Sunday, January 29, 2012

Dung+Derek After Wedding Session - Conservatory

Dung+Derek
1-29-12
Conservatory
Seattle, WA

After Wedding Session

Dung and Derek have got to be two of the nicest people I've met. Super friendly and easy going. I shot their wedding on 11/20/11. It was quaint ceremony and fun reception but unfortunately because of the time of year, we ran out of daylight to do the artsy photo session. Just a note to future brides, if you plan on getting married in the fall be sure to remember that it gets dark in Seattle around 4pm.

Today's session was to make up for lost artsy photo time. We chose to go to the Conservatory near the Asian art museum. Great choice, since it's a giant green house with various climates from tropical to desert. It also served as nice shelter from a very rainy day. I love the light that the green house produces. It's so soft and even from the frosted green house windows. Kinda like a big soft box.

The only draw back is the humidity in the rain forest section created havoc on my lens. Regardless, besides the heavy crowds on the weekends, it's fantastic place shoot.

Dung's dress was so vintage looking, I figured I'd process the photos in a way that would really compliment her classy look.

I was standing in the rain, while they were in the comfort of the dry greenhouse on this shot.

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Rosie Dance Fitness Instructor

Rosie Dance Fitness Instructor

ShakeItLatinStyle Fitness Club
4809 132nd St SE Suite A104, Everett, WA 98208

Taken:
01/28/12

Located in South Everett is a great little Dance Fitness Studio run by Rosie Hardy. She's a former SeaGal and has tons of spunk and energy. Perfect fit for a person whipping you into shape.

The studio is spacious area with vibrant red and sherbert colored walls. I showed up with all of my lights. But used only my alien bees Einstein and Canon 580ex Mii to light most of shots.

The room was relatively dark so my lights played a key role as one of the only sources of light. I also wanted to capture some actions shots as well some dramatic "corporate" poses to show that she was the "boss".

I used the Einstein as the mainlight and the 580ex as a rim light to create the dramatic cross light affect. A few retouches in Bridge and Photoshop and Voila.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Bride's Choice Award!

Bride's Choice Award for Made Media Photography

{Kent,WA} – January 23, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Made Media Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Made Media Photography was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Made Media Photography is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Made Media Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Made Media Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/made-media-photography-kent/b434030e45d21a0d.html.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Michael+Abbie E-Session - Snow What?!

Michael+Abbie E-Session
Bellevue Engagement Session
01-15-12
Assist: Quang

The 1st Engagement session of the new year!! Fitting it was for one of my good friends, Michael and Abbie. They are getting married March 25th, and guess who's one of the groomsmen? Me. =)

The morning started off with a heavy heavy dredging of snow. Rare for Seattle. But when it happens the entire County grinds down to halt. We Seattlelites have a hard enough time driving in the rain, much less the snow. However Michael is a trooper and we pushed through and made it to Bellevue. Bellevue is a beautiful backdrop, lots of colors and friendly furniture stores that allow you to shoot inside their store.

I tried out my new pixel king triggers and they were awesome! No more running up to the flash to change the power setting. I was able to control it from my camera! Plus I can shoot in TTYL. Nice little Christmas gift my wife got me.