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Here’s a fusion style wedding video + photo for Ilana & KC that I shot in Portland, Oregon this summer.  Wedding was at McLean house in West linn Oregon.  Music from (southtexasjazz.com)

We are currently offering complementary  fusion style wedding for full day coverage.  What’s fusion?  Fusion is mixing of limited amount of video, still and audio that tells the story throughout the day.

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I get to photograph a lot of outdoor wedding recently.  With hot summer whether in San Antonio, I have to travel light.  Things that I leave behind when I shoot solo: 100 macro lens, fish eye, and my lighting gear.  First image, I used lens baby instead of 100 macro.  It’s really small and light that can fit on my pocket.

I’d love to bring Elinchrom ranger to shoot outdoor portrait but it was practically not possible.  I decided to use hyper-sync sync with just one 580 EXII flash.

Beautiful wedding.  James was so happy as you can tell.

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We are currently offering complementary video-stills fusion style wedding for full day coverage.  What’s fusion?  Fusion is mixing of limited amount of video, still and audio that tells the story throughout the day.  Here’s a fusion style slide show for Megan & Jason. Wedding at the grace Lutheran church San Antonio, Texas, music from South Texas Jazz (southtexasjazz.com)

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Last Sunday, my 2nd photographer David and I photographed  Ilana & KC’s wedding at the beautiful McLean house in West linn,Oregon.    70-80 degrees during the day, plenty of trees and lots of greenaries what more could I ask for?  I love the weather in Portland in the summer.

Lots of shade at the venue.  This means pretty easy light to work (but images can be boring).  My 2nd shooter David and I placed one Canon 580 EXII  as a hair light just behind bride and groom to create directional lighting.

Some getting ready shots.  All shot with available lights here.  Ilana & KC look very very happy to be finally getting married.

… I wanted to finish with some dramatic shots using just one off camera flash.

Wedding Photography available anywhere in Texas, including Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Portland Oregon.

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I have to admit that I am now trying to photograph wedding with just an one light only.  I used to carry portable studio lighting kits (Elinchrom Ranger) with me along with an assistant all the time.   Since I recently moved to San Antonio, I don’t have any assistant and I have to shoot without any help.  I now also use more zoom lenses  (Canon 17-40 and 70-200 2.8 is)  than prime lenses (Canon 35 1.4L and 85 1.2L).  In this wedding, I actually was a second photographer for Emma (Pal Photo Art).  First image, I used two nikon sb-26s triggered by pocket wizard.  Yes, two strobes but it they are considered to be one light source.   Both full power (1/1) on camera right.  My camera body was 1D Mark III and shot at 1/400 @ F14.  Also used 1/2 CTO to really saturate the background color.  Speaking about the background, RedBerry Mansion was one of the most beautiful venue I’ve ever seen.  Lake & pool in the background was really cool.  Slow recycle time since I was using speedlites but groom and groomsmen didn’t mind after I showed them this image.

I noticed the unique entry door of this venue when I first walked in.  I decided to backlight the bride and broom to create some dramatic look.  I used canon 580 EXII with pocket wizard mini and flex tt5 to quickly pull this image.  I didn’t have to think about any of the exposure of the strobe.  The new pocket wizard is pretty good at figuring out right amount of flash output.  The only thing I have to think about is the; aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.  Sounds complicated but it’s very easy.  Shot with Canon 5D Mark II

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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.

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Late summer wedding photography.  Photography session was scheduled at 2:30 but things got little delayed as usual wedding day.   I loved the inside of the academy chapel located in downtown Vancouver, Wa.   We used just one Elinchrom Quadra with an white shoot though umbrella and head was plugged in B socket.  It was plenty of power and recycle time was just immediate.

My assistant took this picture from balcony.

Father & Daughter dance and Bride & Groom dance was taken using two Nikon SB 26s set them low power and cranked my ISO way up.  5D Mark II is capable of handling high ISO and I have no fear going up 1600 or even 3600.  Since my strobes fill the shadow, there’s not much of noise there.  The crown ballroom is beautiful location but hard to light.

My assistant was holing Elinchrom Ranger Quadra and it was at very low setting.  I didn’t have any problem with recycle time.  I didn’t get the light to create cool daylight effect.

The owned of the crown ballroom is actually a photographer.  He opened up the small window and showed us cool balcony place.  Wish I had a tripod with me and wider lens since it was very very tight.  I used fish eye and lit them with Elinchrom Quadra modeling light.  The LED modeling light quite useful and I am using it more and more.

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