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  • Instagram is All You Need to Promote Your Photography Business

    When I first started, every professional photographer at least did the printed mailers once or twice a year, and a combination of various sourcebook advertising.  It was the go to standard, and if you had a photography rep it was mandatory. The printed mailers could be very simple, for instance a basic post card sent…

  • More Inspirational Fashion Images

    NJAL’s Katja Horvat questions whether fashion photography has a future amidst the radical shifts in publishing. How does our current technological milieu fundamentally alter fashion photography as we know it? Is the ubiquity of smartphones, advance in-image editing applications, social media, and the rise of fashion film rendering the canonised medium of fashion photography obsolete?…

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  • Instagram is All You Need to Promote Your Photography Business

    When I first started, every professional photographer at least did the printed mailers once or twice a year, and a combination of various sourcebook advertising.  It was the go to standard, and if you had a photography rep it was mandatory. The printed mailers could be very simple, for instance a basic post card sent…

  • More Inspirational Fashion Images

    NJAL’s Katja Horvat questions whether fashion photography has a future amidst the radical shifts in publishing. How does our current technological milieu fundamentally alter fashion photography as we know it? Is the ubiquity of smartphones, advance in-image editing applications, social media, and the rise of fashion film rendering the canonised medium of fashion photography obsolete?…

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  • THE ART OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

    Clothes, they say can tell a story; and a fashion photographer ensures that it is told in the best possible manner. Of course, photography is about styles and techniques, but it’s a photographer who manages to weave a story around a dress and ultimately helps to sell it.

  • PHOTOS FROM MY FOLDER OF INSPIRATION

    Today I took another dive into my folder of inspiration, years of gathering images that have particularly captured my attention.    What is Fashion Photography? The term “fashion photography” describes a type of fine art photography devoted to the promotion of fashion items such as haute couture clothing, as well as mass-market clothes, shoes, perfume…

  • GETTING INSPIRED BY AMAZING FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

    Images to inspire greatness from fashion photographers

  • SHARING SOME INSPIRATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

    Diving into my inspiration files today to pick out some of my favorite images from some of my favorite photographers.              “Fashion photographers are the new painters,” Peter Lindbergh said as he prepared the show of his dramatic black-and-white images that opened last week at the Gagosian Gallery in Paris.…

  • Spanish Fashion Magazine

    Spanish men’s magazine Hercules Magazine takes a light touch for spring in a new issue with four covers by Amit, Alessio Boni, Thomas Giddings, and Bruce Weber bordered in a gentle pastel pink. Themed around “A New Light,” the magazine offers a considered take on the new season, from Giddings’s cover feature on actor Karl Glusman to…

  • Some Ideas for Inspiring Photographers

    Are you struggling for new ideas? Do your creative batteries feel as flat and lifeless as a skunk in the fast lane? Here are 60 ways to breathe new life into your love of photography and re-energize your inspiration. [update — we wrote a book “inspired” by this blog post — Inspired Photography: 189 Sources…

  • FASHION INSPIRATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND EVERYONE ELSE TOO

    Sharing beautiful fashion photography for everyone to enjoy.      

  • 5 Tips for Protecting Your Digital Photos

    The advent of the internet has provided endless opportunities for photographers; it has → Related Posts: How To Deal With Copyright Infringement Per Zennstrom shares his experience with handling copyright infringement & shows how to deal with intellectual property (IP) infringement in the real world. Mastering The Photographic Workflow We share with the readers of…

  • 5 Tips for Protecting Your Digital Photos

    The advent of the internet has provided endless opportunities for photographers; it has → Related Posts: Make Your Online Portfolio Stand Out You’ve assembled all your best work in an online portfolio, but is that site getting you noticed? Taking great pictures is not enough sometimes. Your portfolio is on line to showcase your career,…

  • Getting it all together christopher kilkus photography

    I’m a bit embarassed to admit that I have never really done any promotion to speak of.  I think the last time I did a promo mailer was about three years ago, just simple postcard.  And worse, I haven’t even really had a printed portfolio for the last year and a half!  I’ve been extremely…

  • Equipment by chris kilkus

    I am frequently asked what lgihting, grip and camera equipment I use, so I thought I would share about this.  You might be surprised to learn what my preferences are! I am very far from being an equipment geek.  If something is inexpensive but does a good job, I’ll use that over an item that…

  • Chris Kilkus Photography – Meet Kilkus the punk band

    Check out the punk band that randomly chose Kilkus as their name: Music Video – Pattern of Self Design Music Video – A.O.C. Interview with Waffle Magazine It’s not fashion photography but music is always a close neighbor 🙂   Fashion photography rules everything around us, whether we know it, like it, or choose to…

  • Chris Kilkus Photography featured in www.dphclub.com

    Here is some of my work featured in the www.dphclub.com blog.  I don’t remember putting some of these versions of the photos out there!  A couple of them I forgot how much I liked so it’s nice to be reminded….  and it’s always fun to see what other people respond to in my work 🙂    

  • Chris Kilkus Featured on the Hungry Ones

      I was featured a while back on a food blog called The Hungry Ones.  It’s a blog that interviews creative and business types, from photographers like me to comedians to web developers and more, on the foods they like to eat…. or, as the blog says: The Hungry Ones is a collection of interviews with…

  • The Cult of Style Blog Post about Chris Kilkus Photography

    Thank you to the folks at the Cult of Style blog for publishing a shoot a did a little while back in a sunny and warm Los Angeles.  This was a test shoot I did with the fashion stylist Kate Riney and hair & make up artist Maria Nguyen.  Our model for the day was…

  • Video Post Production and Color Grading Reel

    Check out the post over on ambushpro.com about my friend Christian Stoehr’s Color Grading Reel.  One of the big problems with shooting video on the Canon 5d is that you don’t have much leeway in post on color and exposure adjustments….. but it’s amazing to see what how far he was able to take some…

  • Use Chris Kilkus Photographs as Wrapping Paper!

    I was surfing through some fashion blogs and stumbled on this posting from Fashion Blog Mexico.  They show how to use pages from a magazine for wrapping paper, and happen to be using a magazine I shot for Forever 21 in their example.  Too funny!  I don’t know if I should be flattered or insulted!…