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wedding photography engagement session Pasadena

DeRemus — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:34:52 +0000

For this engagement session in Pasadena, we were very fortunate to have access to this beautiful and stylish location, and it is fitting, as their wedding photography will feature them at the historic San Gabriel Mission and Pasadena’s Castle Green Hotel.

As you can see, we set out to have a good time, and we got to the good stuff (having fun) right away. I find photographing couples for engagement sessions to usually be really easy to do as there is almost always a certain amount of emotion that I can tap into.

Although the majority of the photography in all the engagement sessions I do primarily focuses on and features the two as a couple, I also spend some time working with each person individually. By working with each person on a one-to-one basis, I can get a sense of their strengths and weaknesses (speaking in photogenic terms only here), how serious or playful they can be, and what they may or may not respond to. This, of course, gives us a great advantage for doing their wedding photography on their wedding day.

Doing an engagement session in an urban setting can be every bit as aesthetically pleasing as working in a natural environment. It is especially rewarding when you have a great location such as this with pleasing architecture, a classic look, and a number of different settings to work with.

Watch for a future post on this couple which will feature photography from their wedding ceremony at the San Gabriel Mission and reception at the Castle Green Hotel in Old Town Pasadena.

To see more of my wedding, engagement session and portrait photography, please visit www.deremus.com. I specialize in wedding, portrait and fine art. I am available for travel and do destination weddings to just about anywhere.

You might also enjoy seeing other engagement sessions or more of my work as a wedding photographer at DeRemus-Photography -In-Motion.

All images and text are copyright David DeRemus Photography and may not be used without prior express written consent.

And I’ll leave you with this final image featuring a very happy couple and our beautiful Southern California sunset afterglow…

wedding photography engagement session Los Angeles

DeRemus — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:47:23 +0000

A quick post from my most recent engagement session in a small wooded area in Los Angeles, only minutes away from Pasadena.

This was a fun session with a lively couple on a somewhat cold Southern California day. Yet we managed to have a good time, and we walked away with a lot of good images.

This image is an example of one of my favorite shooting styles, which is controlled candid. It is a great way to capture non-posed and candid moments, yet I have the advantage of selecting my background and predefining my composition. It is a style that the majority of my clients respond well to. This type of photography, blended together with inter-active posed and posed, are some of the elements of my style of photographing weddings, engagement sessions and even a family portrait session, and is referred to as photo-fusion.

Another item I like about this image is the background. It was early winter, so we have leaves both still in the trees and fallen on the ground adding additional depth, dimension and highlights. And on a side note, I think it’s a good thing that the City of Los Angeles has at least some areas which have been left to nature, and I support efforts of groups such as Tree People Los Angeles to plant more.

To read more about my styles for wedding and engagement session photography, please visit my html website, www.deremus.com. And from that page, you can also connect to my flash website to see my much larger wedding, engagement session, and portrait photography galleries.

To see a slide-show video of a different engagement session click here.

David DeRemus is a Pasadena based wedding, portrait and fine art photographer offering service to the San Gabriel Valley, the City and County of Los Angeles, Orange County and Southern California and is available for destination weddings worldwide.

All images and text are copyright David DeRemus Photography and may not be used without prior express written consent.

in-home family portraits

DeRemus — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:03:04 +0000

These two very happy and very proud parents and their healthy and handsome 3 week old baby boy chose to have their family portrait done in the comfort of their own home. I offer in-home portraiture, done either in the environment of your home bringing in only lighting, or as seen in this session, I bring in a studio backdrop in addition to the studio lighting.

When this couple decided to do a family portrait to commemorate their firstborn child, they naturally thought of me as I was their photographer for their wedding a few years ago.

Their wedding was at the University Club of Pasadena* in the heart of Old Town Pasadena. Here are a couple of pictures from their wedding ceremony and reception.

For their first dance, the couple danced to “Dance Me To The End Of Love” performed by Madeleine Peyroux. If you’re familiar with this song, you know it is a bit upbeat. And a song that is this lively, of course, deserves to conclude with a rather big dip…

To see more of my portrait and wedding photography and more for about my photography styles, please visit my website: DeRemus.com. Pasadena based professional photographer, David DeRemus, is available for travel in all of Los Angeles County, Orange County, and Southern CA and offers destination wedding photography worldwide.

You can see a room shot of this reception room in the University Club of Pasadena by visiting my earlier post: wedding reception room shots.

All images are copyright David DeRemus Photography and may not be used without prior express written consent.

*The University Club of Pasadena is located at 175 N. Oakland Avenue in Pasadena, CA.

A little history of The University Club of Pasadena.

In 1921 Howard W. Carter was sitting in his dentist’s chair having a tooth drilled, when he conceived of the idea that Pasadena should have a University Club.

“UNIVERSITY CLUB FOR PASADENA IS NOW IN EXISTENCE” HEADLINED THE STAR NEWS ON APRIL 29, 1922.

The first meetings were held in the south end of the second story in the east wing of the Hotel Green Hotel adjacent to the old Santa Fe railroad station.

Few Clubs have been so fortunate in the speakers who have addressed their meetings. These included many illustrious men, but perhaps the most famous was Professor Albert Einstein who addressed the Club membership in 1931. Another prominent member and speaker at the Club was Dr. Albert A. Michelson, who first measured the speed of light and was America’s first Nobel Laureate in science. Another prominent member was Professor Edwin Hubbell, the man who changed the whole world’s concept of the universe.