Subliminal Charm of Alison

Congratulations Alison, as she won Miss Teen Photogenic 2007 with the image I took of her, on the right! She deserves that win!

This kinda started out with Alison describing herself as being a "sincere person". I guess I've always been attracted to sincere and genuine personality and she wanted a headshot for herself. I was happy to help. Alison arrived at 11am on 10/22/2006, a day after my birthdate. She knew she has to drive me around since I got into an accident on Friday and won't have my car for a good 3 weeks. What a mega bummer.

Backup two days on Friday. I swerved to avoid a car that didn't stop at the stop sign. Hit a lamp post dead on after colliding against the high curb. The entire lamp post wavered for a split second, the lamp 30' above me shattered. Bits and pieces of glass floated down my car like snowflakes. Amazing sight. Too bad I didn't have my camera with me. :-\ City of San Jose isn't very happy with me. Good thing my insurance cover that. But I think I'm taking the brunt of the "at-fault" clause since I hit a stationary object. Sheesh. Can't they blame the lamp post for being there?

Well, back to the shoot, I did one with her looking up...way up with styled curled hair, a simple choker and earrings that I hand-picked. I knew I was going to cross-process this shot. Used a strobe, daylight balanced it against the ambient and got the money shot that I wanted.

And we got "Subliminal Charm".

We then took off in Alison's car (my car in the shop, remember?), with very minimal photo equipment, much thanks to sweet Alison who stuffed her trunk to the brim with clothes, handbags, shoes, jewelries, etc. I bet I can make a fortune by doing a garage sale on those stuff. LOL.

Yup, got to the location, Alison gave me a big fright by losing her handbag in the ladies' room. Well, she didn't know where she left it so I had to frantically searched through the haystacks of clothes in her truck, feeling for what is a cloth-like handbag among a thousand clothes. Great. She would then pop out of nowhere with her handbag dangling on her hands smiling from ear to ear. I shoulda kicked her butt. LOL

We did have a great time with coffee, chats and everything. It was great.

- Michael Soo

Soo Photography

Jill & Tom Stolarik's Wedding

The Wedding Album!!

A definite a fun wedding! Much appreciation and thanks to Ann Stevenson for booking this fun wedding with us. Ann's beautiful daughter, Jill and her now husband, Tom is just so pleasant to work with. I can't say enough of how wonderful they are.

Ann even let me sit in the same table with them in the reception, in the Oak Room of The Plumed Horse. But...as some of you may know, I carry the bulk of wedding photo gears the size of a truck around me. With that in mind, sitting in the main table and knocking down drinks and making a clown of myself in the wedding? They need to pay extra for those type of shows! So Paul Ferradas (great fellow photographer and my handsome sidekick at that wedding) and I adjourned to the outside and had our dinner there. The cool breeze did help improved our creativity!

Of course, you're tired of my rambling. I went crazy with their wedding album, created THIRTY-TWO pages instead of the agreed upon twenty pages album!!! Why? Cuz there are just so many good images that I can't fit into the album they wanted. So, I uh...gave them an upgrade just to satisfy my design inspiration! ;-)

This is gonna be a heavy album, that's for sure. See if Tom can juggle it. ;)





Their Wedding Album!!


Michael Soo
-- Soo Photography --

Children of Cambodia

Special Photography Dedication

This is a special dedication made for the children of Cambodia for how much they suffered.



Soo Photography

Angel's Descent

Photoshoot of Angel's Descent

I have been planning this shoot for a near to a month now with Charisse. Unfortunately, she couldn't make the shoot a mere 3 days before the shoot itself. I grabbed Brittany who seemed like a perfect candidate for it. This shoot lasted a mere 2-3 hours but has more amazing keepers than I would've imagined.



My favorite of them all has to be the Angel's Descent



One of the best shoot I've done thus far. Truly love it.

Michael Soo
Soo Photography