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Pho­tographed the wed­ding of Mar­lena & Kris this past week­end at the First Uni­tar­ian Uni­ver­sal­ist Church of San Anto­nio.

 

I like to use longer lens to cap­ture moments like this.  Shot with canon 85 1.2 in avail­able light. Con­tinue read­ing “Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phy San Anto­nio | Mar­lena <span class=“amp”>&</span> Kris” »

Pho­tographed Marlena’s bridal ses­sion in early April. Now that Kris and Mar­lena are mar­ried, I can show her image here.  It was beau­ti­ful day to shoot and bride to be Mar­lena looked absolutely gorgeous.

Avail­able light wasn’t too good.  I ended up using one 580 EX II as a kicker light to shape her body and also light up her face just a lit­tle.  Shot with Canon 85 1.2 for shal­low depth of field.  There’s a lot of nice places to pho­to­graph bride and groom’s por­trait here in San Anto­nio and Landa Park is one of my favorite place to shoot.

Wed­ding Port­fo­lio ~ Con­tact ~ Pric­ing

Darie & Yvonne had a fan­tas­tic wed­ding at the one of the very famous wed­ding venue in San Anto­nio Texas — the Mar­riage island. Cou­ple got ready at the Con­tessa Hotel by the river­walk.  This place is such a great place for the wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher since get­ting ready, cer­e­mony, recep­tion, and bride and groom por­traits all  can be done at the same place.

Con­tinue read­ing “Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phy at the River­walk — Mar­riage Island San Antonio” »

I pho­tographed Royce & Anita’s engage­ment ses­sion last month and I was so thank­ful for them to con­tact me to cap­ture their spe­cial day.  Royce & Anita’s fam­ily knew my name when I showed up (my name is kind of hard to pro­nounce cor­rectly).  I felt very com­fort­able from the begin­ning to the end of their wedding.

A beau­ti­ful wed­ding & a beau­ti­ful cou­ple, thank you Royce & Anita.

Wed­ding Port­fo­lio ~ Con­tact ~ Pric­ing

I’ve never met the Prin­cella & Robert until the wed­ding day.  Every­thing was done over the phone and email.  To be hon­est,  I was lit­tle ner­vous meet­ing them. Thank­fully, I saw wed­ding plan­ner, Condii when I showed up and every­thing went pretty well.  Condii and I had photo check list as well as group shot list so all I had to do was to fig­ure out place for the bride & groom por­trait, the for­mals.  The venue I pho­tographed was called Granberry Hills and it’s one of the most well known place for wed­ding here in San Anto­nio.  Image by San Anto­nio Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­pher Soobum Im.

I love the weather here in Texas.  This is THE best time for the wed­dings.  No pho­to­shop needed here.  Shot with just one speedlite on cam­era left and pull this image in less than 5 min.  Just before the bride and groom off the reception.

I wanted to cre­ate some dra­matic yet tra­di­tional image.  I placed the light behind the cou­ple (left) and left (right).  I didn’t have to use light since it was cloudy but I like to use speedlite because I can con­trol the qual­ity and direc­tion of the light.

For get­ting ready shots,  I pre­fer not to use flash.   I saw beau­ti­ful light com­ing off the win­dow illu­mi­nates the edges of the bride.  Shot with fast lens — canon 85 1.2 shot wide open.

Wed­ding Port­fo­lio ~ Con­tact ~ Pric­ing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

LED light again, but much closer this time

Lastly, here’s a first dance photo.

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.

Wed­ding Port­fo­lio ~ Con­tact ~ Pric­ing

Maybe too much AC on a wed­ding day.  I got a cold after Lee & Cha’s wed­ding in San Anto­nio Texas.  Went through some of the wed­ding pic­tures I took last week­end and thought I’d post some of my picks.  They wanted to for­mal por­traits with Korean tra­di­tional dress before the wed­ding at the Japan­ese tea gar­den.  This pic­ture was taken at 2 PM and high sync flash trig­gered by pocket wiz­ard made these photo quick n easy.

No fancy light­ings here.  Shot with 85 1.2 wide open with sil­ver reflector

After the cer­e­mony, I wanted to do bride & groom por­trait.  With severe hot weather here in san anto­nio, I didn’t want to bring B&G to shoot in another loca­tion.  We decided to do quick por­trait at the park­ing lot.  I knew I only had less than 10 min to do this and had to work fast.  I used Elinchrom Ranger Quadra do pull this off.  It was in full power w/o any light mod­i­fier.  If you look at closely, I cheated the sync speed.  The bot­tom part didn’t get any light at all.  I like the edge dark­en­ing effect anyways.

There wasn’t any wind blow­ing.  Instead, I asked groom to hold the veil and gen­tly drop.

Wed­ding Port­fo­lio ~ Con­tact ~ Pric­ing

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