I have been on a bit of a blogging hiatus due to technical difficulties and traveling this summer for some amazing destination weddings. I thought this 2 part wedding would be the perfect wedding to blog about to get back into the swing of things. As you can tell my images are small, so still trying to work out the kinks of my custom blog, my apologies. However, I hope you can see the genius in this wedding by A Good Affair Wedding and Event Production. Natalie’s weddings are always over the top and done with amazing taste and style, especially when you get amazing wedding venues like these. The Mission San Juan Capistrano is a dream wedding venue for any Southern California Wedding Photographer. The Spanish landscape is breathtaking and romantic boasting endless places to capture dream wedding images. The Mission is also the oldest building in all of California, so it is a very special place dripping with history and wonder. The Batista is a small Catholic Chapel on the premises and Victoria & Greg chose to have their military wedding there. Since this wedding is so awesome, I have way too many images to share in just one blog. I will blog first about the mission and their romantic images, and in the second blog I will showcase the Classy Wedding Reception at the Newport Hyatt Regency. I will link the part 2 blog here when it is published. Thank you Natalie and all the other vendors featured below for another GREAT wedding!

Coordination: A Good Affair, Wedding & Event Production,www.agoodaffair.com
Ceremony: Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Lisa Dittmer, http://www.oldmissionsjb.org/
Reception: Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, www.newport.hyatt.com

Photographer: Capturing Moments, Jaimee Hubert,www.capturingmoments.com
Florist: My Floral Bliss, Holly Cellini, http://myfloralbliss.com/
Bakery: Tom Girl Bakery, Lisa Tom, http://tomgirlbaking.com/
DJ: Honored Occasions,www.honoredoccasions.com
Lighting: Honored Occasions, Steve Shanahan, www.honoredoccasions.com
Draping: The Finishing Touch, Doug Geisen,
Hair & Makeup: Design Visage, http://www.designvisage.com
Cigar Roller: El Canito Cigars, Edward Carmona, http://www.thecigarrollers.net/
Photobooth: SoCal Shutterbooth, http://shutterbooth.com/southern-california/
Linens: La Tavola Linens, Carly Mitchell, http://linens.latavolalinen.com/
Luminaries: Vessel Décor, Napoly Salloum
Transportation: Classique Limos, Carolyn Kent,  http://www.classiquelimo.com/

Don’t Miss Part 2 of this blog to see this AMAZING wedding Reception at

Hyatt Newport Regency

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I had so much fun shooting for fun the other night with a few other local photographers. There is a local photographers board that is very active and the photographers get together often to do fun shoots with each other and but their heads together, it is a really cool group. When I saw a “Fire Painting” night I thought that was really interesting. Come to find out they needed a location and my backyard was perfect. You need a wide open space to pull this off. I had no idea what we were doing but once I saw some of the results I was really excited, as I have not shot for fun in almost a decade!

What you are seeing here is Steel Wool (fine) stuffed in a whisk and tied to a cord. There is a person in all of these photos swinging the cord and the results are the steel wool breaks apart and a lot of sparks fly. Some of the pics she had one cord that she was spinning and for a few of them she was spinning 2 cords. I shot with my Canon 5D Mark II and a 14mm wide angle “fish eye” lens. With long exposures of 10-30 seconds you get really cool images. There was a little trial and error getting the right exposures down, the correct white balance, low ISO, and the fire painter took a few tries to get it down. The steel wool did not last as long as we had hoped in some cases only 10-20 seconds. Even though this was a first attempt I love the results. We will be doing this again and begin to perfect it and come up with new ideas and different locations. You notice you can see the person in some of the images and this was done using an off camera flash to illuminate her face while spinning the cord in a perfect circle.

F:8 @ 15 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance

 F:7.1 @ 15 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance

 An Off Camera Flash allows you to see the subjects face in these.

 F:7.1 @ 10 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance, with off camera flash

 

 F:8 @ 10 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance

F:7.1 @ 30 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance

 F:7.1 @ 30 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance

 F:7.1 @ 30 seconds, 100 ISO, Tungsten White Balance

 Exposures are the same of as above.

 

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I love this cute couple who will be wed in just over a month at the Muckenthaler Mansion in Fullerton, California. It is a gorgeous property and Lisa is going to make a gorgeous bride so I can’t wait to shoot it! Plus, it is a daytime wedding which I absolutely love and NO bridal party, which I am personally a huge fan of for many reasons. Lisa had saw a wedding blog in which I had shot at the Fullerton Arboretum and thought it would be the perfect location for her and Daniel’s engagement shoot! I agree with her since I was married at the Fullerton Arboretum over 12 years ago and love the many locations you have to shoot. 

 

Congrats guys, See you in March!

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Thank you again to Wedding Wire for awarding me with the 2012 Bride’s Choice Awards for the 3rd year in a row for Wedding Photography! I currently have 63 Reviews at a perfect 5.0/5.0 and in this busy world they are not easy to get. Luckily my brides take the time to fill out these reviews. Wedding Wire acknowledges the top Wedding photographers in the industry and listens to what their brides have to say about the work! It is a great tool for future clients to be able to read what past clients have to say about me. Thank you to all of my clients for taking the time to fill out a review in this busy busy world. I really do appreciate the 5 stars and acknowledgment for doing great work!

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I thought it would be fun to share what is in my Photography Bag. A lot of people ask me what I shoot with and what lenses I prefer, so here you go. This is my travel Lowepro backpack, I strictly use this on plane flights as I can never separate from my camera equipment and this backpack fits in the overhead compartments.Getting ready to fly and shoot 2 weddings and 12 photo shoots in 5 days, which has become a usual occurrence for me. So here is how I pack my bag to travel. I will be writing a follow up blog soon on how to travel with your equipment and keep your images safe! Since I have become more of a destination photographer, I have shot in different countries and regularly shoot out of state. Traveling with your equipment and already shot images can be very tricky and you need to be prepared for the worst case scenarios! While shooting I like to use my Kelley Moore bag if I have an assistant, and I prefer my Thinktank which is handy for all my lenses when I shoot alone and have no assistant.

What I shoot With:

Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 5D‘s as Backup
Zoom Lens 70-200 2.8 ~ Most Preferred 
Zoom Lens 70-200 4.0 ~Backup, Used for Travel
Overall Lens 24-105 4.0 ~Larger Group Shots
Macro 100 mm 2.8 ~For rings and close ups
Wide Angle 14mm Fisheye ~Room and Venue shots
2- 580EX II Flashes
Gary Fong Whales Tale~ Have shot with it for years and cant shoot without it.

Not Pictured: Canon 50mm, Think Tank easy shoot waist bag, Kelly Moore Bag, Over 100GB of Chip Space, plenty of camera batteries and chargers

Leave a comment and share what is in your Bag!

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Thank you so much to The Knot and A Good Affair for choosing me to photograph the Knot Party OC 2011. It was a great night full of wonderfully amazing vendors at one of Orange County’s best wedding venues, Rancho Las Lomas. Natalie with A Good Affair Wedding and Event Design. Natalie really out did herself on this event, it was over the top spectacular. David Tosti with Tosti Studios shot with me and we had a great time. I was truly honored to shoot this event and to appear in The Spring Issue of The Knot 2012. I attached the previous blog on this event and the unique vendors that participated. The blogs are really worth looking at, there are super unique wedding ideas!

The Knot Party OC 2011 Blog:
http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2011/09/knot-party-oc-2011.html

The Knot Party OC Unique Wedding Vendors:
http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2011/09/this-is-blog-as-promised-dedicated-to.html

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Thank you to everyone who continues to read my blog and support my work!!!! I have had a lot of success writing and really enjoy this part of my business. I love being able to share images of weddings I shoot, travels I take, and how to’s on photography. I have also had the honor of having 3 written articles published Nationally in Studio Photography Magazine and locally  in Orange County Bride Magazine, as well as countless featured work in OC Bride, Ceremony and The Knot. Writing has definitely became a part of my life and business now, and I am glad somebody is actually reading it. With an average of 3,000 hits a month and today hitting 50,000 blog hits, it is a far cry from my first blog with about 12 readers. 🙂 

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Capturing Moments As Seen In:

Orange County Bride Magazine:

http://ocbridemag.com/

Ceremony Magazine:

http://www.ceremonymagazine.com/

The Knot:

http://www.theknot.com/

Studio Photography Magazine:

http://www.imaginginfo.com/

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Here they are….the entries for the Annual Amateur Photo Contest. You be the judge! Vote for your favorite image by leaving a comment using the image letter. Only 1 vote per day. No names are on this so that your absolute favorite is voted for. The top images will make it to the poll voting finals. You have one week to vote, share on your facebook and get votes! The first and second place winners get a Giant Wall portrait! Good Luck!

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Another great party with Heidi and Frank at Bowlmor in Tustin, last Thursday night! Heidi, Frank, and Erik put on a bowling show for us, then they picked names and formed their own bowling teams. They really know how to throw a party and how to make their fans feel part of the HF family. If you have no idea who Heidi and Frank are, you have to check them out on their website at www.heidiandfrank.com. Heidi and Frank are radio personalities in LA and now they do a daily podcast from 10-12pm on the internet. Their show is hilarious…..but if you are easily offended it may not be the show for you. Everyday is a party on the Heidi and Frank show, it is radio worth watching! I have been listening for over a decade, and listen daily as I edit my pictures all week at my computer. They keep me company while I am working and updated on the news while they talk to listeners and reveal most everything about their own lives, along with Erik (Shmeez) they keep me laughing. VIP for life!!! Check them out!

 

 

Heidi Hamilton ready to Bowl

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Erik or “Shmeez”

 

 David Letterman look-alike!

 Karen the Intern

 

 

Frank Kramer toasts the crowd for coming to the Party!

 Frank’s Winning Team the “Smkoin’ Bowls”

 

Heidi’s team the “Lickity Splits”

 Smeeze’s team the “Bobby Pins” 

 Lacey put on the event and is the manager at Bowlmor….getting love!

 Frank and the “Smoking Bowls” toast at the bar with their free drinks!

 

Dancing in the ladies room!

 

 

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