Kelly McCord Photography Blog

Josh Fox -- The Photo Session

 

I am incredibly privileged to be related to many talented and gifted people.  One of those people, Josh, I am related to by marriage, and he's someone that is not only an incredibly great guy, and married to a wonderful woman (my adorable cousin, Dani, pictured below the jump), but he's also worship leader and pastor at Vintage Faith church. He's incredibly talented; both as a singer and a songwriter.  He's going to be speaking at a massive pastoral conference, for pastors all over the U.S. in southern California this next week.  We've been talking for awhile about doing a photo shoot, and so we finally did it. 

We had SO much fun shooting all over Santa Cruz - we went from the Boardwalk, to Cafe Pergolesi, to Vintage Faith.  Josh was so much fun to shoot; not only is he a fun guy in general, but he was game to try anything. And because it was a artsy/music-y type of shoot, I could really push the limits of fun and funky photography, not only during the shoot, but afterwards during post-processing. I had SO much fun just letting my imagination go crazy with colors and whatnot, as you'll see below. It's pretty rare to be able to really just let loose, since I'm usually shooting engagement or family portraits, so when I get a chance to be super-creative and have fun, I go for it. I love how they turned out!  Below are just a few of my favorite shots.  If you want to see all of the favorites, you can do so by clicking here (and these aren't all, but Josh asked me to edit a few of my faves, and so that's what is posted currently).  If you want to see more, there are  more after the jump.

Celebs, Suites, The Good Life and More

That's a commercial shot of my sister as model, for my friend Kiersten's company, which I'll explain more below.

Also, I shot my couple-that-I-can't-tell-you-about  last week for their engagement shoot. It was so fun and amazing, and I wish I could show you the photos, and tell you all about it. And I may be able to at some point, but not now.

I will say, shooting someone who is absolutely sure of herself in front of a camera, and used to doing it, is an incredible thing for a photographer, and I think the pictures reflect that.

In other news, our family flew down to L.A. this weekend, to support my friend Kiersten, with a pre-Oscar event her company was invited to participate in. Have you heard of gifting suites? If not, here's a quick run-down.  Celebrities are invited to come 'shop' (which isn't really shopping, because they're giving products away for free) at a gifting event.  So Kiersten was invited to show at this event (which means, give her products away for free).  And because I'm a photographer and because it was also her 30th birthday that weekend (and I wanted to be with her for that anyway), we decided to go down and support her. 

So last Tuesdsay Kiersten overnighted me her latest products for Milkdudz, and my sis and I got to work. If you want to see all the shots from the photo shoot for Milkdudz, you can do so by clicking here. Those are all Kiersten's prouducts, featuring my sister, my daughter Sofia and my nephew Maddox. If you want to hear about my trip to L.A., (or see some celeb shots) continue after the jump...