The Right Stuff

Shooting weddings with older or non-professional equipment is like showing up to a construction site with only a hammer...a hammer for screws...a hammer to saw with...a hammer to use as a level.
You get the point.

Over the past 8 years, Canon has introduced on a fairly regular basis, upgrades to both their amateur and professional lines of equipment.

Keith and Paul have kept up with the upgrades over the years and have progressed from the following Canon models: D30, 1D, 1D Mark 2, 1DS, 1DS Mark 2.

Today, we are using the latest available models, the Mark III models. The upgrades over the years have led to expansion of existing light photography. Remember those grainy photos you used to get and many still get? They are usually full of grain due to the lack of the sensor's ability in the digital camera to get proper exposures under extremely low or even normal low light.

Many photographers offer or even push black & white photography on their clients due to their inability to get a properly exposed shot with their lessor quality equipment.
Bad Exposure = Bad Color!

Keith and Paul will never do this! Some photos do lend themselves to a great black & white print, but only if YOU choose them that way. Our current equipment can shoot with the light of a candle!

For those interested, below is a list of what we are currently using:

CAMERAS

Canon EOS 1D Mark III (10.2 Million Pixels, Digic 3 Processor)
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III (22.2 Million Pixels, Digic 3 Processor)

CANON PROFESSIONAL LENSES

15mm 2.8L
(2) 16 - 35mm 2.8L
(2) 24 - 70mm 2.8L
50mm 1.2L
85mm 1.2L
135mm 2.8L
70 - 200mm 2.8L
(2) Sigma 120 - 300 2.8 Professional Lenses

OUR LAB OF CHOICE

HH Color Lab, Nationally Known, Located in the KC Area

CUSTOM FINE ART PRINTS UP TO 17" X 22"

Epson Stylus Pro 3800, Using UltraChrome K3 Inks
Colorburst Professional RIP for High Quality Color Reproduction

PORTABLE LIGHTING

PROFOTO Professional Monolights

PROCESSING

(1) MAC Pro Dual-Core, 2.4ghz, 8 Gigabytes Ram
(1) MAC Pro Dual Quad-Core, 3.2 GHZ, 14 Gigabytes Ram
(1) Apple 30" Cinema Display (Color Calibrated)
(1) Dell 30" Display (Color Calibrated)
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Flash CS4
Adobe Illustrator 11
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe Final Cut Pro 6
Photo Mechanic

A tear waiting to spill over
that gives away the emotion you feel,
That perfect moment captured for all
time. This is what we live for.

Pure emotion radiating from our images straight to your heart.

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Keith Gard & Paul 'luc Chokota - Two Full-Time Professional Photographers
studio: 922 e. 5th street, k.c. mo / office: 6508 jefferson st.\, k.c., mo /studio: 816-363-4783 / cell: 816-636-6656

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