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Santa Paula Wedding Photographer

This month issue

• Wedding season started
• Wedding - April 28, 2006
• Santa Paula wedding - April 22, 2006
• Customer comment

Wedding Season Started

My first wedding of the year 2006 was at Santa Paula on February 25 2006. Santa Paula is quickly becoming one of my favorite cities.

Wedding - April 28, 2006

Wedding at Wedgewood Banquet Center, Ventura

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Today's Wedding Photography Schedule
Photography before ceremony - 5:00pm
Ceremony - 6:30pm Wedgewood
Formal Picture Photography - 7:00pm Wedgewood
Reception - 7:30pm Wedgewood Banquet Center
Party Ends - 11:30pm

It was a Friday wedding. I had to get off work early.

We were losing Sunlight fast. (ceremony started 6:30pm)
During the ceremony, I had to use flashes on almost every single shot. By the time we were ready for formal pictures, we really started to lose light.

My light-meter reading was 1/60 second at f4 I had to use a tripod, flash, and cable release.

By the time we started to take formal pictures, we almost didn't have natural night. I couldn't spare a minute. I kept telling them "I'm sorry about rushing you", and I directed everyone like a plane was going down. They all understood why I had to rush them. I managed to get all the pictures done before it was too dark.

The reception was nice. It was a good wedding.
I shot 9 rolls of film. (9 x 36 = 324 images).

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Santa Paula Wedding

April 22, 2006 - Santa Paula / Piru, CA

Today's Schedule
Pre-wedding shoot - Santa Paula, California 2:30pm
Wedding - Piru 4pm
Formal Shoot - Fillmore, Piru - 6:00pm
Reception - Poinsettia Pavilion, Ventura, California- 7:30pm
Job done - 11:00pm

Wedding at Santa Paula / Piru / Fillmore

There was 20% chance of rain. It actually rained a little, but it never rained when we needed to be outside. I tell ya, when I go out for a wedding, it *almost* never rains. I have had many occasions where I drove through the rain to wedding sites and ended up shooting beautiful outdoor wedding photographs without getting wet.
People should hire me for the good luck I have with rain. :)

This was my 5th time coming to Poinsettia Pavilion for photography job. I am getting to know faces there. I can honestly say this wedding was a success. People clearly had a good time with fantastic food & entertainment.

I shot 8 rolls of film (8x36 = 288 images).

Wedding - April 8, 2006

Granada Hills / Northridge

Customer Comment

"Thank you John for capturing our wedding day in ways that ordinary photos just couldn't have done... we definitely feel that we received a lot more than our monies worth when we chose you."
Ken and Deb Brown April 21, 2006

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