Without a question, Miami and Ft Lauderdale are one of the best place to have a engagement session done. Not only because of the weather, we are surrounded on natural amazing places.
If you are having your engagement photography here in South Florida, it is good you talk to your photographer in advance about choosing a great location.
Here are some images of Megan and Drew I shot few months ago.
I love photography, and even more shooting at beautiful weddings.
But if you are looking for a photographer to help you with the memories of the most beautiful day of your life, here is one thing you should consider…
Have your EngagementPhotography or Engagement Photo Session before you hire your wedding photographer.
Can you imagine you on your wedding day, trying getting ready when this strange photographer comes in and start taking pictures of everything and asking you to do this, or to look at that and etc?
The Engagement Session is the perfect moment so you and your photographer can know each other a little better. And not only that, you will know a little more about the photographer’s personality and style.
If you’re getting married here in South Florida and need some help with your engagement pictures, here is a slide show I shot early this year…
As a professional photographer, I have to confess, Boudoir Photography is one of the most fun photo shoot I could ever ask for.More and more clients have been asking me to have their boudoir photo shoot session. Some of them want to do it to surprise their husbands, some want to surprise their boyfriends or fiancé, and for my surprise a lot of them like to do the shoot with few friends.
We call it “Boudoir and Pinup Party”, where 4 or 5 girls would spend few hours having their makeup done by a professional makeup artist and having some amazing and sensual pictures taken by a professional photographer - Sure it wouldn’t be a “Party” without some wine, snacks and some really great music to help setting up the mood.
The Boudoir and Pinup Party, it is so cool and fun that the girls don’t feel the pressure of showing their body.
Every year more and more women ask me to do their Boudoir Photography or Lingerie Photography. I love to shoot some boudoir style, but the session gets even better when the models have amazing bodies.
One of the best feedback that a Photographer can have of his art work is when he or she enters his or her work in a Print Competition.
Last Week, PPGF (a South Florida guild for professional photographers) hosted their Second 2010 Print Competition. This time we had our print competition together with the Palm Beaches Guild.
It was a great night with so many great images.
I was planing to enter four of my prints on this competition, but few weeks ago the external hard drive where I save my files crashed. I was lucky enough for having saved 2 of my images in another drive 2 months ago, so I could show them to another photographer friend of my.
Before I show you the images, I want to take this time to thank this photographer, friend of mine, Julie Hughes. Two months ago she came from her Professional Guild in Palm Beach to help our guild members in how to improve our chances in print competitions. Thanks!!!
Here are the results …
This print won 1st Prize for Portrait,
and this one won 1st Prize for Pictorial Portrait, 1st Prize Over All, and also Best in Show…
I know I have a long way to go until I can run my pictures in a national level, but I am getting there.
Few years ago I joined a GROUP of Videographers here in Broward (SFPVA - South Florida Professional Video Artist Association). We have our meetings every third Wednesday of the month at 1700 NW 66 Ave Suite 100 Plantation, FL 33313.I have to say, once again, that that I am impressed with our president (Danny). He always works extra hard to make sure that every month we have more and more Professional Videographers (VIDEO ARTIST) coming to our meetings.
This week we had a group of more than 40 people that came to watch Ray Roman’s Presentation… He did an amazing job with his presentation and answering all the questions.Ray is one of the many talented Video Artists living here in South Florida, and it was a pleasure to have him there with us.
I also promised everybody that I would post some of the images that I shot of our meeting.
It’s not a secret how much I love to photograph weddings and how happy the bride and groom look at their special day. But, what does happen to that couple after few years of marriage?
This week, I had the pleasure to be the photographer of Arif and Parveen 20th Anniversary. It was amazing to see how happy they were at he party…, I felt like I was shooting their wedding.
They celebrated their 20th anniversary at Bombay Grill (Indian Restaurant - 4465 North University Dr. Lauderhill, FL 33351) with their family and friends.
The owner of Bombay Grill, Paul Rungta, is an amazing person. He did a great job in arranging the new banquet hall to host the Anniversary Party for Arif and Parveen. Mr. Rungta made sure the food was excellent.
The DJ, Zafar Mithavayani, made the whole event very entertaining. He played Indian music and everyone had a great time dancing.
If you want to check all the images from their Anniversary, CLICK HERE.
Hi, my name is Paulo Jordao - http://www.paulojordao.com, and I am a international Photographer (Weddings and Fine Art Portraits) living in South Florida.
Last Sunday I had an amazing experience with one of my Workshops “Trash the Dress - Light and Location”, for Photographers from Miami - Fort lauderdale - Palm Beaches.
I had checked the location twice before I started marketing this Workshop. It is was a beautiful small park just south of Fort Lauderdale International Airport.
For this Workshop, I Had 19 Photographers, 12 models and 4 Makeup Artists - I also want to enjoy this post to thank all them for their amazing professionalism and beautiful job.
We had 3″ of rain that afternoon and most of people would think that we would not have the courage to go ahead with our schedule, but I am glad we did.
Here are few images of that day, let me know what you think.
If you are a photographer looking to distance yourself from the competition and boring everyday images, you need to keep your mind and eyes opened for opportunities to make some amazing and unique images.
This week I had the honor shooting a family portrait session at Jaime Camara Jr. and Maria Alice’s ranch (an amazing place with features more impressive than most houses that I know). Jaime and Maria Alice are one the most respected couples of the State of Goias and Brazil.
I started the family portrait session at 5:00 pm, and shot until their son lost interest helping me. LOL! But, I had more than 90 minutes with Marcelo, Fernanda and their son, Francisco, and we had so many great shots that it was hard to select only few images to post here.
After the session, I stayed there to shoot Larissa’s birthday party (Jaime and Maria Alice’s daughter). Larissa, Juliano (her husband) and Felipe (her son) are a great example of a beautiful Brazilian family.
It was a very selective party for her family and closest friends, and everybody were very casual and friendly.
I want to enjoy this post to thank Larissa for having me at her wonderful birthday, and also congratulate her on her pregnancy.
Since I couldn’t bring all my gear from USA to Brazil, I did my best to work with as much available light as possible.
Before you compare my prices with another Photographer, it is a good idea to know exactly what you want for your special day.
Do you need an Experienced Photographer (has studied years and years the art of composition, posing, retouching, album designing and etc, and will use his or her artistic gift to help you preserving the best memories of your life), or do you need another “Shooter” for couple hundred dollars in exchange of your images in a CD? I am a Fine Art Photographer and I will combine Photojournalism and Traditional styles, giving you the best of both worlds. I only book a limited amount of weddings per year so I can deliver the quality and the attention that my selected clients deserve.
The popular dates fill up fast! Please contact me to see if your date is still available.
“2010 Lowest Prices, just arrived - The best solution for Brides on the Budget”
I still have few dates available for 2010. My 2009 regular Wedding Fee was $350/ hour (Shooting + Editing Time) with no minimum order, so you would decide how long you needed me, album sizes, enlargements and how many pictures you would buy a-la-carte.
But for 2010, I decided to go Bananas – Here is the newest 2010 Price list:
2010 Wedding Photography Plan
“How would you like to get a FREE Photographer for your Wedding?”
Here is a new way to save you thousands of dollars with your wedding photography;
When you invest in any of the plans below, I will give you 100% of that amount back to you, as Product Credits from the “A La Carte Items” (that amount is a credit on your account towards the purchase of which ever products you desire; albums, prints, digital files, engagement session, photographer additional hour etc).
Plus, you will get between 4 and 10 hours of FREE Photography Coverage by an experienced professional on your Wedding day.
““NO OTHER PHOTOGRAPHER WILL DO THAT FOR YOU””
I am giving you a FREE PHOTOGRAPHER for your wedding day and the only thing you need, is to invest in any of the plans below.
“The more you invest, the more free hours of photographer coverage you get!”
Yesterday I had the honor of being the photographer for Zachary’s first birthday.
Here are some reason for that:
I love photography
I love to photograph beautiful people
great food
do I need to mention about money??? LOL
But when I said that it was an honor to be the photographer for Zachary’s first birthday, is because a little more than one year ago, I had the pleasure to photograph one the most beautiful Pregnancy Session that any photographer could wish for, Zachary’s Mom - Ana (Check here her Pregnancy Session)
Back to the birthday party…; it was a party for family and closest friends and even Elmo was there to help entertaining the kids.
Ana asked me to have some Professional Portrait done at the party with her family and guests, so I brought two of my studio lights + a 12′ x 25′ backdrop to have everybody looking their best.
I am still editing the images and in one or two days all the images will be posted on this link - CLICK HERE (PAGE ALREADY ONLINE) -, but since I promised everybody that I would post a Blog with the link, so they could look all the images, I wanted at least show one of the images that I shot there:
Once again, I want to thank everybody form Zachary’s birthday party for for the great time.
I want to thank you for stopping by and having some time to read and comment on my posts.
This blog was created with you in mind. Here I will post few of my professional work, plus few little things of my personal life. I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I do creating it for you.
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