Sacramento Bay Area Wedding Photography : Andrey Perepelitsa » Contemporary, lifestyle images for people who are in love! by MC Studios

Hello everyone.  This week I had an opportunity to be the second photographer:)  Well, technically I was the third photographer. 
Main photographer was Eugene at www.Avessa.com, and the  second photographer was brides brother.  And than me. 

Oh yea there were videographers: 2 of them.  So, 5 people were running with cameras.  Scary:).  
By the way, having  4 professionals at wedding is common. Photographer and assistant, plus videographer and assistant. 

I was very glad that I had an opportunity to shoot wedding together with Eugene.  We are friends and have been working
together before.    One or two days before the wedding, I had another photographer who invided me to shoot wedding
together, but I’m so glad I went to this wedding: it was very very interesting.   

All right, below you’ll find a story I created while making this post: 

This was during ceremony time.  Please note I used “telephoto lens”
meaning I was standing far away from Eugene:

Eugene thinking:  “Huh!  That’s pretty good images I just took”

“What?! Who is this photographer on my wedding”?!

“Oh yea never mind it’s Andrey”   “Hiiiiii”

I kept taking pictures of him, this was the last one.  We were kind of going
for the “portrait on the job”.

Reception was in the backyard.  Loved it a lot!  It was very nice tonight,
temperature went down from 95 to  70′s. 

Hello everyone..  Here is another post for this week.  

Last week one of this girls contract me via Internet and said.  “You know Andrey, we read your blog on reqular basis several times a week
and it’s very interesting to see how’s getting married, but how about putting a spot light on us ha?   In other way
girls wanted to see how they will look on the Blog or to be honest they just wanted to have photoshoot and some fun.  
Because they are all Moms and bussy with job and kids.    

How do I know this girls?   Well one of this girls is my wife and than another one is her sister, and another one  is yet another sister and one cousin.   
By the way youngest sister Tania (who’s wedding was at 06_08_08 (Tania_David) please see this Blogs archive came from Charlotte NC to  Sacramento CA  couple of days ago, because she needs to finish one semester of collage.   So I said “Tania did you know that we don’t have any pictures of “sisters only” and we are having a photo-shoot in couple of days.  She was exited but couldn’t make it because of collage.      
 

Girls had so much fun.   They even took me to Italian restaurant right after shoot.

We’re planing to have another photo-shoot where my wife and her sisters will take all kids with us on a photo-shoot.
I know it’s going to be crazy, Because we have 2 kids, Larisa has 2 kids, Natasha has 1 and Luda has 1.    So 6 kids.

I think it’s going to be very very cool.  Mom with kids.   So hopefully that’s comming.   

Hello everyone.  Today I had opportunity to photograph group called UNITED.   Couple days ago when we had
photoshoot with Natasha and Sergey I uploaded photos of Sergey singing in Worship group from
2 years ago. 

So Sergey invited me again today and I came:).  I love worship music a LOT.  Listen to it all the time
on my computer.  My favorite right now is Hillsong Kiev and Hillsong 2008 “This is our God”

The collage above looks AWSOME!  I’m very thankful to God, that He gives me ability and skills to
capture these moments.  Although it’s hard,  it’s also fun!  I mean when couple is laughing I’m laughing.  

For example, two days ago on Natalia and Sergey wedding shoot (see post below) we had such a funny
moment with video camera, and we were laughing so hard, that Nataly couldnt’t get up from the ground.  I could
barely hold my camera in hands because we were all laughing so hard.  

It’s amazing how these moments happen, as long as we’re all in good mood they happen all the time:)
 

Good afternoon readers:)   This week I’m posting another wedding.   Nataly and Sergey wedding was
little while ago, but I wasn’t their photographer. 
We have couples who tells us “Oh your guys style is very beautiful, I wish you were our wedding photographer!”;
What ever they really mean it or not we’ll never know. 
But Sergey called me up and said he wants to set up photoshoot appoitment.  

And photoshoot went great.  We have so many cool photos.  When I came home it took to my wife Oksana
about 40 minutes to quickly fly these images, spending about 1/2 of the second per image.   
   
Some of this pictures I have…Whooooooooooo!!!   Niceeeeeeeee!  Everything from
*very hot images 
**very romantic, 
***classy, 
****fun images. 

Photoshoot was lots of fun and very smooth.   
  

How did Sergey learned about us?  We know each other for years!   Here is for example photo I shoot back in 2006.
Sergey and Nataliya and standing on the stage next to drums.  

After shoot above Sergey picked up my second camera and took a picture of me.   Why I have this
sorry face?  I have no idea, but I really don’t like it. 

Below is a collage of 2 pictures.  When we were driving back from SF on Natasha’s brother Limo,
(I tell you guys it was so much fun having our own limo - one of the grooms were driving it).  Anyway 
after browsing images on LCD screen Bride Natalia said “Andrey are you like trying to be an artist?”
because I see your images has this tendancy to look like art!”  

I said ALRIGHT!  Natasha you got it !!!  You called it!  That’s my goal.  Good call..:-)   

I believe, I talked a little bit about how Nataly and Vitaliy found me.  Both Natali & Vitaliy
were part of the wedding party on Andrey and Olesya’s wedding that I photographed in Sep 2007.  
There was another event where I photographed Natali and Vitaliy so we knew each other well.  
In fact, during the appointment I didn’t have to show much to them because they seen all my work anyway.:)

Yesterday on the wedding I learned how Vitaliy and Natalia meet.  Vitaliy was Natalia’s neighbor and use to
come home and browse internet actions with Tolik who’s Natalia’s brother.  So that was the first time Vitaliy
saw Natalia.  Sometime later they started to date and yesterday they got married..

 

Photographing at Brides house, I wanted to put jewelry on green apple.  So I asked
Brides Mom for apple. She told me that they don’t have any apples, and I said  
“oh that’s not good, do you have any other fruits?!”.  So couple different relatives
told me that  they have fruit tree on the backyard - mango’s”,   I said:
“That’s perfect can I please have one asap“. 
So they all ran outside and came apologizing that mango was still green.  Actually green 
mango made perfect prop for necklace.  But now that I think about this convestation, I realized that parents probably appoligized for green mongo because they
thought I was going to eat it.  It actually sounds funny, photographer comming
out and demanding apple as soon as possible. (because he feels like having one). But it was nice of them to ran outside (at least 3 or 4 people went) and brining mango right of way. 
 

 

 

 

This is a topic for photographers who want to learn!.   

From time to time we receive an email with a question from a photographer, or I always ran into someone who loves photography and during wedding they ask me a question or two.   Usually topic is: camera equipment “what is the best camera for this amount of money I can buy”. 

Lately I keep having different photographers asking me if they can be 2nd photographer on our wedding.   In other words they want to stand next to us (or me) during real wedding photoshoot and see how we (I) work.  The reason for that:  To advance their photography skills, and to learn how to interact with couple and wedding party by looking at whole process.     

In other words what they ask for -Free workshop-.  

Before I go any further, I just want to say that we started to receive soliciation after solicitation so at this point, i have decided to officially put the answer on the BLOG.   

So if you’re a photographer and want to learn by standing next to another photographer the answer is it’s possible:

A)  There are photographers/teachers who are willing to educate other photographers.   They stand next to student photographer and guide him/her.   Or student can tag along with teacher.   Mentor photographer do charge a fee that is  usually from $100 to $200 per hour depending how good they are.  

Now back to us:
At this point, we (meaning there several of us) are not interested in educating other photographers and are not sharing other specific information about our company products.    

 Thy reason why we stopped sharing this kind of information with photographers who are outside of our network, is because we don’t want other photographers  have same style as we do.     We kindly say:  Please develop your own style!!!   Seriously, dont’ be a copy cat!:( 

But there are many photographers that I deeply respect and they know that:). 

Next question we’re asked is:  If I’m not interesting in educating photographers, than why do I upload so many pictures of the Blog, scince  I’m feeding other photographers (allowing them to see our style and ideas anyway).  
Another person told me since I upload so many images, might as well share other information as well. 

My answer is:    Yes, we do put many images on Blog, but they are for the Bride, Groom, family and relatives and new clients.   But If I upload images to Blog that doesn’t mean I have to go ahead and share everything else as well.   Website is a portfolio for new clients, not a educational resource for photographers.   

There are many photoshoots and many interesting stories that WE DO NOT post.   Why did I decide to post this particular subject:
I have found that it’s very hard emotionally to tell people “I’m sorry, I can’t help you”.   Some photographers took “NO” well but others “didn’t” and that was horrible experience.   

So if in the future if  one of us will get solicited again, instead of saying “NO” verbally, we will direct photographers for the answer to this Blog post.   So photographers wouldn’t feel like it’s a personal rejection, but a business decision.  

I LOVE to network with other photographers, BUT not with everyone. 
Good night.     

Hello everyone.  I have decided to post personal post.   Today I went to park to watch my son play soccer.  My wife Oksana
signed him up.  I have to be honest and say Mike really don’t like when I take pictures of him (I did talk about this on Blog
about a year ago).  So I don’t take pictures of him often. I don’t want him to hate photography. 

But today I grabbed my camera with me to the park.   

After soccer before going home, I asked Mike to sit down on the grass.    Right of way Christina started
to yell, “I WANT TO TAKE A PICTURES, I WANT TO TAKE PICTURES”, so I told her to ran and sit
down next to Mike.  She did and started to smile, so I told Mike to kiss her and he said “Popa nooo ok??!!”. 
Than I promised him something and he agreed.  First kiss was about 1/2 seconds long so I told him to
redo it.  This is second time.  Look at Christina it’s so cute how she closed her eyes and enjoys the moment.

By the way Christina is very bossy, and it’s a mirracle that she is sitting and not hitting Michael back. 
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