arizona wedding photography ~ brenda eden photography

{Catching the train}

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{Jenny & Acey}

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Acey + Jenny

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Jenny + Acey {in the orange groves}

 

I loved Jenny's shoes so much. Just saying.

. one more of jessica .

 

I love images of people with their eyes closed, so dreamy and fairytale ~ish, I think. I think it is so interesting to see ourselves with our eyes closed in photos because we can never ever see ourselves like that in any other way.

Thanks sooo much to Annie Randall for putting this photo shoot together and for the beautiful makeup done by Celestial Williams .

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{in the orange groves}

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. jessica .

 

  

  

  

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{Jessica}

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Soon, soon I will put up my own photography! But if you want to see something beautiful, go check out these wedding photographers blog. They are a couple from Washinton DC named Tunji and Aby and I have to keep going back to look at their beautiful work. They recently shot some weddings in Nigeria, which were just gorgeous.

2 more for my 101 in 1001 days

I still haven't finished writing my 101 in 1001. I think if I were really to write a list it would end up being more like 1001 in 1001. There is always so much I want to do!

So here I am adding two more:

11.  Throw a Faerie Ball. About a year and a half ago I went to Oklahoma City with my mom. We got there the night that remnants of a hurricane poured 15 inches of rain on the city. The next day, a Sunday, was beautiful. The city trees were so green and the sky was half bubbly clouds, half bright blue and sunshine. We went walking in an arts district called the Paseo  where some of the buildings in the neighborhood were art deco style built in the 1920's. I love love love the art deco style. On one of the studios we saw this flyer. Ever since then, I have wanted to plan a Faerie Ball.

12. Go to Iceland. I probably started wanting to go to Iceland more than five thousand days ago. Wow, it is weird to think of your life in days like that. Now I've made it official on my list, so I have to go! 

{24 mm tilt shift}

   

Here is my super hastily written lens review: This is the lens I rented this past weekend kind of on a whim at the last minute - the Canon 24 mm f3.5 L tilt shift lens. I didn't really have much time to read about it, but since I had three days off I thought it was a good time to try it out. What I did read about it said the learning curve on it was steep. I would agree. I would suggest reading about them more if you just plan to rent one for a few days.

You need to have plenty of time to use it and then have plenty of time to review what you made with it and time to go back and try again---more time than you would have in a super busy 3 day weekend. I had rented the 45 mm tilt shift back in October and ended up keeping it for a week. That lens was easier to use it seemed than the 24. It seemed like I could tell from the LCD pretty much what was getting without magnifying the image. With the 24, it still seemed a mystery even when magnifying the image on the LCD. Oh, this is where I should say I am not trying to take photos of buildings which is what the tilt shift is usually used for I think, but of people. I want to get in focus faces and blurry dresses, buildings behind the people, etc. I was able to get that with the 45. I just think with the 24 I need more practice. Okay, one more thing, when I rented the lens, the guy at the counter asked me if I knew how to use it and I said yes, cuz I thought it would be like the 24. I wish I had said No and then heard whatever he had to say. The shift dial was realllllly tight on the lens and so I didn't want to break it, so I think I only used the tilt part. Or vice versa, not sure. Either way, I did not experience the full functionality of the lens cuz I was afraid of breaking it and owing the store something like 1600 bucks, which is about the price I have seen for it online. So if you go to Tempe Camera and rent this lens, get them to show you the tilt and shift and make sure that you are comfortable with turning the knobs and don't feel like you are going to destroy the little lens (and therefore kind of waste your money like I did.)

I would like to rent it again, but since weekend rentals add up so quickly and week rentals are so expensive, I think it just makes sense not to and for me and save up and buy a lens baby because I would really love to try one of those. I think I would get some of the effects I am after with a lens baby.

Debbie. Trash the Dress.

Go HERE to enter my Trash the Dress Contest. 

 

I used the 24 mm tilt shift lens that I rented with this. More TTD work soon.

{Planning a wedding for 2010 or 2011 in Arizona and need photographers?

We're booking! Contact me, Brenda Eden, to find out more. Just email me at [email protected] and I will send you a link to our wedding photography information.

If you know your date, please include that date in your email, so I can let you know right away if we have your date available. Thanks and Happy Wedding Planning!!! :)}

Matt and Jay

 

Black and white print of my cousins Jay and Matthew from about 15 years ago. This past weekend we photographed Jay and his friend Maggi, who are seniors in high school. Will be posting those soon. :)

re: polaroids

"We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support."

Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).

Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.

The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.

-The Impossible Project

I've only got two pieces of Polaroid film left, so I truly hope this happens! 

 

:: Jay and Maggi ::

~Neisha and Jay ~

 

pinhole/polaroid

{two headed dragon on the pirate ship}

 

pinhole/polaroid

| bamboo cats |

 

Jay and Neisha.

pinhole/polaroid

:: horse among the blue trees ::

 

mom horse | baby horse

 

{cyanotype from pinhole camera with polaroid back}

imagingusa

Today Becky and I went to the imagingusa trade show. I was looking a lot at albums and the ones I want to find out more are by Image Box Inc. A girl named Kitty was telling me about Image Box albums. How rad a name is Kitty? Ha! I just think it's really a cool name, kinda retro, kinda unusual.

Speaking of rad, here's a pic Beck got of me and of Matt, who was working at the Totally Rad Actions booth. I'll definitely eventually be getting TRA, hopefully before long! :)

{moonrise and dragonfly}

  

I was driving east on the 60, to meet up with the Truong sisters and my sister for dinner when I suddenly saw the moon this evening. It was so gigantic, gorgeous, otherworldly, magical and unexpected, that I nearly crashed the car. Well not really, but I did start taking pictures and then pulled into the Mesa Community College parking lot to take more pictures.

 

Finally I made it to Dragonfly  in Mesa near Dobson and Southern for dinner. That place is seriously good and I thought it was a pretty restaurant. I had never been there before, but I will definitely be going back.

  

M.

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Digging this photo bloggers style a lot.

. plans .

This is the plan for today: Right after work, board Light Rail and head to Lux for some of their sooo-good coffee and then back on LR to the Phoenix Art Museum to see  Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor . The museum says it is open late and is free on Tuesdays-yay!

This is one of Connor's works that I really want to see:

 

These look really cool, too:

 

 

 

. ideas .

....External information networks (the coffeehouse, the Internet) are so crucial to the process of innovaton, because those networks so often supply new connections that the solo inventor wouldn't have stumbled across on his or her own. But the long life span of the hunch suggests another crucial dimension here: it is not just the inventor's social network that matters, but the specific way in which the inventor networks with his own past selves, his or her ability to keep old ideas and associations alive in the mind. If great ideas usually arrive in fragments, a partial cluster of neurons, then part of the secret to having great ideas lies in creating a working environment where those fragments are nurtured and sustained over time.

          The Invention of Air, Steven Johnson

I'm reading Steven Johnson's book about Joseph Priestley , one of the discovers of oxygen. I think Johnson's idea here about ideas is fascinating. I'm trying to think how this idea about ideas plays out in my own life. I swear I get a few great ideas everyday....but how many do I ever even think about in a month's time? I see how this really could relate to art and trying to be an artist. I have so many great ideas for photography....but I am not good about writing them down and coming back to them when the time is right. Johnson writes that Priestley was constantly writing everything down his whole entire life, which really contributed to his inventiveness.

101 in 1001

I've seen a lot of bloggers, especially photo bloggers make these lists. 101 things they want to do in 1001 days, and I have kinda written out some lists too, but never kept track of them or made the list up to 101. So now I am going to start to write a list out. Here's the beginning of the rough draft of my list:

1. Visit Sarina in London

2. Get more Canon lenses

3. Post something on this blog every day for 2009.

4. Go to gym classes 2xs a week.

5. Start walking one specific day a week and invite my friends to go with me.

6. Make marmalade jelly from the fruit on my orange and tangarine trees

7. Study Spanish again

8. Climb Camelback Mountain once a month during non-Summer months

9. Grow flowers

10. Go to a workshop taught by the Image is Found photographers.

Okay, the list will get longer, that's it for now. :)

:: polaroids from January 3rd, 2000 ::

Nine years ago today, Keith and Nick came over and we took these polaroids.

 

   

 

. photographer get together/photoshoot in Sedona .

This sounds like so much fun. 

Count me in.

annie. lois. {the day after christmas}