More and More Graduates

This one’s Sunday afternoons Cal State Long Beach graduation portraits for Lizelle, her brother Jon, and his girlfriend Johanna. Jon and Johanna went to college with me and i’ve known for at least 5 years now. I met Jon the spring of his first year and we have become great friends ever since. Johanna and Jon both were really amazing to work with, they also helped me on my February Project, Project Paradise with a couple amazing pictures. Honestly one of the cutest couples i know, it was a plus getting to shoot some romantic type of pictures with them. All in all though we were able to get over 250 amazing pictures in the 2 hour session but here are just a few of my favorites. Congratulations to all of you and thanks for asking me to shoot your milestone achievement :)

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One of the Last PCNs

Moving on from Thursday night, Friday was PCN day, I spent the entire day working on the previous days work, getting out to watch a PCN and shoot it was more of a break then anything else. I think after editting for hours on end, every photographer jus needs to get out there again with their camera and shoot. When i first started my business i noticed myself taking these long periods or stages if you will where i was honed onto a different subject and i focused only on that. In the beginning it was learning how to use my camera, then after that it was finding tricks to edit better, then i moved onto gear addiction (which was one of my worse stages but i’m glad i had it since now i know the difference between a good lens and a bad lens). After that i remember focusing solely on shooting as much as i could, then following as many blogs and websites i can find, then picking up a camera and strobes and exploring lighting. Then i remember not taking a picture in days just so i could focus on taking my business off the ground and marketing like crazy. I remember after that i focused alot on composition only afterwards, then natural light, (backwards with the strobes lol) and then finally versatility in being a strobist. I know i missed some stages but in each one of these “moments” or periods in my life, i only focused on that one thing to overall enhance my skills. When you focus on one thing too long, you end up missing or feeling lost in the fact that you havent shot, or shot in a certain way in a while. This is why sometimes i love overcast days where i could just enjoy shooting natural light anywhere at any time without worrying about lighting and only worrying about composition… Thats how its been this last weekend though and you’ll see in the pictures i took on Sunday.

Okok so i dont even know if any of that made any sense, im sure my english was all over the place and my thoughts were all jumbled, but either way, point was i got to attend Troy Highs PCN and take a break from editting. I met these guys at Lolo’s pre debut shoot for Pamela Mondejar. These girls and guys ended up being super cool and invited us to shoot their PCN. I’ve never seen a high school PCN but i must say it was totally comparable to many if not all college PCN’s, if not better. Great job to the cast and crew, i thoroughly enjoyed it :)

here are a few of the pictures from that PCN

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Graduation Season

Another Thursday gone to photography was dedicated to Liezl and Val’s graduation portraits, we did a quick session at the park and a couple shots in studio for their session, it was really fun working with them, we ended up having alot of mutual friends who we literally went thru facebook stalking. Oh the power of facebook, how did i ever get around without it? Liezl is graduating in Kinesiology Physical Therapy and Val is graduating in my college, Business emphasis in Marketing both from Cal State San Bernardino. They brought letters so they could do some prop shots which were super cool and fun. Alwaysss always bring props to a fun shoot, it brings some versatility to the images, jus like Nai’s headphones and Macbook :) Thanks for asking me to take your grad portraits girls, I had a blast!

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