Palos Verdes Wedding glimpse....

It was a fun day of "work" today shooting a beautiful wedding overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Terranea Resort and the beautiful golf course setting on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Just a handful of images fresh off the camera that show the first sunset of a newlywed couple. I love when couples let me share their images on my blog and on social media. I always get excited about images after shooting for 10 hours anyways! Of course, I've added large Panoramic images to my wedding photography arsenal because I'm totally addicted to them. I just wish you could see them in full resolution on here. Gigapixel images are easy to shoot when you have a wonderful couple. More images to come soon! Stay tuned! :-)
-cg

El Matador Sunrise Beach Wedding...

As a photographer, I'm always excited to display wedding photos from couples who kindly allow me to. I'm also very excited to display images that are an expansion of new creative techniques I can introduce to future clients. So last weekend I decided to expand some of my landscape photography techniques into wedding photography. So why not try shooting Panoramic photos that are "Gigapixels" large in my wedding photos? Images that can be enlarged to billboards if the the couple so chooses to.

David and Sarita were married in an intimate beach ceremony on El Matador Beach in Malibu.

Although the hundreds of times I've been to El Matador and many weddings I've shot there, this was actually the first one I've shot at 7am in the morning. And beautiful it was. No wind. A beach to ourselves, and absolutely beautiful diffused lighting from the marine layer above.

Below are a few previews from the many images captured this morning, including the Panos I'm happy to introduce into my wedding portfolio.  -cg

Pink skies over Leo Carrillo Beach...

This evening it drizzled in Malibu a bit. That meant there were thick wet clouds in the sky. And that means color! Lots of color at sunset. And boy was I right. This evenings sunset was quite amazing. I took the 5D Mark iii and the 6D to Leo Carrillo Beach and grabbed a few panos of the scene and some timelapse footage.

Unfortunately, I only had one tripod (I left my tripod at my buddies house last week after a weekend up in the mountains). So I had to do the panos handheld since the tripod I had was being used on my timelapse camera.

I was quite surprised what came out handheld. It's a good reminder that my camera does not always have to live on a tripod. Hope you got to see the colors of a Malibu sunset if you were in the area! Here's a couple shots....-cg

Downsized version of the original 60 megapixel Pano (handheld).

14 Image Pano, handheld, approx 100 megapixels in full resolution.

20mm Canon 2.8 and Canon 5D Mark iii (none pano)