Archive for November, 2008
Las Vegas Wedding Photography is so fun! People get married in Las Vegas all the time. As a Wedding Photographer, I get to see brides and grooms get married in Las Vegas… we tour the Las Vegas Strip… we take photos during the marriage at Chapels and Churches… I get to attend Wedding Receptions and take pictures of guests dancing and having fun. I get to do Engagement Sessions at beautiful locations such as Red Rock, Lake Las Vegas, and other places before the wedding.
Photography in Las Vegas is so different from anywhere else. From the man-made beauty to the vast natural beauty – there’s always something amazing to take photos of.
But my favorite part are the great people.. the brides and the grooms who get married in Las Vegas! Every day I am thankful for being able to be a Las Vegas Wedding Photographer. I enjoy getting feedback from my wedding couples. I love helping to capture the moments and preserving them “for eternity”.
I want my clients to know that every time I snap the shutter, I am thinking about how they will look at the photo years down the road. I truly love my clients and always do my best to make sure they are given more than they expect. I strive to over-deliver for every client… that’s my way to “give back” to them for allowing me to do my “job”, which is more fun than work.
Happy Thanksgiving from Las Vegas Photographer TiffanyG!
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This happens more often than people think… I received a call on a Tuesday, “We are eloping TOMORROW and need a photographer.” Turns out Giovana’s uncle was getting married and Chad and Giovana decided to also “take the plunge”. Giovana’s uncle makes wedding dresses so the dress was ready-to-go!
The Tropicana Wedding Chapel has a great “Walk-In” special going on right now: $99 for the ceremony and you can bring in your own photographer! My understanding is that there’s usually a bit of a wait, but $99 is a great deal for a super chapel!
I was able to spend about 1.5 hours with this lovely couple and we ended up with 162 “keepers”. I did special effects to about 10 of them. Here’s a few of my favorites:
During the ceremony… don’t his eyes make you melt?!?
Afterwards, we were able to take photos around the Tropicana Casino and Hotel’s grounds. I have been loving this special effect and I thought this made the photo look like something out of a fairy tale book:
On to the Bellagio Fountains for photos:
It’s funny, Chad wasn’t sure that the camera would pick up the water in the fountains. I told him it would! I shot this photo both ways: With Chad’s eyes open, and with them closed. He just looked so content with his eyes closed that I decided I liked this one the best of the two…
He looks so dapper, and she looks so happy!
I had asked Chad to do his own pose, I thought this was extremely cute!
And finally, from a bit earlier, this one looks more like a painting than a photo.
Congratulations you two! Hope you really enjoyed your Las Vegas Wedding!
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We got to enjoy an entire weekend down near Laughlin at the Avi Casino Resort, we arrived on Friday evening with the plan to shoot some family shots with Robin and Morgan, but due to a couple uncontrollable circumstances, it had to be put off. No big deal, Robin was very relaxed and we agreed to spend more time on Saturday.
I was able to spend quite a while with Robin pre-ceremony and we also were able to do a lot of the formals before the ceremony as well.
A lot of Robin and Morgan’s guests were from all over the country so we wanted to include “normal” shots here on the blog, not just the really artistic stuff. Aren’t they cute?!?!
Smoochie smoochie!
This is Robin’s son, later on he enjoyed break dancing at the reception!
Obviously there were a ton of ceremony and formal shots but I try to keep my blogs to 10 or less photos, so here’s a fun one after all the formal photos were done. Everyone had to be so careful around all the flower petals and I could tell the kids really wanted to have some fun, so with Robin’s permission, this is what we came up with:
After the ceremony, we had TEN MINUTES on the Avi’s golf course. And it wasn’t much more than ten minutes.. but we got at least a dozen nice shots. Jeremy was doing the actual shooting while I did the posing, that helped to speed things up a bit.
This one will require you to click the photo, it is actually a panorama, comprised of 5 separate (portrait-oriented) photos, and “stitched” together in PhotoShop. The full-size photo could easily print at 3 feet tall by 9 feet wide and is 140 megabytes in size (this version is downsized for the web of course)!
A zoom on the bridge with a great reflection and a reverse-vignette.
On the shore, another nice reflection…
Cool perspective shot on the bridge itself:
On the way back in, Jeremy got a shot that you just can’t get in Vegas… they let them pose on a blackjack table!
I got something like 1200 photos at the reception and at the time of this posting, am still going through all of them to do color correction, exposure correction, cropping, etc. I have to say it was a very fun reception, from the “first dance” that was more like a Rock the Reception dance… to people dancing on the stage (dollar bills were being utilized in one instance – of course it didn’t get too out of hand!)… it was a real blast!
Jeremy and I (and our sons) enjoyed the “working vacation” and stayed 2 more days in Laughlin, hanging by the pool and just relaxing. Thanks Robin and Morgan!
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We had amazing weather and beautiful bright blue skies for this shoot; yes I know there’s been 3 blog posts from Red Rock Canyon but I promise to show you all something different in this blog!
I have to say Danny and Kellie were great, it was fun listening to Danny give Kellie a hard time about snakes and other critters that could be running around. Kellie is absolutely beautiful, and so easy to photograph – and Danny is handsome and fun so the two of them were a joy to work with.
Kellie and her mom came into the office today and it was obvious that they loved almost every photo, but an interesting thing happened… we got a little “crazy” with some of the special processing to a few of the photos, knowing that some people would LOVE the processing, and others wouldn’t like it at all. What was interesting is that Kellie loved (or at least thought it was cool) the processing, but mom not-so-much. Mom did like the black-and-white conversions but not the crazy stuff. That’s OK, special processing very much depends on personal taste and some of the processing was pretty extreme!
So, we got thinking and decided to do something different on this blog – post 2 versions of each photo! One almost un-processed, and one with the processing. We always provide both versions to our clients anyway, but I thought it would be interesting to show my blog readers some of the different processing that is POSSIBLE. I know not all will like it, but at least you can see what is possible!
This first one, both Kellie and mom loved. This is almost completely “raw” out of the camera, other than a crop:
Now, simple processing, a nice contrasty black-and-white…
For this second one, this is where we got a little crazy. the full-color shot was nice, but the lighting just BEGGED for black-and-white so we did a lower-contrast B/W conversion and added a little of my trademark “glow” – for the rest of these, you’ll want to click on the photo for the larger version:
The wild processing is a “surreal, edgy” effect; of course I’ll give credit where credit is due, this came from Matt Kloskowski’s Killer Tips and we’ve been using a few of his processes lately. We took his preset but then turned down the exposure and softened it up a little bit, the effect is like-it-or-hate it…
Here’s the 3rd one… really a pretty basic photo here but we felt it would work very well with a slightly different (and more pronounced) “edgy” effect from the same preset family.. the original:
And the very extreme processed version, it kind of reminds me of a drawing more than a photo – almost a modern-day Saturday Evening Post type look?
And finally, just a finished version here, I got a few really nice silhouette photos, this one is my favorite:
I hope this blog post wasn’t too technical (or boring) for the non-photographers that are reading!
I am looking forward to shooting Danny and Kellie’s wedding in February, we’ll have 2 photographers covering all the formal times (and the getting ready times) so I expect to have some great shots!
Good luck guys!
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Either myself or one of my assistants (Joey or Wendhy) or sometimes Jeremy shoots wedding photography at the Chapel at Texas Station in Las Vegas. We offer an upgraded wedding photo package and can bundle reception photography and one of D. Jay’s Entertainment’s Disc Jockeys and save the brides and grooms some money while still getting them award-winning service.
This shoot was done by Joey and the photos edited here by us in our office. I am very proud to be working with Joey, who does a great job. His style is different than mine but that’s not a bad thing… different brides want different styles, and after hearing from Sarah’s mom, Joey was a perfect match for this couple!
Djamal and Sarah are very down-to-earth people, and were very non-traditional… with the exception of Sarahs absolutely beautiful dress with a bit of a nature theme:
Joey captured a very cool “ring shot” that incorporated the flowers AND the stylish shoes that they wore!
A nice moment that we hope everyone will like, shows the great detail in the dress plus the beautiful flowers and the tender hand-holding during the ceremony:
It’s kind of funny, grooms tend to shy away from the camera but at the least are very difficult to capture in a “tender” moment. Joey got this one spot-on! I betcha Sarah will melt when she sees the love portrayed in this photo!
At the same time, Djamal and Sarah were very fun and (as I mentioned earlier), very non-traditional… I liked this photo because it reminds us that it’s OK to have fun during the ceremony. Yes, it’s an important occasion but that doesn’t mean you can’t smile and maybe even laugh a little (plus, it helps us photographers to get better pics!)
A nicely-posed “formal” shot after the wedding (they didn’t want a lot of formal stuff), I think the expressions are priceless!
This one proves that you don’t ALWAYS have to smile to create a mood. This is a very non-traditional pose but it really works… look into Djamal’s eyes, you can see confidence and love, but also maybe a touch of nervousness and inward-thinking after taking on the great responsibility of becoming a husband. Sarah seems extremely content, comfortable on the shoulder of her new husband. in my opinion, this is one of those photos that is very much open to interpretation, and I’m sure everyone who looks at this photo will interpret it differently… by the way, does anyone see a bit of a Mona Lisa-esque smile on Djamal’s face?
Joey caught Sarah in a very emotional embrace after the ceremony. She’s smiling but you can see a hint of tears welling up…. PERFECT timing!
Another tender moment, this time during the first dance.
All-in-all we were able to provide about 575 photos from this event (pre-ceremony through the reception). Thanks to Joey for his work on this job, and to Sarah, Djamal, and Sarah’s mom for allowing us to be a part of their big day!
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