Yun Na photos

RINSEANDREPEAT

2010-01-22T08:10:00.001-08:00

Annnnnd having some fun...

DUECE

2010-01-20T16:45:00.000-08:00

An origami tree
At the palace:

VIEW

2009-09-01T08:04:00.001-07:00

PRESS PLAY FOR SONG AND SCROLL TO VIEW.

Beautiful song S told me about. Matches with the stunning model :)

TWO

2009-05-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

This is when the sun was starting to go down and is one of my favorites series in the bunch with the soft light!

Awhile back when I was again looking for some volunteers to do a photoshoot, I was talking with J who graciously volunteered. Looking back it was maybe 1-2+ years ago and things came up so it was challenging or laziness on my part but I got to collaborate with J for the shoot.
In afterthought, I was glad of the timing for the photoshoot as well-because of how much J has grown to be since then and I hopefully captured some of that on digital "film".

ONE

2009-05-14T12:19:00.000-07:00

More to come...

ARIZONA

2009-04-30T13:35:00.000-07:00

Some landscape photos from travel:

Woodpeckers live in cactus! They say that it is because cactus provide really great protection from heat and cold. I do wonder how they peck through with the cactus needles.

Inside of a cactus. Neat-o.M-i-c-k-e-y M-o-u-s-e! :)

Woodpecker home! See the hole at the top of the cactus? Love how the branches frame the cactus :)

An artist Chiluly (I think that's the spelling) was featured in the desert botanical gardens. He is the guy who did the ceiling work at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. You know those glass shells? (A t least that's what I had heard)There are trees too and not just cactus in Arizona. Gorgeous!

FFF

2009-03-16T10:22:00.001-07:00

FUN FAMILY FOR REAL REAL

They were so wonderful and easy to work with and so awesome and so naturals at what they do and how they flow and and ultimate willing participants in my idears. hehhhehe hoooo hooo hooo hahahaha.
BOO YEAH.The gal in the trench is a friend of the family--A beautiful location
I love it!

WEDDING

2009-03-16T10:21:00.001-07:00

This is the first time where I was truly focused more on wedding photography than being a guest. The past couple times I took pictures here and there and yes this time I came as a guest too but was hoping to take more than the normal amount. I do realize that I still need an incredible amount of practice than I have and truly saw how different wedding photojournalism is than portrait. A challenge but able to learn alot. Thank you again so much N and D for the opportunity to capture some photos.

On to the photos!

Some photos of the beautiful and amazing details of the wedding:

The stunning bride

The group of the bridal party chilling before the wedding :)

Party time!

Went into stealth mode to take this lovely picture:
The dance of the lovely bride and groom:

2008-12-16T08:23:00.000-08:00

Napa the land of wine and food~ not much of a wine fan but I was looking forward to the awesome food folks kept talking about in napa. So-o going a couple times I've just been blindly looking for resturants and it's been hit and miss...but this time, every single location we hit was a yum to the tum. In honesty though, my pictures don't have too much to do with the food because I was so busy eating it, I didn't really have much thought to taking pics of it...but anyways on with the pictures:
The light in napa when I went was so unbelieveably beautiful and soft practically all day! How is that possible?? This is the field at Mondavi winery:One of their select wines with a beautiful leaf (the leaf was $25! wow pricy but gorgeous)
Their logo I think~
Then there was a visit to opus one.
The view from the terrace of Opus, the picture doesn't do it justice though:

Ok I did finally after devouring all the food from breakfast lunch and a fab french dinner got to pause and think, forgot to take picture of food! aiee! Well, at the least I did get to take pictures of the beautiful and delicious dessert. Don't remember the names of these but that is caramelized sugar on top of the banana which was my favorite part of the dessert. Yumm crispy, soft, sweet, delicious all at the same time.
This was really really good, cake with persimmon in it. mmmmm....
Sme fall colors:
Raven on a golf course lawn hanging out:
Of course the ever famous vineyards:

RANDOM

2008-11-18T08:09:00.000-08:00

EDIT ADDED ONE MORE THING TO THIS ENTRY WHICH I WAS ADMITTEDLY PROCRASTINATING FINDING THE LINK BUT FOUND IT. AREN'T CAPS LOCK FONT SO OBNOXIOUS? :D
Hey all! Just wanted to update at least with a couple things:
Picture that I recently took, I was just out and saw this beautiful tree/bush? with the lights hitting it streaming through the trees and just making the entire thing glow that of course one needs to capture it :) So here it be:

Inspiration for photographs I glean from so much resources, one of which are beautiful music videos. Especially is such when the music and the videography is so amazing. I love "Per te" by Josh Groban, it's so incredibly inspirational, powerful and strong. The visual, the music is so amazingly moving, it's nothing short of just fantastic. The setting is so simple but Josh and the actors bring so much emotion and heart...just go watch...let me see if I figure this embed thingy here...

Hello! This is where I added the portion where I am editing in new portion to my blog entry here:
Here is the link to a cool effect you can do here it makes the background blurry lights into neat little shapes like hearts instead of the standard pentagon or circle shapes which are also nice but think about it, heart shape lights! Neato right? Just go see the article...

MK

2008-10-27T08:18:00.000-07:00

I placed these pictures in just any ol' order --usually I take care to place them and tell a story but dang doesn't matter because the couple is fab-u-lous and it shows. Gorgeous location, gorgeous couple, and gorgeous light is yummay~ Beautiful glow of the sun over the hills above

Love this pic! Sizzling~

Amazing colors of nature! :)

AWESOMETIME

2008-10-20T21:34:00.000-07:00

Such a fantastic day on a hill with amazing light, and an incredible couple modeling like professionaleee, oh yeah spelled it with a "alee"
Ooh awesome glow of the sun~
The fantastic couple
I just heart this photo~ (you must see this big! click on it, click on it!) :D
Using some off camera flash for some drama~
And the power of the fantastic 135mm smokin lens~

Gentleman

2008-08-20T08:57:00.001-07:00

Hey all! Sorry it has been quite a while since the last post.
This time I was able to take pictures of a guy not being part of a couple, which quite frankly is not a common feat! W you were really awesome modeling through pretty much the wierd visions I had which later made sense right? right? Starting off with one of my favorites near a freeway...
Some nice portrait shots to warm up...
I asked W to pretend he was looking into a mirror and adjusting his tie, or hair etc. I guess he has the natural model in him posing this way...
and that way
I asked W to jump around ALOT on this hill to catch this perfect moment: (the hills, his leg, the shadows all line up in parallel)(thanks again for all the moving around!)
Onto calmer settings loved the light in this room:
The mood in this one is a definite fave:

AQUARIUM

2008-06-11T21:00:00.001-07:00

I got to visit a awesome aquarium which was a camera taking dream come true. There were so many folks taking pictures and you can see why right? Ocean life is so interesting...
Even this kelp looks so cool~
A school of fish taken just as they hit the beams of light from the surface...
The jellyfish area was quite incredible to see...

One of my favorites taken from the day--I love the blue tones:These guys were so-o cute, about the size of a penny...ok I think it probably would have been more interesting to state some facts about these creatures but I was so busy oohing and ahhing how awesome they were, I kinda didn't get a chance to...
How cool are they? There was this area where an jellyfish display was within a hallway with entire wall to wall from floor to ceiling showing of jellyfish. Quite an incredible thing to see.

REUNION

2008-06-02T18:53:00.000-07:00

I got to attend an old high school friend's wedding as a guest, and yes though I was a guest I couldn't resist bringing my camera. It was a wedding but also a reunion among a couple of old high school buddies. It was great to see you guys kickin' and well! Check out this beautiful location, very private surrounded by stunning victorian houses that I believe are used for banquets.
The cute ring bearers, (going the wrong way! Maybe they just didn't want to miss a good photo op? ^_^)

While alot of phototaking was going on, I had to take a picture of my friend since she was decked out and looking so lovely!
An adorable kid
The happy bride and groom! (N and C) You guys look fabulous! Congratulations again guys!

FIRST

2008-05-22T08:07:00.001-07:00

I had a great session with a wonderful couple expecting their child very very soon! We got to go to a local park with S and D. The couple recently passed their recent 5 year anniversary ! Exciting times are ahead for their cute daughter to come !
As with any park, there are alot of geese and duck and of course with that came poo, but that didn't faze the couple one bit on lying on the grass and getting some awesome shot. (we did find some patches of grass that were clean!)
Check out the hot bump!
Enjoying a peaceful moment:
Just a nice portrait moment--or maybe D is just tickling S's belly? hehe
S and D having a wonderful conversation next to a beautiful lake, with the beautiful golden light! :)

FRESH

2008-04-16T10:01:00.000-07:00

S and I went and had a awesome day of photographic fun! I remember when I was initially talking with her and she was asking what kinda theme we should work around. Without a moments hesitation I knew she could completely pull off an urban edgy shoot.
She was asking, could I? Am I able to? Check out below to see!
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We were rolling around the garage floor, going under the stairs admist good ol' carbon monoxide...but oh so stylishly..at least for S
The garage is fantastic with so many neat crooks and crannies to go to. Absolutely beautiful light featuring a beautiful model!The light in the garage is neato...
Ooh, so then we went to the rooftop of the garage to capture this smokin' shot! (side note with a smokin' car)

Thanks for rolling around the lovely garage floor and putting up with the crazy ideas! And thanks mucho to V for helping out and coming along on the shoot! It was fun!

SUPER!

2008-04-16T10:00:00.000-07:00

J is a very talented celloist, and back when I was scouting for volunteer models I was happy to find out that J would be ecstatic to volunteer. Not only that, but she also wanted to bring her cello for the shoot and oh did my mind wander with a frenzy of ideas. It was so cool to hear her play the cello as it echoed through the hills:This was when it started to sprinkle a bit, but we didn't let it deter us from taking pictures, we took some shelter under a tree
I actually found a wonderful field of yellow flowers I wanted to do some pictures in, unfortunately it was almost all plucked and cut, but we found a little bit left

J found a cool pile of wood to sit on, hey anything can be a prop!Mostly though, we had alot of fun and though we did get some good moody pictures it was all about having fun! woot!

RAIN III

2008-02-07T14:27:00.000-08:00

Last but definitely not least, J and H (again ladies name first) but H first saw J at a supermarket before they even officially met and thought how beautiful she looked.
What a wonderful coincidence that later on through mutual friends he found out she was friends with his friends and so a romantic love blossomed!Look at H, what a pose! These two are totally ready for a fashion shoot now!

Just a nice group shot of all the guys, kinda reminds me of a band photoshoot or something.

RAIN II

2008-02-07T13:24:00.000-08:00

The story continues!
My camera isn't built for the rain so I had to create a makeshift waterproof thing with sophisticated planning and technique, none other than the awesome power of the
zip lock bag! But since the wind was howling like crazy, we also had to constantly have an umbrella over the camera at all times too! But what a experience!
Enough jibber jabbering, the second couple H and S (ladies always first) are also another wonderful couple who grew to love each other since the time they met. Can you believe the picture below is the first picture taken? They're so photogenic!

Posing on that famous playground whale~

RAIN

2008-02-06T15:20:00.000-08:00

Rain: Pouring
Wind: Blowing crazily
Temperature: COLD cold hurts your face cold

So this series I was able to meet with 3 wonderful couples and did something I've wanted to do for awhile: shoot in the rain. Oh and did we get aPLENTY of it the day of. I know holding out on the suspense but I am gonna do couple by couple (I just thought I would do it in the order I met them just in case you're wondering how I'm doing this) The rain definitely set the mood and environment :)

Thanks again to M and K for rounding up all the couples! These two have been going for 2 years strong now and though it hasn't ever been scheduled, somehow I keep ending up taking their pictures since their wedding day!

Professional models:
This playground had such a cool feature...the whale that M is sitting on has a blow hole that actually spits out water! I am impressed!
Oh and I say this again M, love the red hot lipstick!
Love the colors on this one--intentional blur ~

The raindrops falling on their head created a beautiful halo around the couple .

FANTASTIC

2008-01-04T09:16:00.000-08:00

Yep, that's how great this photoshoot and the model was. Thanks for going all day and helping me build my portfolio! Here are some faves from the day.

BEACH

2008-01-03T11:06:00.001-08:00

Winter time beach shots! It was unseasonably a fabulous day at the beach to take some awesome shots.

This one is bird island, there are SO many birds on that island, you can look through one of these telescopes to see--pretty cool!
Some flare shots, dang look how beautiful the color of the ocean is, stunning~

Can you tell there is a underlying theme of I love flare? ^_^

Ditto ditto ditto...

2007-10-01T12:41:00.000-07:00

Just for fun: (off camera lighting and composite image) gotta keep that passion alive :)

One more... :)

Fleeting

2007-09-27T16:52:00.000-07:00

So yeah I had a nice drive in the woodland area of Northern California. There were so many cool things to take pictures of and I wanted to stop every single time (haha which would probably be every half a mile) but I didn't want to annoy my friend and make our travel time twice as long. So I'm thinking, "hey why not just shoot while riding?" Don't worry I was a passenger in the vehicle not the driver. Without further ado, the pictures while riding the car:

If you click on this picture to make it bigger, you may be able to see the sunlight streaming through the clouds, beautiful!!!

Ok these I didn't take while riding and we did have to get out of the car, sunset was just pretty is all :)

Sorry some of these pictures you can't seem to click to make bigger, not sure why...darn...

Archive but still...

2007-09-19T10:08:00.000-07:00

This shoot is one from April but I thought I should post and build my online portfolio:
These first two was done with off camera lighting near a garbage trash compactor. Fantastic place to take shoots right? Even early in the morning the smell was a quite umm outstanding in its presence.
I just love the color on this:

Midday shoot in bright bright sun--it got so hot after awhile:

Dabbling with some different post process effects:
Reminds me of a pantene pro-v commercial! ^_^

Fields

2007-05-23T22:33:00.000-07:00

Ok so a couple weeks ago I was asked to take picture of not only a gorgeous couple but also on the bride's side of the family as well. It's interesting to see that as couples are photographed, I start to see different forms of the bond and love they express towards one another. Hopefully I was able to capture a piece of who they are and their love for one another in these photographs.

Ok to get thing warmed up, we started off at the garage...I love how the green elevator door complements her pink shoes! Cute!!

So then we piled into one car and headed out for the field blue yonder~I love this silouhetted shot of them, gives a feeling of mystery, romance, beautiful hope into the future~

(for you photographer's out there) I know her forehead is a bit blown out, but I just love the mood of this image: the wind blowing, and oh that scarf swooshing in the wind just seals the deal. How beautiful they look!
Ok these fields were awesome because, they were so clean, no mysterious sounds coming from places, no wierd holes where who knows what will come out, and the field is so healthy and young. Gave really great color to the photos. With the windo blowing it just made it all the more dramatic!

One of my favorite images of the bunch. A breath of fresh air right? AHHHHHHHH!
Ok these two are also super gutsy and willing to do anything to get a smokin' picture. Though they already do that naturally. :D But they were willing to literally run into each otherjust to get some cool and I hope unique photos. Totally like a best buds photograph! "Yo! What's up!?"
Some romantic shots~

Later on their family came and we took some pictures of them too. It was at the perfect time because the golden hour (sunset time) was happening so we had some really beautiful light to get some really...you guessed it! Beautiful pictures!