Amber & Keoni

I recently had the chance to photograph Amber and Keoni's wedding day! And I must say I'm lucky I get to notice every little expression through the eye piece of my camera. A nice late afternoon ceremony, a reception with hula performances and dancing that would continue on into the night! Lighting and audio provided by Hawaii Sound & Vision http://www.hawaiisav.com/, I highly recommend these guys for your event, ask for Luckey Brown very cool guy. I also want to thank Amber & Keoni for giving us a room for the night at the newly renovated King Kam hotel!


Strobist: The ceremony photo's were just about impossible because of how stong the afternoon back light had become, and I knew it would be a problem ekkkkhhhh! Break out the secret weapons! I had previously stashed a SB600 hidden in the gazebo @ 1/4 power just in case, dont remember the rest of the settings, I was using a radio trigger to pop off the flash for some fill, there was no way I knew there was going to overpower that ambient, but it came out great. Night shots were done using a single Nikon SB24 bare flash also on a radio trigger and light stand ISO 800, 1/250th @ f9

Amber & Keoni

Amber & Keoni, have both been busy making preperations for their wedding in December, working, and along with taking care of their one year old son finding the time to do things is always a task in itself.  Amber had asked my wife about doing some last second engagment photos, and as busy as I am, we were able to squeeze something out of the early AM hours, here's what happened.

Mike & Lani

Mike and Lani decided to have their vows renewed, and had asked me to take some photos for this event which included photos of them, and a family portrait. What I didn't realize is that they originally wanted to do something small in their back yard. I had a little convincing to do, and I could honestly feel a little reluctance, with the idea of taking photo's at a location other then the yard they see every single day as they walk out of their front door. As much as possible we were able to get to a better location for the shoot, I was happy and the final outcome of the photo's looked great! Because of the fact that I needed to be in these photo's I had brought along my friend and fellow photographer Claire Suzuki, who took most of the photo's of this event.