Sunny & Gary's Engagement Portraits We've been amiss lately due to some travel that both Asad and I have been doing. But getting back into the swing of posting some highlights from our recent shoots...

We actually took Sunny & Gary out back in July a little while before their wedding. Now that the fall chill is upon us, it's actually kind of nice to see these warm pictures :)

On to the photos!

Although we only met Sunny & Gary for the first time at the shoot itself, it was actually really easy to get into the swing of the photo session. We normally start things out a bit slow & formal, but I quickly realized that there was no need for that.

We started the shoot over at The Palace of Fine Arts and then moved on to Baker Beach. Something about Indian skin tones, blue tones in clothing and the Palace of Fine Arts just goes together....









We actually spent way more time at the beach and for good reason. They were game for lot of stuff including getting wet in the water.




This shot obviously has a lot of work done to it with the color tones, textures, etc, but it spoke to me even before I started editing it. It's actually posted on Flickr and it's one of my most viewed shots there. Asad actually took the shot and I wouldn't be surprised if he counts it as one of his annual faves :)




This is one of those serendipitous shots...totally unplanned and unposed (just a bit of shoe arranging), but it's one of my faves from this year...and it's a nice way to end this post.

Sunny & Gary, congrats on your wedding!

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  Enhanced website features: Our Albums The feature which has always needed the MOST work on our site has been the albums section. Afterall, wedding albums are how most of our clients end up seeing their work for posterity. We used to have a few sample layouts, but really nothing spectacular; definitely not anything which reflects the latest direction we've taken our wedding albums. While the online view still doesn't do these layouts justice we hope these new galleries of a few demo albums give everyone a better idea of what sets our work apart.

Check out the albums when you have a moment:
http://www.samaystudio.com/album.shtml

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  Enhanced website features: Our Portfolio To be honest, we've been meaning to completely revamp our site for quite a long time. We've been making updates along the way, but they were just small changes. Our portfolio section would occassionally have problems with some browsers and the photos themselves just didn't look as crisp and clean as possible.

Well, since we now use Lightroom and there are some great utilities built-in, we've been able to provide a very consistent and much more impressive overview of our portfolio. You'll now find 6 sections in the portfolio area - 5 for some recent weddings and 1 for a lot of the Engagement Portraits we've been doing.

Check it all out when you get a chance!
http://www.samaystudio.com/portfolio.shtml

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  Notice something? Well, if you've stopped by our site recently, you've probably noticed that we've upgraded the site to a brand new look and feel. In addition to a new look, we've vastly improved the portfolio & albums sections to reflect our latest work. We'll post a bit more on the changes since we've satisfied a lot of the requests we've received from prospective clients.

Check out the main site here:
http://www.samaystudio.com/

And as with any website update, we'd definitely appreciate your thoughts on the changes as well as letting us know about any problems you might be having with the site. We may have some bugs here and there and your feedback is the only way we'll get rid of 'em all. Thanks for visiting!

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