Pickerill Creative hooks up with Bellini of South Pasadena.

We recently hooked up with Bellini of South Pasadena, a super cool baby, kids and teen store.  If you have not been by Bellini and have kids, know someone who has kids or were once yourself a kid and want to remember how great life was back then, you should check them out.

Bellini:
1020 Mission Street
South Pasadena, CA 91030
(626) 449-8113


My wife Martinique was in the store a few months back and started chatting with the manager Courtney (seen in the picture below.) They display different photogs work in their store and when Martinique showed Courtney our website she exclaimed, "ohh... we're looking for a new photographer for our walls." So we did that and then they asked us if we would do a shoot featuring some of their current products lines for their website, store and catalogues.

Me and Courtney at the shoot:

Pickerill Creative - Selected for Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011

Los Angeles, CA Jan, 28th, 2011 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce Luke Pickerill Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Photography!



Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Luke Pickerill stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Luke Pickerill for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Luke Pickerill is among the very best Wedding Photographeres within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

For more information, please visit our website: www.pickerillcreative.com

Luke Pickerill Wins Three Accolades of Excellence Awards at WPPI!

We are very excited to announce that in only our second competition ever entered, we have won Three Accolades of Excellence in the 2010 WPPI 2nd Half International Photography Competition.

The WPPI International Photography Competition awards are presented each year at the largest trade show, educational platform and convention in the United States for professional photographers. The 2010 competition included 1867 images in 17 different categories submitted by photographers from all over the world.


Here are the images that won:

Antonia & Theron Married. The Vineyards, Simi Valley California.

Antonia and Theron's wedding was beautiful.  The Vineyards in Simi Valley is a great location and I had a great time.

Shooting darker skinned weddings can be challenging.  Remember, black absorbs light while white reflects it.  So, darker skin tones need more light while white dresses reflect light. In this case the groom was in a white tux as well.  The challenge is exposing for the skin tones without blowing out the dress and tuxedo...

This particular case was even more challenging because our groom's skin tones we're much darker than our brides.   At some point you have to just split the difference and use a lot of fill.

This is my favorite shot from the day. I combined strobe with a hot light. f/2.0 - 1/125 - iso1600


f/3.5 - 1/1600 - iso500


1/200 - f/3.2 - iso1000


Trying some new techniques with shooting the dress. What do you think does it work?


1/160 - f/2.8 - iso1000


1/200 - f/2.2 - iso1200


1/125- f/4.0 - iso800


1/320- f/3.2 - iso1000


1/320- f/3.2 - iso1000


1/80- f/2.8 - iso1600


1/80- f/2.8 - iso1600


1/500 - f/2.8 - iso200


1/250 - f/2.8 - iso500


1/15 - f/10 - iso1250


1/15 - f/8 - iso1250


1/80 - f/2.5 - iso1250


1/500 - f/3.2 - iso200


1/500 - f/3.5 - iso800


1/500 - f/3.2 - iso400


1/500 - f/3.2 - iso400