Kevin Hudson, M. Photog.

My father is the one that got me interested in shooting pictures at an early age.

I started out taking all the photography classes that were available at my high school back in 1976. It was basically all darkroom training and basic camera operation. As a result, I got to where I hated the darkroom.

I began shooting professionally with my dad back in 1986. He had opened the business in 1983 in Bedford, IN. I sought after knowledge by attending seminars and meeting new photographers that were mostly members of our state organization, PPI.I also attended The Winona School of Professional Photography three times in my first four years of shooting. This school was in Chicago back in those days. Winona was really a fantastic learning experience. You would spend a week at a time with an instructor that specialized in a certain genre be it families, children, high school seniors, etc.

I started entering prints at our PPI State Convention and the PPA's print competition back in 1988. I received my Master's Certificate through PPA in just 4 years. I was handed my Master's Certificate by Indiana's own, Vangie Parker, at the National Convention in Orlando in 1992.

We switched over to digital in 2005 and never looked back. The cameras that we get to use today never cease to amaze me. Back in the RZ days of shooting film, I never really played with a lot of different lense focal lengths and used depth of field like we do today. I love photography more than I ever have!

Photography has been a wonderful passion and profession to me for a lot of years. Plus I got to work with my wonderful dad all these years.

Presentation: Senior Photography Program

Ordinary is just good enough anymore! I feel like it has got to be pretty crazy and different shooting senior pics these days. If its not, why would they want to come and see a pro for their pics? We will cover a lot of different lighting set ups and different light sources. Such as: Soft Boxes, Beauty Dishes, Ring lights, and hot lights. We will look at what each one does and when to use it. We will also look at two light set ups on location in broad day sunlight.

For the workshop part of my program, we will put these lights to work for a model shoot! We will talk about posing and background choices too. We will do some editing of our images to show you some of our workflow and talk about how we prepare and sell our images. I will also be explaining why I have shot a good bit of modeling portfolio work for free for the last couple of years. Yes, I said for free! It's gonna be FUN!