Our Style: Red K Photography specializes in capturing action. Our photo sessions take place using natural light and comfortable surroundings. We want to catch your kids running, your teenager smiling, and your spouse laughing. It's these unexpected emotions that make the best photos and capture the true essence of those you love. Instead of posing perfection, we want to see the true movement and interaction of everyone in the photo. To do this, we use a long lense, and capture the moment as it happens.
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Lead Photographer: Kelli Boling is the owner and lead photographer of Red K Photo. Kelli earned her bachelor's degree in marketing from Winthrop University and her master's degree in integrated marketing communications from the University of South Carolina. She has 9 years of experience in the marketing industry including graphic design, photography and project management. Her creative eye and passion for adventure introduced her to travel photography at an early age. Since then, she's enjoyed using her photojournalistic approach to capture the spirit of any subject or location.
Kelli is best described as a: Nikon shooting, animal loving, mac using, ipod obsessing, flip flop wearing, burts bees applying, tae kwon do learning, southern, South Carolina football fanatic, fiesty red head kind of gal.
I’ve learned one major lesson during the first month of this challenge – I need to get outside more! The short days of January have proven to be very challenging for helping me find interesting subjects so I’m hoping things get a little more exciting in February. But for now – here are my favorite pics from the month of January. Enjoy!
Last year brought many challenges and opportunities. The truth is, it came and went before I even realized it. As I started the 365 Photog challenge this year, I decided to go back and revisit a few shoots from 2009 to take a moment and just reflect on how awesome last year was. From New York to a 2 year old birthday party, 2009 was filled with fun and plenty of laughs. Here are my top 25 favorite pics from last year beginning with #25…. (please feel free to comment and let me know which one is your #1!)
I’m teaming up with Tish Mackay Photography to offer some mini-sessions just in time for Valentine’s Day. Take a picture with the one you love or for the one you love! We’re offering 15 – 20 minute mini-sessions in the Uptown Charlotte area (location will be indoors). Reservations are required, so book your spot today by e-mailing info@redkphoto.com or use the contact form on the blog. Everyone is welcome – kids, couples, pets, families! Sessions are $50 each, and include up to 5 photos posted online at Wolf/Ritz Camera for easy ordering. Happy Valentine’s Day!
I was recently inspired by the movie “Julie & Julia” and decided to create my own year-long challenge. I never seem to find time on the weekends to just play with my camera, learn new tricks, or take pictures of the daily insignificant details, so I thought this challenge would be a great way to force me to think of new things to photograph. At the end of the year I’m going to put them all together in a book as a “2010 Photography Journal.” Our lives change so much each year, I think it’s going to be very interesting to look back at all of the images and remember each day through the lens of my trusty D300. Each month I’ll try to post a sample of a few faves, and here are a few from the first 2 weeks of the challenge.
I had 2 clients ask for a “different place with a lot of color” to do a kid/family shoot for Christmas card pics. I’d been wanting to do a shoot at Glencairn Gardens in Rock Hill for a while, so I threw it out there as an option. Both families loved the idea so I booked back-to-back shoots on the 28th and really got to enjoy all this park has to offer. Glencairn is a photographers dream and a kids playground! 2yr old boys can chase a ball, hang from trees and throw leaves, and a 2 yr old girls can look at reflections in the water and watch Daddy roll down the hill. Everyone had a great time! I can’t wait to come back to Glencairn in the spring.
I had a great time shooting this wedding with Dana from Tish Mackay Photography. It was my first shot at someone’s big day, and I had a great time. Congrats LB & C, and have a great 2010 and beyond together!
What started out as a cool weekend has become a Christmas tradition. My husband and I love to travel to New York at Christmas time. The lights, the people, the stores, the sights – they are all 10 times better in NYC during the holidays. We’ve been 4 times, so when I was packing for this trip I tried to think of a way to capture the city that I’ve never tried before. I always take my 15mm because the buildings are huge, and I’ve enjoyed my zoom lens to capture unexpected things that I don’t really want to get close to. 
So this year, instead of packing all of my lenses, my flash, etc, I decided to take just my 50mm, and see if I could capture a side of the city that I’d never seen before.
I couldn’t be happier with how these turned out. The 50mm gave me the flexibility I needed to get lots of low light situations, and also turned the Christmas lights into beautiful bursts of background color. Enjoy!
My Mother-In-Law did such an AMAZING job with wreaths and garland for the new house that I had to take a few pics to spread some holiday cheer. Enjoy!
This past weekend I had the opportunity to help a friend shoot a wedding (blog post coming soon!) – and we had such a great time shooting, chatting and just enjoying the day. I showed up that morning expecting the obvious – bride, groom, church, reception. Our day began at Jeffre Scott Apothecary on Providence Rd. We arrived there to get pictures of the bride during the traditional morning make up routine. One step into the store, and it was sensory overload. The merchandising was spectacular, the decor – impeccable, and the scenery – mesmerizing, especially for a photographer with a new 50mm f/1.4 lens. I couldn’t stop looking at the angles and playing with the depth of field and mirror reflections. Of course, the bride arrived, and my focus shifted, but for a few fleeting minutes, I was in a photographers dream land – a new lens, beautiful lighting and unexpected treasures. Thank you, Jeffre Scott Apothecary for providing an awesome start to a great day.
You’d only have to know me for about 5 minutes before you’d find this next statement surprising – I’ll be testing for a green belt in Tae Kwon Do later this month. I am uncoordinated, clumsy, and not at all athletic, but wrap a colored belt around my waist and I feel like Ralph Macchio.
I’m your typical creative – give me a brush, pencil, marker, camera, stack of construction paper, or any other random craft supply, and I can build the world. But give me a ball, glove or tennis racket and I’m totally lost. On my report card in the 3rd grade my PE teacher actually wrote “Kelli has trouble throwing a ball or catching when thrown to her.” 3rd grade. Like I said, I’m not athletically gifted and I freely admit that. We all have our own special talents, and athletic prowess didn’t make my list.
This past January, I was lacking the motivation and desire to find an exercise routine. I’d tried pilates, yoga, kickboxing, treadmills and free weights, and everything got boring after about 2 months. Then a friend of mine told me about this great little Tae Kwon Do school in Ballantyne. I decided to give it a shot, and fell in love on the first visit. I am a very goal driven individual – especially if the goal seems unattainable. After about 10 minutes I realized that TKDo set goals for me, helps me attain them, and that it was going to be a challenge for both me and my new Master to get me to black belt. Sign me up!
As of the end of this month I’ll be about 30% of the way to black belt, and I’ve never been more confident or excited to exercise. So, wax on, wax off, that’s it for this installment of “About Red K” – Kihap!
by Kelli
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