Daily Blogging
I have always wanted to shoot one of my clients’ weddings in fully black and white but never got a chance to do so because many clients would want color photographs on their big day. But in my most recent wedding I decided to just edit ~50 photos in BW to showcase their beautiful story. Here are the images that were captured.
It's been a while since I've posted anything on here but I will make it a habit. Starting today and every Wednesday thereafter I'll be posting a new blog post of a wedding that I shot.
Shot on Canon 1DX primarily with 35mm 1.4L
Sometimes you just have to let the photos do the talking.
Sneak peak of Corina and Jesus wedding. I love it when colors change, the plus side of photographing outside of California, you get fall colors!
I have an archive of rolls that I am sitting on and haven't had a chance to scan them in. I will make it a point to try and scan, archive and post some film photographs on my website at least once a week.
The photos below are shot with a Leica Minilux with Kodak Ektar 100 film. The Leica Minilux is a perfect camera if you are on the go. It's a fixed lens at 40mm with electronic guts. Which can suck because once it goes bad electronically then you are pretty much screwed. It's super compact and easy to load so its definitely something to look into if you are in need of a nice travel or street camera. This was my first roll of Ektar 100 and I love this film stock. The colors are bold and it's got a nice contrast as well. But anyways, here are some snaps I got with this roll.
I'll let the photographs do all the talking.
I know what many of you think, healthy food doesn't look as appealing and doesn't taste as good as "unhealthy" foods. But let me change your mind.
All shot with natural light and my Canon 1DX and Macro Lens.
Photographing the people at weddings can be very difficult but! Photographing accessories can be much easier. I say easier because these objects don't talk back. Here are a few detailed shots from a few of the past weddings I shot.
Having textures, whether it is in the background or on the item can really help make the photo more interesting.
Get nice and tight! Don't be afraid to bust out the macro lens! If you don't have a macro lens one tip I learned when I started photographing weddings is stacking close up filters! There are filters on Amazon that you can throw onto your lens with just some easy screwing on and by stacking them you can get closer and closer to your subject without having a limit on your distance.
Turn off that flash! Put the bride by an open window and just shoot natural light. Natural light can bring a lot of emotion to the photo and really help the photograph grab the viewers attention.
One word. Layers! Use walls and doors do your advantage. The photo I took above looked boring when I shot it directly in front of it. I took a step back found an angle and took this photograph instead. It was taken in their kitchen! It really makes the audience feel like they are actually there at the wedding looking at the dress. Taking that sneak peak from around the corner.
I hope you guys enjoy some of my tips when photographing the details and accessories. I'll definitely come up with more and post it in the future!
I am very lucky to have shot and still shoot for a company like Nike.
Nike surprised the city of Los Angeles with a concert after a 5k run with Travis Scott meeting them at the finish line.
Congrats on the baby Travis.
“it’s lit”
Shot with Canon 1DX 24-70
WARNING: The following photographs will cause salivation, FOMO and jealousy.
What can I say about how beautiful this food was. I can't really say much! The photos will have to do all the talking.
Taken with Canon 1DX 24-70 F4 IS Macro with large window for natural light and an OCF (Yongnuo flash)
Creating a new website and blog definitely has it's ups and downs. A positive is that I have all this content that I am sitting on that I have yet to publish to the world! From time to time I'll be posting some throwback photos from trips and journeys that I have taken. Sort of like a flashback photoblog. I hope you guys can enjoy some of the photos and relive some of my past experiences with me.
This trip was taken about a year ago to Amsterdam.
Going into this trip I thought that Amsterdam was going to be my least favorite cities in Europe, boy was I wrong. It was low-key one of my favorite cities to be in. The people are tremendously friendly (and everyone was attractive!), the architecture and cityscape is breathtaking (the canals alone was worth the trip), and the culture is very rich and welcoming (museums galore!). The only thing that Amsterdam needs is (please don't hate me) better food. The one saving grace that they do have is awesome desserts and pastries! I swear that is my only nitpick of this city!
All photos taken with Canon 1DX and 35mm 1.4L
Maybe I should call my Wednesday posts wedding Wednesdays? Post some wedding photography images as well as some wedding tips and tricks? But anyways onto the post.
Being a photographer on your own wedding kind of has its perks. The morning of my wife and myself's wedding day I brought my Leica Minilux out to shoot some photographs of our big day. I've shot numerous weddings but never weddings on film, though I would love to photograph a whole wedding in film (email me if you are interested, I'd even do it for free!) it just doesn't seem feasible now especially with all the uncle Bob's and phone photographers out there at weddings. Imagine going through a sea of obnoxious guests with smart phones and tablets in hand while you shoot with your film camera, but that is neither here nor there.
Anyways, I got a chance to finally develop some BW film at the local camera shop (shout out to Samy's Camera on Fairfax for always giving the TLC film needs) and got home and immediately scanned them in. I was nervous, scared, excited to see what turned out. I believe there were some really good photos that I enjoyed.
What I learned from the anxiousness of getting my film back to finally scanning it is that the wait is worth it with film. Often times we as photographers are so into chimping (looking at the back of our screen after a shot to admire our beautiful work) and the fast turn around time in the digital world we hardly get to really soak it in and enjoy the process and really look back and reflect on your shoot. With film it brings you back to that particular time and the physical copy you get after it is printed is a great feeling. It may be just me but film gives off more emotion. I don't know what it is but in my opinion it definitely conjures up more "feels" as these millennials say. Anyways, here are some photos from the morning of our wedding day.
All shot on Leica Minilux with Kodak tri-x 400.
I'd like to make every Friday a food photo blog post day. I'd like to showcase some of the restaurants and foods that I shoot whether it be for work or I just wanted to photograph the amazing work of art that is food before I shove it down my gullet. I'd like to dedicate these posts to all the chefs and cooks who spend hours upon hours dedicating themselves in creating magical works of art only to get it devoured by hungry people. These posts will be photos for the hungry people by a hungry person. So I hope that when Fridays come around your hungry eyes can take a gander at some subjects that I shoot. So without dragging this out here are some items from Baby Blue's BBQ in Los Angeles California.
Shot with Canon 1DX and 24-70 F4 IS Macro. Shot next to a huge window with an off camera flash with an umbrella attachment to the left.
It has been way long overdue to post some Europe travel photos so here goes.
I believe that every photographer has an itch to travel and document their journey. If you are that photographer I highly advise you to go to Italy and take the trek down to the Cinque Terre. It's easy to say to someone to go there but trust me, the culture, views and food make it worth saving up for.
I brought a bunch of equipment on this trip and ended up just going with my trust Canon G7X mark I. Shot everything in RAW because it's easy to carry a shit ton of SD memory cards. I didn't regret it for 1 minute that I left my big boy camera at my hotel because it would of just hindered my experience and I'd be too caught up in the "which lens should I shoot this with?" or the extra weight that would definitely keep me complaining. I honestly believe that an iPhone is a perfectly fine camera to take on vacations and quick travel trips. All you need is good light, the right subject and your eyes.
I hope you all enjoy the photo set from the Cinque Terre and I hope that you all can one day go.
I had the recent pleasure to photograph the lovely Olya for some personal portrait work.
The shoot was held at an amazing house up in the hills of Los Angeles but for some reason the best lighting and scene came from just behind and under the palm trees. You don't need a million dollar location, just use what you have.
Many times at weddings the Groom and Groomsman are the ones who don't really care much for group photos, but there is always that one special time when the groom and groomsman are Dragonball Z aficionados and want to take a very epic photograph.
The photo says it all so I'll talk a little about the setup.
I shot this with my Canon 5D mark III in burst mode (6FPS at RAW) with my trust 35mm 1.4L with natural light. It took about 4-5 times doing this to finally achieve the shot I was looking for and boy did they nail it.
