{San Antonio Wedding Photography | Texas Wedding Photographer : Megan & Jason}

When I arrived at the Grace Lutheran church down­town San Anto­nio, I was told that AC wan’t work­ing (it was 97 degree out­side).  It was cer­tainly not used to my sec­ond shooter, David who just flew from Port­land the other day.  Church was beau­ti­ful but also really dark. We had to use two off cam­era flash (Nikon SB-26s) on 1/2 power which game us 1/30 sec, 2.8 @ ISO 1600.  Thought about going to 3200 iso but we under exposed a bit (now 1/60 sec @1600) which gives us much clean image and image won’t be blur (David was shoot­ing from bal­cony with tele photo lens).  First image was shot with 5D Mark II + 85 1.2 and 35 1.4 L lens.

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Sec­ond image was shot from bal­cony with 1D Mark III + 70–200 2.8 is.  My brother in law, David did good job cap­tur­ing moment in very low light condition.

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Shot quick Bridal por­trait out­side the church.  Thank­fully, there was a shade area with clean back­ground (a suv about to park but we asked to move).  Shot with 5D Mark II + 85 1.2 L.  I pre­fer 1D Mark III + 85 1.2 since it focuses bet­ter (my opin­ion) but I hap­pened to have 5D + 85 1.2 on my hand.  No off cam­era light­ing here.  Just shot with an avail­able light and later post processed using Nik soft­ware plug-in: Darken-Lighten, Dynamic Skin Soft­ener filters.

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Bridal Por­trait photo out­side of grace lutheran church san antonio

I’ve never shot this many group pic­tures in one day.  We were sup­posed to do Bride and Groom por­trait right after the group shot but had to post­poned since we didn’t want 100+ peo­ple wait­ing for us.  It’s not photographer’s day.  It’s for Megan & Jason and their fam­ily.  B&G por­trait was shot at 9 PM.  I saw the clear sum­mer sky and remem­bered pho­tog­ra­pher Joe McNally said about blue against orange.  Human eyes tends to imme­di­ately look at worm tone.   I gelled our strobes, Elinchrom Ranger Quadra on 1/2 CTO with an umbrella.  LED mod­el­ing light is an great option in this kind of sit­u­a­tions since I can not focus in this dark environment.

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Bride & Groom Por­trait outside

in this shot, we actu­ally used LED light to illu­mi­nate the subject.

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Bride and groom por­trait with LED light

LED light again, but much closer this time

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Bride and Groom por­trait wed­ding photo

Lastly, here’s a first dance photo.

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Bride and Groom Dance

Thanks Megan & Jason for  David & I were so excited and hon­ored to be a part of your wed­ding day.  Video slideshow will be posted soon.

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  • Tim Gangwer says:
    June 22, 2010 at 6:23 pm -

    As the father of the bride, and a pho­tog­ra­pher myself, I thought Soobum’s use of light was amaz­ing. In today’s point-and-shoot world, any­one can “take” a great photo. But to “make” a great photo is the gift of the mind’s eye. What sep­a­rates a photo artist from a light-writer is not the equip­ment, it’s the instinct of what hap­pened before the image, then after. Cap­ture that, and you’ve made the absolute best of what mem­o­ries can’t accomplish…longevity.

  • O E I L says:
    November 10, 2010 at 9:59 am -

    I went to school with Jason and saw these on his face­book and thought they were great!!! awe­some work !







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