The Orange Turtle Photography Blog - San Diego Wedding and Engagement Photographer

Spring time in San Diego is just amazing! There are wild flowers everywhere. I figured we should take advantage of the blooming flowers while they last, so we took Honey and Victor to the Torrey Pines Gliderport for a few more pictures. I’m so glad that they trusted us and came along! I really hope that spring will last for another few weeks. I just love how pretty San Diego is right now!

Isn’t that gorgeous? see the bigger version here.

xoxo

Honey & Victor - you guys are such wonderful people! Thanks for sharing your Saturday afternoon with us!

Location: La Jolla Cove

After taking a round of pictures at La Jolla Cove, we headed over to the gliderport next to UCSD campus. We’ll get those pictures up tomorrow so stay tuned!

What is a “Trash the Dress” or “Aftershoot?” A Trash The Dress session or Aftershoot is a photo session that takes place after the wedding. It’s like an engagement shoot in that you spend an hour or two with your photographer just concentrating on taking photos.

Why then do they call it Trash The Dress?

It’s called “Trash The Dress” because brides will be “less careful” with their wedding dress now that the wedding is over. Many will have no qualms in getting the dress dirty or jumping into a swimming pool with the dress on because the wedding is over! Photographers love this because it gives them the opportunity to take pictures of some really crazy stuff that you don’t see every day. How often do you see a bride in a beautiful white dress and a groom dressed up running into the ocean?

Do you do Trash The Dress?

Yes of course! We call our session an “Aftershoot” because we don’t want to put any pressure on anybody to trash their dress. Of course if you like those types of photos, we will be happy to take them for you. I still believe that the photos should be about the romance and fun that a couple has with each other. The focus of our photos in engagement shoots and aftershoots is always the couple’s interaction with each other. If the couple is having fun together by trashing their clothes, we definitely want to capture that… but if its not in their personality we can leave it alone.

Why are Aftershoots great?

Aftershoots are awesome because they give both the bride and groom and the photographers time to concentrate on each other. On a wedding day, we may get 30 minutes to photograph the couple by themselves if we’re lucky. But isn’t the wedding all about the relationship of the bride and groom? Often times the wedding is not just about the bride and groom, but it’s about the bride and groom celebrating with family and friends. So a lot of the day is focused on the bride and groom with family and friends rather than just the couple focusing on each other. That’s why we like to do aftershoots. It gives us 1 or 2 hours to focus just on the couple and capturing the fun, joy and sweet romance between them. We have time to go to different locations. The couple has time to relax and therefore we get more natural looking photos. And all this happens while they are clothed in their wedding day garb, so the photos are very unique– unlike any photos you’ll get the rest of your life.

was extra special this year.

Our church Kairos hosted a Easter Egg hunt event for the Mira Mesa community. It was our first time putting together a big event like this so we had no idea how many families and kids would come out.  It was so amazing to watch the crowd grew bigger and bigger. I think everyone had a blast.  But most importantly we were able to share our love and joy with the families and kids in Mira Mesa. What a blessing!