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Christina & Nathaniel

The most serious people can appear very much fun, goofy and going along with the mood of the day. And the mood of the day is marriage. And unless you’re forced in it, It’s about having a great time.

And that’s how it was with Christina and Nathaniel. When you see a man in the uniform you always think discipline, seriousness. While Nathaniel possessed that, he always had the most caring smile and his eyes sparkled when he looked at Christina. And he wasn’t hiding his feelings. There was no reason to do so. Besides, his bride looked gorgeous in her white dress, with her veil and he obviously couldn’t take his eyes off her. There were few specific shots where I wanted to have both of them looking at me, and you could see it was quite an effort for him to stop looking at Christina and look at me. And i can’t blame him :)

As my April and May have been extremely busy with weddings (i don’t even get enough time to do regular blogs), I’m realizing more and more while I like artistic shots, I’m learning more towards interesting shots where my couple’s character is coming out, where their personality shines. And I’m beginning to have larger number of those type of images versus cool silhouette shots with City Hall in the background. Don’t get me wrong. I like those, but lately I’m leaning more towards personality shots. And here are a few examples of that.

Editorial work

It’s not a ground breaking statement that Covid-19 has turned our plans inside out. Lot of weddings i had booked for the summer got either cancelled, postponed or are up in the air.

San Francisco City Hall is quiet these days with no brides rushing through the security check point to get to room 168. No numerous photographers waiting in line to take a must have Grand Stairwell photo. No quinceanera girls dressed up as some princess from Disney movie with her makeup/hair artist, photographer and a few assistants taking over some area in the City Hall.

I miss that craziness but it’s also good to use the break and time to work on other aspects of photography that i like.

I enjoy shooting weddings for many reasons. I get to meet couples with their families and friends on one of their most memorable days. I get to share it with them, capture these moments. And while there’s a lot of pressure to get it right the 1st time (there are no redos here), I enjoy that adrenaline rush and excitement. So it’s natural that I miss it, but it also opened up an opportunity for me to spend more time shooting something else. I enjoy working in the studio or on location focusing more on editorial kind of work. While there’s plenty of spontaneity it also gives more time to think through some of the shots, create concepts and gives more room to play during the session. There’s more time to think and something new to try that i wouldn’t normally do during the wedding.

A few samples from 2 of my most recent sessions.