Member: PPA (Professional Photographers of America)
Member: IAAP (International Association of Architectural Photographers)
Member: AIAP (Association of Independent Architectural Photographers)
K and H Product Photography is a father and daughter team providing quality photography of products, jewelry, architecture (exteriors and interiors) and executive portraits for designers, advertising agencies, and industrial leaders throughout the South West. For many years they did all of their commercial renderings on film with 4"x5" view cameras. But ever wanting to stay on the cutting edge of technology, a switch was made to digital capture, utilizing the very latest high-end Nikon cameras with post production in Photoshop along with an array of lighting equipment that will meet the challenges of the most complicated assignment.
About Henry:
Henry first became involved in commercial photography as the Publisher of Nevada Business Journal, a slick four-color magazine. Each month he included a section devoted to Nevada architecture and various products being offered by Nevada businesses. To his dismay, he found the quality of most of the photos submitted for publication to be less than adequate, and only a few of those submitted by "professional" photographers met the magazine's high visual standards. Already experienced as a former freelance magazine writer/photo illustrator, Henry found it necessary to shoot many of these projects himself. When he finally sold the magazine, he and his daughter, Kim, decided to devote themselves full-time commercial photography.
About Kim:
Graphic Art School Graduate. Kim is formally trained and highly skilled in Photoshop image enhancement and has a number of commercial website designs to her credit. In addition to being a fine art photographer, she is also a talented fine art painter with paintings hanging in many homes throughout Southern California. She also designs, constructs and paints sets for trade shows, conventions and corporate exhibits. As an artist, she appreciates the aesthetics of design and the talent and creative effort that product designers and architects put into their creations, and . treats each rendering as a work of fine art. Although Kim is an innovative Photoshop expert, she believes (as does Henry) that Photoshop is where you go to enhance good photos, not where you go to fix bad ones. She is also the creator of the popular "Tuff Kitty" series--a cat with an attitude. To see some of Kim's artwork.
About Our Rates
We bid each assignment on an individual basis. As for small table-top products and jewelry we can bring these subjects to our studio (or you can ship them to us) , or we can do them on location at your place of business. Executive portraits are best done in your business establishment so that proper executive surroundings can be shown.
As for architecture, every interior design and every building is a unique personality with unique photographic requirements and challenges in terms of lighting, composition, aesthetics, and the techniques required to render an image that reflects the designer's original vision. So before making a bid, we like to scout the location, see what is involved, consider the equipment and techniques that will be required. Consequently, we do not quote an hourly or daily rate. To do so more often than not invites the question: "So how many rooms or buildings or photos can you shoot in an hour or day?" Any "quality" photographer who answers this question with a specific figure before scouting the project is being less than honest.
Scouting the location ahead of time will save you money: While scouting we can consider the work flow and plan the shoot in a way that it can be accomplished in the least amount of time. Also, we will know what equipment to bring to the actual shoot so that we will not arrive only to find that the scene requires items that we did not bring. Note: Normally we do not charge a scouting fee, but If the location is far from our Long Beach base, we may request that you reimburse us for travel expenses.
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