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No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk
Today's Guest: Tim King of Recollections Photography in Camarillo, California
Today's Host: John Bentley

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk brought to you by NO BS Photo Success Photography Forum. Dedicated to the portrait and wedding photographer who has the passion and desire to grow. Now here's your host, John Bentley.

JOHN: Today on the No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk, we are with Camario, California, photographer, Tim King. Welcome to the program Tim.

TIM: Thank you, guys, nice to be here.

JOHN: Now Tim you have a photography business called Recollection Photography. Tell us a little bit about what you're up to.

TIM: Well I primarily do portrait photography, and I specialize in head shots. That's my primary subject.

JOHN: So are you doing business type head shots then?

TIM: Yes. It would be corporate head shots, actress head shots, or basically anybody who wants to just come in and have a good time and have fun time taking pictures. People love to have their pictures taken, that's for sure.

JOHN: Now being out in California I supposed you get a lot of actors and actresses then, huh?

TIM: Well a lot of community, because out in my area there is a lot of community theaters. So as far as, you know, I mean, anyone who is an actor or an actress, I mean, yes, of course I consider them legit, but you know, nobody like Sharon or anybody like that, but I'd love to have her come into the studio, but mostly just your community folks.

JOHN: Ok, now you mentioned studio, so you have a studio to work out of?

TIM: I do. My studio is pretty much my garage. Just like a lot of other portrait photographers or any photographer just starting out. So I use my garage, but I also will take my equipment to wherever I'm having the session. If I need to and that's usually the case. Usually it will be at a church. Usually it will be at somebody's home. They're more comfortable there so we'll just set up in their living room. We can also set up in the back yard as well.

JOHN: Great. Now are there any other aspects of photography do you dabble in? What about the wedding industry?

TIM: Well I've done a few wedding, more the journalistic style where I've just kind of walked around with an off camera flash, you know, where the camera just taking up to 1500 pictures and then just taking those and putting them into a DVD. So I have done those sorts of weddings, but I don't do many weddings, because for me they're a real liability for some reason I kind of, you know, I get a little worried about doing weddings, because at least with a portrait session, you can always say, "Hey let's do this again." But in a wedding you can't always do that so I figure well that's not really my cup of tea.

JOHN: What do you consider to be your unique take on portrait photography? What makes your photography stand out?

TIM: Well the thing about my photography is that I use a specific system when I am taking pictures. And I love Monte Zucker, he of course, has passed on, but he was and is a legend, but they've all had this system of lighting, posing, camera and angles and so forth and for me it's made taking pictures very, very, very easy once you learn those specific areas of classic portrait photography where it involves, you know, short lighting, two different poses, three different camera angles, and once you know those things, and you practice them, it makes taking pictures much, much easier and simpler.

JOHN: How long have you been in the photography business, Tim?

TIM: I've been in the business for about...this has been my fifth year, and I've been studying it for about 8 years.

JOHN: Let's talk a little bit about your background then. What about education. How have you educated yourself to be a photographer?

TIM: I kind of consider myself an odd bird, because I don't have any college education per se for photography, and I think with a lot of us we've gone through, you know, the black and white photography in our junior high school, and I've done that, but as far as my education goes, it's pretty much from the internet. I just stumbled across Monte Zucker. This was about 6 years ago and from there I just started learning his style and there were certain things about his style that I couldn't quite understand at the time, and they were talking about the loop, you know, look at the loop, and I couldn't figure out what that was, but I knew what he was trying to do, and I knew there was something unique about his style. So it took me a little while to get into it, and then a couple years ago, I had joined the No BS site and that's where it actually kind of sprung to life.

JOHN: We're going to talk about No BS here in the second segment, so we'll definitely get into what exactly you're doing with them and what have you. But let's briefly if you could tell us what photo organizations you've been involved in that kind of help round out yourself as a professional photographer.

TIM: PPA that's a wonderful site, because you've got the insurance and there's a wealth of information there as far as different insurance and different organizations that you can join as far as publishing your own work for competition and also NAP is the other one for Photoshop. So those are the two organizations and plus the New York Institute of Photography.

JOHN: Great. We are on the phone with Camarillo, California, photographer, Tim King, and you're listening to the No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk. I am your host, John Bentley. We're going to step aside for these important messages. We'll be right back with more with Tim King.

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JOHN: We are back in the studio with Camarillo, California, photographer, Tim King, and you're listening to the No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk. Thanks for joining us, Tim.

TIM: Thank you.

JOHN: Now we've been talking about your photography business and a little bit of a background about who you are and what you do. Let's talk about how you stumbled across theNO BS Photo Success site.

TIM: I think, and I'm not sure I'm allowed to say other websites, but let's say I was with part of another website, and I was just kind of looking around and just kind of stumbled across this odd looking website called No BS Photo Success, and I thought, hmmm what's this. I went on over there and checked it out and joined it, and thought, wow this is a very cool site. I mean, there is so many bits of things in there that you can pick up on and download and learn the actions and all that stuff even though I really, you know, but the videos just blew me away. The first thing I did was I took my first week and went ahead into the lighting DVD section there and just watched that studio lighting and had a couple of sessions coming up, and I took the idea and that's where I learned about the loop and all the different patterns of the lighting and where to put your lights and that and it really kicked me in the butt as far as learning lighting, and then once I learned that lighting all of a sudden it made, for example, the Monte Zucker and it made the Clay Blackmore stuff, it just made it make more sense to me. So I took that and I took that information...I just watched it and watched it and my lighting in the course of two weeks, in my opinion, when I compared what I had done prior to No BS, and I compared that to being a member of No BS for two weeks was just night and day, and I was really, really impressed with my own work. I always thought why can't I get my lighting to look like all these other guys who are on No BS which is super really, really nice stuff and there's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of wonderful photographers on No BS, and their lighting is just spectacular and you're always like, how can I get my lighting to look like their's? Well the first thing that I did was I went and I watched that lighting DVD and it's free, you know, when you join and you go in there and you watch that, and you study and you take notes and then you take that into your session and then you work with those notes, and I'm telling you it really does turn the light on. It helps you understand lighting a lot better than trying to guess at it, you know, trying to figure it out. You have an actual tutorial that you can go watch and you can do it.

JOHN: Now you have been involved with No BS on another level too. You're actually helping photographers on the site too?

TIM: Yes, I do. Basically, I just critique their work just like everybody else does, but my take is that you really need to concentrate being a photographer. Being able to take good images. So whenever you come across somebody who, you know, you look at their work and you can see areas where they need improvement and so sometimes some people just look at things differently. So you can look at things differently and you can say, ok, this person here the lights too high, the lights too low, you know, it's too far to the back, too far to the front. And eventually after you do this stuff you can start looking at their images and you can almost guess where their lights are, and you can provide some help for them. Hey, bring the light a little bit forward, you know, however you're doing your white balance. A lot of people don't even do that. They won't even worry about, you know, white balance in their images or blue or a little bit on the orange side, and so I go in and I like to look at their work and I like to be straight up front with them.

JOHN: Now, Tim, how exactly is the No BS site set up. Let's say I'm an amateur photographer, and I want to have some of my work critiqued, do I post that up and does anybody answer that call to critique it or is it a specialized group of photographers that do it? How does that work?

TIM: That's actually a good question, and you post your work, and anybody on the No BS site who has anything to say about your image can come in and help you out no matter what it is. No matter what area it is that you need help in. If they see a certain area that you need help in, they'll be honest with you and they'll say, hey this is where you need some improvement here, you know, move your light, you know, change your pose a little bit, but yeah you post your image up and anybody can comment on that, and that's what you're hoping for is for folks to come in and be objective about your work and have comments for you to help you improve as a photographer.

JOHN: Well, Tim, I want to thank you for joining us today on the No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk.

TIM: Thank you very much it was a pleasure.


JOHN: Today we have been speaking with Camarillo, California, photographer, Tim King, of Recollection Photography, and you're listening to the No BS Photo Success Digital Photography Shop Talk. I am your host, John Bentley. Thank you for joining us today. H ave a great afternoon.

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