jennifer and rodney's wedding


commentator: monica

yippeeee!!!! first wedding of the year and it was awesome! jennifer and rodney pledged their vows at beautiful saint patrick's catholic church in the presence of their loved ones, many of whom had traveled a long distance from their home state of new york. this adorable couple met in college and had since relocated to the bay area and decided to be wed in, what better destination to treat their guests than, san francisco. they even chartered a trolley car to transport their guests to their reception at hotel nikko, where we enjoyed a gorgeous view of the city at the 25th floor.

before heading to their reception, the bridal party and the newlyweds headed across the street to yerba buena gardens for some group photos. we started at the mlk jr. memorial waterfall with the entire group and afterwards, had the opportunity to photograph just the bride and groom around the property, all the while dodging the security. seems like there were a couple of guards who "didn't see us" just to allow the happy couple an opportunity to take their wedding day photos. =)

congratulations, jennifer & rodney! may you and your families share many more happy occasions to celebrate in the great city of sf!

//ed pingol
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the awesome jen and rodney, hanging out in san francisco

we love it when our couples are down to do anything! and yes, rodney is THAT tall!

just outside the yerba beuna center for the arts building

the bridal party

beautiful details

flowers by annie sui. check out the unique flowergirl basket!

cake by maralyn tabatsky of "have your cake"

dancing the night away! entertainment by "the muziquarium"

seriously, this party loved to dance!

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film is not dead workshop - day 3


commentator: ed

today, we went to the bryodo-in temple. we had two awesome couples for two whole hours. it usually cost $5000 to shoot there, but john was able to swoon a lady to only charge him only $100. she totally hooked-it-up. there's SO many other images that i would LOVE to post up, but because of time... ya'll just have to wait til later. =) please come back soon because this place is SO totally crazy cool. just wait til you guys see the temple.

//ed pingol
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introducing the awesome camille

micah, camille's hubby

a quick photo of one of the couples

camping in hawaii... yeah, i'm camping


commentator: ed

so, in order for me to REALLY experience hawaii, i decided to camp out in MALAEKAHANA CAMPGROUNDS. why? because i want to experience the real hawaii, not just go to to the island and stay in a swanky hotel. plus, i'm sleeping beach side and i get to wake up to an awesome sunrise everyday. booyah!!!

//ed pingol
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this is my tent... to the right is the beach. totally awesome!

film is not dead workshop - day 2


commentator: ed

i was just browsing through my images and there's SO much more that i would love to put up. please stay tuned to see more images from john's workshop.

//ed pingol
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the awesome hawaii mormon temple

phooning... yeah, totally awesome

one of the rooms in the visitor's center

more images from the temple

film is not dead workshop - day 1


commentator: ed

john is the man. honestly, if you want to learn how to shoot well in all lighting situations, he is the man to learn it from.

full commentary coming soon...

//ed pingol
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there's no better place to learn photography than hawaii

this is our classroom

this awesome place is called the point

and of course, a phoon shot


no, really, feel free to laugh! seriously...


commentator: monica

eddie often likes to take "unflattering photos" of friends and family, which includes me, of course. he says he does this because he learns how "not to shoot," which teaches him best how to shoot, kinda like the show, "what not to wear!" ("go stacy & clinton!") there have been times i've seen blog entries online only to yell at him, "you are not putting that up! take it down NOW!!!" sometimes he listens, sometimes he doesn't =) here's my chance for revenge!

i've been wanting to do this for awhile now. after several get-togethers and events with other photographers, there have been some photos of eddie that i've been wanting to blog about. now that he's on oahu (lucky buster!) for jonathan canlas' "film is not dead"workshop and has scant internet access this week, here's my chance. (cue evil laughter) bwahahahah!!! mwahahahaha!!!

here are the many faces of my dear hubby...

channeling his inner "fabio"

frog jumper pose or maybe "air board jumping."
the "cramped cheek" or the "wait, there's something stuck between my molars" smile. check out canon's "newest" pro camera. ha! (the name tag reads: "monica's my master." guess who wrote the word "my." )
demonstrating the slow motion "into my lover's arms across the beach" run. (he was demonstrating to a model how he wanted her to run. as some of you know, ed's much better at showing rather than telling.)
basking in the sun or ed's impersonation of our dog lola in the sun! (again, showing another model how he'd like for them to pose.)

//ed pingol
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don't laugh... okay, you can laugh, cause i did


commentator: ed

so, during ospw2, one of my close photography buddy, erwin wijanto, flew over from seattle to hang out for the weekend. it was a shooting fest full of photographers in and around napa. definitely one of the funnest weekends thus far.

anyways, on the last day of ospw2, it was more of a chill and relax - do whatever you want to do day. since erwin has never been in napa before, we decided to show him around to make him jealous of what we have in our very own backyard. =) we visited v sattui, one of our favorite tasting spots AND drove to cornerstone garden, a place where jasmin and jerome had their engagement session done. by the way, if you haven't been to the cornerstone garden, you should definitely go and have a visit. make sure you bring a camera. =)

through out the whole time, we laughed and drank some wine... and the next thing you know, monica and i were having a mini engagement session. thanks E! we FINALLY have some cool images of us.

for those of you who don't know, monica and i barely have anything up on our walls... carzy, huh? i know! so, thanks erwin... because of you, we now have pics we can hang up around the house.

//ed pingol
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go ahead, laugh... cause i did too.

i love you, monica (yeah, i know... i'm a big softy) go on, laugh it up.

our photographer! thanks erwin! you the man!

more awesome images from erwin

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we've been featured on FLASH FLAVOR!


commentator: ed

woo hoo!!! we've been featured on flash flavor, a website that showcase photographer's creative use of light during weddings. totally awesome!

//ed pingol
707.334.1468
info@edpingolphotography.com
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Flash Flavor Formals

I wanted to follow up with posting another set of images from one of the photographers I am keeping an eye on. Ed Pingol has recently contributed to a FF post on deleting the ambient. One of the things that really stood out about Ed’s photography is the effort he takes to set up some of his formals. I think that a LOT of us can take some serious notes on this one… I often get lazy and claim that formals aren’t my game… well, after looking at this stuff, I’m a little inspired to go out and try a tad harder.

Go to school on shooting some kewl formals….
Ed Pingol writes:
The Importance of a Group Formals

The bridal party which usually consist of family and close friends are typically required to take photos with the bride and groom. Providing the bridal party with the same personal experience as the bride and groom has been a HUGE benefit (even if there’s over 20 of them total) for our business. Why? Because some of the individuals in the party can very will be your next client, plus they make for a nice spread in wedding albums which can add a great value to its worth. By taking a bit more time to set these “group photos”, several benefits can be had:

-you get an awesome portfolio - potential clients like to see these type of images because they see that we do take some time to get creative bridal party pictures. a huge factor when deciding on photographers

-you get referred out by the bridal party if they don’t hire you themselves - this part is pretty cool because several of our clients are great friends. when you shoot a close friend of the bride, you’ve already established a relationship before even clicking a single shot of her wedding. this makes things SO much easier than starting from square one. But the most important thing is that they already trust you

-designing albums are easier - because you have taken a bit of time to set up, chances are the images you’re about to capture is clean and well composed. clean and well composed images demand single spreads for themselves. one image per spread is SO easy to design, a caveman can do it.

-it’s just a lot more fun than traditional poses - of course we do the creative stuff AFTER we’ve done the traditional poses for the moms and pops. most of the bridal party has never experienced anything similar to this during a wedding. show them just one example and chances are they’ll want to take several more. if you make it fun, they’ll remember and referrals are sure to follow.

Of course, when doing this, you should take several images of the same pose but just varying it up just a tad by saying “look anywhere AWAY from the camera (click, click, click), look to your left (click, click, click), look to your right (click, click, click), look at the camera no smile (click, click, click) and look at the camera AND smile (click, click, click)”. We do this all the time to cover all the bases before moving on to the next pose. We include all minor variances of the pose (if the client decides to purchase a dvd) and more times than not, their favorite (and ours) are the ones when people are looking away. Go figure. =)

So setting up a pose is cool and all but this is the time where we add a little FLASH FLAVOR to the mix. Below is an example of a typical “Ed Pingol” group photo (whatever that means) of the bridal party - setting is 100iso 1/180th @ f13 - lighting set up consist of dual nikon sb-28’s triggered by a PW mounted on a monopod fired 1/1 @ 24mm beam spread - held high by Monica. See example of actual setup here.

Kindly please take a look at the example below how an image typically looks like without any
flash flavor. There’s alot going on especially in the background that can distract the eye from
your main subject. In order to “delete” that please read up on deleting the ambient.

Other Examples:

100iso 1/180th @ f19 - lighting set up consist of dual nikon sb-28’s triggered by a PW
mounted on a monopod fired 1/1 @ 24mm beam spread - held high by Monica.

100iso 1/180th @ f13 - lighting set up consist of dual nikon sb-28’s triggered by a PW
mounted on a monopod fired 1/2 @ 24mm beam spread - held high camera right by Monica.

100iso 1/180th @ f13 - lighting set up consist of dual nikon sb-28’s triggered by a PW
mounted on a monopod fired 1/1 @ 24mm beam spread (heads swiveled left and right to
provide wider cover) - held high by Monica.

Ed, how refreshing to see this post! I’m very impressed that you actually take the time to set these up. I know your clients dig them. I love it when you mix bright sunlight in the frame and blast them with the flash, just hotness! Lets hope that we all can take some inspiration from this one and change it up a little next time you set up a group of formals!

Props Ed, thanks for sending me this submission. This is what Flash Flavor is ALL about amigo!

Cheers
matt

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