Last week, The Photog Shootout, OC edition, had one of their largest and greatest workshops for photographers. It was a day for photographers beginners or experienced, to learn from other photographers and photograph a full wedding from start to finish. When I was asked to lead the group for detail photos, I was more than excited to do so. Photographing details at a wedding is such an important part of the day and it’s something that I always enjoying doing. Details whether big or small, really says so much about how the couple wants to personalize their own wedding.
I of course didn’t get a chance to really shoot as much as I wanted to that day, because I was helping out other photographers, but I did manage to get just a few photos of the amazing details, all stylized by the amazingly talented Amanda Auer from In The Now Weddings. Below are just some of the people that made this day happen! A special thanks to Matthew Saville and Hanssie Trainor for putting this event and group together and inviting me to lead!
Coordinator: Amanda Auer of In the Now Weddings
Venue: Ron at the Romanesque Room
Florist: Honey and Poppies
DJ: Marcel Gonzalez First Choice Entertainment
Rentals: Town & Country Event Rentals
Catering: Jay’s Catering
Venue Concierge: Mary Lallande
Bakery: Colette at Fancy That! Cupcakes 909.524.1864
Linens: Wildflower
Styling: Michelle Cunningham
Hair/Makeup: Kacee Geoffroy & Becca
Hair/Makeup: Alisha Baijournas
Specialty: Classic Party Rentals
Although I was photographing details, I couldn’t help to shoot at least one of the models. Here is model Ashley Matthews.
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OC PHOTOG SHOOTOUT : LEADER
[B] SCHOOL DAY TRIPPIN’ : LAGUNA BEACH
Today, I felt like I needed to get out and get some fresh air and apparently, I wasn’t the only one. I joined a bunch of photographers down in Laguna Beach, who are all a part of the [b] school, to stretch our legs a bit and snap fun and random photos. Here is some randomness that I photographed. If you haven’t joined the [b] school yet, what are you waiting for? Come and join this awesome community! Special thanks to Joe Photo, for always organizing the day trippin’ days!
A MIDSUMMER DAYS DREAM PICNIC : FILM PHOTOS
Back in July, yes I know I’m a bit behind on blogging this, but for good reason. Friends gathered together for a picnic which was hosted by Bonnie Tsang, Kelley Gin from Picture Perfect Events, the ladies of Utterly Engaged and Carissa from JL Designs and Events. I decided that day, that I was going to photograph the event completely in film. There’s something about gatherings, food, friends and picnics that makes me think about the good old days, when all we had was film. The hostesses didn’t leave us with nothing to do, they planned a bunch of games and activities for us all, including a water ballon toss and baby bottle drinking contest.
All of the photos below were photographed on my old Canon AE-1 and Canon EOS-1. Thanks to Richard Photo Lab who developed the photos, they always do an awesome job! Oh and I didn’t retouch or photoshop the photos below. That’s the beauty of a good lab and shooting film!
TOFURIOUS SEO WORKSHOP : COFFEE TOUR : ORANGE COUNTY
Let me begin this post by saying that Lawrence from Tofurious, didn’t pay me to post about his SEO workshop. In fact, SEO has played a big role in my business from the beginning. Many photographers always ask me, “When you first started out in business, how did your clients find you?”. And I would say simple, SEO. But funny how SEO isn’t simple if you’re trying to figure it all out yourself. I actually stumbled upon SEO by just blogging a few weddings and noticing that my future clients were finding me through Google. Yes and that light bulb clicked in my head. I needed to figure out how to make me more searchable to my clients. And although my efforts have been pretty great so far, I know for a fact that if Lawrence from Tofurious had given me pointers from early on, then who knows how far up the Google ranking I would be right now.
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Just yesterday, Lawrence hosted a get together at Starbucks in Irvine Spectrum, to help answer questions about the workshop. He also bought everyone coffee too, which is why it’s 2:30 a.m. and I’m still awake. It’s not to late though if you missed out, you can always contact Lawrence with your questions about the workshop. SEO is something you can’t ignore or be lazy about doing. If you’re lucky to get a limited seat to Lawrence’s SEO Workshop, then consider your self on the right track! Here is what you missed! Including Becker’s giant chocolate cake! Some photos below were taken by myself, Jack Ratana and Becker.
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UTTERLY ENGAGED LAUNCH PARTY AT TRANQUIL TEA LOUNGE
Better late than never is all that I could say right now. While looking though my various miscellaneous folders on my hard drive, I for some reason, forgot all about these detail photos that I took, while at the Utterly Engaged Launch Party back in July. If you missed it, you really did miss out. But that’s ok, you can read all about by CLICKING HERE. There were so many great people and great vendors at this party and I was so happy to meet most of them. Also, if you haven’t signed up to receive their free E-Zine, you need to do that asap! Here’s the link : E-Zine Subscribe. Here is just a few details that I took before the party kicked off.
photo credit for photos below : brandon kidd photography
FILM AND DIGITAL HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Well in my life it is. As you all know, I’m mainly a digital photographer. It’s been my tool since I started professionally as a photographer. I love digital for the ability to just shoot, shoot, shoot! and to instantly see what you are shooting. Not to mention that you don’t need to change film depending on the speed that you need or to decide if you want to shoot black and white or color photos. So many excellent things can be said about digital and not to many negatives.
Film for me though, has always been about a certain look. There’s just this unexplained thing about film, that’s there and can’t be replicated digitally. I know that first hand, because I’ve tried countless times with no success. So I said, why try to replicate it, when I can just shoot film! So I’ve been on a mad hunt lately picking up film camera bodies that looked semi familiar to me, from the photographers that used them at the weddings I’ve attended as a teenager.
I’m not saying that I am going to totally switch to film or that digital is all that I use, truth be told is that I love both. And hopefully sooner than later, film and digital in my professional life, will meet at the crossroads of photo making, so stay tuned!
I know most of you have seen my updates on Twitter or Facebook, but here’s a recent photo of my film family. I like to keep it old school!
OC PHOTOG SHOOTOUT
Just yesterday I joined 50 photographers for the OC Photog Shootout down in San Juan Capistrano. It was a great chance for everyone to learn a few things from other fellow photographers. And with all this Facebooking going on, it was nice to finally meet my Facebook friends! The day was well organized by having leaders and splitting everyone up into small groups. You were given the chance to float around and checkout what some of the leaders were teaching. So thanks to all the leaders for dropping some knowledge! I didn’t end up shooting that much yesterday, because I really wanted to see what others were saying, but I did take just a handful of photos.
Rachel and all of the models were working it for us yesterday!
Here’s Jasmine Star sharing some poses and her other half JD.
Aimee and Troy
For some reason this photo was a total accident. I was about to put my camera down and stop shooting, but for a split second, Aimee looked over at me and I was quick enough to take this photo. I’m glad I did.
WHEN I GROW UP.. I WANT TO BE..
Let me begin by saying that this is definitely not an April Fools joke. I know today is April Fools Day and I hope no one is punking you to bad today. Anyhow, if you would have asked the 7 year old Brian Khang what he wanted to be when he grows up, he would have said “Doctor or Lawyer”. And if you would have asked the 7 year old Brian Khang what his hobbies are, he would have said “Collecting rocks and drawing”. Now looking back, I had no idea what I was talking about. Fast forward to 5.5 years ago and if you asked me what I wanted to be, I would have said “Car Photographer!”.
You’ve all probably heard the whispers and rumors that I wasn’t always a wedding photographer. In fact I am and always will be a car guy. There was just something exciting about staying up late with my brother working on cars. Talking about turbo’s for our cars, what’s the next thing we’re gonna get or what the next modification that we’re gonna do. We ate, slept, breathed cars. When I started looking at all these modified car magazines, I had this other bright idea, that I wanted to shoot cars and be published! My goal from that point on was to take pictures of cars and be published wherever I could. So I made calls, emailed editors, all in the attempts to get published!
Well hard work certainly paid off in my 1st year as a car photographer. I was published in several magazines from the US to the UK and I was loving life. And that’s when I started shooting people and weddings and well the rest is history. I put that car photographer in me aside and went after my new passion, wedding photography. I never really gave up on photographing cars, because I still do it from time to time. I guess what I’m trying to say is that, it’s ok to love to photograph more than one thing. I think it’s in us as artists or photographers that draws us to make things into art, regardless of the subject. I feel it’s so important to just be creative, be you and not stop shooting what you love. As you can see, I love shooting cars so much, I purchased this camera rig from Automotive Rigs and I’ve only used it a handful of times. This is the first time in years that I’ve opened it up and as expected, it was dirty. I’m hoping to use it soon on a future shoot, so you can see what it can do. Anyone want to volunteer their car?
