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Lisa & Noah’s Wedding Album Design

dav.d — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:29:11 +0000

I have found a great solution for previewing wedding albums I design – and it even works on an iPad or iPod or iPhone. This is a wedding album I designed for Lisa & Noah – I even have ordered a sample album from this design so I can show what a linen album from Kiss Wedding Albums looks like. I will be photographing wedding album this week and will post photos of the actual album here on my website.

So feel free to flip through designed album. I will be finishing the design of another album soon and ordering a leather sample album this week. And I will be starting two more album designs this week as well. Hoping to have everything caught up for the holidays.

Lisa and Noah’s Wedding Day in Newport Beach California

dav.d — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:00:24 +0000

I had been looking forward to this wedding for about 9 months! So far they have the record for scheduling their wedding – in Utah people will often plan and schedule their wedding with about 2 months of warning. Outside of Utah is another story. And wedding in Spring in California is just perfect. Clear blue skies, the beach near by and a truly fun couple in love.

Lisa found me and my photography through Facebook of all places – and she is a student out in Chicago. Her boy toy, Noah, was living out in California so we were all over the country on this wedding. We photographed their engagements the day before the wedding.

I hope to get out to California more often – it puts Utah to shame

Lisa and Noah's wedding at the Newport Beach Temple

For most of the portraits I am using my portable softbox with a speedlight to create these photographs. That really helps the photographs look perfect right out of the camera – and little retouching is needed. In fact I can then get the photographs edited and posted on SmugMug for viewing and purchases faster. I also had rented a Canon 5D Mark II while mine is in the shop for repairs. I did use my Nikon cameras a little bit – but I can create some serious magic with that Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens.

Lisa and Noah's wedding at the Newport Beach Temple

We only had about an hour to photograph portraits before heading over to the reception at the Balboa Inn on Newport Beach. So we made good use of our time and we wanted to get a few photographs on the pier as well. I would recommend a much time as possible for the photographs – an hour is minimum! We can create some amazing photographs we a few hours if possible. And if we can avoid photographs at high noon – even better. So if you are getting married let’s talk and find out when the best time of day would be to take your wedding portraits.

Lisa and Noah's wedding reception at the Balboa Inn

Lisa and Noah's wedding at the Newport Beach Temple

Lisa and Noah's Wedding Portraits at the Newport Beach

Abstract wedding photograph

Lisa and Noah's wedding at the Newport Beach Temple

Strike a pose

Candid moments for photography

Heading to the wedding reception at Balboa Inn

And now for some photographs of the wedding reception and some of the wedding details. The cake cutting even had chanting – they really wanted a cake smash and they were not disappointed. Both the bride and the groom were able to score some frosting to the face. And then they had some creative clean up.

Wedding cake

Cutting the cake

Smashing the cake

Cleaning up the cake smash

Cheesecake

And to round out the night was dancing, dancing, dancing! A perfect activity for any wedding reception and much better than the Utah tradition of standing in a line to shake hands for 2 hours. (In my humble opinion)

Dancing the electric slide

break it down

Wedding bouquet

Seastars indicate the assigned tables

And here are a few photographs from earlier in the day as the couple prepared for the day. Always photograph the dress before hand and any details you can. This is fly on the wall photography and ninja photography – stay out of the way and capture some moments of photojournalism.

The wedding dress

Bride's luggage

Earlier that day - the groom gets ready

Earlier that day - the bride gets ready

Newport Beach LDS Temple in HDR

dav.d — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:41:50 +0000

One project that I will be working on will be to photograph the wedding locations of temples, churches, and such. So the day before I grabbed my cameras, tripod, and cable release to take some photographs of the Newport Beach Temple. The temple is a sacred building for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

And the temple is a beautiful building with great landscaping – so here are a few of the photographs. I wasn’t able to photograph during sunset because I was photographing the engagements at that time. But with HDR I am able to photograph the temple with the sun in the composition – you can’t do that without HDR.

Newport Beach LDS Temple in HDR

And of course you really really really need a tripod and cable release.

Newport Beach LDS Temple in HDR

Lisa and Noah’s Newport Beach Engagements

dav.d — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:05:57 +0000

Typically you want to photograph your engagements several months before the wedding – and sometimes if we are in different states that might not be an option. Fortunately we can photograph engagements the day before the actual wedding. With Lisa who lives in Chicago, and I am living in Salt Lake City, and the wedding was going to be in Newport Beach, California.

So I showed up a day early and we hit the beach as the sun hit golden light and the sun was setting. We photographed on a getty, on the beach, and one of the piers. Just beautiful light and beautiful setting – and the cutest couple. Hopefully I will have more opportunities to head to California in the future.

Lisa and Noah on Newport Beach at sunset

Wedding Rings on the sands of Newport Beach

dav.d — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:05:14 +0000

While everyone is eating I grabbed my macro lens and my flash and took photos of last Saturday’s wedding in Newport Beach. I captured some really cool photos of the rings and I figured I might as well write a blog post about just the wedding rings. Yes I will be blogging photos from the wedding and their engagements but I will start with the wedding rings.

And the color of the wedding was purple and sand provided a complimentary color and some fun props for the wedding rings.

Wedding rings

Wedding Rings

Looking forward to the Newport Beach Wedding

dav.d — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:12:33 +0000

It is weird to think that my first big wedding that I photographed was 2 years ago in Newport Beach, California. My cousin, Angelina married Nghiep Dang in the Newport Beach Temple in California. It is fun to look back at some of my old weddings – especially since my next wedding is in March and is again at the Newport Beach Temple.

In two years I have grown as a photographer – my skills have improved and developed – yet I always get nervous and excited about an upcoming wedding.

So it will be fun to compare the photographs from 2 years ago with the photos I will capture and create in March. And of course it’ll be fun to be back in California – I love California.

Angelina and Nghiep's wedding in January 2008

I will be driving down to California – I thought it would be fun to have a bit of a road trip. I can stop in Vegas for a few photographs and I can explore spring along the highway. I am sure that if I travel more and more to other states to photograph weddings I may save time and fly. But when driving I can enjoy the drive and I can also bring more camera gear.

It is going to rock!

Looking forward to a Newport Beach Wedding

dav.d — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:41:37 +0000

Today I spent two and a half hours in the car driving to work – so much snow and I think for the first hour and a half I was averaging 3 miles per hour. So I will easily confess I am looking forward to spring to thaw out. And I am looking forward to spring because my first wedding of the new year is in March but more importantly it is in Newport Beach, California.

I had high school in California and I certainly miss it. So it’ll be fun. And looking back at some old photographs of a wedding I shot at the Newport Beach Temple brings back memories of warm weather. This older wedding was photographed in January – and it was 60-70 degrees. Absolutely gorgeous. I can’t wait.

Wedding at Newport Beach, California

California

dav.d — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:27:31 +0000

I love California. This photo was taken at the Newport Beach Temple in January! Utah was busy shivering and shoveling out the snow. In April 2009 I will be photographing a wedding on the beach – I am so excited.