We have been in business for 12 years, and we have documented over 800 weddings. As a lead photographer & studio owner, I am doing this full time, and I am extremely experienced.
Studio standard editing includes color, contrast, exposure, clarity, vibrance and other adjustments that produce photos to have the uniform style. This will ensure that your photos won’t have strange skin tones or some photos are darker than others. Further, Standard Editing is how things are captured. While beauty editing is an advanced technique that most studios don’t provide because of the tedious process. It’s a custom photoshop enhancement. Any photoshop editing that alters the reality is considered as custom beauty editing/custom editing. It includes smoothen skins, removing acne, whiten teeth, slight body slimming, thicken hair, minimize/remove under eyes bags, etc…This process takes a lot of time, and we’re proud to say we do provide some as a complimentary to limited Collections. Custom edits are also available at $15-20 per image or $100 per hour for editing rate.
Yes, we do. We love destination weddings. If your wedding happened to be at a location such as Europe, Cancun, Hawaii, or Florida, we may be able to waive the travel fees. In general, travel fees include airfares, lodging, and car rental.
No, we don’t. We have done hundreds of destination weddings and events that we had not seen the couples nor the venues till the day of the wedding. It’s all come down to experience and being able to see the light. The rest is all about the skills.
Yes, all our team members are fully vaccinated with Pfizer (Covid19) booster shots.
If your wedding venues are within 50 miles drive radius from Los Angeles, there is no travel fee. Beyond 50 miles from LA, our rate is $5 per additional mile of driving. If it’s over 3 hours of driving, we will have to fly and it’s considered as a destination wedding.
I am based in Southern California – West Hills to be exact.
With a background training in graphic design and commercial/fashion photography, I pride myself in creating unique, creative, and editorial images that are rooted deeply with wedding photojournalism. I constantly strive to think outside of the box and be creative with using lights, compositions, perspectives, and post-production techniques to create unique imagery that cater to your personalities and styles. Our photos will always be crisp, vibrant, natural, and not overly photoshopped.
Office hours are from 10 am – 7 pm, Monday – Friday and some Sundays. But we do book appointments past 7 pm on weekdays as some of our clients can’t meet during office hours due to work schedule.
Due to busy wedding schedule, currently we meet clients thru FaceTime or Zoom meeting only.
All dates are available on a first come, first-served basis. We only reserve/secure your date when both a contract and a retainer have been submitted.
If it’s in Southern California, it’s most likely that we have photographed there. We have covered many weddings at different venues throughout California and other states. There’s no venue that is too hard for us to cover. We have done many destination weddings in which we haven’t even met the clients or seen the venues prior to the big day. We are the masters of lights. We can shoot under any lighting conditions or environments. No matter what venue it is, we will produce the same quality photos with consistent sharpness, clarity, and vibrancy as you have seen in our work.
Thank you so much for choosing us. We would be honored to be your wedding photographers. To reserve your date, we would need a retainer fee of 25% of the total Collection amount and a signed online-contract.
Currently, we only do FaceTime, Skype or zoom meeting only. No in person meetings.
Yes, we do. Many venues require the photographers to have Liability Insurance. Our insurance covers up to $1 million in each occurrence and $2 million in general aggregate.
We use professional grade, full frame DSLRs – Nikon D5, D4S, Canon 5D Mk III and various professional lenses, flashes, and strobes. We always have backup equipment on every single event.
For each wedding, it takes about 2-2.5 weeks for us to process and edit all photos. With 3-5 weddings per month, our turnaround time is 2-2.5 months after the wedding date. Quality takes time, and we process and edit all photos with care so that all photos would have the same quality of photos you have seen on our website. All photo proofs will have our studio standard editing and custom beauty edits are available as specified in each Collection.
For a 2-hour engagement session, around 150-200 photos will be delivered. For a wedding coverage of 8-10 hours, 800-1000 photos will be delivered. It equals to around 80-100 photos per hour. These numbers may be more or less depending on the flow of the day and the number of events or activities needing to be captured.
No, all photographers own the rights to the photos. All our Collections include Printing Right Release, which allows clients to print and share photos for personal and non-commercial usage only.
Not all photographers that I know provide RAW images. They are the uncompressed, digital negatives that come directly from the cameras. These are extremely large files. Once the RAW images are processed and exported to jpeg images, for easy reading & viewing, they will be deleted to make room for other weddings’ files. Only full resolution, high quality, jpeg photos will be provided.
Absolutely not. Many of our couples have never done a professional photoshoot and are very camera-shy. Not to worry, we have worked with hundreds of couples; and when it comes to posing and giving directions, we are the Pros. We believe that all of our clients are beautiful, and it’s our job to bring out and capture the beauty in each person.
We dress professionally in black pants and black or white long-sleeve shirts or polos.
In general, we have 3 members in our team – myself, second photographer, and a lighting assistant. We add more members to help us if there are additional services such as Guest Photos with thank you cards or Photobooth.
