What is a strobist?

Strobists are basically geeks, er people who like to light things with off camera flashes (strobes). The name comes from the site at strobist.com, where a community of like minded individuals can converge to learn new techniques and find out about what other photographers are doing. There is a small group here in the Portland area that meets up about once a month with a group of models at various locations for some hang time. The models and make up artists come do their magic with the condition that every photographer that works with a model provides an image for that model's portfolio. We geek out about equipment, argue about pocket wizard and skyport channels, and have a good time. Here are a couple of images from the last meetup at the Treehouse in the Beaverton area. It was a sweet location.

new website, blog, etc, etc

I'm changing the company over to a new life. kengillstudios.com and new blog at kengillstudios.blogspot.com come over and check it out. I wanted to make the work a little more personal with my name.

New blog features from blogspot

This is a test of the email feature of blogspot.com. It’s in beta form now, so I figured I’d give it a try. No picture for this post, but expect more pictures soon. In the meantime, check out my new site at http://kengillstudios.com.

New website is live

It is alive! I finished building my new site today and got it uploaded. I still have a little javascript issue to figure out, but I'm happy with the look of the site. I hope you enjoy it.
kengill studios check it out

Trip to the beach

I was building my new website, which involved updating my portfolio. This is an image from a series I did recently. I really like the image, but I'm trying to keep my portfolio size down a bit.
We went to Seaside, Oregon for pictures of clouds and birds, and the wind was blowing hard enough that we had to lean into it just to keep standing. I love the way the dunes look as sand is blowing across them. This was kind sand, and it didn't blow into our faces too much. Wasn't that nice of it?

We ended the day with fish and chips, then packed up and headed on out of the town with our bag of salt water taffy and got to brave the snow to get back to Portland.

new site, new blog, new new new

I am in the process of changing everything from BALLYHOO photography to kengill studios. Expect changes and all that really soon