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Lumpias and Martinis | Photobooth | Philippine Center, San Francisco
This past August 11, 2013, we set up the PEPbooth for a fundraiser event called "Lumpias and Martinis." The proceeds supported local Filipino artists, and there were plenty of lumpia, sisig and martinis to go around. It's always a funtime with the PEPbooth, as you will see in these wacky photos :)
Quinceanera preparations | Event | Campbell, CA
I had the first-timer opportunity to be a photographer at a Quinceanera a couple of months ago. My friend Kenni got me in on this event, which was actually a double Quinceanara. We split our photographic focuses during the preparatory hours-- he did one of the girls, and I did the other. Afterwards, I followed my girl to her church ceremony (the other girl chose to opt out of it), then we all united at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum for single, double and group portraits with the entourage. This group of teenagers was a pleasure to work with -- they were very poise and easy to talk to. Then the reception at Santa Clara Fairgrounds (Fiesta Hall) gave both girls' families and friends a night to remember with performances, entertainment and lively music. The official photos are presented by Kreative Productions (who was the videographer as well), so again, these are just my personal selections of the shots I did. I'm not showing the girl's face in these photos as I can only share accessory details during the preparation.
Full event services
We would be very happy to recommend videographers and a hair/makeup artist for your event. Please get in touch with us if you're interested in our photography and/or photobooth packages. We have a great work relationship with some of the best videographers in the industry, and you will not be disappointed if you decide to hire all of us as your creative vendors of the day.
Be Careful With My Heart US Tour | Silver Spurs Arena, Kissimmee, FL
The Be Careful With My Heart US Tour ended in Kissimmee, Florida. The concert took place at Silver Spurs Arena. I didn't have too much time or energy to take as many photos. In fact, for most of our team, this was a very kickback event day. I got just enough photos so here they are.
Click photo to open the slideshow! Be Careful With My Heart US Tour | Silver Spurs Arena | Kissimmee, FL
Be Careful With My Heart US Tour | The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
This past May, The Filipino Channel produced and staged a very successful concert in Los Angeles, and again in Kissimmee on the same weekend. We hardly ever assign an "official" photographer, but I always bring my camera to these events because when there's a chance for me to take some shots, I go for it. My task at these events are always different, and I'm ever barely stuck to doing one thing. And with that said, I did get some shots in. Here are the photos from the Los Angeles show. The Shrine is a gorgeous venue, and made these pictures look better! May I add that this was a very sleepless weekend for me and our events team! From Friday morning through the night and Saturday morning until the wee hours of Sunday morning, I personally did not sleep a minute. I had a long nap overnight and woke up late for our Sunday show, but I made it back home alive the next day. Be Careful With My Heart US Tour | The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick and Geraldine | Wedding Reception | Willows Event Venue
Event: Wedding Reception Location: Willows Event Venue, Vallejo, CA Frederick and Geraldine hired me at the last minute to be their wedding celebration's photographer in early February. Their civil wedding had taken place a few days before, but the party was when family was able to celebrate with them at Willows Event Venue in Vallejo, CA. Willows Event Venue is an intimate space that hosts all kinds of events. Its interior is smaller than a community hall, and is customized to each event. For Frederick and Geraldine's reception, the flowers were all decorated by themselves and an aunt. The rest of the decors were by the venue. We took a few portraits in the outdoor area behind the building, and the rest of the day was all about celebrating: first dance, cake cutting, money dance, bouquet toss, garter toss, line dances, and lots of food :) Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. B!
Loyola family | Portraits | Palace of Fine Arts
Cathy is a longtime friend of mine since we were in junior high. Over the years, we never really talked or spoken to each other until the social media explosion. I've since learned that she's become a mom and lives in another state. She approached me on one of our Facebook chats to do her family portraits, and she brought her whole family from Las Vegas just a few days before Christmas 2012. We decided to do the photos at Palace of Fine Arts. It did rain, but we managed to get plenty of shots in between the pouring madness. Plus, that dome and the columns at the palace served as a mediocre shelter, but it was more of a wonderful prop (or backdrop). I loved their simple outfits of white tops, blue jeans and Chucks. The ladies each had a red accessory on them. Evidently, this family has a very goofy side.
Gerard and Sophia | Wedding | Our Lady of Mercy
Event: Wedding and Reception Location: Our Lady of Mercy (Daly City, CA), One Ferry Plaza (San Francisco, CA) Nicco was the videographer at Travis and Amanda's wedding, and that was my first time meeting him. He is very good at what he does, and so I couldn't say no at a chance to work with him again in another wedding. He asked me to help out at Gerard and Sophia's wedding in October. The ceremony was at Our Lady of Mercy in Daly City, CA. It was a traditional Catholic wedding. For entourage portraits, the group went to Legion of Honor. There were many other wedding parties that day, but once Nicco got his shots in, off we went across town to One Ferry Plaza for the reception. It was a gorgeous venue with the Bay Bridge as part of its wide backdrop! Loved the windows, loved the lights, there was nothing not to love. The official photos are presented by Paderna Photography, but I would like to share my personal favorites that I shot. :)
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Travis and Amanda | Wedding | Wildwood Acres Resort
Venue: Wildwood Acres Resort in Lafayette, CA Back in September, I had accepted my first second-shooter opportunity for PXL Photography to help with Travis and Amanda's beautiful wedding. I started with documenting the groom and groomsmen getting ready, and proceeded to the venue and took detail shots of flowers, props and of course the ceremony. It was a very long day, but this is one of the funnest weddings I've witnessed. These photos are not the entire collection (those are presented by PXL Photography), but rather, my personal selection of favorites that I shot and edited. Thanks to Nino Nucum for taking me under his wings on this :) Click here to start the slideshow!
PanFocus Studios in 2013
A very warm welcome to you on our new website! I have decided to take this back to the blog-style because I have never stopped liking it, and experimenting with Smugmug proved to be ineffective for what I do. The galleries are still hosted on Smugmug, and prints/products can still be purchased by clients. Please feel free to contact us through private messaging (use the form to the right), or leave a comment on any of the pages here. It is very easy to reach out to us! Shy people who prefer email can do this, but we also have a phone number if you want to talk :) What we are facing this year is a re-positioned focus on events. Children, maternity and family portraits are mostly shelved now, but will be considered during each inquiry. Past clients will of course be considered without hesitation. Events we are available for include weddings, birthdays, religious ceremonies, sports and any and all. In addition, we have a fun open-air photobooth: the PEPbooth (PanFocus Event Photobooth). This service is available for any event, and will be discounted if booked along with our photography service. The PEPbooth is a mobile photo studio, and will be sure to make your event a big hit. If you need recommendations for videography and hair+makeup, we can help! We know the best videographers and a wonderful beauty artist, and guess what? We would LOVE to be YOUR team for YOUR big day! Along the way, we are also tuning into fine art and stock photography. This is a step towards a personal fulfillment to shoot on our own time on our own terms. For this, we are using the resources of 500px.com to host these images. Please follow our work at 500px.com/panfocusstudios. -Rio
Backlog on blogs
Excuse us for the lack of updates here, but times were spent with family and re-working this website. We are behind by 3 blog entries (three weddings) since September, and a family portrait from December. I'll get to them eventually. Just some brief updates: Our photobooth is now its own brand, and we call it PEPbooth (PanFocus Event Photobooth). For the year 2013, this is what we will be pushing. I (Rio) am preparing for an Adobe Exam with a couple of courses and so there will be very little time for me to book weddings and edit the many photos they produce. I am also making myself available for hire as a second shooter, so if you are an event photographer in need of some assistance, please drop a note! Also, check out our new nature & urban photography page at 500px!
Moses and Rebecca | Wedding | Sutro Heights Park
Event: Outdoor wedding Location: Sutro Heights Park (San Francisco, CA) Moses and Rebecca had me document their very intimate wedding in one of San Francisco's quiet public spaces: Sutro Heights Park. It was a very overcast September afternoon, and I met with the bride and some of her entourage in the nearby Seal Rock Inn at a suite to cover the bridal preparations. Shortly before the ceremony started, I hurried across the street and across the park to the other end where the ceremony was going to take place, where guests and Moses were waiting. It was a very custom ceremony, in which the couple had a "sand ritual" with black and orange sand; this was a nod to their favorite baseball team, the SF Giants (whom, at the time, were vying for the playoffs). Congratulations to the lovely couple! And the Giants went on to win the World Series a few weeks later =D
Hair & Makeup needs
We would like to announce that we have a preferred hair & makeup artist in our network that is available for your beauty needs! Her services are available as an add-on to our wedding and event packages. Contact us for more details when booking with us.
Some changes on the way
PanFocus Studios will be re-branding this winter, with projected launch of our new look and updated name sometime around the first quarter of 2013. This means new website too. This past year, we have focused on events upon realizing this is where our strength is. We also launched our open-air photobooth service in the summer. We will be taking on 2013 as a dedicated event photography service for both private events, public events and business to business. Our packages will be changing a little bit, and will soon be taken off our website until things are ready for our launch. However, our photobooth packages will remain the same, and we will continue to be available for events throughout this process. Family portraits will be almost unavailable, but not completely out of the picture. We will only be doing family portraits for very select inquiries, and mostly for personal connections. However, portraitures will be included or be available as an add-on with certain event packages. Throughout 2013, we will also be developing another photography service which we can't say too much about yet. We have somewhat started on it this year, and would like to explore more into it. It is a type of photography we have talked about doing for sometime now, so it is something to start pushing. In the meantime, we have a lot of blog updating to do with the recent events we've covered.
Winners from our raffle at the Tricycle Music Festival
We had a fantastic afternoon at the Tricycle Music Festival today, which was held at the San Francisco Main Library. So many cute smiles and costumes, and awesome families spending their Sunday jamming out to music! We held a raffle called GUESS THAT MACRO!, where participants had to take a guess on a printed image that was laid out on the table. Only correct entries with email addresses were entered into the drawing, and we had mostly correct guesses! The answer was: STRAWBERRY. Our prizes today were three PanFocus Studios tote bags, and a grand prize of our 2-HOUR PHOTOBOOTH package (a $450 value)!! Here are the random winners we drew, and all of you had been contacted already. However, one of you had a bouncing email, so if you are reading this, please contact us ASAP to redeem your prize. You have until Monday 11:59pm, November 5, 2012 to contact us and if we don't hear from you, the prize will be forfeited. PanFocus Studios tote bag winners: Gareth Scott (please contact us ASAP) Valerie Hanna Kampermaan Photobooth winner: Noemi Hernandez Congratulations to all of you, and thank you for stopping by our photobooth today! (This was the image)
Fun Contest Sneak Peak!
We are planning out a very fun contest starting next month, around Halloween time until about Thanksgiving week. We are telling you this early because we need your help. What sort of help? Making this even more fun! Every contest needs competition, so we would love your help in spreading the word about our photography page on Facebook. That's at www.facebook.com/panfocusstudios. The contest will only happen here on our website's blog, but we know that more people have their eyes on Facebook so the best way for us to tell the world about anything is through the wall. There will be some really awesome prizes, even people from any part of the world can participate (for the prizes that can be mailed or transferrable, of course...) It's open to past clients, new clients, current clients, non clients, everyone! We can't reveal too much right now, but it's an ode to our new macro lens, the Canon 100mm f/2.8! We love this sweet glass so much that it's going to be a big part of the game. At the same time, we are going to have a lot of fun playing with it, and with everyone who wants to win something cool. Now we would really love your help in drumming up this contest... it's all in the nature of fun... and of course, we're not going to hide it -- we would love to be heard of by more people!
Garcia Family | Portraits | Roosevelt Beach
Portraits: Family and Lifestyle Location: Roosevelt Beach (Half Moon Bay, CA)
When I was starting out and practicing on maternity portraits last year, I heard from a mom of 2, Libby, who was carrying her third child and wanted to have their photos taken since she never got to do it before. It was a great opportunity for me to learn from that experience, and I hope that Libby liked her pictures then. She had me come and take their family photos this time around, with their latest addition to the family -- a happy baby girl with such a sweet smile!
We met at Roosevelt Beach in Half Moon Bay. It was a very overcast day, yet, it was rather warm! As you can see, the family was not afraid to dress in casual clothing without sweaters and jackets. Her boys were quite adventurous with the waves, and they sure got their sand on! And to add to the silliness, baby Carmen was enjoying the sand herself. Here are a few of my favorites from this set.