Testarossa Vineyards Wedding Photography

Testarossa Album

Here is a recent album from one of our favorite vineyards, Testarossa Vineyards in Los Gatos. Testarossa is a beautiful place to get married at and has a very Italian feel to it. The beautiful stonework of the buildings make you forget you are in the Bay Area and take you away to Tuscany. Here are some album pages from a Testarossa wedding:




Erika got ready at the Hotel Los Gatos just right down the street:









Before the wedding they met to take some photos.  It can be such
a benefit to take photos before the ceremony and if you are worried
about taking away that special moment when you first walk down the aisle
don't worry, it will still be just as special and you will have some
amazing images beforehand that can be so emotional and beautiful.
Here are a few pages when they first met and then we got to walk around
the grounds for awhile without anyone else around which was nice
and relaxing.







Testarossa Vineyards has some beautiful walls for photography:































-- Mark

Testarossa Vineyards Wedding Photography

Merry Christmas from Stagi Imagery

Merry Christmas From Stagi Imagery

Merry Christmas from Stagi Imagery

Dear Mark,   Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and Holiday season. I hope you have  relaxing holidays and are able to spend it with your loved ones.  This past year was filled with many wonderful memories for us and we look forward to all of the events for next year. I would also like to thank you for your continued support of my business. Photography has always been such a passion of mine and to be able to do what I truly love to do every day is such a gift. I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I hope that 2008 is your best year ever!

Sincerely,   Mark Stagi Stagi Imagery - Fine Art Wedding & Portrait Photography VIsit our Blog Visit our website

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Recent Albums

The last month we have been so busy finishing up album designs and have created some really beautiful
albums designs that I am happy with.  Here are just a few of the albums we recently finished:


This was a great wedding at the Corinthian Center in San Jose, a beautiful place to get married at.



-- Mark
Bay Area Wedding Photography

Engagement Photos - Legion of Honor San Francisco

Engagement Photos - Legion of Honor San Francisco

I shot an engagement session at the Palace of Fine Arts a few weeks ago and it was such a great session.  The couple really has a great personality and are a perfect match for each other, I can't wait for the wedding.  They also really were perfectly dressed for the location and that is always such a big deal.  If you are going to be taking engagement photos your attire should always go with the feel of the location and if you aren't sure what to wear just ask me for some suggestions!

Here are a few of my fav's from the session:


























The Legion of Honor is such a romantic, classic place to photography I just love it!
Also if you have never been inside, check it out there is some really great art they have in
their collections. 

-- Mark
San Francisco Engagement Photography

Time to start running again

Time to start running again

As some of you who have read my blog for awhile know I really got back into running this past summer.  I was doing good and going out about 3 times a week for a 5 mile run.  I felt great, was eating healthy and really felt energized.  I was going out with a friend and his schedule changed so he stopped running and I totally stopped also.  At the same time I got a little lazy and also stopped eating healthy and really saw my energy level drop back down.  But today is a new day and time to start the running program back up.  Im going to start today with a mile or so and try to keep it up 3-4 times a week.  I'll and post my progress from my Nike + kit on my blog, so you can see my progress and if you see little progress feel free to harass me :)

Have a great week,

Mark

custom photo frames

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift?

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift? We still have time to create beautiful wall art for you. Let us print one of your favorite wedding or portrait images for you in one of our custom fine art papers and then finish the piece off with a custom matt board and custom frame. We have lots of beautiful options available give us a call at 408-323-8727 or email Mark and we can setup a time for you to visit the studio and view our options.

Also for the next week for any frame order of at least 2 frames we will give you 20% off your entire order (including the prints). Our pricing for custom framing will also not be undersold, even by the big frames like Aaron brothers.
Orders must be received by 12-10 to guarantee Christmas delivery.



-- Mark

Check out our Wedding Photography Podcast Feed

Check out our Podcast Feed

For all of you techies out there, we have a feed for our Podcasts.  This makes it so easy to view new podcasts we have online.  And for anyone who didn't know you can subscribe to our blog using RSS which makes it so much easier to keep up on any postings we have.  I have been using Safari's RSS bookmarks and it does make things so easy to keep up to date, and for any Mac fans out there try out Leopard new feature in mail to subscribe to RSS feeds in Mail, it makes keeping track of all of the sites  you read every day so easy!


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-- Mark

Thomas Fogerty Winery Wedding Photos

Chris and Abby's Slideshow - Thomas Fogarty Winery

Here is the slideshow from Chris and Abby's wedding at Thomas Fogarty Winery. This was our last wedding of the year and it was such a great event, a perfect way to end the year :)

Chris and Abby's Slideshow - Thomas Fogarty Winery Wedding

-- Mark

Bay Area Wedding Photography

Abby and Chris - Thomas Fogerty wedding

Abby and Chris

Here is one more image that I just loved from Abby and Chris wedding.  Even though it was raining they were brave and we went for a quick walk in the Vineyard at Thomas Fogerty Winery, with all of the beautiful fall colors it was so worth it :)





-- Mark

Abby and Chris

Abby and Chris

Abby and Chris were such a great couple to work with, at the wedding you really could feel the love between the
two of them it was so magical. As I am going through all of the images there are so many with them that you can just see the joy in their face. We also were able to capture the first time they met before the ceremony and took a little walk down the grape vines at Fogerty Winery (before getting rained on). The rain was worth it though and we captured some cool shots of them in the vineyard, i'll share some more later this week when I get everything finished up.

here is a shot of abby as she was getting ready:



-- Mark

Cypress Hotel Wedding Photo

Post Production

When I work on my wedding images after the wedding the post production of the image is normally done just like I would have in the darkroom back in the day. I will spend a lot of time toning images to give them a very specific feeling or burning and dodging images. Here is a image I was working on today and really wanted a different more graphic feel to it. I really like all of the lines in the city background so made the image more into a line art piece. Let me know what you think:

Here is the image as I first envisioned it, a little bit desaturated and with a bit of a glow to the image:



and here is a little different version:



Everyone have a great week!

-- Mark
Bay Area Wedding Photography