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Marlene + Glenn = Engaged (and will be married today!)

Rosaura — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:48:50 +0000

Their love has been a whirlwind romance from a distance. She’s on the East Coast, and he’s on the West Coast. But finally Marlene has moved out here to be with her love and they are both soooo excited and soooo in love. We barely squeezed their engagement session in before the wedding so I haven’t been able to do a full post. In honor of their San Francisco wedding today, here’s one of my favorites of Marlene & Glenn.

raquel + horacio = engaged!

Rosaura — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:51:53 +0000

I had such a great time with Raquel and Horacio shooting in San Francisco for their engagement session. They are so in love and so adorable together, seriously. While we were galavanting around the city, we even heard this group of women say, ” They are so adorable it is disgusting!” – That made us all laugh. Thanks to Raquel’s brother and sister-in-law for setting them up because they are a perfect match. Can’t wait to shoot their wedding in August.

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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JNP Studios Workshop

Rosaura — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:42:16 +0000

I had the great pleasure to attend Jeffrey Neil’s fantastic first ever workshop with the amazing Elisea Johnson of Photogen Inc. and fabulous Jonathan Metcalf of MetMedia. It was a jam-packed day filled of inspiration, branding, photo critiques, laughter, music, awesome live shoot in small groups and great food provided by Jason’s Downtown Restaurant in Santa Ana.

And on top of all that, the awesome ladies at Utterly Engaged and Treasured Petal created a super beautiful table scape for us to practice our detail shots on. The setting was very unique and made with the males in mind and will be shown in the March edition of Utterly Engaged E-Zine. Check them out if you haven’t already. For a sneak peak of the table, see either Jeffrey or Elisea’s blog, we’ve been asked not to blog them until the magazine comes out.

One of my main goals for this workshop was to conquer my fear of the tilt-shift lens, and I’m happy to report that I DID! :) For the couples shoot, I forced myself to shoot only with my 45mm TS. Tons went wrong and some went right. I really appreciate Jeffrey & Elisea’s one-on-one feedback and advice working with the TS. Thank you guys. Also, thank you Jonathan for your encouragement during the shoot and tips on post process. You guys all have such big hearts and I’m so happy to have met you.

Below are my fav photos from my day with the TS at the workshop.

One of the other great things about the workshop is that I got to meet some really great people and fellow photogs: Gina Zeidler, Cami Poblete, Lara Holmes, Jon Dunning, Robert Tran, Maya Tasaka, Melissa Oholendt, Lindsey Besthorn and Kelly Aguilar. It was a super cool mix of people and I loved meeting each one of them. Thank you guys for making the workshop that much more enjoyable! :)

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