Julie + Ryan’s Love Story from Lloyd Films on Vimeo.

I had such a great time filming and editing Julie and Ryan’s Wedding Video Love Story. What a fun and adventurous couple. Although it took us 5 tries to find a sunny day at the beach to shoot the surfing segments, it was well worth the patience and effort. Thanks to the ever-creative and fabulous husband and wife team over at Studio Duva Photography for putting this shoot together.

Filming locations: La Jolla and Solona Beach

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Rachel and Dane from Lloyd Films on Vimeo.

Rachel and Dane were married at the El Cortez Hotel which has to be one of my favorite places to film wedding videos. The reception hall is one of the nicest in San Diego with it’s gilded and ornate ceilings and black glossy floors. Rachel and Dane’s wedding decor complemented the room beautifully. They were awesome to work with and the wedding was tons of fun.

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There’s something strange and cool about a vintage lens on a modern DSLR.  It harkens to a simpler time in photography before auto-focus, auto-exposure or auto flash. In fact, you can pretty much forget about the word “auto” all together.  Paradoxically, the current HDSLR video craze, which has consumed the wedding video industry and every other video industry has really taken us back 50 years to much more pure form of film making.  For my photography work I invested in the best Canon L-Series glass I could afford; lenses that are usually big, heavy and expensive.  And for photography they exceed my expectations: auto focusing in the lowest of light, auto adjusting exposure on the fly and providing sharp images in a wide range of focal lengths.

And then they added video…  Suddenly, many of the things that made my lenses so great (and bulky) where unavailable in video mode.  Enter the vintage lens.  Every manufacturer wants to sell more widgets and camera makers are no different.