.Maudrey Wedding 082909

it was bloody tiring, but it was really fun.

going into the wedding and knowing the lighting situation fritz (other photog) and i were getting nervous. we went to pro photo supply and wanted to rent some lenses. of course with our luck all the good lenses were rented out for the weekend. we were in quite a pickle until fritz found another photo supply store with the lenses we so desperately needed just a day before the wedding. THANK YOU GOD!

that being said 85mm f/1.2 and 50mm f/1.2 were my heroes! with 15mm fisheye f/2.8 coming in at a close 2nd.

there is really nothing else to say, but i have a new found respect for professional wedding photographers. to their advantage they have larger wallets so they can purchase higher quality lenses. equipment aside it does take a certain skill to photograph a moment that happens only once in a lifetime.

i pray as i edit i have quality pictures to present to the couple.

enjoy a few pictures i was able to edit.

…….now its back to wading through my 600+ photos

 

 

 

.kids carnival

i will update this with more pics when i have the time and actually feel like editing some of the other pics i took. i did not take much since i was stuck in the photo booth area trying to spit out photos for ppl. unfortunately we weren't able to churn out the pics fast enough for ppl to pick them up, even though Johan made a valiant effort.

i simply have to put up this pic because she is sooooo perfect as a kid model i think. the next face of gerbers? huggies?

EDIT: so @ home and sick i decided to pass the time by uploading more kids carnival pics.

.photographer porn

i seriously need to stop looking at photographer porn.
by porn i mean gear and by gear i mean glass and by glass i mean lenses in particular.

you dirty minded cretins, not its not pr0n

i lust this

.wedding shower

08.08.09
wedding meeting

because im hard core….
i am posting the same night.

what started as a wedding meeting became a surprise.

the plan was just to have a last meeting before the rehearsal….or so maudrey thought.
(because im really lazy i will shorten Marcos and Audrey with “Maudrey”)

so dinner went on as usual

the meeting begins.

photog meeting in the dark. we had the bride and groom in our meeting cuz we cool like that.

this was my hero tonight. without my flash i would not have gotten half the shots i got.

so the trickery begins. we told them that we would take them out for dessert, but the location was a surprise so we need to blind fold them.

i simply couldn’t resist. i tested to see if he was peeking or not.

we pretended to go in the car and told them we would meet them there.

in reality we weren’t going anywhere; we stayed right where we were and decorated.

.upon their return we have them dress up for the occasion.

NOW this is where my flash failed me and ran out of batteries right when they were getting their blindfolds off. i pray this does not happen when im taking the actual wedding pic. because of the battery incident i missed the reveal, but i got right back in the game with fresh batteries.

a game of dress up. boys do the groom and ladies do the bride. as you can see the boys should totally apply for a designer position on America’s next top model.

now every wedding needs a pastor. so here we have a rabbi-priest-imam. so in other words a radically cheap suicidal kosher man who likes little boys. ZING!!! yea, thats right i went there.

the bride and groom pose fo a picture.

raining roses.

thanks to Vania for the fisheye attachment. these pics would not have been possible otherwise.

For the rest of the pics click Here

GOOD NIGHT!

.PGE park/mom bday

so im slackin a bit but here is the pics from events that have occurred during my break.

08.01.09
PGE park

we watched the beavers play vs the sacremento rivercats first baseball game since waaaay back when in L.A. when i watched the Dodgers play. The beavers aren’t exactly MLB, but whatevz.

unfortunately we lost because of a top of the 9th rally by the cats.

08.05.09
mom’s bday

it was supposed to be a surprise, but someone spilled the beans so it didn’t work very well.
a birthday is a birthday, i wont say how old mom is, but i will say she is old enough to vote!

.vista house

08.01.09
Its August already.

so i think this is my first morning blog. the ones i posted at like 1am and stuff don’t count. basically running on two hours of sleep and 2 1/2 giant burgers within 10hrs of each other. friday night i was finally given the opportunity to visit my alma mater….joy cc that is. i was lucky enough to come at a time when Will our token white guy decided to cook up some mean burgers. i regret not taking pictures of the finished product, so you are just going to have to trust me. they were huge. i even had seconds, which i split with perry.

after carecell the subject of sunrises came about some how and it was then we decided to pursue the follow day’s sunrise.

fast forward to 1am we finally disperse and i arrive home 30min later.
2 hours of sleep…and were off again.

.fritz, edward, and myself headed off bleary eyed, but eager to see the sunrise.

i will let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

Enjoy