Hi, I’m Kowen.
Most people don’t feel like themselves in front of a camera. Getting you there is the thing I work hardest at.
Lucid Shot grew out of a real love for the craft — the kind that has you out the door before sunrise on a Saturday just to see what the light is doing. I’m a software engineer by day and behind a camera most weekends, which means this was never something I had to do — it’s something I want to do. The same eye for detail follows me from one to the other: the crooked horizon, the stray hair, the half-second before a smile lands.
But the photographs you’ll treasure aren’t the stiff, over-directed ones — they’re the ones where you look like yourselves. So sessions with me involve a lot of laughing (often at my expense) and just enough posing to get us started — the keepers tend to happen in between. Comfort first. The rest is light.
Weddings, families, couples and littles — the days you'll remember and the seasons in between, shown the way they actually felt. And not just in stills: I film weddings too, because your vows, the toasts and the songs deserve to be kept in your own voices — the parts a photograph can't hold.