Our Custom Websites

We include a custom website with every wedding package. But what is that exactly? We build each couple a beautiful site with a professional template customized just for their wedding day. We add a gallery of the best photos, the story of their love and convenient links to all the wedding professionals who made the day possible.

Follow the links below to see what we put together for you!

Adam & Melissa

Stewart & Jessica

Bookings that include and engagement session will get their site even sooner.

Blake & Brooke's November wedding is our first example!

Blake & Brooke

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes...

We have been busy, busy, busy!!! I admit we have neglected our blog, but we will be giving it some much needed TLC now that things have calmed down a bit. We are excited to announce that we have been doing some serious work on our website though. The plan is to make it more streamlined and elegant which will (hopefully) show off our work more effectively. It is important that our site stands out in the crowd but isn't over the top. Look for the improved site coming soon to a computer near you! : )

Pick of the Week

Balboa Park is one of our favorite places. The botanical building is perhaps the best place for good light any time of day. We've tried to illustrate over the past month how light can make or break an image. When I made the image for this week's post I had the inspiration for a dramatic photo from the beginning. A few minutes strolling about the botanical building and I'd found a few of the shots I was there for. There are a few I really like, but this one is my favorite. Remember, anyone can take a picture, by knowing what you're looking for you can make an exceptional one.

Pick of the Week, a Couple weeks Late!

After two ridiculously busy weeks, we find ourselves, having sadly neglecting our blog, with a pick for this week. Our subject this month is light and today I want to illustrate how water so wonderfully influences it. Here we have one of my favorite macros I took while we ventured through Sequoia National Park. The Light cloud cover following light rain gave us the perfect light for shooting. I found a small stream with many leaves adrift, but this one caught my eye. Ok, lots caught my eye and I took way too many pictures! But I digress, this photo stands apart from so many others for one simple reason; the water has so neatly magnified the details of the leaf. The photo is quite sharp and the droplets assist the eye in traveling all about the leaf to explore its intricacies.

New Month, New Focus, New Picks!

Photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. The root word Photo- refers to light, or "Phos". For the month of March we shall explore uses and techniques of light with some of our favorite photos.

Every photo needs light to be made and the methods one uses enable them to create a memorable image or a forgettable one. We've picked three examples for this week to illustrate how we see and use light.


Quality of Light
The example above is from Sequoia National Park. Our second day there we encountered a dense fog which had inundated the forest. The soft and diffuse light was ideal; it created bright shadows for smoothly contrasted images with rich colors. The Sequoia's are massive trees and the filtered light only makes them seem larger and more mysterious.

Direction of Light

Here we have a mother only a few months from conception. Using a lamp (low tech!) we have made a simple and rather traditional image much more dramatic. With direct light on one hand gently cradling her growing belly we draw the eye downward. Shot at a higher ISO and with some softening on the post-production side we have made a very endearing image.

Flare and Backlighting

Sunsets in the desert are spectacular and offer many opportunities to explore ways to utilize light. The above image is from southern Arizona, near a little town called Ajo. Lens flare is yet another method to add(or subtract) visual impact to an image. If over used flare can reduce an image's contrast to a point where it does not draw the eye as it should. Back-lighting the subject is another useful tool employed here as well. Cactus spines catch and diffuse the sun's rays nicely. Each species glows a bit differently too. A note to would-be desert shooters; find a hill covered with cacti and a sunset transforms it into a glowing golden masterpiece!

We will continue our exploration throughout the month-so stay tuned!

Pic of the Week

This week's pick is another shot from Imperial Beach. The beach and pier in IB are among our favorite haunts. This particular picture is of a railing along the pier. We loved the sun kissed glow the setting sun was casting on the worn wood. The texture on the rail is quite interesting, almost wave-like, which is fitting considering that the ocean is what you see peeking through the knot-hole.
John took this photo with our trusty 50mm lens. It is a very practical lens that always rewards us with sharp, beautiful images. It is an extraordinary little gem with a surprisingly small price tag. It is our favorite lens to carry on excursions thanks to its small stature, light weight and is a versatile focal length.

Pic of the Week

In keeping with our monthly theme of Pattern and Texture, a rusty old retaining wall from Imperial Beach is our focus this week. I actually took the photo for a contest last year. The theme was "decay" and though I didn't win I gathered many interesting photos in the pursuit of my entry. I wanted an image to create wonder; not only what is this thing and why is it so decrepit, but to emphasize the texture deterioration of metal and paint creates. Not only are these textures interesting, but they create a story of their own. Rust patterns follow water from rain and runoff as they have moved over metal. Water sloughing off rust particles forms stains on many types of surfaces, often in quite elaborate fashion. Paint peelings leave intricate patterns as the elements feverishly attempt to remove them. But really, I like this photo because it is boring. The rust trails are not all that interesting. The peeling paint is relatively benign in it complexity. The appreciation here of its simple and blatant "ordinaryness" is where the true beauty lies. What are your thoughts?

NEW: Pic of the Week!

We decided to start a new weekly blog post featuring some of our favorite pictures. We thought it might be interesting to let you learn a little bit about the who, what, where and/or why of these shots. I know there are times I look at a picture and wish I could know more about it and that is where this idea stemmed from.

So without further ado here is our first Pic of the Week!



This photo was taken by John late last month in Maricopa County Arizona. We were there just a few days after some very large storms had hit the area. We discovered a large quantity of mud that was drying and cracking into some interesting patterns. Some of the mud was drying in large flat chunks and others seemed to be curling into small flakes that almost looked like scales. We took many shots and this is just one of our favorites. Textures can be incredibly interesting. Rocks, wood and dry mud can be beautiful reminders of some of nature's most simple wonders. After all, flowers and waterfalls shouldn't get all the glory! Beauty can be found in just about anything, even the mud off the side of a dirt road.

Stay Tuned!

We have been busy, busy, busy! October was a crazy, but fabulous month for us. Look for pictures from two gorgeous weddings coming soon.

New Website!

Its been way too long since our last blog! We've been working on this website forever! If you have our old on bookmarked, please replace that with the new one.
www.bergmannphotography.com

Whatever it Takes....

During our recent trip I had the "opportunity" to get in some rather precarious positions for the shoot. But hey, isn't that the best part??

A new start, sort of...

We've been blogging for months now so it only seems proper to do it right! We will continue to post our photographic escapades here as often as we can, so check back soon! I'll include a smattering of recent work here but you can still see the old posts if you like!

Old posts, old blog