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Wedding formal from San Francisco City Hall. A patch of sun makes all the difference.

Oct 172013

I shot a lot of wedding ceremonies in San Francisco City hall. It is gorgeous. It is a good place to elope. If you want to get married at San Francisco City Hall it only cost an extra $77. There is nowhere you can find a venue so pretty for so little.

The couple in this photo flew up from LA. After the ceremony I took them around the city to get a few more shots. You have to get Golden Gate Bridge for example. I love a lot of the photos from the day, but this one is my favorite. It was a sunny day in San Francisco. (weird, right? no fog) and a patch of sun on the stairs changed everything.

Bride and groom on the steps of San Francisco City Hall

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Author Cory Doctorow speaking at The Booksmith in San Francisco

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Feb 122013

I had the honor of shooting Cory Doctorow giving a talk at The Booksmith in San Francisco upon the release of his new YA novel Homeland. I’ve had the fortune to meet and shoot Cory before, and he’s always inspiring and energizing. Not to go to far off topic from my photography, but his talk about the coming war on general purpose computing is some of the most illuminating information I’ve ever heard about the deep consequences of content owners who are willing to go to any length to protect their copyright.

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Romantic shot of bride and groom at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco

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Aug 232012

Rachel and Brandon got married in the Presidio in San Francisco. After the wedding we did family portraits in the chapel, sent everyone on their way, and took the wedding party to the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. If you haven’t been, the Palace is dreamy and romantic. I took almost 200 shots of the bride and groom there. This is one of the clear winners. I was using my 50mm 1.4 lens at about 2.8, so I was able to get a nice shallow depth of field to make the shot even more romantic.

This is the shot that went straight up to their Facebook pages, so I know they love it too!

Two more candid portraits in my experiment with selective focus.

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Mar 292012

Yesterday I posted a candid street portrait taken with a bellows lens by Lensbaby in the mission district in San Francisco.

Here are two more photos from my experimenting that I think hold up. They are a lot more dramatic in their effect, as they were taken at a wide open aperture. (yesterdays shot was f 8) With a bellows lens and a wide open aperture, the amount of detail in the photo that is truly in focus is paper thin. If you like that effect of not is another story, but I think it works in these two.

San Francisco Street Photography, Guardian Angles 16th and Mission, taken with a bellows lens.

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Mar 292012

Today I was walking around the Mission in San Francisco getting some random street shots with a trick lens on my camera. The lens is made by a company called Lensbaby. It has bellows on it and it rotates in strange ways, creating interesting effects with focus.

I had lots of fun with the lens, and I got some weird shots, but this was the one that I think holds up the most on it’s photographic merits, and not just because it has trick effects.

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