Kyle Hepp

June 12, 2009

Hey everyone who reads my blogs, is interested in photography and lives in Chile…don’t know if there are many of you, but just in case

This Wednesday, the 17th, in the evening I’m going to be leading a charla on marketing. I’ll mainly be talking about marketing as it relates to wedding photography, but if you’re interested in other kinds of photography, I’m sure you can learn something too. I’m not saying that I’m any kind of marketing expert, but I’ve been through a lot of trial and error, I have enough work to go full time this up coming wedding season and I’m more than willing to share what has and hasn’t worked for me here in Santiago! A couple other photographers will be coming too and sharing what they know, so the more the merrier, doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or an expert. I believe that we all have things to learn and to teach. If you want to come send me a message via my contact form and I’ll let you know where and what time we’re meeting. FYI, we’ll be speaking in Spanish because the majority of people going are Chilean photographers.

Para la gente que quiere venir a conversar de marketing de la fotografia de bodas, estaremos haciendo una charla este Miercoles que viene. Mandame un mensaje atraves del buton de contacto de esta pagina y te dare los detalles de donde y a que hora. No estoy diciendo que soy experta en el tema pero igual he probado hartas cosas, y estoy totalmente dispuesta a compartir lo que si ha funcionado y lo que no ha funcionado aca en Santiago. Otros fotografos tambien van a venir y compartir lo que saben asi que, vengan todos no mas, desde principiantes hasta mas avanzados Todos tenemos algo que ensenar y aprender.

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As should come as a surprise to nobody who ever reads this blog or knows me at all…I did not stop working completely when I got ran over. Yes, I’m admitting it — I am a workaholic.

Last weekend I was scheduled to have a couple photography sessions but obviously couldn’t do them because I couldn’t walk. However, Ticky wasn’t able to reschedule because her beautiful grandkids were only in town from Chillan for the weekend. And I reaaaaaaaaally wanted to do the session anyway. So I called on the backups! Gabriel Ortega and my wonderful husband are responsible for all shots in this set, although I can’t say who took what. I’d have to go back through all the exif data to figure it out and at 4am I’m a little too lazy. So full credit to both of them for all these pictures, all of which have been retouched by me to give them that lovely Kyle Hepp extra special touch

I have to admit that this experience taught me once thing — I do NOT like to give up control. It was even harder when we got to the session and I realized how CUTE the two little girls we were photographing were!!!! I hated not being the one taking their pictures.

Although S. and Gabriel are both more than capable photographers, better than that actually…they’re both outstanding, as they started the session I found myself calling out instructions, “Get the flare, use those shadows, think like Kyle Hepp!” HAHA. I was pretty annoying, I’ll admit. But, the results are, of course, gorgeous. Both S. and Gabriel took some truly amazing shots. I just wish I could have been photographing with them. The little ones were just lovely and looked like so much fun to shoot!

Enjoy S. and Gabriel’s work below and I’ll be back in just a few days with some photography of my own. I can’t wait to get back in the saddle!!!!

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June 10, 2009

I keep waking up and thinking that life has gone back to normal. Or not really gone back, but rather, never changed to begin with. When you don’t remember such a big shocker, it’s easy to feel like it never happened.

I missed a week of blogging work, plus had to cancel/reschedule multiple photo sessions from last week because I wasn’t mobile enough enough. But now, I’m blogging again, and hopefully, I’ll soon be photographing weddings and beautiful brides again. Life is virtually back to normal — except that I can’t walk like a normal human being.

But honestly, if there’s one person for whom my recovery has been more mentally stressful, and by person, I mean an extremely small and fuzzy not quite human being, that’s Papito.

Her little eyebrows have been constantly furrowed ever since I got back from the hospital, with a look of worry on her face. She hasn’t jumped on me at all, which is weird because we never trained her not to do that. She’s small enough that it never really mattered and we never really cared about that particular aspect of her being a well-behaved dog, until my legs were made up of BRUISE.  It’s so cute how she gets really excited to see me when she comes home but then restrains herself from going crazy and jumping like she normally would because she knows it would hurt me.

When S. would take her outside to do her business, whereas normally she would pull whoever had her on her leash down the street because she wanted to walk! and run! and explore more! when I got back from the hospital S. said she would just go right out front of the building and then run back in as soon as she was done…then sprint from the elevator to the apartment door as they came back.

And then the day she actually took me out on a walk shuffle she walked protectively near me the entire time even though the pace we were going at was slower than a turtle’s. Normally she sprints as far in front of us as her leash will allow.

At one point last week, I cried out in pain while S. was standing near me and Papito rushed over to growl at him. Even though he didn’t do anything. Poor S. He’s the good guy in all of this, but Papi just wants to make sure that nobody messes with her hurt puppy mom. Looking at her freaked out little face is like the time when she had to go to the hospital — I just wish so badly I could tell her that everything will be OK.

And yes, I just became one of those people who wrote an entire blog post about her dog. Even after I already dedicated an entire section of my website to Papito and then promised I’d never blog about her again. My bad.

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