Check out these two cool cats! Lisa and Carlos’ engagement photos at the Winspear Opera House were so much fun. They were so comfortable with each other and in front of the camera most of the time I didn’t even need to pose them. I would fiddle with my camera, look up and they’d be cuddling posed perfectly. I just let the camera fly and this is what we ended up with, a bunch of gorgeous pictures!

Hollie and Chris’s beautiful wedding at the historical Old Red Museum in downtown Dallas.

Thanks to the always great to work with wedding planner Carolyn Brown for making the day run smoothly.

I found the perfect travel companion. She’s small, light, sexy and always ready to go. Hello Fuji x100.

I recently had a chance to test out the camera on a short trip to Asia and it’s become my favorite camera…ever! I’ve been looking for a camera I can carry around everywhere and for vacations that’s small, light, fun and takes good photos. I’ve tried many cameras such as Canon’s G9, G10, G11, G15 G1 X, S90, Panasonic LX3 and a ton of point and shoots. DSLR’s are a pain in the neck literally to carry on vacation. I wanted to do a short review from a user’s point of view. If you want to pixel peep and learn all the detail specs, check out Dpreview’s in depth review.

The Fuji x100 is a rangefinder style digital camera with a big APS-C sensor, a fixed f/2 35mm equivalent lens and old school analog dials for manual camera settings. Unlike the DSLR cameras that we use for weddings, where what you see in the viewfinder is exactly what the picture will look like. Rangefinders have a little window above the lens to frame your subject. One of the coolest features of the x100 is what they call a hybrid electronic viewfinder. It’s basically a tiny LCD screen in the viewfinder that shows exactly what the picture will look like and what you see on the back of the camera’s big LCD. It’s awesome for framing, seeing camera settings, chimping (looking at the picture you just took), focus and a bunch of other things all without moving your eye from the viewfinder.

I love shooting natural light. What makes the x100 such a sweet camera is the huge sensor coupled with a f/2 lens. This lets you shoot in almost any lighting condition without using flash. The files this camera makes are outstanding. The lens is sharp but not too sharp, great noise control, fantastic dynamic range (difference between the lightest and darkest parts in a picture) and tones are out of this world. At high ISO the grain is beautiful with a classic film look. Almost all the photos here are shot at ISO1600 with no noise control.

This is a freaking awesome camera, but it may not be for everyone. Being a rangefinder style camera you have to work a little to get the pictures. Turn the lens to select your aperture, select your shutter speed with the analog dial on top and set the ISO with a shortcut button you assign. I love how much trouble you have to go through just to take a photo, it makes it that much more satisfying when you nail the shot. It’s got full auto settings too but I forbid myself to use them. It feels like cheating.

Is this the perfect camera? Nope. The two biggest flaws on this camera are speed and focus. Even using the fastest memory card available, the blackout time (time when the camera is processing a photo) is frustratingly slow. I miss a lot of shots because of this. The focus in normal lighting is good but crazy slow in low light. Hope they fixed these issues in the new version of this camera, x100s. Check back later for my review on that.

Kimly and Daniel met while attending school in Austin so they wanted to do their engagement photos there. It was awesome for us because Austin is one of our favorite cities to visit. Sunny warm weather, cool quirky places and a beautiful couple to photograph…what more could we ask for?

Check back soon for their wedding in Houston!

Thanks to all of our awesome clients we were voted Best of Wedding photographers by the Knot for 2013! We are so lucky to have such fantastic clients who trust us enough to let us do what we love, create wedding art. It’s been an awesome year and we can’t wait to kick ass at all the 2013 weddings! A big THANK YOU to everyone who shared your special day with us.

A great couple, lots of emotion, vibrant colors, traditions and great food…that’s what you need for an awesome wedding. We love Indian weddings!

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Nina and Min’s wedding was one of our best wedding experience ever. They are such a sweet couple and so much fun to work with. During the portrait session they were so comfortable with each other and in front of the camera we didn’t have to do much coaching at all. Whatever Min was whispering in her ear it worked because she couldn’t stop smiling and giggling.

I’ve never been to New Jersey or New York so I was really excited for this east coast destination wedding. Their venue The Liberty House in Jersey City New Jersey is located in Liberty State Park on the Hudson river so the backdrop for their wedding was the Manhattan skyline, out of this world awesome. After seeing so many movies about New York it’s hard not to feel a bit nostalgic. Another highlight of the wedding for Shirley (cake fanatic) was their awesome cake from Carlo’s Bakery of the Cake Boss. Thanks Nina and Min for trusting us enough to bring us out to New Jersey for your wedding, it will be an experience we will remember for a long time.

Sometimes I think our clients are nuts. At our initial meeting, Dung and Peter told me they didn’t want the normal engagement photos and feel uncomfortable having their pictures taken. But when we met up with them at the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Arts district for their engagement photos they were so much fun and easy to work with. Even when it started raining and we had to continue their shoot in the garage we saw no hint of the awkwardness they spoke of. We can’t wait for your wedding next month!

We recently had a chance to photograph Tammy and Joe’s engagement photos in New York. It was my first time there and loved it. Getting to go shoot at all the iconic locations around New York was awesome. Tammy and Joe were so fun to hang out with it just felt like we were on vacation sightseeing and shooting some photos along the way. We started out on the south side of Central Park, then headed over to Brooklyn Bridge Park and ended the shoot in Times Square. New York is such a great place to photograph we could have spent an entire day shooting at each of these locations.

Here are some of our favorites from the day. Thanks Tammy and Joe for being so much fun and showing us New York. We can’t wait until the next time we get to shoot there!