Monthly Archives: July 2009

Before and After

I have been getting a lot of inquiries about my before and after shots. I wanted to take a brief look into what it takes to touch-up a photo.

In this example, I first color corrected the original picture by fixing the exposure, the color, any blemishes, etc.  I aim to have good lighting, sharpness, and...

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Home Decor

I bought a new home last year and have since been slowly decorating and buying furniture. It’s been very costly but it has also been a lot of hardwork. As we speak, Hao and I are assembling a media console for our living room. We’ve been working on it for nearly 2 hours now and...

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Family Session | Shapiro Family

I had the pleasure of shooting the Shapiro family yesterday morning. I met the Shapiro family through another client of mine. I love referrals! It was quite a warm morning but we managed to find some shady areas to take some great photos of Jessica and Jayden. Jessica is 4.5 years old and Jayden is...

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Pure Emotions Photog - July.29.2009 - 8:30 am

Sarina, these are so beautiful. I love the crispness of the eyes and the clarity and skin tones. That last shot of the little girl in the mirror is too adorable for words! Well done!

moe...!!! - July.23.2009 - 11:05 am

these are awesome sarina. the third and fifth pictures are soo cute…adorable!

SoCal PhotogShootOut

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a PhotogShootOut. PhotogShootOut is a national organization where they bring us photographers together to collaborate and learn from one another. Jasmine Star(who is one of the top 10 photographer in the nation!) attended and was a guest speaker. I was absolutely nervous to meet her and was super...

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moe...!!! - July.23.2009 - 11:07 am

man…these pictures are great and i’m kicking myself in the butt for missing out on this event.

Michelle - July.21.2009 - 11:37 am

Wow..these photos are beautiful, I love them! that shoot out sounds so fun, I want to go to one!

Amanda - July.18.2009 - 3:49 pm

great pictures!!

Wai Reyes Photography - July.17.2009 - 12:40 am

Awesome work on the post process! Love the contrast and composition on these. Hope to shoot with you again soon.

Hanssie Trainor - July.16.2009 - 9:59 pm

Glad you could come Sarina! It was nice to meet you and I love your shots of Amber. Great colors there. And of course David with his short off…I’ll never forgive you for not running to get me when that happened!

Jennifer_anazawa@yah - July.16.2009 - 3:18 pm

can you get me that guy’s number?

Blair Van Bussel - July.16.2009 - 2:08 pm

These are great Sarina! Love what you do with those eyes! I had so much fun at the shoot out too, and just cannot wait to get a few up too!

Sonia - July.16.2009 - 1:21 pm

i love the professional quality of these pics! you are really talented =)

PhotogShootOut

I just got home from the SoCal PhotogShootout in San Juan Capistrano and I got too excited and had to begin editing the pictures I took today.
Here is just a sample of what’s to come…DAMN They look HOT eh?
I’ll probably post more tomorrow with the story of the whole day! Yay! You can tell I...

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kristin - January.13.2010 - 7:29 am

I agree! TOTAL hotness! Great picture!

Kid session | Baby Zoe and Cousin Asia

I had the pleasure of being asked to come back and take more pictures of adorable Baby Zoe and her cousin Asia. Baby Zoe is so photogenic!! I love it! Cousin Asia helped get her to smile. I can really tell Asia loves Zoe and enjoys playing with her. Asia is a bit shy herself...

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joseph - July.16.2009 - 5:21 pm

Brilliant…. yur work is incredible, absolutely stunning.

Amanda Patrice - July.15.2009 - 7:12 am

She is so sweet, and these portraits are beautiful. It’s so cool that you were asked to do another shoot… it looks like you’ve got a client for life :-)

{15:51} photography - July.13.2009 - 2:33 pm

total cuteness! LOVE IT! I’m starting to think it’s worth having children just for the photo ops alone ;)

Suzanne Cook - July.7.2009 - 8:18 pm

These picture are absolutely adorable.

Richard - July.7.2009 - 4:18 pm

Very cool, Sarina. Baby Zoe is photogenic alright. And use that unique voice of yours to your advantage, if that results in getting kids to do what you ask.

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