{"id":26,"date":"2011-03-29T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getsetmore.tumblr.com\/post\/14988755039"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:06:00","slug":"customer-kimphil-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/customer-kimphil-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer: KIM+PHIL Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phil Shen of KIM+PHIL Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Kim and Phil are Portland-based portrait and wedding photographers, dedicated gastronomes and extensive travelers. They\u2019re also two of the kindest people you\u2019ll meet. \u201cThe best advice is something I\u2019m trying to tell myself: Shoot what you want,\u201d says Phil. \u201cI always do food analogies. \u2018Eat what you like so you can eat more of it.\u2019\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you considered yourself a photographer? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since I got my first digital camera in 2000. It was my first year in college. I got the first Canon Digital ELPH for $600, the first one ever made, with 2.1 megapixels. It was like a brick. It was awesome. I took photos every day from then on.<\/p>\n<p>What really got me into photography was Flickr. When you have a community, you can practice. Professionally, I\u2019ve only been shooting since 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What shifted you from amateur to professional photography? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I finally pursued good inspiration photos. You\u2019re only as good as your inspiration. When I started studying photography history and analyzing photos\u2014when you set out to duplicate something, you build a good foundation to create your own art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who did you study?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of photographers get asked that. It\u2019s different than 20 years ago, when you studied one photographer at a time. Nowadays, you go to Tumblr or Flickr and just admire the photos. For me, it wasn\u2019t one person. Overall, my biggest influences are fashion photographers, people on Flickr or featured in photo blogs.<\/p>\n<p>I go through phases really quickly. When I lived in Japan, I liked Daido Moriyama, a street photographer. There\u2019s a lot of random people I like\u2026 I like the film, analog, 35mm, grittier look. But the one wedding photographer I like is Jose Villa. That guy is really good. He\u2019s by far the best wedding photographer in the business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are people really studying just photographs or photo blogs rather than individual photographers? What\u2019s that going to do to photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it makes it more fair and equal. The thing is, a lot of times you\u2019ll look at famous photographers and wonder why their photos aren\u2019t as good as photos on Flickr. It\u2019s about the photos, not necessarily the photographer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What differentiates your photographs from anyone else\u2019s?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I see things differently than anyone else, but then, everyone sees things differently. Even the physical differences matter. Kim sees things from her height, which is different than mine. That\u2019s a major difference.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I just want to capture what I see and what feels right. Right now, that\u2019s people. I don\u2019t find anything but people interesting. People are the most fascinating things in the world, and capturing them on film is great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who do you like to photograph? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interesting people. Beautiful faces. People pop out at me.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, I love Magnum photography. When I think of real photography, I think of photojournalism. Street photographers end up being legends, and that kind of photography I respect a lot. War photography, people in the trenches, capturing the world to change the world\u2014that\u2019s inspiring. But it\u2019s nothing that I can do. So what I can do is take photos of people.<\/p>\n<p>When I take food pictures, I just want to show how delicious that dish is. Maybe it\u2019s the same with portraits. Maybe I\u2019m a guy who just wants to take photos of beautiful girls. [laughs]<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your advice to someone starting out in professional photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone says \u201cKeep shooting,\u201d so I\u2019ll add: \u201cKeep shooting what you want.\u201d I always do food analogies; you know, like \u201cEat what you like so you can eat more of it.\u201d So \u201cShoot what you like so you can shoot more of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is working with your partner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great.\u00a0We work well together.\u00a0It\u2019s been three years, and when we\u2019re working, we really don\u2019t need to talk much anymore. She does the editing so I can mostly shoot. When we\u2019re shooting, people say it looks like it works very well. We don\u2019t have clashes of vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Shen of KIM+PHIL Photography Kim and Phil are Portland-based portrait and wedding photographers, dedicated gastronomes and extensive travelers. 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