Karling Hamill

I’m Karling Hamill, founding father of So Frivolously Images.

I’m a portrait and product photographer/stylist based mostly in Hong Kong, travelling all over the place. My expertise is in making you look good!

I do a combination of portraits – maternity, new child, household, {couples}, glamour, boudoir and product styling/images.

I used to be raised in Australia, obsessive about mild, and at all times had a movie digicam in hand whereas rising up. My work has been revealed in Frankie Journal, Vogue HK, SCMP, Tatler HK, and Nosotras.

I used to shoot with Fuji, and I nonetheless have a Fujifilm XT2 for mountain climbing, however my predominant workhorses are the Canon EOS R5 and a Minolta CLE movie digicam.

My absolute favorite lens which I nickname The Beast is the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2 USM. With this lens, I can do a whole shoot together with my set of Kase magnetic filters.

I additionally love my Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 and the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2.

On my Minolta CLE movie digicam sits the Minolta M-Rokkor 40mm.

I’ve a graveyard of lenses that I have to promote, however someway I can’t allow them to go despite the fact that I actually solely use the lenses I’ve talked about.

I used to suppose I solely favored pure mild and used flash solely the place wanted. Nonetheless, I’ve now grown to like the look of flash.

I completely love my Godox V1-C flash. It’s a extra available model in Hong Kong than Profoto which I used to be investigating, however they’re a bit of costly.

After I’m within the studio, I do love the Profoto lights that include the area so someday maybe my finances will permit me to gather extra lighting.

I’ve a little bit of an issue relating to accumulating digicam luggage. My fave is the Peak Design On a regular basis Digicam Backpack, however once I’m travelling mild, I take advantage of a Standing Anxiousness Digicam Bag or the Peak Design 6L sling.

I like the light-weight and sturdy nature of the Peak Design Journey Tripod. It’s a nifty very easy-to-use piece of equipment, what’s to not like about it? Nonetheless, I have to confess I usually simply use my physique braced in opposition to a wall for stability saving the tripod for the product or evening pictures.

Lightroom all day day by day for me wherein I’ve made my very own presets. Apple MacBook Professional is my laptop computer and enhancing device. I prefer to see my product pictures right away so I’ll tether to my Macbook with a vivid orange lead,  hopefully stopping me from tripping over it.

Excessive Professional SanDisk Compact Flash Playing cards – and plenty of them!

Redback Powerful Boots – I’ve had these for over a decade, and they’re nonetheless going robust.

Kase Magnetic Filters – are tremendous simple to make use of and I just like the carry case, that’s me being shallow.

There’s a international scarcity of my favorite rolls of movie, so I maintain a stockpile as it’s at all times a niggling anxiousness behind my thoughts that I’ll run out.

I like to make use of flowers and different issues as props or as a distraction for kids on household shoots. They at all times look so beautiful held of their palms, and the children are nonetheless fascinated by them.

At all times chocolate and fruit for me and a little bit of plastic wrap to place across the lens for a dreamy impact.

Child wipes for spills and face masks as a result of, in Hong Kong, they’re nonetheless necessary.

I’m at all times telling folks to go in direction of the sunshine, please step into the sunshine! A random particular person near certainly one of my photoshoots requested if I used to be a medium, they thought I used to be communing with ghosts. They utterly missed that I had a digicam in my hand.

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