OH, WHAT A NIGHT!

Our recent assignment led us to the downtown Durham Convention Center to capture the story of an annual fundraising gala event themed "Oh, What a Night!" to benefit Duke Homecare & Hospice.  The night was full of festiveness, celebration and delight as philanthropists enjoyed dinner and drinks and a live and silent auction filled with an array of auction items. The capstone of the gala event was the music experience provided by The Embers featuring Craig Woolard and guests danced and danced until some literally danced their shoes off!

Thanks to Dee Blake for allowing us to share in this benefit to help provide quality hospice care services.  As a recent beneficiary of hospice care services for our dad, we are grateful to organizations and supports that give tirelessly to assist patients with a better quality of care.

And, Oh, What a Night! it was....

 

 

STYLED SHOOTS, OUR STYLE

When we photograph people, we usually create story and inspiration boards to help us determine the vision of the shoot.  We create the look from a variety of factors including the client's personality, their style, number of subjects in the shoot, weather, location, etc.  Of course, when we get on location, creativity tends to consume the moment and we may take a little detour from the original storyboard.

Traditionally on our styled shoots we are able to accomplish the stylistic tone, brand essence of the story, and have some time to capture a few extra photos in between.  As a husband and wife team, having two shooters allows for more freedom and flexibility during the shoot.  Here are a few of our favorite campaigns...

 

The following was actually our first photo shoot using a camera in the DSLR world!  We chose our beloved NC State University as the location and certainly learned alot from the experience.  It was tons of fun working together at the very place where we met over 17 years ago, became best friends, lovers and business partners!