Nina & Chang Soo | Berkeley Botanical Garden | Bamboo Forest | UC Berkeley | Sproul Fountain | Memorial Stadium | Engagement Shoot
Nina and Chang Soo are close friends of mine from college. They've been together since highschool and are FINALLY tying the knot. Nina is one of the sweetest girls I know and CS is well...CS. I don't want to blow his head up here, but he's somewhat smart and one of the wittiest guys I know. He's so funny in group settings, that I sometimes secretly wish that my jokes were as good as his. I wonder if that makes me sound like a loser.
Nina is one of my top blog stalkers and has slowly converted CS into one too. So I knew going into this session that I had to kick major photography butt. Well Nina's really easy on the eyes and CS is a big ham so it wasn't too hard to make them look good. We first went to the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden and got some natury shots. I love shooting there because the grounds are huge and there are tons of places to shoot.
The best location by far was Memorial Stadium though. Before Memorial Stadium, CS was like most guys and just going along with the whole engagement shoot thing. But the moment we stepped into Memorial Stadium, he had the hugest smile and was running around the whole field screaming like a little boy.
Nina looks like a million bucks and no CS I'm not hitting on your woman.
I think they told me that CS had been practicing the "look" for this shoot for quite some time now. HOTNESS!
CS's can't contain his true colors though. I didn't want to embarrass him by posting up his monkey in the bamboo forest pics.
Gotta love the reflectors in action. Don't they look like models in the pic on the right?
Nina had some really nice jeans on, but of course I had to ruin them for the look.
I will never be able to look at the student poster board the same again.
This was taken right before the sunset in pure golden light! Any Berkeley people recognize this fountain?
CS was giddy with excitement the whole time we were at Memorial Stadium. I have to admit that I was too.
It was eerie at times to see the stadium so empty. I'm used to seeing thousands of fans here.
This one is for all you Cal fans out there, GO BEARS!
I LOVE this shot! What a way to end the day.
Jerry Yoon
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Oooh! Thanks Jerry and Ingrid. I can't wait for your to shoot our wedding!
the colors are amazing! so yummy and vibrant. and you captured tons of great shots of them!!
Hey Nina, I am pretty stoked that you're going to be having your reception at a country club. We'll have to maximize our time there and shoot non stop!
Serena - ha, yes the colors are a lot more saturated and the images are much sharper. The issue was that our current LCD monitor has a very large color gamut, meaning that it can show much more colors than the average LCD monitor. So we saw good colors all the time on it, but once we viewed the blog on a laptop, the colors were all washed out, because those monitors can't display all the colors.
Our monitors are calibrated and prints come out spot on, but when images on our blog are viewed elsewhere, they all look bland. So we are now going to super saturate our images and sharpen them, so that they look great on the average monitor. Our prints will have the same quality too since all of our monitors are calibrated. Maybe I went too far in this techy jargon. Hope this made sense!
JERRY!!!! I almost started bawling when I saw those Memorial Stadium shots. They were amazing!!!!!!
oooo. slightly different editing style this time! no colorloss here on my monitor =)
after you wrote "gamut" you lost me w/ your tech explanation jerry - i just know the shots look good - great job
don't lie albiee, i know that you know that you know what i'm talking about. you're one of the most techy people i know!
i can't believe how good those memorial stadium pics look!
oh you silly berkeley people :P
the picture with the tree branches framing the top of the picture looks so nice. I don't know why, it looks like the background should look so busy but it fills it all up so well. amazing shots as always. they probably look like models because the shots are so good :0)
Good eye Rob. The foreground is in shadow, which allows the background to be "busy" but still fill up the frame well without detracting from the subjects in front. silly us.
awesome photos jerry!! :) nina looks bee-yoo-ti-ful! ow!