Vanderford & Ruiz, LLC  is an attorney firm based in Pasadena and with offices also in the city of Irvine in Orange County. Their client base includes the City of Los Angeles, Metrolink, Global Aerospace, Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport, Chartis, and Certain Underwriters at Lloyds of London.

To see photography from their first session of corporate executive portraiture, please click here.

And like the first session, this session included photographing each individual from two different perspectives to ensure we captured their “best side.”

These executive portrait sessions also included 10 to 15 minutes per individual, a minimum of 30 previews per individual (after the editing), all post-production time to edit the digital files, previews online on my password protected online viewing gallery, retouching of their selected final images, images sized per their web builder’s specifications, all requested rights of usage, and of course the finished images.

DeRemus Photography offers executive and corporate portrait photography for business and is now offering this service done in the convenience of your office or business location. I can either bring in a small studio set-up, including studio lighting and your choice of backgrounds, or we could do the photography incorporating your office environment.

Contracts can be customized to meet your specific needs in regards to licensing of images. Group discounts are given.

To see more photography from this corporate executive portrait session, please visit the site of Vanderford & Ruiz, LLC. You will find my work on both the “Partners” and  “Associates” pages.

Pasadena based DeRemus Photography specializes in portrait, wedding and fine art photography and is also available for annual reports, product, headshots and architectural photography.

DeRemus Photography offers service to all of Southern California including the greater Pasadena area, San Gabriel Valley, the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, San Fernando Valley, and is available for domestic and international travel.

To see more of my work please visit www.deremus.com.

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

Photographing an engagement session is typically a lot different that doing the same couple’s wedding photography in the sense that, I have the couples undivided attention and we have more time devoted just to creating photographic images.

When I photograph an engagement session my preferred style is to combine a certain amount of posed work, with a usually much larger amount of inter-active posed, and also a lot of controlled candid or “faux-tojournalism.” You will see examples of each of the mentioned styles in these few images.  I use this same style of blending different types of photography when I am photographing weddings. Although when I doing wedding photography, I include at least two other styles as well. For more about my style of photographing weddings, please visit my html website: deremus.com. Or, if you haven’t been there already, check out My Style as a Wedding Photographer.

While most of the photography in an engagement session is devoted to the couple, I also work with each person individually. This not only gives them images which can be used in my totally unique, custom designed and fully retouched guest sign-in albums, it also gives us a chance to work with each other on a one-on-one basis.

And the more experience we have working together, both individually and as a couple prior to their wedding day, the easier it is to quickly create those beautiful images of the two of them on their wedding day.

Oh yeah… another thing I personally like to do and, I also encourage my clients to do, both at their engagement session and for their wedding photography, is to HAVE FUN!

To see more images for this engagement session, please check out my animated video slide-show: On-location engagement session in Monrovia, CA.

To see more of my engagement session photography, please visit my main photo galleries on my flash website: deremus.com.

Pasadena-based DeRemus Photography specializes in Wedding, Portrait and Fine Art 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.

*Monrovia is a small and beautiful foothill community in the Pasadena area. Monrovia is the fourth oldest general law city in Los Angeles County and the L.A. Basin (after Los Angeles,  Santa Monica, and Pasadena). Incorporated in 1887, Monrovia has grown from a sparse community of orange ranches to a residential community of 37,000. People traveling between Los Angeles and San Bernardino traveled “via Monroe’s Ranch,” hence the name.

To see more of my wedding photography coverage from this event (over 100 more pictures actually) in an animated video please check out this wedding video from photography stills at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, CA.

This first image shown was a quickly done photograph taken just minutes after the ceremony  on one of the several wooden bridges you find at the Calamigos Ranch.

Of course we began the photography much earlier in the day with ready shots of both the bride and the groom.

My wedding photography coverage always includes a fusion (or mixture) of  photojournalism, editorial and posed. And whenever I mention the word “posed”, I feel I must add that we can do as little or as much as you like.  And although this couple had a lot of requests for posed work of both their rather large wedding party and their families, they were such a fun couple that when it was all said and done, I still had many more candid, photojournalistic images than posed.

The image below on the right, might be on of my favorites of the day. It is the bride’s father and brother as they see her for the first time in her gown. It just goes to show its not only the women who can get a little choked up…

The first look…

A small sampling of portrait work…

Their wedding ceremony was at the very picturesque Garden Patio which features waterfalls at each end and at night the trees and redwood arbor illuminate with strings of lights.

To see more photography of this event (over 100 more pictures actually) in a slide-show format, please click here.

Their reception was in the Calamigos Ranch Main Dining Room which is just a few steps away. One of the room’s most memorable features is the romantic “waterfall”, a curtain of water that descends like a light rain just outside the glass widows of the south wall. To see more room shots from Calamigos Ranch and also the Calamigos Equestrian please go to my wedding reception room shots post.

This was a fun couple and it was a very high energy night with most of the guests on the dance floor for most of the night.

My congratulations to Melissa and Michael. My your life together be blessed with good health and good fortune.

Please visit my DeRemus-Photography-In-Motion blog to see more images from this event.

The Wedding Coordinator for this event was Karin Detweiller of Artistic Weddings.

The florist was Susanne Lawrence of Jardin del Sol Flowers.

The Calamigos Ranch is located on Latigo Caynon Road in Malibu, and is a Los Angeles wedding location and reception site.

To see more of my work and for more information please visit www.deremus.com.

Pasadena-based photographer David DeRemus is available for travel worldwide and specializes in wedding, portrait and fine art photography

This tall and attractive couple with the disarming smiles were both very comfortable in front of the camera, and we very easily got into a photogenic groove.

When doing engagement sessions and portraiture, one of my main objectives is to help whoever is in front of the lens to relax and feel comfortable. With couples this is typically easy as they have each other to play off of and the excitement of their wedding day is beginning to build. The engagement sessions can also be a nice break from their wedding planning and a chance to relax and to have a little fun.

Images from engagement sessions are used for save-the-date-cards, guest sign-in albums, invitations, signature portraits and of course wall portraits and prints. And my fully retouched and custom designed guest sign-in albums are a “you can only get them here” type of item.

To see more pictures from this engagement session, please visit DeRemus-Photography-In-Motion

To read more about my style and see more of my work please visit www.deremus.com.

To go directly to my main galleries (flash required) please visit: www.deremus.com/index.

Pasadena based wedding, portrait and fine art photographer David DeRemus is available for travel worldwide.

Watch for an upcoming post for their wedding in San Marino and their reception at the Altadena Country Club.

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

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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.

]]> http://blog.deremus.com/2009/11/14/in-home-family-portraits/feed/ 0 http://blog.deremus.com/2009/11/05/wedding-photography-pasadena-museum-of-california-art/ http://blog.deremus.com/2009/11/05/wedding-photography-pasadena-museum-of-california-art/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:23:58 +0000 DeRemus http://blog.deremus.com/?p=1191 This is a wedding with the ceremony and reception happening at the Pasadena  Museum of California Art. We had made arrangements to use the grounds of a private facility within walking distance of the museum for the pre-ceremony wedding photography. We were scheduled to start our session with the “first look”, but as the bride was running late with makeup and hair, I started with the groom. (One always has to be flexible in this profession.)

You will be seeing a lot of black and white on this post as I felt it worked best. For those of you who might not like black and white, I should mention that it was all shot in color and then a copy converted to black and white.

The bride arrives…

And we have the first look.

In spite of the fact it was a hot southern California summer day, everyone was upbeat and we easily slipped into a photogenic groove. This couple is involved in the world of the arts and both have an artistic flair and were not afraid to create their own style, which is evident in the bride’s gown and unique bouquet.

We’re then off to the Founder’s Gallery at the museum for their ceremony.

After the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom and I slipped away into a section of the Pasadena Museum of CA Art I had previously scoped out, where  the light was radiant, warm and directional and the lines of the room were inspiring.

Then we were quickly back to join the guests for their wedding reception on the PMCA’s Rooftop Terrace with its panoramic views of Old Town Pasadena, historic Pasadena City Hall, and to the north, the San Gabriel Mountains.

A few photographs for detail.

A quick night shot with Pasadena City Hall in the background.

We end the night with closing night-shots on Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge.

You can see more photography from this wedding and reception in an animated video here: Pasadena Museum of CA Art wedding.

To see more of my wedding photography and more for about my photography styles, please visit my website, deremus.com.

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

The Pasadena Museum of California Art is located at 490 East Union Street in Pasadena, CA. I have worked here on several occasions and find it to be an intimate and well run venue with a warm and cozy atmosphere and wonderful evening and nighttime views of the city.

You might recognize this couple from my first “wedding photo of the day” post, which is a great example of their dancing abilities.

The ceremony was at the Little White House at the Calamigos Equestrian Center in Burbank. (I work here often, so please check back for more posts on this location.)  After the ceremony, Peter hopped in their get-away car, and it was off into the sunset… OK, it actually wasn’t sunset yet and where they were off to was the Flamingo Banquet Hall in Tujunga.

They forewent many of the traditional reception events. However they did not dance  just one or two, but three extremely well choreographed dances for their guests. (Their choreographers were Francisco and Stacey Martinez, a.k.a. “The Teachers of Teachers” of The Dance Family Studio in Pasadena, CA.)

You can see more of their images at DeRemus Photography In Motion.

You can see the complete set of previews (password required) at deremus.com/online_viewing.

You can see room shots from all three ballrooms at the Calamigos Equestrian in Burbank at “room shots“.

You can see more of my work at www.deremus.com.

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

The Calamigos Equestrian (also known as the Los Angeles Equestrian Center) is located at 480 Riverside Dr. in Burbank, CA 91506. This is a wonderful venue with three options for ballrooms. It is actually located in Griffith Park and has great views and large sycamore trees.

The Flamingo Banquet Hall is located at 7179 Foothill Blvd. in Tujunga, CA. It is right on the corner of Foothill Blvd. and Commerce Ave. and is easily accessible from the 210, 118, 134 and 2 freeways. The management and staff here are really great.

The day began at the St. James Catholic Church in La Cresenta.  It was a warm summer afternoon. The priest, Father Frank, was here from Ireland and was very excited about the fact that this was his first Quinceaños ceremony to be preformed. And speaking for myself, now having photographed several of these Quinceaños ceremonies,  I have developed a reverence and appreciation for the significance and the meaning of this custom.

I had already photographed Desiree for her guest sign-in album and the family portraiture on a previous session at the Pasadena Courthouse. To see some of the photography from that session, please see Photos for Quinceañera.  And now with the year of planning behind them, this day began to come to fruition, and everyone’s spirits were high. Desiree was looking very pretty and quite poised. I began the day with candid photography before the reception and a few quick window light portraits with the Quinceañera and then on to the Quinceaños ceremony.

After the ceremony we did a good number of family, extended family, and guest portraiture, all of which are available for viewing by visiting: www.deremus.com/online_viewing.  Then a little more work with Desiree, and then we’re off to the reception.

The reception was held at the Imperial Palace, which is located at 1175 N. Lake Ave. in Pasadena, CA. This was my first time to this establishment.

It is a nice ballroom with good service.  And with the ballrooms tall ceilings and the layout of the dance floor, it was a good room for me to use a creative lighting approach. The music was provided by Octavio of Dj-Tavo, who kept them dancing all night long.

To view and purchase the complete set of photography and to purchase the extended length version of the animated photography video , please visit www.deremus.com/online_viewing (a password will be required).

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

This was a summer wedding with the usual hopes (and expectations) for a clear and warm day with the ceremony  scheduled to be in the Castle Green garden. Unfortunately it rained the night before, and the decision was made to move the wedding ceremony inside to the main salon of the Castle Green.

Despite the unanticipated rain, Valerie’s spirit was not the least bit dampened. And as her bridesmaids and her mother helped her to prepare, they were all in a convivial mood. Matt, the groom, on the other hand, was a bit on the nervous side.

We did the first look in the Castle Green’s velvet draped Moorish Room, and finally we see a smile on the groom’s face.

We did a little photography in the Castle Green gardens with its sweeping graceful lines.  (I swear, every time I go there, I see the place with fresh eyes.)

F.Y.I. This photo was created in high-resolution digital color, and then a copy was converted into black and white. With the exception of my work done with infrared (not pictured), all of my wedding photography is done in this manner so that you may have the photograph in black and white and someone else can have it in color.

While I was photographing with the bride and her girls, my second photographer photographs the groom busily writing. It seems he woke up being not satisfied with his vows he had written for his bride, and he was now very intently doing a rewrite. And as you will soon see at the ceremony, the reading of his vows caused quite an emotional response.

And with the rewrite of his vows now being completed, the expression on the groom’s face has become totally different.

We have all of the bride and groom and wedding party photography work completed and the bride out of sight before the guests arrive.

And then a few candid moments with the bride as the bridal party lines up in the Castle Green ballroom before she enters the room. And then we go into the marriage ceremony in the main salon…

They did all of the traditional wedding reception events, and then they danced the night away…

You may notice that even in this big room with its tall ceilings and large groups of people, that the backgrounds of my photographs are well lit.

And I will leave you with this tender moment from their last dance…

To see more of my work, please visit my site at “www.deremus.com.”

To view photographs of the Castle Green ballroom with different configurations, visit “Wedding reception room shots.”

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

The historic Castle Green is located at 99 S Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, CA. and with its spectacular towers, turrets and grand staircases, the Castle Green has been and continues to be the location of many Hollywood productions.

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