Steve D Photography: The Blog » Engagement http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog The blog for Los Angeles based wedding photographer Steve D Photography Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:55:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Edith and Israel’s Engagement shoot! http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2009/06/edith-and-israels-engagement-shoot/ http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2009/06/edith-and-israels-engagement-shoot/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:20:10 +0000 steve http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/?p=188 When Edith and Israel said they wanted to do their engagement session at Kenneth Hahn Park, I immediately said…what’s that? It turns out  it’s a huge park just off La Cienega Boulevard with ponds, and bridges, and views, and hiking trails, and more!  What a great place for a picnic, or to propose to the gal you love – and that’s exactly what Israel had done.  It turns out this was the place where Israel proposed to Edith!  Apparently she said yes.

It was a great shoot, and Trina and I really enjoyed getting to know Edith and Israel!  We’re definitely looking forward to shooting their wedding in August!

Edith and ISrael's Engagement Session

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Wendy and Eric’s Wedding from Steve D Photography on Vimeo.

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Santa Anita Racetrack

Santa Anita Racetrack

]]> http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2009/03/kelley-and-dans-engagement-session/feed/ 1 Cruisin’ the Caribbean http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2008/10/cruisin-the-caribbean/ http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2008/10/cruisin-the-caribbean/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:08:28 +0000 steve http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/?p=66 Just one week ago, Trina and I were having an amazingly great time on a Royal Caribbean cruise!  Even though we left on it about a week after we were married, it was not our honeymoon.  We’ll be taking that at some point in 2009!  This was a cruise we had been looking forward to for over a year!  It was a destination wedding photography seminar and photo shoots cruise that was organized by massively talented destination wedding photographers Gino & Heather Lucadamo of Story by Photo.  Besides shooting destination weddings, they are both also heavily involved in wedding photography training and education through Digital Wedding Pro.

On board the week long cruise, Gino taught a group of us from all across the U.S. advanced seminars on shooting, marketing, post processing, etc. I already knew that Gino was a great wedding photographer. I found out that he’s also a really great, no BS, teacher. It’s amazing how much I learned from this one seminar! Besides the seminar, he and Heather were both involved in setting up photo shoots on board the ship and at two of our ports!  They did a fantastic job!  I would definitely have to say that the cruise was a huge success.

We shot brides and grooms in both San Juan, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas.  There was no shoot scheduled for the island of St. Maarten so Trina and I took off on our own and had some nice quiet time together at at Dawn Beach, a short cab ride and a whole world away from the touristy beach where our ship was docked.

As you can probably tell, this blog post is pretty much all about the destination wedding shoots that we did. I’ll have to start working on a separate blog post about the fun that Trina and I had with all of our new bestest Phoenix friends…Gino and Heather, Jake and Michaela (one of the couples from our shoots) and Jedd and Casi (of Blake Slade Photography)!

Here are just a few of my favorites from the images that I shot at these beautiful destinations.  The first was shot on board the ship, the rest were shot in either San Juan or St. Thomas.










]]> http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2008/10/cruisin-the-caribbean/feed/ 1 Kristianna and Eles’ Pasadena Engagement Session http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2008/06/kristianna-and-eles-engagement-session/ http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/2008/06/kristianna-and-eles-engagement-session/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:56 +0000 steve http://www.stevedphotography.com/blog/?p=44 Trina and I had a great time shooting Kristianna and Eles’ engagement session!  We went to a few different places around Pasadena.  They are a fun and upbeat couple who just love to laugh, and are obviously very much in love!  Thanks Kristianna and Eles.  You were such a blast to work with, we can’t wait for your September wedding!

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