San Francisco Wedding Photographer

Grand Island Mansion wedding photos from 2003

Posted by on Mar 19, 2010 in Black and White Film, Extraordinary Weddings, FEATURED, Grand Island Mansion, Magazine Style Albums, Raw & Tweaked, Technique & Style, wedding venues, locations | 0 comments

LOL this one goes way back. I’m really reaching back in the archives now. I have worked at the Grand Island Mansion 8 times in my 20 year career. I’m surprised how I got booked for a wedding that far out off the beaten path. And trust me, it is a drive along a long dirt road that parallels the delta. It is a nice trip during the day, a little scary at night when the fog blankets the entire area. Anyway, I was working quite a bit there for a while. One time, I was there back to back weddings Saturday, then again the next Saturday.

This wedding took place back in the very early days of digital photography. The black and white you see here is actually TRUE black and white film. What I was doing back then was shooting with digital [in color naturally] and then augmenting the digital coverage with true black and white film. Moreover, this film was 645 medium format.

You can also get an idea of what my magazine style album designs looked like back then in 2003. Not bad, but I have come along way in the areas of wedding album design and creation of the layouts. I know often think of left and right as a single canvas with which to tell your wedding story.

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

The below images were shot in color with digital, then the color removed from various areas of the picture to give you what you see here. I only mention it because I said I was using true black and white film and for all except the below is black and white film.

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the GRand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the Grand Island Mansion

wedding photo taken at the GRand Island Mansion

I just remembered that they are still using one of my images on their website that I shot at this wedding. I was still known as Axiom Photography back then. I’m going to have to email them asking them to change it. Click here to see the pic that they are still using under CLASSIC WEDDINGS

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Joel and Sarah Crystal Springs Golf Course wedding photos

Posted by on Mar 2, 2010 in Black and White Film, Bridal Prep imagery, Crystal Springs Golf Course, Detail Shots, Extraordinary Weddings, FEATURED, Flash Wedding Galleries, Magazine Style Albums, wedding venues, locations | 0 comments

This is a wedding I photographed back in 2007. Sarah and Joel at the Crystal Springs Golf Course in Millbrae, CA. The wedding division of the Golf Course is run by Wedgewood Banquet and Event Centers. They operate a handful of wedding venues in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.

They have a really nice facility there for both your wedding ceremony and wedding reception. The ceremony takes place out aways up at a Gazebo as you will see in the pics. The reception is indoors back at the venue. It’s very easy and convenient to go from the ceremony site, to the reception site.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE GALLERY OF WEDDING IMAGES FROM WEDGEWOOD BANQUET

photo of crystal springs golf course wedding couple gazebo

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Stanford Park Hotel Wedding Photos

Posted by on Mar 1, 2010 in Extraordinary Weddings, FEATURED, Flash Wedding Galleries, Magazine Style Albums, Stanford Park Hotel, Technique & Style | 0 comments

I am on the preferred vendor list for the Stanford Park Hotel, in Menlo Park, CA. Here are some magazine style album pages for a client that I recently shot a wedding at this wonderful wedding venue. The finished album layout pages will be sent to Graphi Studios to be produced. I use Graphi as my exclusive wedding album bookbinder now. I have carried them for years, but have now made the decision to go exclusive with Graphi.

CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE GALLERY OF WEDDING IMAGES

wedding photo of jessica and matthew

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Yank Sing Magazine Style Wedding Album photos

Posted by on Mar 1, 2010 in FEATURED, Magazine Style Albums, Yank Sing Restaurant | 0 comments

Here I can knock out two birds with one stone. On one hand, I offer up some great wedding photos from the Yank Sing Restaurant in San Francisco, CA. This restaurant is extremely dark and a wedding photographer should know how to use flash, additional flash, bounce lighting, etc. Second, these are actually wedding photography sample album pages that I have made. Many call them magazine style digital design wedding album pages or layouts.

 
magazine style album photos taken at the yank sing restaurant in san francisco, ca

magazine style album photos taken at the yank sing restaurant in san francisco, ca

magazine style album photos taken at the yank sing restaurant in san francisco, ca

magazine style album photos taken at the yank sing restaurant in san francisco, ca

magazine style album photos taken at the yank sing restaurant in san francisco, ca

magazine style album photos taken at the yank sing restaurant in san francisco, ca

 

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Magazine Style Wedding Albums at various wedding venues

Posted by on Feb 27, 2010 in Corinthian Yacht Club, FEATURED, Hakone Gardens, Legion of Honor SF, Magazine Style Albums, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, St. Mary's Cathedral | 0 comments

My clients know that I excel in all areas of the wedding photography process. Including that of designing unique, wedding albums. I design my own wedding albums from the images chosen by the client. Please take a look. To avoid unauthorized use of these images, I had to put my watermark on them.

Below are some wedding photos taken at the Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, CA

magazine style wedding album pages

magazine style wedding album pages

The wonderful wedding below is from St. Mary’s Cathedral San Francisco, CA

magazine style wedding album pages

Below are wedding photos from the posed wedding court photo session at the Legion of Honor San Francisco, CA

magazine style wedding album pages

Have you ever been to a wedding at the Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, CA?

magazine style wedding album pages

magazine style wedding album pages

magazine style wedding album pages

magazine style wedding album pages

And finally this wedding was at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon, CA

magazine style wedding album pages

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Sophia & Paul Legion of Honor San Francisco

Posted by on Feb 19, 2010 in Extraordinary Weddings, FEATURED, Legion of Honor SF, Magazine Style Albums | 0 comments

The Legion of Honor in San Francisco is perhaps one of the most popular places for brides and groom’s to go OFF SITE from their wedding and take additional wedding pictures.

Below are some magazine style wedding album layouts from a wedding back in 2007/
wedding photo taken at the legion of honor san francisco

wedding photo taken at the legion of honor san francisco

wedding photo taken at the legion of honor san francisco

wedding photo taken at the legion of honor san francisco

Oh by the way, Sophia and Paul had their wedding ceremony and wedding reception at the glorious wedding venue that is the Ralson Hall in Belmont, CA. I put a gallery of wedding reception images on my blog here. Click here to see them!

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