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Irvine Fall Family Portraits

Monday, November 17, 2014

I was a little nervous going into this shoot as I had never done a family shoot before but I was a bit excited to do something new. After all, that's how we grow, right?

Cristina took advantage of my Holiday Mini Sessions and I couldn't be more thrilled to photograph them as they're cousins of mine! We found a lovely spot in Irvine that had that "autumn" look -- something you don't really see much of here in SoCal and I really like the way the shoot turned out!

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

View the film portraits here.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Last week I had the privilege of photographing my best friend's maternity session. Sarah lived two houses down from me growing up and since we were little, we'd always do things together. It's amazing that we're still friends to this day and I hope that our kids grow up to be good friends as well - even though she's having a little girl. I photographed this shoot mainly in digital (which I'll be blogging in a few days) but also shot an entire roll of film. I'm still learning how to really use my film camera so I was surprised to see how pretty these turned out! I did have to do a little tweaking (bumping the exposure a little bit and slightly warming the photos) but all in all, I think they turned out great! I can't wait to share the other images!

Camera: Canon EOS 3

Lens: 50mm 1.8 & 85mm 1.8

Film: Kodak Gold 200

Scanned by: PPI (Pro Photo Connection in Irvine)

Friday, October 10, 2014

Several weeks ago, I blogged this engagement session but the digital version (which got featured on Elizabeth Ann Designs). I brought my film camera along to this shoot and sadly, didn't take as many photos as I wanted to (shot like 20-something frames of 36). But I really had fun with it and love the way the photos turned out. A little grainery than I would have liked but I'm still learning :)

Camera: Canon EOS 3

Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8

Film: Kodak Portra 400H

Scanned by: Pro Photo Connection in Irvine