Burbank Photography Blog

We’ve been painting again at the studio, and it was a blast! We recently knocked out a window to give us some extra space in our shooting room and we figured we might as well use the new space so we painted a background on the wall and I may be a little biased but I love how it turned out! I figured yellow would be perfect because we could use it with boys or girls and I’ve already got tons and tons of ideas rolling around in my head! I am so excited to start shooting on it, it’s much different than anything we have right now and we are also adding a nice hardwood floor to the new space it will look amazing! Well let me know what you think! Thanks for all your help Curtis!

A very beautiful and seemingly serious bride - from a recent bridal session:

She really isn’t that serious - but she is very beautiful. Taken in natural light at the top of a stairway, setting: Historical Old Home in Twin Falls, Idaho. This beautifully restored and maintained old home is is the location of the Party Center. Our thanks go out to Darsi and the crew at the Party Center for allowing us to photograph in their business on short notice. And congratulations to Brittney and Cory!

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We have a short wedding video that you are invited to watch.
Here is the link: (you may have to copy and paste the link into your browser)
http://www.burbankphotography.com/videos/wedding_sampler

Well guess what we did yesterday at the studio, I guess the pictures probably gave it away! We painted a huge heart on the back of the studio the paint is called chili pepper red and it looks fantastic! My whole Idea for the heart was that we could pose couples or anyone who likes hearts in front of it and we would use selective color to make the picture black and white and only the bright red heart would show up in color. We haven’t photographed any clients in front of it yet but I hope we get to soon! We also had lots of fun painting in on the building, even Kenna came out and helped. Although we did get quite messy and we had a little fight with the water but it was so much fun! So what do you think of our heart?

This year we are working with Senior Spokesmodels. This image is from our first “spokesmodel session” of the Class of 2009 group.

I first met this young lady while photographing a softball tournament. She surprised me by calling the next week and asking if I would like to interview for a photography gig. It turns out that her mother needed to hire a photographer for a week long gig - and I got the job. You meet the nicest people while photographing sports.

So fast forward to nearly two years later and here we are doing a senior portrait session with her. I’m trying to come up with an accurate count, but I believe this session was the 7th time that I have photographed her. Along the way we did a family portrait session, and even a pet portrait session with the smallest member of the family. Notice that I said the smallest - not necessarily the youngest.

There is a wonderful thing that happens in the photographer-subject relationship when you work together repeatedly - the images just keep getting better and better because you build a level of trust and you both begin to relax…..and that definitely shows up in the images.

Hello, it’s Brittany again! Randy and I had the chance last weekend to go to a class called “Bellies and Babies” which was taught by well-known photographer Sandy Puc’. The class was amazing! We learned so much about photographing babies and pregnant women; she gave us great tips and ideas that we are now able to make our own and implement into our photographing style. Everything she said got my head spinning with new and exciting ideas and we’re both so excited to try them out with new and previous clients. Going to classes such as this help us to give you the best product we can. I know it really gets my creative juices flowing, now I just need lots of bellies and babies to try all my ideas with!!! As soon as we get some examples of our new ideas I will post some of those, so keep watching!!

For some reason this one always makes me smile. Taken in 2004 at the Boise Balloon Festival. During the mass lunch (launch…hah!) on a Saturday a.m. I remember standing there among the crowds of onlookers and the balloons were all around us. Each balloon just launched as the crew got it ready.

Taken at a CSI ladie’s softball game recently. Who can resist a cute pit bull wearing a soft and cuddly blanket? Not me. I went up and introduced myself and asked the owners if I could take his picture, and if he was friendly and they said yes, and yes. So I took the first shot. Later I went back and took a few more, but this time I had the Nikon D3 set on machine-gun mode - which rattles off about 9 frames per second. He didn’t like the sound of that at all and gave me a few barks and growls and set off the look in the second picture:

What absolutely cracked me up about his reaction to the “machine-gun” mode was that a few minutes later I was again on his side of the field and perhaps a good twenty yards from him, when he heard my camera make the machine-gun sound while I was photographing some action on the field. He went mildly beserk and did his best to try to convince me to quit doing that. So I marched myself to the other side of the field to photograph the game - and everyone walked away.

By the way, both of these were shot at F2.8 which is why the eyes are in focus in the first image, but the nose is blurry. Just in case you wondered.

First of all let me introduce myself, my name is Kenna and I am currently attending CSI in the graphic design program with only 1 semester left (yeah!). I came to work at Burbank Photography in January as an
intern, and obviously I loved it so much I decided to stick around awhile. I think that from my perspective Burbank Photography is a great choice because of the fresh ideas and constant effort to keep up with the current trends, along with great personalities and hard work this is the photography studio to choose. I love the fact that we are constantly trying new things and Randy is awesome when it comes to keeping up with the latest software and photography equipment. Our visions are constantly evolving into greater ideas and I think as a team we feed off each others’ creativity so that we produce the finest quality product possible. So I guess from a designer’s perspective this is a great place to work and play!

~Kenna