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Monday, December 20, 2010

Caroline & Kevin's USC Engagement Portraits

Now that it's so cold outside we really appreciate the beautiful weather we had this Fall and what it was like to not have to wear gloves and a jacket while we shoot! This was a really fun Engagement session that took place in October down in Columbia.

Caroline and Kevin, who are getting married next November, wanted to incorporate some team spirit into their Engagement Portraits along with one of their other favorite things, cupcakes! What a combo!









After playing a little catch, we sneakily asked Kevin to "tackle" Caroline. And boy were we surprised when she took off down the field and started running for her life!


But Kevin caught up!










Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Growing Belly Series

The Growing Belly Series is the perfect way to visually show the progression of your pregnancy, month by month. We start the Series at your 16th week and continue through week 36. Whether you want to be semi dressed, draped in fabric or nude is up to you. The Series is catered to your comfort level.







Once your little bundle arrives they start growing so fast, so why not remember every tiny feature with a "Baby Bits" Canvas Wrap. This 3-dimensional piece of art is printed on fine art canvas, professionally wrapped around a solid wood stretcher frame and comes ready to hang.



You can even include your baby's birthday stats on both sides to make a keepsake your family will cherish forever.



Call us today to create one for your family!


Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Andrea & Corey's Engagement Portraits Downtown Greenville

Yeah folks, we're still alive! We've had an epically busy summer and this poor blog has suffered the consequences. Well, we finally have a moment to spare to breathe some life back into our little piece of cyberspace.

Here's an oldie but a goodie. Andrea is the daughter of Scott Pilgrim, a local wedding & events DJ with Jumpin Jukebox and of Nobody Entertainment DJ trivia fame, that we've worked with many times over the years and have become good friends. We got to know his family back when we did their awesome Clemson themed Holiday cards a couple years ago. Now Andrea is getting married and we have the extreme pleasure of photographing her and Corey's wedding this coming May!

Here are some from their engagement shoot we did a few months ago.




Corey really knows how to get his lady to smile and laugh. We think that's the mark of a truly great relationship.








Nothing like a little serenade to make a woman swoon (or laugh hysterically in this case).


Talk about a beautiful couple, both inside and out!








And did we mention she just graduated from Clemson, and her whole family bleeds orange?!




We always encourage our couples to incorporate things they love into their engagement portraits. What do Andrea and Corey love (besides each other)?..........BBQ!!! In this case, a little Smoke on the Water deliciousness.



Love how they look like they just got caught! Sorry guys, we couldn't resist. :)


Now that's how you enjoy BBQ!


And that's how you know your soon-to-be-spouse loves you. When they are willing to see past your BBQ sauce-covered face AND help you clean it up!


Can't wait for their wedding!


Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Underwater Bellies

What started out as a crazy dream actually became possible, thanks to my wonderful husband Curtis and his DIY talents! About a month ago we were talking about creative endeavors for the future and since I have been photographing a lot of Maternity portraits lately I started thinking about photographing bellies underwater.

Right away I googled "underwater maternity photography" to get some ideas and came across the most awesome blog post. These images make me want to be pregnant in the summer JUST so I can have shots like these!

The first step was figuring out how to get the high quality images we're used to from our D3's while being underwater and without shelling out $3000+ for a waterproof housing unit.

So we did some tests, well a lot actually! First we tried a disposable underwater film camera. This test proved that the poses we had in mind would look cool and that we could hold our breath and shoot at the same time. Great! However the camera sucked big time and we had no control over the developing process, so it obviously wasn't an option. We determined that we definitely wanted to use our gear but had no idea how we were going to submerge a $5000 camera underwater without something going horribly wrong. So Curtis came up with a genius, yet simple, idea:





Yeah, that's glorified Tupperware. Now the question was how to release the shutter without having my hands inside the container. In comes a wireless shutter release remote to the rescue! We originally got the remote so we could take more photos of ourselves without having to run back and forth to the camera.

After many, many tests to make sure it was completely waterproof we took the plunge and tested it out in an actual pool. After getting over the initial submersion-trepidation and getting comfortable shooting while wearing goggles and a nose plug we scheduled some real sessions.

Check out some of my favorite images from the underwater belly portraits:

























Thank you to Janet & Dawn for giving their time for this fun, learning experience. I only wish I had more time this summer to shoot more of these. Oh well, there's always next summer!


Emily Snyder
Kismet Photography

Monday, August 02, 2010

Ahhh the Facebook love!

Unfortunately we have zero time to post some of the awesome new things we've been doing, much less some of the many weddings and engagement shoots that are waaaay past due. But we do have a quick sec and thought we'd share some of the great things folks are saying about the images we are posting on Facebook. By the way, that's where to go to see all the new stuff as it's posted there first. So go ahead, click on over to our Facebook fan page and "Like" us to see the latest and greatest Kismet imagery. Back to the post at hand...Not many people leave comments on this blog (even though hundreds of people are reading it as evidenced by our web stats) but our Facebook fans and friends of fans are quick to show some love. Check out all the raves one of our couples, the undeniably awesome and fashion-forward Shannon and David, got for their engagement sneak peek we posted. (Names have been blurred to protect the innocent)



As if that wasn't enough of an ego boost for us, the lovely Shannon posted this recently to our fan page:




Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and gooey inside? Well it does for us! A special thanks to everyone who has ever and will ever say nice things about us and our work either to our face or on some form of media or whatever. It's that praise and acknowledgment that lets us know we are accomplishing our number one goal: Make people happy through photography.


With love & thanks,

Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Friday, July 09, 2010

Dayna & Tim's Engagement Portraits at The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards

Here's a fun one. Dayna and Tim found us at one of the past Wedding Festivals and fell in love...with us...and after talking with them for a few minutes, we fell in love with them too! They are such a fun couple but we didn't learn just HOW fun, and funny, until their engagement session. Now that was a hoot! We learned a great deal about Moobs, Moose Knuckle and Gnomes. Quite education really.

Their wedding is at the Cliffs of Glassy and they enjoy wine so we kept the Cliffs theme going and did the shoot at the, also very beautiful, Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards.


Yeah, they're pretty cute together.


Us: Hey Tim, look this way.

Tim:



We love tall fuzzy grass! It just glows when it's back-lit.











Sporting their team pride. And how cool is it that there just happened to be rocking chairs in each of their team colors?!









We really like the sweetness in Tim's expression and Dayna's beautiful smile in this one.

It's just too bad we don't have a video of Tim's hilarious "Raptor" as a photo just doesn't do it justice.






Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

July Belly & Baby Session Specials! Limited time offer.

Check out our special for July. If you are a past Kismet bride you get a bonus offer!



Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography