Los Angeles Orange County Wedding Photography Destination Wedding: 2006-10-01

one more E-session @ Laguna Beach & Rodeo Drive & Santa Monica

okay, I didn't plan this, but I'm posting 2 E-Sessions back to back. Good thing I don't shoot the same thing for everyone!

This couple is probably the easiest to shoot so far, because Virginia is my high school friend, Stella's sister. So I've know these guys for so long that It's like shooting my sister :)
Anyway, for them, I had planned to shoot a little bit more to experient different locations, but just my luck that when we got out to the beach at around 10am that it's SUPER foggy! You can probably tell from some of the shots. It was so bad that I had to shoot in the opposit direction of the coast just to get some non-foggy background....

One good thing that came out of it is that just to wait out the fog, we got to eat a early lunch at Johnny Rocket!!! (me like!) But even after lunch the fog was still too overwhelming, when we were ready to call it a day, things started to burn off....and making us start our shoot at almost 2:20pm instead of 10am. which in turn means less time to shoot at the other locations that I had wanted! (sucky!) Hopefully next time I'll get more time to shoot and get a cool new spot to show all of you!

On a more technical note, I usually shoot with 2 lenses a 17~40 4.0L and a 70~200 2.8L IS. But that day, I challanged myself to shoot everything with a fixed prime lens. I ended up shooting around 85% of the day with my 50 1.8 lens. I love the 1.8-ness!

notice the white-ness in the background....it's the fog....

ring shot

Kenny & Virginia....the cute couple

we saw this weird spider with only 4 legs....weird....

nice....

YES! Johnny Rocket's

gimme meat!

you can't get this kinda service at Carl's Jr

Probably my favorite shot of the day....

I take that back, I like this just as much! Especially the people in the back!

slow walk on the beach...

THIS is gotta be the funniest shot. reminds me of the good-feathers cartoon with animaniacs!

The sexy Virginia hair slinging move!

I never thought I would be able to get a shot like this. But WOW! I like. Maybe should be my new aviatar.

Rodeo Dr.

R-U-N Virg R-U-N! We had to rush to make sure we get a bit of the sunset!

and we settled for the side of the road.... :)

and we got sunset! :) :)

E-Session for Pauline & Kevin @ Laguna Beach

Cute Bride + Not too bad Groom = easy couple to shoot!

We shot this out in Laguna Beach, and even though there has been people saying that they now require a permit to shoot there, we still go anyway! But I believe the way that I shoot my couples, it would totally be adding to the atmosphere of the beach not destroying it. So in a way, they shoudl be paying us to go there!....j/k Seriously, when we shoot, we don't bring tons of gear or get in people's way just for the hell of it, so everyone that we see are always congratulating the couple or just smiling at us........but knock on wood........no ticket not ticket.......

enough talk, here are the images:

kiss

naughty.....my fav shot!!!

sweet

cool

sweet

cute

sexy

cute

so cute!

cought up!

Hey all.....back for more! :)

I'm like 2 or 3 posts away from being totally cought up........hmmm........(oh, just pattng myself on the back for a second)

switched to beta

If you've been reading my blog from day one, you'd know that the blogger isn't super friendly with me. I would run into problems either uploading images or just trying to post things...so frustrating.

But today, I changed my blogger thingy to the BETA version, and so far, it's been pretty nice! I like....(knock on wood....)

beta is my friend.... :D

quick reminder

Hello everyone! If you know any of the couples that I've posted here or you ARE the couples that I've shot, please remind them or YOURSELF to finish your homework and pick the pictures to be designed into the album or reprints, or even just approve the album design already!!!

Please....I know the pictures are not bad to look at, but don't enjoy them so much that you forgot to pick the images for your album or the reprints that are included in the package! IF YOU GUYS get too lazy, I'm going to have to charge you a LAZY fee for taking so long to get back to me!!!

But seriously, I really want to get your stuff to you mainly because YOU ALREADY PAID FOR IT!

Call me!

September 10, 2006 Wedding of Melody & Andy

These guys had their wedding down in San Diego. The hotel is so cool, it has it's own marina :) But besides the place, the people were great! It was a intimite wedding with only about 75 of their closest friends.