MC's to offer to my clients, less than 5% of the DJ's and MC's I have worked with through the years.

Dancers
Dancers motivate a crowd, a great dancer has all the moves and personality to interact with your guest and keep the party going.

Packages:
All packages come with a premium sound system good enough for at least 250 people, a music library of 10,000+ tracks and a wireless handheld mic. JKP Events will assist you in planning the event timelines and music selection.

Premier
(Great for a smaller event 1 entertainer will DJ and MC)
1 DJ/MC for 4 hours.$1000 $75 per additional half hour.

Platinum
(Better for a larger event the DJ focuses on the music and the MC hosts the event.)
1 DJ and 1 MC for 4 Hours $1450 $110 per additional half hour.

Add Ons:
Professional Dancer/ Party Motivators: $300 each for 4 hours $30 per additional half hour.









Lighting and Audio Visual:
As a photographer I know how important lighting is. Great lighting can make any space look spectacular. For larger designs and needs see JKP AV Consulting. For most event needs I offer the following options as an add-on to my DJ services.

Dance Floor Lighting:
2- Martin Ego's 250 Watt moving patterns and textures. $150
4- Pocket Scans Moving head lights with gobos and colors on truss arch. $350
Lasers: Full Color and Green Yag Lasers available. Starting at $1000
Additional More advanced lighting available, call for more info.

Up Lighting:
10- Par 46 Up lights with gels and power distro. $350 each additional light $25
LED and other more advanced options available, call for more info.


Video Screen's and Live Feed:
Add a high end audio visual element to your event; display slide shows and video clips, as well as live video as it happens. Live feed is available through your JKP videographer or a videographer you hire who is willing to connect to our system.

Projection Package
(Great for events of less than 200 people where light level is low.)
6' by 8' Projection Screen DVD Player Computer Switcher 2000 Lumen Projector $400

Many other options available including flat panel LCD's and LED Panels.

Other Entertainers & Musicians available, call for a quote; if the performer exists we will find them and book them for you at a strong value!


Josh
Joshua Kline Productions
www.jklineproductions.com
626-676-4458

Vegas Part Deux, Nike, and Attack! Marketing...busy week

A couple months back I shot Andrew and Christian, co-founders of Attack! Marketing with two world champion sumo wrestlers. Attack is a Marketing and Promotions company on the bleeding edge of guerilla and experiencial/event marketing.

See the piece here as part of INC magazine: http://www.inc.com/inc5000/#self

Wednesday it was back to Vegas for Lionsgate. Lionsgate sponsored a lunch for the Cinemark Managers conference at Southpoint. JKP Events provided 2 green screen set-ups for the attendees to get their photos added to the Lionsgate One-Sheet. Instead of offering the photos immediately we elected to use tickets, guests then needed to come to Lionsgate's booth at the convention the next day to retrieve their photos. This allowed us to serve more people and keep costs down, and also increased the foot traffic at the Lionsgate booth.

Thursday I continued the Nike Diamond Days Promotion at Carson High. Nike has been working with local high school girls athletics for years. The newest Diamond Days events are with local girls softball teams. Nike helps train the girls and promote the games by giving out prizes and helping the teams advertise their games. Nike even brings out Power 106 and Olympic softball players to the games and trainings. I have been documenting these events on video, which will be edited into a sizzle reel.

Josh

http://www.jkpevents.com/
http://www.jklineproductions.com/
626-676-4458

Vegas Baby! Showest 2009

My corporate event company: JKP Events provided a green screen concept for Lionsgate at this years Showest conference in Las Vegas. I have been working with Demetri, VP of Exhibitor Relations for Lionsgate for going on 4 years. I provide him with fun interactive green screen concept photo set-ups to promote their upcoming films.

Showest is where the theater chains come out to meet with the Distributors of movies. Lionsgate has a hospitality suite at Bally's. This year Demetri also added two Show Girls and guests took photos with the girls as well.

We had a lot of fun modifying the posters for this years films. Guests were able to be Jason Statham from Crank 2 jump starting his heart or they could expell extoplasm from the new horror thriller " A Haunting in Connecticut"

Obviously images and artwork are copyright of Lionsgate, and modified by JKP LLC. All rights reserved.

Custom Prints Demystified

What exactly is a custom print? Is there a difference between a print I make at Costco and one that I purchase from a professional photographer? The short answer is yes... usually.

The old photography model for wedding and social photographers was to own their images which was the negatives or slides and today (for most) the full resolution digital files. In this way they could make most of their income by charging incredibly inflated rates for the prints or albums. Many photographers such as myself have ended this practice. I just do not like this approach, you are hiring me to capture your moments and memories, you should own the images! In this manner you know exactly what you are spending and can decide wether or not it is worth it or in your budget to purchase albums or prints. I have already written a article about albums in an earlier post- this post is about custom prints.

Photographers always try to get the best exposure and color in camera when they take the picture. However images can almost always benefit from a second pass in the computer. We can adjust the exposure and the color and other levels to make sure that it is optimal and ready for printing. All reputable photographers should deliver ready to print images. This is what you receive from me on your disc. If you use a good lab you will have good images. A good lab can be referred by your photographer. I recommend a few online labs like Bay Photo and Smugmug, and certain Costco's like the one in Alhambra have given me consistently good results. My current custom prints are either from Bay Photo or printed by me at home on a large format Epson.

Custom prints should take things a step further- now what one photographer calls a custom print might be nothing more than what I described above. Ask for specifics, what does the custom print include? Some photographers will do what is called a batch processes and adjust the color and exposure for hundreds of photos based on one or two of them. Some will individual correct the images- this is always better and it is what I do. Even fewer photographers will include touch-ups like dodging and burning (lightening and darkening individual pieces of an image) air brushing (removing blemishes and smoothing skin tones) and effects and colorations. All of my custom prints include everything listed above.

Colorations include sepia and selenium tones and other custom color tones. Effects include vignettes (darkening corners) and more advanced image editing such as adding a color flower to a black and white. Black and whites are also custom created by adjusting individual tones and colors. A lab black and white will only take all the color out of the image and many times will look flat and undramatic. You can see an example here:

Notice the image on the right has more pop, if you look closely you can see more detail in the flowers and the veil and the whites are whiter while the blacks blacker. Many others effects and adjustments are possible, my clients usually give some input and then leave it to me to create the custom images as I see it. For the month of April I am including free custom print packages with my packages, see more at my website and in my monthly email.

Josh
Joshua Kline Productions
www.jklineproductions.com
626-676-4458

Meena Nanji Lifestyle Portrait for "Beautiful People"

Meena Nanji is a documentary filmmaker, I shot her portrait for Beautiful People a Vogue sister publication distributed internationally.

Meena is a remarkable woman she spent years in Afganistan right after the war began to document the lives of women there.

Her documentary is called "View From a Grain of Sand."

Meena was not used to being in front of the camera, she prefers like me to be behind it. After she relaxed a bit we got this shot which wasn't my favorite but was the image selected.

-Josh

Engagement Sessions

Meredith and Jason work on the Santa Monica Pier which served as a great location for their engagement session. See the full session: Jason & Meredith

I strongly recommend engagement sessions to all my clients. Engagement sessions are scheduled ahead of your wedding day usually in the early evening or early morning to take advantage of great lighting. You can choose a memorable place to the two of you or just a beautiful spot. Your wedding day will be stressful and busy... an engagement session allows you to relax and take some great photos of just the two of you. Engagement sessions are fun, I always try to capture the personality of the couple and give them portraits that they will cherish forever.

For a limited time I am offering engagement sessions for only $100 (usually $250) to any 8-hour wedding package.

Josh
Joshua Kline Productions
http://www.jklineproductions.com/
626-676-4458

Demystifying The Wedding Album

If a picture says a thousand words, than a great storybook album can say a million. A well designed album takes all of your photos and crafts them into a story. It adds context, order and shape to your images. Five individual pictures viewed by themselves may not quite paint the picture but put together into a layout they can tell the story of the moments in which they were taken. The sum is greater than its' parts. A beautiful album will be a family heirloom for decades to come. It preserves your memories and keeps them fresh. Your grandchildren can re-live a day that was decades before their birth. I encourage all of my clients to prioritize a professionally designed album. There are many kinds of albums on the market today, and the terminology can be confusing and technical.

The most important piece of any album is the design. A true storyteller can see the images and fit them together to paint a vivid picture that tells the stories of the day. Most albums today are designed in a computer with special software. On the computer images can be altered and adjusted in thousands of ways while preserving the original. Computers allow us to fully utilize all our creativity and just create what we see in our heads. Traditional albums use pre cut mattes and force the creator into a rigid framework. With the computer we are free to design however and whatever we want. The design will follow the sizing of the finished printed book such as 8'' by 8" or 11 by 14". Many sizes are available. Some albums allow for designs to spread across the page, these are called panoramic and they are what I offer in my flush mount lines. Panoramics are beautiful and allow for huge and expressive layouts. They are what I prefer to design in.
See one of my flush mount designs:
Jessica & Brian


Printing Methods:
There are two methods for printing albums. Flush mounts use real chemically printed photographs which are then mounted to parchment and then multicoated to protect the image. This yields a thick beautiful page with spectacular color and detail. Press printing is the other method. Offset presses print the images directly onto the page and then the book is bound. This is how books and magazines are printed. The quality is still quite good and the cost is significantly less because the materials and labor involved is a fraction of the flush mounts. Press printed books are also usually designed using templates which allow for less design freedom. Flush mounts are more durable overall, although the press printed books will last decades if properly cared for. A Flush Mount with multicoating will be less likely to tear or stain (if spilled on) as well.

I urge my clients to get the album that fits their budget, if they cannot fit the cost of the flush mount into their budget the press printed album is a great alternative.

I am currently introducing a new line of press printed books starting at only $100. For the month of February I am offering a press printed 20 side album free with any 8 hour package.

New Technology, New Services!

I want to preface this post by saying that technology is not what makes for good photography. Photography is much more about composition, color, light, mood and gesture than it is about pixels and processing. The most important tool for a photojournalist (without sounding too cliche) is the eye and second is the feet. Seeing what is occuring and moving yourself to the right spot to capture it.

Having said all of this, I am very excited about a new camera system from Canon. I have always shot with Canon digital SLR's for weddings. I think they provide the best tool for capturing weddings and events, Nikon is very good also. The newest camera the 5D Mark 2 is a revolutionary camera. It alows me to capture beautiful stills and now video in a small compact camera package. I am a photographer and video documentarian and now I can use one tool for both! I am introducing two new services to all of my clients. I can now capture a wedding as a photographer and a videographer. I can quickly and efficiently capture everything around me as both beautiful still images and as full HD resolution (1080P) video! The new technology has finally freed me to do both. I expect to have my own sample soon, in the meantime check out this short film from NYC photographer Vincent LaForet:
(This web preview is only about 1/3rd the possible resolution if viewed in HD Setting)

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY





For those of you that want to know more about the 5D Mark 2 go here:

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2326#5Dinfo

Notice how much more cinematic the video looks, this is because the 5D uses a sensor (the chip that captures the light or image) that mimics traditional 35mm film. It is the same size which leads to optically similiar characteristics, most notably depth of field. It is important to note that Canon gave Vincent tens of thousands of dollars to shoot this promotional short, which includes fancy mounts and a helicopter; but the image quality is as it came out of the camera.

I am excited to announce new services made possible by the new camera:

Photography with HD Video:
Introductory Price:
Add $450 to my standard photo pricing! Packages starting as low as $1200

I will personally photograph and video record your wedding. In addition to photographing your day I will capture key moments in short video clips to be edited together into a video of your wedding. Because I can seamlessly switch from video to photography I can take video clips without sacrificing the photographs. I anticipate delivering 1-2 minutes of video for every hour of photography so the standard 8 hour wedding day should yield 8-16 minutes of video. The video will be full HD (1080P) and delivered on a DVD-R as a Quicktime file. You can then watch the video on your computer. If you have ever viewed movie previews on Apple.com you have seen quicktime video. If not check one out:http://www.apple.com/trailers/ Your video will also be uploaded to my website where friends and family can log in and view it for an entire year. The video will automatically size itself to their computer and connection speed, all the way up to high definition. For more video hire my second photographer this will alow me to shoot double the video!

You can also recieve a standard definition DVD which can play in your DVD player for an extra fee which will be outlined on my website soon. I will be delivering bluray DVD soon, with bluray you will be able to watch your video in full HD on your HD TV. Anyone that tells you they are giving you HD video on a DVD for your TV is lying to you, or ignorant; it isn't possible.

The Cinematic Love Story:

I have been shooting Love Stories for years, a love story is a video documentary that includes photos and video from your engagement session and photos and home videos that you provide. It is great to show at the reception or display online, and it tells your story. The Cinematic Love Story adds an exciting twist, we will add a short narrative film or music video that captures more of your personality and can be funny and poignant. This is a customized short film starring you!

See a traditional love story that I currently produce: http://www.jkproductions.smugmug.com/gallery/5325732_AdrZz#466402778_cemA5
(new cinematic love story sample coming soon!)


I am excited to offer these new services and I will offer special rates to the first clients that try these new services. Call me today!

Josh
Joshua Kline Productions
www.jklineproductions.com
626-676-4458

KB Home President's Meeting

KB Home hired me to shoot the president's annual meeting in Bel Air. I was struck by how positive and upbeat their executives were. The home building business is probably facing the worst market in many decades; yet KB Home is optomistic and doing their best to adjust. With an emphasis on efficiency and customer service KB Home is weathering the storm.
-Josh

www.jklineproductions.com
626-676-4458

Nike In Store Promotion.

Nike, and their event marketing company OBE hired me to do a promotional poster shoot over last weekend. Me and my team shot over 50 girls high school sports teams and produced over 1500 11" by 17" posters. The job was daunting, I decided to rent 4 large format laser printers. Three failed! We got through it with plan B (back-up printer at Beverly Collection) and C (Staples next door! Valencia)

The idea is that girls teams could use the posters and a giveaway package supplied by Nike to promote their games. Nike has been great to work with over the past three years and they really do a tremendous amount for the local community.

The designs were created my beautful fiance/creative director Cherissa. Her website: http://www.cherissa.com/

See behind the scenes:

http://www.tomorrows.smugmug.com/gallery/7199430_5V3tp#463484301_BMr5N

Josh
Joshua Kline Productions
www.jklineproductions.com
626-676-4458

Trish & Ken

I shot Trish and Ken in Sherman Oaks, CA. They were very fun and relaxed. They had already been married in Australia, so I think that took the pressure off! I loved this old red painted church for the background for the formals. Trish had a small kitchen which was really the only place I could photograph her before the ceremony, so I used the window as a high key background and got some great shots.


See more photos: http://jkproductions.smugmug.com/gallery/7237665_NecCB#P-1-20