Amy Okuda contacted me for her headshots and some personality pictures. We decided to take the photos at my downtown LA studio. It’s pretty easy to get a ton of nice pictures when it’s Amy Okuda! She is so pretty! We took a lot of great pictures. The first photos I ever took of her [...]
Laurie Percival and Sean Percival came over the other day to get some pregnancy photos taken. I really wanted to do something special for them. These are the photos we came up with… I’m so happy with them. These two are pretty much models.
What an adventure!!! My first time in London, a very awesome confrence, a trip to Paris and a great new friend. Converge Two Last year at a confrence in LA I met Drew Gardner from UK. You may know him from some of his great work like “Europa” from his The Forest series, if not [...]
I LOVE kettlecorn!!! Recipe: 1/4 cup canola oil 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup unpopped popcorn kernels 1 sprinkle of salt Heat canola oil, sugar and popcorn kernels in a large pot on medium to high heat. Cover with lid and shake the pot constantly (this keeps the sugar from burning). When the popping slows to [...]
It was raining today, that doesn’t happen much here in southern California to I thought I would take my camera out and record a bit of it. UPDATE: I was on the phone with Vu and he said this is the first use of ‘Motion Street Photography’ he has seen. I’m sure somewhere out there [...]
Click here to read more and sign up! Vu and I had a lighting workshop for photographers a few months ago with tofurious. We had a great time and even sold out the workshop within a few hours of announcing it. We are going to be having another workshop very soon. Here are some images [...]
A longer post detailing our time in The Bahamas for the Photog Retreat will come soon. For now, I just want to thank Kathryn Brown for having us speak at the first ever Photographers Retreat!!! We has a blast. During the day in Nassau Bonny, Tracie, Vu, Shaun and I wanted to go out and [...]
Looking back on last year I can’t believe how much stuff happened… yet I still feel like not much happened. The memory bank video above is just a small taste of video that I had at hand while editing. I forgot to add to the memory bank footage from Las Vegas (WPPI and Photoshop world) [...]
Tech note: This video was shot on a Canon 100mm macro f2.8 L IS lens on a Canon 5D mark II camera using ISO 1600, 3200, 6400 and ISO 12800 (H1) in 30p then I used Cinema Tools to conform the video to 24p. Music by: Daniel Bautista
Tech note: This video was all shot on the Canon 7D in 24p and 60p. The slow motion was done by conforming 60p to 24p in cinema tools. We went to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval with Vu Bui as a Zombie Cop and Tracie Cotta as X-Men Rogue. The West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval is [...]
I had the great opportunity to second shoot for Will Parris at a very nice wedding in Pasadena. There were so many great wedding photography opportunities. The wedding was at St Andrews Catholic Church in Pasadena. If you have never visited St Andrews, I would recommend going there just to look at it and possibly [...]
I love the idea of Google Voice. I’ve been wanting to use it for a while but didn’t want to because I could not use Google Voice voicemail with my iPhone. Here is what I mean… If you call my Google Voice number, it goes to my cell then to Google Voice if unanswered, busy [...]
I saw a tweet from Felicia Day (@feliciaday) talking about the LA food trucks… clicked the link and saw that the Kogi BBQ truck would be in La Mirada. That is only 5 mikes from our house. We just so happen to be heading out for a bike ride too… What would you have done???
Last week I photographed Karen and Dennis for their wedding! We had a great time and were pretty busy because we took photos at 3 different locations: St. Augustine Catholic Church, the Los Angeles Radisson Hotel and Kenneth Hahn park. I think their wedding photos came out awesome. Los Angeles Radisson Hotel Wedding Photography We [...]
A short clip at the NAS Productions studio in San Marcos showing our setups used in Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher’s music video. Also, thanks to Berndog we had a chance to use the Marshall V-LCD70P-HDMI HD monitor to use with our Canon 5D mark II. It was great! If you are looking to get [...]
Brigitte asked us to do a last minute shoot for her. She needs the photos right away, so we shot the photos and are delivering one to her right away today.
This video has every photo I took at Trisha and Sudeep’s Disneyland wedding. Disneyland Wedding Photography It has been a while since I’ve posted a picture video… They seem to be more of a photo fusion product now and so I’m not really sure what to call this type of video. I think I’ll just [...]
Vu and I shot two commercials for Shootsac today. Here is Jessica Claire, Keats Elliot, Kent Nichols (thanks for the laptop!), Tracie Cotta an Vu Bui for a brief moment during the shoot. We also shot a small challange video too… Look for that one really soon.
Yesterday I shot video at a great wedding!!! Carlie and Gabriel from Gabriel Ryan Photographers shot photography… they are awesome. Here we are eating our meal.
Today Bonny and I brought Vu out to eat dinner for his birthday (which is tomorrow). Vu loves fettuccine carbonara, it is usually not on the menu at restaraunts… So of it is a good place they will make it.
Canh Chua, Ca Kho and rice!!! Bonny and I are eating Vietnamese food before a long night of work. I’ve been traveling a lot and shooting a lot but have not been able to sit down and edit all the shoots!!! Tonight I have about 4 photo shoots to edit and a bunch of video [...]