Brian & Melissa pt.1

Meet this beautiful bride Melissa. She's the most calm bride I've ever met! I'm glad I captured her special day. The first time I've met her at starbucks, she made me try this hot chocolate with soymilk & since then, I can't forget the taste! IT was soooo goood! I love her GOWN! It's so simple! I love simple gowns because you can see the real beauty of it. 

She is such a beauty & she smiles a lot too & very calm as water.

I've met her cool make up artist as well.. She's so nice & sweet!

The bride's sister (Her made of honor) which I kept forgetting that she's her made of

honor because I'm too focus on my job. The truth is, I can't remember her name! I KNO! I'm really

bad at remembering names! But her sister is such a lovely woman & fun!

Here's part II

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Corina & Dan's Wedding

What an awesome opportunity I had! I get to photograph Corina & Pastor Dan's BIG day!

It was traditional & beautiful! I appreciate weddings and It's fun seeing people smiling on their
stressful day. It's very inspiring. 

I love the way I edited these images. It kind of gave it a little drama to it! See, the thing about editing,
you have to own it and love it! OF COURSE I LOVE IT! I'm sure it's not everybody's taste but to
be able to come up with a new recipe makes me happy =D

I remember the first time we had the location first look, the bride wanted to have a photo session 

outside because she wanted trees on the background. But I told her, that I don't think it is possible 

because her wedding is at night. But when I had a chance to look around after the ceremony, I saw

a perfect location that has indoor trees! But ehem.. I didn't know it was a restricted area

We're all walking away and I'm so so happy I captured these ladies while walking back to the 

reception area. What happened was, I didn't know that building wasn't part of marriot hotel. It 

was from a different company. Dania (the bridemaid) told me that there's a security and they want

us out! hahaha I told the bridal party, "IT'S OK! LET'S TAKE A RISK FOR PICTURE SAKE!"

The image above this image was a restricted area. The bridal party was so ready to walk 

away but i stopped them because it was the only area where it has better view. We can't go out first

of, I don't have better equipment for night outdoor shooting. And once you get out of the building,

all they have is a parking lot lol 

These boys are my favorite! In fact, it was my favorite photo that night! While waiting on the bride

and the groom, I had this quick idea! I couldn't put everybody together because they're all busy and

waiting for the program. I told these kiddos to do the CEO pose. I had to laugh because they can't 

do it 100% HAHAHA It's soooo cute! They're lovely kids! I thought it was challenging but these boys

are not hard to please! 

Another beautiful night with my husband. Can't ask for more... He's very supportive! 

THANK YOU BAH BAH!!! xxx

RAW vs JPEG

I've seen a lot of arguments about Raw or Jpeg. I used to shoot jpeg & doesn't even like

to argue about it. To me, it's about personal taste. But can I see the difference? Of course! 

 To be honest, I am not sure how jpeg shooters edit their jpeg images. I have my own recipes. 

I know I can pull up a good photo even if it's jpeg. But the reason why I started shooting

 raw is because I can control the exposure a little bit. Unlike jpeg, once it's done, it's done. 

I can still make the jpeg a little bit brighter but raw have better control. I'm not sure about

the color tone. So here's my biggest concern. The image on the left is raw but I open it with

preview. Then the one that's in the middle is raw and I opened it using the lightroom, then 

the image on the right is a jpeg also opened with preview. You can really tell the difference

 and I'm like Hey lightroom is cheatin on me! Even the CS5! grrr! 

So what i did, i opened the jpeg & Raw with CS5 and when I opened the raw

image, I copied the Jpeg tone through the Jpeg image with preview. So this is the result 

of the image. There's still a massive difference. Mia's hair (jpeg version) is dark and

 the raw version is a little brighter and the pink tone is brighter. This is exactly how I edited them. 

The CS5 raw opener, I changed the camera calibrator to neutral instead of adobe standard.

Then I enabled the lens correction then changed blacks to zero! So I hope someone can 

help me & give me a better answer. I've been frustrated about it. I was just hiding it but 

since after hearing what John Maxwell's 5 personal growth list & one of them was

*ASK QUESTIONS* I decided to spill the milk. Hopefully I'll get an answer to my long time

question. 

So here's the edited version. 

JPEG VERSION- same layer set up. 

RAW VERSION - same layer set up.

JPEG  EDITED

RAW EDITED