Just get a new camera and don’t know how to use it?
Got a camera awhile ago and still can’t handle the manual?
Wish there was an easier way to learn how to take better pictures?

Then you should attend Camera Basics, a photography class for the beginner presented by Lovato Images. Finally! A simple learning system to help you get over those hard hurdles that no one has bothered to help you with before! Learn what all those buttons do and when to use them. Learn how to explore your camera and utilize all its functions. Learn how to learn! Easy photography tips and tricks, designed to be easily understood and applicable just for you!

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$87 Camera Basics, 90 minute workshop, 12pm May 20, Orange Circle

The Camera Basics class is a hands-on workshop designed to give you basic understanding of photography and how your camera works. You will learn all the basic functions of your camera and how to apply them to take better pictures. We will cover camera functions and photography tips through open instruction then implement our new knowledge during the second half of class with shooting exercises.

In order to keep the learning focused and personal, space is limited. Call 714.420.3330 or email us to sign up today!

In the Camera Basics class we cover the following topics:

HOW A CAMERA WORKS

• Aperture
 • Shutter Speed 
• ISO 
• Focal Length

CAMERA MODES AND SYMBOLS


• Program 
• Auto 
• Portrait
 • Macro 
• Sports
 • Night 
• Shutter Priority 
• Aperture Priority 
• Manual
 • Flash

CARE FOR YOUR CAMERA

• Camera Necessities 
• Storage
 • Archiving
 • Formatting

SHOOT DEMO

Though this particular class might not be for you or your level, perhaps our next one, Photography Basics is. We also offer private instruction. Keep in touch and if you can, join us! Let’s learn together! Bring your camera and come to receive new knowledge and to learn-by-doing!

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*’Here are some of the things that non-Greeks may not know about Greek Easter: We don’t do bunnies. We don’t do chocolate. We don’t do pastels. We do do lamb, sweet cookies, and deep red. The lamb is roasted and not chocolate, the sweet cookies are called Koulorakia and are twisted like a braid, and our Easter eggs are dyed one color only: blood red.

‘Holy Week, for a Greek Orthodox, means you clear your calendar; you don’t make plans for that week at all because you will be in church everyday, and you fast…’  You don’t eat meat, fish, oil, eggs or drink wine. Then we burn things like dried up palm crosses and oily cotton balls. Sometimes hair gets lit on fire, but that burning always happens by accident. Then we crack eggs against one another. It’s just how we do.

‘I have to say, the Greeks know how to do Easter. Make no mistake — this is the most important holiday in our church. It is a beautiful week. I haven’t even begun to touch on what the week is really like… It is so much deeper, so much richer than I have written here. But one thing is clear — It is a powerful, beautiful, mysterious, humbling, healing, and moving week. It is filled with tradition and ritual. It is about renewal and faith. And even though it is still too early to say, Xristos Anesti! Alithos Anesti!’

See you all in Irvine my Orthodox family. And as a special Pascha gift to you St. Paul’s go-ers, Lovato Images will be offering a 33% discount to all print orders and family portrait sessions booked this week through the end of Bright Week. Because 33 is Trinitarian, right? And come Saturday, we’ll all be glorifying our Three by saying together Xristos Anesti! Alithos Anesti!!!

 

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*italicized quotations written by Rita Wilson in The Joys of Greek Easter

 

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I am a photographer. This means, photographs, or stills. But as a photographer and as an artist, I work to expand my creative contribution as much as I possibly can. So a few years ago when uber awesome Mike McCaleb of Mission Visual asked if I could shoot video [for a special wedding where a female shooter was required], I jumped right in head first.

And wow I love shooting video! It’s taught me so much about shooting stills and so much about composition and about seeking creative captures at every moment. I’ve been shooting video on the side for about two years now and jump in as often as I can.

Check out this clip from a wedding I shot with Mission Visual last year at Rancho Las Lomas. The super fly Viviana Salva of Bella Notte Events planned every detail perfectly and we had a blast rocking out with DJ Tasos of LSM Entertainment. Michelle and Scott were a great couple to work with, with such a great team of vendors!

 

 

8MM 16MM Demo Reel – Rancho Las Lomas from Mission Visual on Vimeo.

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The female body is a glorious thing, is it not?! Beyond the soft skin and subtle curves, it’s amazing what the female body can handle. I mean, our bodies were set up to create humans. How beautiful is that?!

I’ve just always been so enamored with pregnancy. One, because one of my biggest goals in life is to be a [good] mother. Then two, I really feel that pregnancy and birthing are one of the ultimate miracles. It’s just so fascinating and such an exceptional form of creation. And then three, aren’t pregnant women just so lovely?!

Take a look at Miguel and Mary as she prepares to give birth to their first son…she’s radiating with joy and love and I was so happy to be able to be there for them again to document this precious moment in their lives…

 

 

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So often I hear things like ‘we don’t like ourselves on video,’ or ‘wedding videography is SO expensive,’ or ‘we just don’t have the budget for that,’ and my heart sinks a little lower each time. Because straight up: after all the cake has been eaten, the wedding dress is sealed and stored and the flowers have all died, all you’re going to have left are your memories, and the images that help keep them alive.

So with that, I could go into spelling out the importance of choosing the right wedding photographer and stressing how crucial it is to ensure you will love your wedding photography. But this post is dedicated to something equally as important that unfortunately so many of us tend to overlook: your wedding video.

Wedding videography does something that photography cannot: it provides sound and motion. You get to see that deep breath you took. You get to watch those laughs you shared. You get to hear those promises you vowed as you choked back tears, again and again.

As a vendor at a wedding, assigned with the huge responsibility of documenting the day, the work I do is of utmost importance. Even though at times I may get emotional, I stay focused on my role as photographer. As does your videographer. We’re there to document every moment for you, so you can help remember it through our work later on.

I’m so thankful for the amazing work Eric Maldin did for Ana and Ryan’s wedding last weekend. I was able to laugh when they laughed, cry when they cried and remember it fully and freely through the beautiful cinema posted below. Aren’t you going to want to do the same with the most important day of your life?

RYAN & ANA SCHISSLER WEDDING from Eric Maldin on Vimeo.

 

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