Rosaura Sandoval Photography

Out of Studio – WPPI

rosaura — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:28:38 +0000

So every year, photographers from all over the world attend this conference in Las Vegas:

This year I’m super lucky to be able to attend WPPI in Las Vegas for the week and learn, mingle and party with the best in the industry. It will be my first time and I can’t tell you how excited I am! Along with all the classes (and parties!), another great thing about this convention is the trade show. I get to check out first-hand all the great and varied new products there are out there and deciding which ones to offer to my clients. Seriously, it is _the_ major event for photographers every year and I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to go.

With so much going on, I will not be in communication much for the week but I promise to get back everyone once I return (and have some cool photos to show too). Gracias & Viva Las Vegas!

The Bui Brothers Workshop

rosaura — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:53:31 +0000

So this year for me is one of continual growth and exploration in photography (actually which year isn’t? LOL!). I love learning and I especially love learning photography from such down to earth people as The Bui Brothers, Lan & Vu. Yes, they are brothers and yes, those are their real names. They hail from Southern California and are fantastic photographers, videographers, social media masters and educators. This particular workshop was organized by Gustavo Fernández, awesome green-certified wedding photographer and organizing guru of SF East Bay Photography Meetup Group and many others. The goal of it was to explore light both natural and artificial and really put into practice that you can take a great photo anywhere (after a little location scouting). We focused a lot of headshots and they taught us their formula for the perfect headshot. So be warned, this post is very headshot-heavy. :)

We started off just talking about different angles of shooting and scouting out locations that at first you think will not work but they do! This was taken in a regular backyard:

Next came exploring side lighting – love this kind of lighting!:

Then we got to play with lights. They showed us a 2-light system. Once with a fancy Profoto set-up and then the exact same set up with regular hot-shoe flashes. I loved their minimalist approach!

Then we got to play with overpowering the sun for this really awesome effect. For this we had to use the more powerful Profoto set up at full power – it was suuuper bright out!

Thank you Lan & Vu for spending the day with us and for being an open book. Thank you Sara & Chris Goetz for hosting the workshop at your house. You guys rock! :) And thanks to the models for the day, Madison, Crystal, Sam, Marissa & Goldie – you guys did great!

Yesenia + Alex = Married!

rosaura — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:40:33 +0000

Last month I had the great pleasure to photograph Yesenia & Alex’s wedding in San Francisco. It had been raining but not for the big day. Luckily, we had a gorgeous and slightly chilly San Francisco day – just perfect! Yesenia was a gorgeous bride and I can’t wait to shoot their Trash-the-Dress session sometime when it gets a little warmer. Thank you to my second shooter, Gerald, for help that day.

This photo was taken by my second shooter for this wedding, Gerald. It made me laugh and thought it went well with the photo above:

I love how happy she looks here, ready to celebrate:

Katia & Eli | sneak peek

rosaura — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:15:57 +0000

Recently I had the pleasure of working with Katia & Eli on their post-elopement engagement photos. They were both really nervous at first but we had so much fun working together and letting them just be them. We shot into the night and were able to come up with the photo below.

Her are 2 takes on the same photo taken by the Bay Bridge and Ferry Building in San Francisco. Which do you like better?

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