Armin Ausejo Photography » Weddings

Allas-Main Wedding

Armin H. Ausejo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:52:38 +0000

My good friends for the past 8 years, Erik and Tana, finally tied the knot and asked me to help photograph their wedding. It was probably the most gorgeous day in Seattle this year and things really couldn’t be more perfect. Please follow this link on my ArminWeddings.com website for more photos:

http://www.arminweddings.com/2010/06/allas-main-wedding/

Barrick-Melnik Wedding

Armin H. Ausejo — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:08:32 +0000

Two of my old friends from high school, Bryce and Jenya, had me shoot their short and informal wedding. It was a total blast! Please follow this link on my ArminWeddings.com website for more photos:

http://www.arminweddings.com/2010/04/barrick-melnik-wedding/

My favorite photos of 2009, 1 per month

Armin H. Ausejo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:13:37 +0000

I look back at 2009 with mixed feelings. Certainly some things went my way, but other things really didn’t. Nevertheless, I’m happy to see 2010 arrive and simply hope for the best. In looking back at 2009, I decided to post up my favorite photos of 2009, choosing one photo from each month. Voila:

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

In 2009, I took more photos than any other year previous. Hopefully, this is a sign of good things to come. To view all of my photos from 2009, simply click below:

View photos at SmugMug

New wedding-specific site! ArminWeddings.com

Armin H. Ausejo — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:14:00 +0000

December 11, 2009 marks a momentous ocassion. Thanks to help and encouragement from Garret Alpers, “Armin Ausejo Photography” is now officially a recognized business in Washington state. To help get this business off the ground, I constructed a new website dedicated to my wedding photography. I’m going to making some major efforts to really get my wedding photography going, so if you know anyone that’s getting married soon, I would very much appreciate the referral! I’m still planning to add a few more things to the site, but otherwise it’s pretty much complete:

Armin Ausejo Wedding Photography — http://www.arminweddings.com

You’ll also notice now that when clicking “Weddings” from my Portfolio, you’ll be taken to the new dedicated site. This website will still be my main Portfolio site for everything, but it was definitely important to create a separate space for weddings. After all, a bride isn’t really going to really care about my automotive photography, all they’re going to care about is weddings.

Thanks to all for your kind words and support thus far, and remember that if I’m on my way up to the top, I’m not planning on doing it alone

Rogers-Spradlin Wedding

Armin H. Ausejo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:45:13 +0000

My good and long time friends, Russell and Suzy finally tied the knot on the 24th in Redmond, WA. It was a relatively small wedding, with both the ceremony itself and the reception taking place at the Clise Mansion in Marymoor Park. I teamed up with my good friend and fellow photographer Tanya Jose, since we’re both friends of Russell and Suzy and this would be our joint wedding gift for them. I started out the day with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D that I purchased from Josh Mackey, and then let Tanya use it for the rest of the day. I then switched over to my venerable Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8, which remained on the camera throughout the wedding and reception. Special thanks again to Wence Estrada for helping with the lighting.

Tanya and I decided to split up the wedding photo duties, with myself taking all of the main posed photos and wide angle shots, while she kept the 50mm on her camera for the short telephoto and candids. She said she’d be processing her photos as soon as I finished mine, so I’ll be posting up a link to her photos as soon as she has them ready. The D300 worked great as already proven, and shooting at ISO2000 in the very dimly-lit room proved to be perfectly fine. Without further ado, here is a link to the galleries:

http://verdugo.smugmug.com/Weddings/Rogers-Spradlin

And a few of my personal favorites:

Congratulations once again to Russell and Suzy! I’m sure I’ll see both of you two soon

Donckers-Klingele Wedding

Armin H. Ausejo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:52:46 +0000

Wence and I made the trek out to Yakima to shoot Ryan and Rachel’s wedding. We made the wise decision to drive over on Friday night rather than Saturday morning and thanks to Wence’s driving, we made it from Seattle to our hotel in Yakima in almost exactly 2 hours, which included a break to get fast food in Ellensburg. With a good, solid 8 hours of sleep under our belts, it was business as usual starting with photographing the groom and groomsmen getting ready at the hotel. We then headed over to the bride’s parent’s residence to document getting into the wedding dress, and then took the wedding party photos at the Yakima Arboretum. After a quick 45 minutes there, we made haste to the church, where both the wedding ceremony and reception took place. Everything went smoothly and we were back on the road to Seattle by about 8 pm.

While my old D200 still did a great job with the Alpers-Merani Wedding, the high ISO noise compared to the D300 bugged me a great deal. Luckily, Eugene was nice enough to let me borrow his D300 to be my second body for this wedding, and it proved its worth very well since the church was much darker than I had expected. I used the same wide gamut of lenses at this wedding except for the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 and the Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 Micro. The Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 once again proved to be a great low-light lens during the reception, especially since it’s nowhere near as obtrusive-looking as the big “Hatori Hanzo” Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR. Since the 50mm didn’t get much use, I actually did end up selling it in favor of the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 that I bought from Mackey. Anyway, here’s a link to the galleries:

http://verdugo.smugmug.com/Weddings/Donckers-Klingele-Wedding

And a few of my personal favorites:

Congratulations again to Ryan and Rachel! It was a pleasure to work with you