Monthly Archives: August 2009

Anastasia+Dima wedding

Here is wedding for Anastasia and Dima.  Dima lives in SF area so in the morning we all meet at
hotel that’s located in Down town.    That’s where entire bridal party stayed..   Really loved the concept
because one’s we get out of the hotel we were standing in one of my favorite stops where I love to take photos.

Dima was like “Andrey let’s go” I was like.  Dima we don’t have to go anywhere.. this is it.
VERY VERY energetic bridal party and whole wedding.   Very energetic feel thru out whole wedding.
I should probably put up a video from this wedding.

How did Dima and Anastasia found us?
A) Dima is a photographer and he said that he just knew us from before. “photographer world”
NOTE: RE photographers.   During last several month several clients who we photographed on the wedding are
very series about photography.  Cool thing is that they are very relax on the wedding day.  Until this moment it
was very easy to photograph other photographers.  None of them really challenge they system like.. None of them
said why are you doing this..   They are rather opposite.  Totally trust me to do what I need. one’s a while they
just  asking me if I’m tired or if I need  a break or water or help carrying equipment.

MORNING } Getting ready @ downtown hotel.

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CEREMONY }

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RECEPTION }  I did receive a information tip from groom to pay attention to lights in reception area..  To capture it well.  Here is couple pictures.

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Hi guys, is is Anastasia, Dima, me www.andreyp.com and Val www.cineczar.com (writing from left to right).   Photos came out stunning.

Update |

Hello everyone.   This is a post to update everyone of status.

* This have been one of the fastest summer in our life..

**Kids are growing and Mike finished swimming and now playing soccer again.

***Finally after realizing how fast life is going by I started to spend time with family.
(NOTE:  Notice that I say started to spend time, that means I didn’t do it before).
You might say why not?   Simple answer is editing photos behind computer:
Did you know that average full time wedding photographer works 72 hrs per week!
Average full time “good” photographers works behind computer from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm.

**** I’m so glad that Oksana is steeping in and helping me even more.

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***  Here is image of Oksana and I when we were in North Carolina.  We came out to shoot wedding and had blast time @ Tania’s house.
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Kristina+Nik wedding

Hi guys like always I’m blogging few photos only.  had to leave to Vegas in 5 hrs.  I really appreciate Yuliya steeping in and helping with with
photography for tomorrow.
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Cineczar photoshoot 8 month ago

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About 8 month ago we had photoshoot with Cineczar.com.    Val asked me to work on image that I like the most so he can print big PANO in
his office.  Trying very hard to go for WOW effect.  Here is what I have so far.

Ludmila+Cornilius wedding

Hello everyone here is wedding that I shoot few hrs ago.   I was just transferring images to Hard Drive and decided to share this image:)

FEATURED | image

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MORNING | getting ready

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By the way this images above is original, straight from camera.  So yes it’ll book better with
proper photoshop:)

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PHOTO SHOOT | Part 2 (coming later)

CEREMONY | part 3
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PART 4 | Formals

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Here is romantic shoot:

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Must have been something I said ..

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Oh yes, until now I never blogged formal photos.  Here is one, Lyuda with her brothers.  Very nice.   Formals were pretty fun to shoot as well.
I can so see personality of everyone from Vova to Toly to Lyuda to Roman.  Nice:)

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After official photos we had about 45 minutes to walk around resort to take more artistic shoots.   Here are 2 of them.

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PART 4 | reception

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Oh I love the way this image at the top came out.

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Emily, Ludas (brides) sister.  It was very emotional speech.

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P.S. My competition (another photographer)
(Just kidding, this is Olga, she was just wondering why I took 300 shoots of the cake.  Well I’ll admin I took about 20 shoots of cake.  :)

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This time we had such a nice cake fight.  I have 2 categiries of people one very shy who say “Oh no we don’t want to have a cake fight and
another category why say “sure why not”.      So this is one of my favorite cake fights.  Everything was going sooo smooth Luda was like “no
we’ll not have a cake fight.  Than she tryed to go for it but Corry didn’t let her.  So Luda (bride was like) ok I tryed.
But I soon as I put my camera down and Corry  was relax Luda got him.  Everyone was like YEAAA.  It was so unexpected.

This is such a classic image.
You know how after cake fight couple kiss and clean each other lips and face:)  But this is such a cool image Corry making sure he is clean
“taking matters into his own hands:).
This is what I love about weddings.   Little unexpected  moments like these,  that makes evevy wedding unique.

PART 5 AFTER RECEPTION | The end
After wedding ended we all were waiting for Limo to come and had about 40 minutes to take photos.  Wedding took place in Arden Hills Resort
very beutiful place and we went to take photos by Villa where Corry and Luda stayed.  By Villa I mean huge beautiful building.

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Corry’s (grooms brother) is standing at the left.   I love his face expression.   It’s like “Andrey, I’m so sorry, did I jump wrong way???  Vova
(guy all of way at the right side) is like “Yeaaaa this is cool, I’ll be sure to jump like that in my wedding in September.  By the way Vova is Luda’s
brides brother who is getting married in 1 1/2 month and Luda’s other brother Toly just got married several weeks ago.  So 3 weddings in 3 month
for Molitvenik family!

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I made series of shoots with guys goofing around having fun, and girls were just sitting in the shade watching us  and as soon as I was done they
said, “Hey Andrey we want to do something cool, we are tought as well!!!  :)”.  So there you go:)

Luda+Corniliy E-session

Here is few more photos of Luda and Corniliy.   This morning I had to work on this images because I been told they are going to be used on
wedding.   In fact images from E-session are getting used on wedding all the time.  Slideshow, Scrap booking, signature board, story book
portraits etc:)

Looking forward the wedding.  Luda and Corniliy both went to Master College seminary.

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E-session Julie+Boris

Hi guys took time to enhance and upload couple images for you.  It’s pretty cool working with Boris and Julie.    It was easy to make them laugh:)

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Vladimir + Alena wedding

All right today I have finished editing last week wedding and even created DVD cover sheet.

Going to sleep, tomorrow will finish burning all DVD’s and READY for this Saturday’s wedding.

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