San Diego Wedding Photography | Colin + Sarina Sneak Peek

July 11, 2016 in Weddings

Congratulation to Colin and Sarina! Here is a quick sneak peek of the photos from the day.

San Diego Wedding Photography | Lilac Canyon Estate in Escondido

July 01, 2016 in Weddings

We got the opportunity to work at a Styled Shoot at the beautiful Lilac Canyon Estate. What a beautiful venue that they have out there. Check out the photos here.

Living Photos | Wedding Photography

May 26, 2016 in Weddings

We had seen living photos in the past and it didn't interest us that much, until we had seen it done in a manner that we really liked. Now we are going to give them a try. We had some video from a previous wedding that we were able to use in order to create this living image.

Here is our first attempt at this. We think that there definitely is some potential for this. We will keep playing with this and we can see if it will become a staple in what we do.

Check out the quick living image that we made and let us know what you think about them.

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Alex + Rosanna | San Diego Wedding Photographer at Darlington House

March 11, 2016 in Weddings

San Diego wedding photographer: Be Still Photography and Video | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon What a wonderful wedding we were able to capture last week at the Darlington House with Alex and Rosanna. Everything was gorgeous!

The day started out with hair and makeup by Johanah Convertino and Natasha Poonka. They did such beautiful work!

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The Darlington House was an amazing venue and fit Alex and Rosanna perfectly.

We hung the dresses out in the courtyard, but then decided to bring the wedding dress solo in the bridal prep room.

The light from the window was outstanding and showed off the beautiful dress.

Charise Ladwig of Rae Florae was the florist for the event and she has always done amazing work. Here are the gentlemen's boutonnieres.

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That little bridal space was just too pretty, so we decided to do a few more bridal portraits in that space. We showed off the amazing veil and the gorgeous dress.

San Diego Wedding Photographer at Darlington House in La Jolla | First look

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At the Darlington House, we decided to do their first look at the staircase. With Alex waiting, his beautiful bride walked down the stairs to greet him.

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Before walking down the aisle, Rosanna read the sweet letter that Alex gave her.

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Right before walking down the aisle, mom had a couple of words to share with her daughter.

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After the ceremony, we took a little ride down to La Jolla to take a few portraits with Alex and Rosanna. The beach was beautiful!

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Chris + Kelly | San Diego wedding videographer at St. Brigid

March 09, 2016 in Videography, Weddings

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We had an amazing time with Chris and Kelly during their wedding over a month ago and are so excited to share their final wedding highlight film from the day.

There wedding took place at St. Brigid Parish in Pacific Beach. Chris and Kelly got ready in a rental property in La Jolla and we had a first look on Crystal Pier. We also did our portrait session with both of them at Crystal Pier.

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The wedding was absolutely beautiful and we were so happy to be able to capture their awesome day. We were asked to do the photography and the videography for their big day.

Check out this highlight video that we created for Chris and Kelly.

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We loved every single moment with them. They are an amazing couple and we look forward to seeing their family grow in the future.

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San Diego wedding photographers and videographers: Be Still Photography and Video | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon | Jason Padaon

Alex and Rosanna | Sneak peek on wedding photography at Darlington House

March 05, 2016 in Weddings

Ernie and Fiona Padaon of Be Still Photography had the honor of capturing the wedding photography for Alex and Rosanna at the Darlington House in La Jolla. What a spectacular day we had with these newlyweds yesterday at the Darlington House in La Jolla. Congratulations to Alex and Rosanna!

Everything was absolutely gorgeous during the day and it was a pleasure to capture their day with them. It was a beautiful day out and both Alex and Rosanna looked stunning. The preparations at the Darlington House was perfect for both of them.

We put together a few sneak peek images from the wedding yesterday. There are some from the prep, during the ceremony and during their portrait session. We wanted to share some of the great photos from the day and will have plenty more to share from their big day very soon.

The window in the bridal room provided such great light that we needed to take advantage of it with Rosanna showing off her beautiful dress.

Here was their first kiss as man and wife! What a great looking bridal party with them.

We went down to the beach for their portrait session and it was spectacular! Just look at the water and the clouds in the air. Everything was picture perfect. There are so many great images that we got from that portrait session and we can't wait to share all of them.

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Chris + Kelly | San Diego Wedding Photography at St. Brigid

February 17, 2016 in Weddings

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The wedding with Chris and Kelly earlier this month was absolutely beautiful. The skies were clear and the day was a little windy, but it made for a perfect wedding day for this amazing couple.

Chris and Kelly got ready at different areas around the La Jolla and Pacific Beach area. Here are some photos of the bride and groom getting ready.

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Make up was done by Double Take Makeup Artistry. Hair was done by Carly Bowers.

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We did our portrait sessions with the bride and her bridesmaids at the house.

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We also wanted to get solo shots of each bridesmaid and groomsmen to create this fun little piece.

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The gentleman also did their portrait session outside of their prepping location.

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Kelly had a first look with her dad before she met up with Chris and she got him some cuff links as a gift on her wedding day.

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Then we went out to Crystal Pier at Pacific Beach to hold their first look. Chris waited out on the pier and Kelly walked out to meet him.

We love being able to witness and capture the intimate moments of a first look. It might be one of our favorite moments.

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We did our portrait session with Chris and Kelly right after the first look on the pier and then we went under the pier for a few amazing moments.

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We stitched together a few images to make this amazing capture.

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After the first look, we went out to St. Brigid for the ceremony.

The reception was also at St. Brigid.

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They had this cute little table for the kids during the reception.

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They played this shoe game during the reception. You can check out some of the rules to that game right here.

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Again, we ended the night with a giant group photo of everyone that joined in on the festivities.

San Diego Wedding Photographer: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon MUA: Double Take Makeup Artistry Hair: Hair by Carly | Carly Bowers Florist: Vita DJ: Dale Gottschalk Caterer: SD TACO CO.

San Diego Wedding Photography | Jim + Isa

February 16, 2016 in Weddings

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We were honored to be a part of the Rooney wedding earlier this month. Jim and Isa are great friends and they asked us to capture their wedding day and we had a lot of fun capturing their intimate wedding that was held at a private residence.

There were so many great details to capture from the day, starting with the mason jars for glasses that they used for their wedding.

The brick wall inside the house was great for a backdrop to hang the wedding dress and the bridesmaid dress.

With Isa's wedding dress and her after party dress, she had two different pairs of shoes for the night.

Blyss Macias (Beauty by Blyss) was the makeup artist and the hair stylist for Isa and she did an incredible job.

We loved the location for the wedding. This is the second wedding that we have done at the residence and it is a great location to host an intimate ceremony and reception.

Jim got ready at a friends house and we pulled all his little items to the side before he got dressed.

The flowers were done by Charise of Rae Florae. She has always done an amazing job with her flowers.

Isa got prepped in the bathroom with her girls and with her maid of honor. The light coming from the window was amazing.

We did a first look down the road at Marian Bear Park and all the ladies had prayer before Isa met up with Jim.

Marian Bear Park and their first look was incredible! We did their portrait session right after the first look.

When Isa returned, she had her first look with her dad.

The ceremony location was beautiful. Loved everything about the house and the ceremony.

Right after the ceremony, we had to take advantage of the amazing light that was in the backyard. We did family portraits right on the hill in the backyard and created a few more portraits with them.

Just one giant group photo with everyone! Congrats to the Rooneys.

San Diego Wedding Photographer: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon Hair and MUA: Blyss Macias (Beauty by Blyss) Florist: Charise Ladwig of Rae Florae Cake Artist: Urban Plates Caterer: Phil's BBQ Wedding Venue: Ruckle House | Clairemont, CA

Another option to the first look on your wedding

January 26, 2016 in Weddings, MISC

On your wedding day, your photographers will want to know if you would like to have a first look. A first look is when the bride and groom see each other for the first time before the wedding ceremony. It goes against tradition, but it also makes for an amazing moment to capture. It also is great for portraits to get done before the ceremony instead of rushing them within an hour after the ceremony. There are a lot of advantages of having a first look on your wedding day. There are also a ton of reasons why people don't want to have first looks. We understand both sides.

A possible alternative idea to the first look is doing a little prayer or saying some words of encouragement behind a door before the ceremony. That will just give you goosebumps to hear each others voice and to touch hands on your wedding day. You won't be able to see each other, but you could hold hands and say a few words before you walk down the aisle.

It has always been an amazing and emotional moment. The anticipation to see each other for the first time is high and the little hints of his voice or his touch will get you both eager to see each other when the ceremony begins.

The images are also amazing that are captured from that moment. If a first look is not in the cards, then this option could be something that you consider.

Do you need a wedding photographer?

January 12, 2016 in Weddings, MISC

Vogue just put out an article that said that wedding photographers are no longer needed in the world today. It was listed in their Top 10 Rules to Break for weddings. Do you need a wedding photographer? We are wedding photographers and we should be telling you yes, but it really is up to you and what you want to invest in for the future.

If you are just thinking about facebook and social media, you will get a ton of photos from your friends taking photos off of their phone. The photos could be good or they could be a terrible mess. Even the casual hobby photographer can come away with a terrible mess on a wedding day with their camera.

A wedding photographer is skilled at their position and they know what to expect going into a wedding. They are prepared for any situation and will be able to capture it with their gear. If the lighting is not right for a cell phone to take the photo, the photographer will have the proper gear to capture the moment.

When you book a photographer, they are their to piece together the whole event as an art form. It won't be a couple of snap shots off of a phone, but it will be beautiful work put together from throughout the day.

Your wedding is only going to happen once and it goes by so fast that you will want someone to be able to capture every single piece of it. All the planning that has been done for that day and it is over in an instant.

Wedding Photographers: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon Blog post of wedding shown above: Beautiful wedding at White House Event Center

Should you have a first look on your wedding?

December 16, 2015 in Weddings

Have you thought about having a first look on your wedding day? More and more brides have jumped on the idea of having a first look on their wedding day. It is another magical moment to add on the wedding day and photographers love it because they are able to do bride and groom portraits done early.

A first look is when the bride and groom see each other for the first time all dressed up looking fabulous and it would take place before the wedding ceremony. Instead of the tradition first time meeting at the aisle, the two meet each other at a different location.

For our most recent first look, the groom met his bride in her room as she was waiting for him. After all the anticipation, the first moment that they get to meet is amazing.

Check out some of the photos from our recent first look:

There are many different ways that it can be done as well. You can let the photographer set it up or if you have an idea for how you would like to roll out, then you can just let the photographers know how you want it all to play out.

Another version of the first look could also work well with the father of the bride. His baby daughter is getting married and he has as much anticipation in seeing her as well.

First looks bring some amazing moments that you can always cherish and it always looks beautiful in the photos.

Where should you have your engagement session?

December 15, 2015 in Engagement, Weddings

As a wedding photographer, we get this question a lot: Where should we have our engagement session?

Our best answer would be that it would be a place that you are comfortable in. A place that you are familiar with.

We usually like to recommend a location in which the couple had their first date or any other location that has some sort of significance for the couple.

San Diego has a number of great locations to do an engagement session. Balboa Park is always a favorite location to take photos. The architecture of the buildings is so amazing and there are a number of different locations in which you could take amazing photos.

Any place that has great architecture, the photos are going to turn out amazing. The Salk Institute in La Jolla is a great spot to take photos as well, but you have to be a little more sneaky about it there. Professional photographers are not allowed to take photos there. So you just

The beach is always another favorite for couples. How can you go wrong out there?

Couples also like to change things up and get more greenery in their photos, so they choose a spot around Miramar Lake or Lake Hodges.

There are a number of great looking places like that is Southern California. Some other places that could make for some amazing photos are in a library or in a movie theater. We have taken photos on Montgomery Air Field.

The locations are endless. Take some time to select the best location that fits you. We could take photos at a Starbucks and feel great about it.

There are definitely some locations that we would love to take photos at though. If you are interested in going out to them, then let us know and we can work out a better deal with you.

Here is our dream list at the moment:

San Juan Capistrano Mission Inside of a library Inside of a hangar

We also are interested in doing more theme type photography. At the moment we want to do a shoot that incorporates Star Wars in the engagement shoot.

Follow our facebook page to see the latest themed worked we are looking to do is. We usually will offer to do those shoots for a very discounted rate.

What awesome and unique locations can you think of for an engagement shoot?

How to download images from your gallery

December 10, 2015 in Portraits, Weddings

In order to download your images at the highest resolution possible, there are a couple of options that we have made available on your galleries. There is a "DOWNLOAD ALL" button at the top of your galleries that you can select. It will ask for an email address and it will return to you a link that you can select in order to download the images.

If you would just like to download a single image, you can select the button on the bottom right and it will download that image at the highest resolution.

If you right click and download the image, it may not give you the highest quality that is available. Make sure to download the highest resolution possible before sending them in to print.

Cheers,

Ernie and Fiona Padaon Be Still Photography

Beautiful Wedding at the White House Event Center

December 09, 2015 in Weddings

What an amazing wedding we had with Ray and Lupe back in November. They are some of the most amazing couples and we had a blast with them throughout their day. Their wedding took place at the White House Event Center in Anaheim and it was a perfect day. Here are some of the details from the wedding. Lupe had a gorgeous dress and the bridesmaids had beautiful red dresses.

The sparkles on the shoes and the jewelry was amazing. We couldn't go without getting the details of her perfume as well. That would be Miss Dior!

The White House Event Center was an awesome venue to work with.

Instead of having a wedding cake, Lupe and Ray went with cupcakes from Frosted. They looked so delicious!

Ray and Lupe decided to do a first look at the venue and it was absolutely breathtaking. Eyes were getting a little moist in the room when the two of them had their first look. They decided to do the first look in private and Ray would walk into the room where Lupe was waiting for him. Here is what transpired!

Since Lupe's dad still had not seen her yet in her wedding dress, we did a first look with him to follow. It was amazing! How are you supposed to take photos with tears of joy coming down your eyes? This first look with her dad was just as good as the first look with her soon to be husband.

After the first look, we went out to the Long Beach Lighthouse to do portraits. Portraits is probably our favorite time.

Wedding Details Wedding Photographers: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon Event Coordinator: Patricia Flores MUA: Karna Solorzano Wedding Florist: 800rosebig Cake Artist: Frosted Caterer: White House Event Center Portrait Location: Long Beach Lighthouse Wedding Venue: White House Event Center

Trash the dress shoot at La Jolla Shores

December 01, 2015 in Weddings

Today is the anniversary for our good friends, Kenny and Ashley Robbins. We didn't get the opportunity to shoot their wedding, but they did ask us to do a trash the dress shoot with them over a year ago.

Check out some of the images from that day with a little extra retouching added. Our editing has grown a little since we did the shoot with them, so we wanted to enhance the photos a bit with our latest touch ups.

We went with the Robbins out to La Jolla Shores for the shoot and had an amazing time. You can check out some of the amazing images we got from the day. The skies were amazing when we went out for the shoot. The light was perfect.

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We were able to get so many amazing photos down on the rocks by the water.

At one point we did get into the water and had some fun with that.

We will end it with the silhouette shot of the two of them and the sunset behind them.

Trash the Dress Photographers: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon Location: La Jolla Shores | La Jolla, CA

Testing out double exposure on wedding photos

November 13, 2015 in Weddings

I have always loved the look of double exposures. Some people believe it is over the top for wedding photography and some people believe that it is taboo to do it through photoshop, but in the end it is all about the art that we are putting out. This is our art form and if we believe that it looks amazing and the customers believe that it looks amazing, then we will keep rolling with it.

This is our first attempts at some double exposures through photoshop from a wedding that we did a little while back. The flowers that were used on the yellow image is from her bouquet.

The pink flowers was from an image that was from unsplash. I just wanted to see what it would look like with some pink colors mixed in there.

We had done it in black and white as well, but in the end we stuck with the colors for the image. We will mess with doing these things more and hopefully we can perfect it to become something that we deliver to clients every time.

Here are some of the images that we created:

Wedding Photographers: Be Still Photography | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon

Happy Veteran's Day | Weddings in the military

November 11, 2015 in Weddings

Happy Veterans Day to the many men and women who have served this country. We thank you for all your service and for everything that you have done. In order to celebrate Veteran's Day, here are some of the many great people that were part of our recent weddings:

We love the ability to capture these amazing moments for people. We love that we are part of wedding days. It is such an amazing responsibility and such an amazing feeling to share our artwork with people to tell their story for the biggest day of their life.

Since we live in San Diego, we get the opportunity to take place in a number of weddings that involve the military in some form. Either the parents were in the military or the groom is in the military. It is always a pleasure to work with the military during weddings.

Wedding photographers: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon

Happy Birthday Marine Corps from this wedding

November 10, 2015 in Weddings

Happy birthday to the marine corps. We are thankful for everything that our marines and military have done and continue to do for our country. To celebrate the marines, we will share one of our weddings that we captured in Camp Pendleton. This was one sneak peek into their wedding when they wanted to meet each other before the wedding and hold hands, but didn't want to see each other.

Throughout that whole facility, we only had a glass door that we could use for this moment, so we had to back him in without him looking. It turned out well though and it was an amazing moment!

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I love having this moment with brides and grooms. That little meeting before the actual wedding for a quick prayer or a quick hello is full of emotion. It is just like a first look before the wedding, but without the actual looking park.

This seems to be a requested moment over and over with brides and grooms. If they don't have the first look, then we get this moment often and we just have to find the right location to make it work. WE LOVE IT!

Venue: Camp Pendleton Photographers: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon | Fiona Padaon

There is a 2nd kiss at a wedding?

October 16, 2015 in Weddings

Everyone knows about the first kiss at the wedding. Every photographer waits for that moment when they kiss as husband and wife for the very first time. That is the moment that everyone sees and it is in front of everyone.

Does anyone remember the second kiss? The second kiss usually happens after the bride and groom procession out from the reception and after they believe that they are away from the rest of the world, they give that second kiss. The "I can't believe it" kiss or the "we made it" kiss.

It really is an awesome moment and it happens almost every single time at a wedding and it is something that we are always looking for. Sometimes it makes for a better moment than the actual first kiss.

Here is one from the wedding over the weekend that I 2nd shot for Cary Pennington. You can see after they had walked away from the reception, they met for a quick quiet moment at the church door.

Our job as photographers is to capture moments. This is a moment that we like to capture from every wedding. As the guests are cheering and grabbing their stuff to head to the reception, the bride and groom are sharing a nice little moment away from the chaos.

San Diego Wedding Photography: Be Still Photog | Ernie Padaon (2nd shooting for Cary Pennington)

A sword and sparklers at this wedding cake cutting

October 14, 2015 in Weddings

During a wedding that I shot with Cary Pennington over the weekend, our couple decided to pull their cake outside on the patio at Morgan Run and cut it out there. They had the sparklers behind them to bring in some light for everyone and the couple decided to cut the cake with a sword. It definitely was a unique type of cake cutting event, but that is what made it awesome!

Check out this image that I was able to capture from the day.

It might not be for everyone, but it was pretty awesome to have the lights from the sparklers and the cake cutting done with a sword. If you are looking for something that is a little different from the rest, you could definitely make something like this happen. It is always awesome to have something unique like this during a wedding.

What are you going to do to make your wedding unique?

Photographer: Ernie Padaon (2nd Shooter for Cary Pennington) | Be Still Photography Venue: Morgan Run | Del Mar, CA

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