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Category Archives: Family and Children Portraits

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November 18, 2020

| Kelly Starbuck

Holiday 2020 Portrait Sessions

Word around town is – “We are ready for some holiday cheer!”
What better way to get in the spirit than getting your annual – or not so annual – family holiday portrait made?!

Book your Covid-safe Holiday porch, park or yard mini sessions with Kelly Starbuck Photography !

NOW booking Holiday porch, park or yard sessions for your family! Both 2 and 4 legged kids!

Mini-sessions of 20 minutes and full 1-hour sessions available.

– Print products and digital image packages are available to purchase from Kelly Starbuck.

Spots will fill up fast so book your session TODAY by CALLING  910-367-5720!
*Note: texts can not be received*

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

+ Covid safety and responsibility is practiced and of the utmost importance to me +

Hope you will join in this safe and fun moment with me!

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October 23, 2020

| Kelly Starbuck

Halloween 2020 Portrait Sessions

A pandemic?  Halloween doesn’t have to be scary this year!
Here’s a great reason to don your spooky suit and have some fun with your family and kids – 2 legged and 4 legged!

Halloween porch and yard mini sessions with
Kelly Starbuck Photography !

Most friends know I LOVE Halloween!
Hope you will join in this safe and fun moment with me!
Booking Halloween porch and yard sessions NOW through Saturday, October 31st at 4:00pm

Mini-sessions of 20 minutes and full 1-hour sessions available.

– Print products and digital image packages are available to purchase from Kelly Starbuck.

Spots will fill up fast so book your session TODAY by CALLING  910-367-5720!
*Note: texts can not be received*

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

+ Covid safety and responsibility is practiced and of the utmost importance to me +

Scroll down for more fun Halloween portraits!

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August 1, 2017

| Kelly Starbuck

Bald Head Island – Cape Fear Living Magazine

Bald Head Island Cover Story – Cape Fear Living Magazine
August 2017

What a fun day this was to shoot the Bald Head Island lifestyle and travel cover story for Cape Fear Living Magazine! I got some fun shots of the models taking in views of Old Baldy. We rode golf carts around the island to each shoot location and then wrapped the day up with an interior shoot at a stylish modern beach house! Bald Head Island is just a short ferry ride from Southport, NC and no cars are allowed – all golf cart transportation! Truly an island getaway!

Cape Fear Living Magazine

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May 19, 2017

| Kelly Starbuck

Kids Portrait Day at Peanut Butter & Jelly

 


Join Kelly Starbuck Photography for a KIDS PORTRAIT DAY at Peanut Butter & Jelly!

Saturday, May 20, 2017 from 9:30am to 4:00pm

Mini-sessions of 15 minutes are $65.00*
Includes your 2 favorite images in high-res (5x7in) & low-res formats

-or-

Book a mini-session of 30 minutes for $130.00*
Includes your 4 favorite images in high-res (5x7in) & low-res formats
(suggested if you have more than 2 kids)

*Sales tax applicable

– Additional photos beyond the ones included in your session are available to purchase in digital format or print with Kelly Starbuck.

Spots are filling up so book your session by calling 910-256-4554!

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March 4, 2015

| Kelly Starbuck

Harry Taylor “Requiem” & Tintype Portait Day in Encore Magazine

Capturing a Bygone Era: Harry Taylor showcases Civil War re-enactment photos at SALT

Mar 3 • Art, ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE BOTTOM

Over the last few decades, our society has embraced the Digital Revolution, so much to the point that most of the U.S. population consists of avid cell phone and Internet users. One may argue that in our modern world, film is dead. Photographer Harry Taylor, however, will prove otherwise when he shows Wilmington the beauty of traditional film photography during his upcoming exhibit, “Requiem: Views from the Cape Fear.”

recreating an era

It is well-known that the Port City is rich in history, but Taylor’s photography gives viewers a tangible, in-depth look into what life was like along the Cape Fear River during the Civil War. Living historians act as models for Taylor as he recreates the aesthetic of the culture during the 1860s.

“I have always been interested in history, but the Civil War era is definitely the most interesting to me,” Taylor says. “I can’t imagine what it would be like to live with the politics of that era.”

Taylor achieves his photography through a process called wet-plate collodion—the primary process used for creating photographs during the Civil War era. Taylor has been working in the medium for nearly a decade. The method is much more complex than the simple snap of a button as used on digital cameras. For starters, an 8-by-10 box camera with a hood is required, as well as a dark room, complete with several chemicals. A glass plate is coated with collodion, a mixture of raw cotton treated with nitric and sulfuric acids that has been dissolved in ether and alcohol, usually with a touch of bromide. The glass plate is then moved to the dark room to be dipped in a solution of silver nitrate, which binds the bromide to create a light-sensitive, silver-halide coating. Once the plate is placed into the camera and the lens is removed, light enters the camera, striking the collodion. It takes approximately 10 to 20 seconds or more of exposure to take an ideal picture.

“There’s something different about holding still for a 10- to 20-second exposure,” Taylor explains. “More of their thoughts come through, and there is more depth.”

Immediately after the shot, the plate needs to be taken back into the dark room to develop. A solution of sulfate and acetic acid is poured over the plate so that the grains struck by the light will smooth into a metallic silver. The plate is then rinsed, taken out of the dark room and varnished. “Watching an image emerge from a solution is the most primal experience in photography,” Taylor states.

For “Requiem,” Taylor will be using prints from a previous display called “Glass House.” He displayed the wet collodion plates in “Glass House” in a greenhouse. Those who entered  could view the photos through the walls; it was more of an installation project, creating a unique visual experience. The Cameron Art Museum actually owns this collection today.

“It was difficult to make out all of the details in the photos of the Glass House,” Taylor says. “I have pulled a select few prints from that display. This time the pictures will be clearer, and the mood won’t be quite as mysterious.”

Taylor created about 300 wet plates in four months. Because of the method’s many vital steps, only 10 pictures a day can be created. Taylor gets a lot of help from other living historians, who re-enact specific stories from the past, such as of confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Serving as a female blockade runner, Greenhow’s rowboat actually turned over in the Cape Fear River, while she was escaping a Union ship. Due to her wearing a dress laden with gold items, Greenhow drowned in the Cape Fear River. Taylor recreated this scene.

“A lot of people who help me by posing for these photographs will come dressed in clothing from the 19th century,” he says. “You never really know what someone will decide to do, but all of the Civil War re-enactors take their work very seriously. Most of them make their materials for this hobby themselves.”

While SALT Studio will feature archival photos of Requiem, new creations will be displayed as well. The featured prints will range in size from 16-by-20 inches to 40-by-60 inches and will be affordably priced for both new and experienced collectors of fine art.

Those who are interested in having a wet-plate collodion photo made for themselves also can attend Taylor’s upcoming event on March 8, American Tintype (another term for the collodion process). SALT Studios will host it and guests can pay to have one-of-a-kind portraits made by Taylor in his signature method. Portraits start at $80. Details below.

“Requiem: Views from the Cape Fear” will hang until April 17, Monday through Friday, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday by appointment only.

DETAILS:

Requiem: Views from the Cape Fear

Work by Harry Taylor
Hangs through April 17

American Tintype

EVENT:  Tintype portraits created by Harry Taylor
Sunday, March 8th
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Portraits start at $80

Click HERE to make your reservation!
Or call 910.367.5720 and Kelly will help you get a spot confirmed.

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SALT Studio Photography
805 N 4th Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
http://saltstudionc.com
910 367 5720

Photographer, Owner, Curator: Kelly Starbuck

Monday – Friday   12:00pm – 5:00pm
Saturday by appointment

SALT Studio is a working photography studio and business. Please call ahead (910.367.5720) to confirm the gallery is open and that we are not on location for a photo shoot. Appointments welcome!

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