about lin and jirsa photography
Our Client Service Philosophy
Our photography team is focused on providing you with a full Lin and Jirsa Experience. Our team will start by helping create a custom package that fits your individual needs and desires. We will assist you in planning your wedding day photography by giving you some “best practice” ideas based on our experience. When we shoot your event, we will capture each moment with our artistic vision. Finally, we will deliver you an artistic product worthy of the Lin and Jirsa name.
In the end, our philosophy on client service creates wonderful friendships with each and every one of our clients that goes far beyond the day of your wedding. We pride ourselves on always being available to our client/friends, so if you have any questions or would like to reach your master photographer, please visit our Contact Us page for email addresses and phone numbers of each photographer.
To read more about what our clients are saying about the Lin and Jirsa Wedding Photography Team, please check out our reviews on Google, Wedding Wire, and Yelp
The Original Team (Master Photographers)
The original, founding Lin and Jirsa Wedding Photography team is composed of three master wedding photographers, Pye Jirsa, Justin Lin and Chris Lin. The three teamed up to create a Los Angeles and Orange County based wedding photography studio that encompassed their unique style of fashion and fine-art influenced wedding photojournalism, their high standards of quality and creativity, and their philosophy on client service. We should also mention that between our three master wedding photographers we also speak Chinese/Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese.
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Master Photographers
Justin
| Nickname: | Ja |
| Movie: | Dazzling Dunks & Bloopers (VHS) |
| Grub: | Mama’s Cookin’ |
| Tunes: | Kalai |
| Lens: | 70-200mm 2.8 IS |
| Wedding Moment: | Ceremony (especially heartfelt vows) |
| Interests: | Sports, Family Life, Surfing |
| Favorite Place: | Almalfi, Italy & Dong Kang, Taiwan |
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Chris
| Nickname: | Topher |
| Movie: | Forrest Gump & GATTICA |
| Grub: | French Bread, Potato Salad and Fried Chicken |
| Tunes: | Katchafire and other Island Reggae |
| Lens: | 70-200mm 2.8 IS |
| Wedding Moment: | Preparation for the anticipation and excitemnent |
| Interests: | Basketball, Music, Travel |
| Favorite Place: | Halong Bay, Vietnam & San Francisco |
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Payam (Pye)
| Nickname: | Pyson |
| Movie: | Spiderman |
| Grub: | Chinese Dumplings or Pho |
| Tunes: | Postal Service |
| Lens: | 50mm 1.4 |
| Wedding Moment: | Reception (particularly the Dancing) |
| Interests: | Basketball, Exercise, Writing, Studying Languages |
| Favorite Place: | Inside a book :) |
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Associate Photography Team
The Associate Photography team is led by Joseph and Matthew, long time second shooters for LJP. Tim, Maria, and Summer are second shooters for both the Master photographers and for the Associate photographers. Throughout their years with Lin and Jirsa, they’ve developed a similar style and approach for wedding photography, using the same techniques, equipment, lighting styles, post production, and client service. At the same time, they added their own flare, creating a truly exceptional product. Their work can be seen throughout the main blog in their second shooting role and on their own Associates blog (click here) for the Associate Weddings.
Joseph
| Nickname: | Jobert |
| Movie: | Action and adventure movies. Movies with cool guys not looking at explosions. |
| Grub: | Mexican |
| Lens: | 70-200mm 2.8 IS |
| Wedding Moment: | Ceremony |
| Interests: | Hockey, Cars, and spending time with my family |
| Favorite Place: | Anywhere outdoors |
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Matthew
| Nickname: | Side Buster 9000 |
| Movie: | LOTR |
| Grub: | Wife’s Spaghetti |
| Tunes: | U2 |
| Lens: | 85mm f/1.4 |
| Wedding Moment: | Whatever is happening just before sunset |
| Interests: | Outdoors, travel, backpacking, star time lapse photography |
| Favorite Place: | The High Sierras & Joshua Tree |
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Timothy
| Nickname: | TimChi |
| Movie: | Action, Thriller/Suspense |
| Grub: | Korean BBQ or a good bowl of Pho |
| Tunes: | Rap/Hip-hop, Rock, Dance, Anything that sounds good to my ears. |
| Lens: | Split between 50mm & 70-200 |
| Wedding Moment: | The entire day from start to finish |
| Interests: | Driving, Skateboarding, Time w/ Family and friends, Occasional reading |
| Favorite Place: | Lin and Jirsa Office :) |
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Maria
| Movie: | Action, Comedy, Horror |
| Grub: | Thai, Sushi and Chocolate |
| Tunes: | One Republic & Reggae |
| Lens: | 50mm F/1.2 |
| Wedding Moment: | Couple Session |
| Interests: | Baking, Watching Movies, Sight Seeing |
| Favorite Place: | Italy |
Summer
| Movie: | The Princess Bride/ The NeverEnding Story |
| Grub: | All Asian…Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Laotian |
| Tunes: | Jimmy Eat World |
| Lens: | 70-200mm 2.8 IS |
| Wedding Moment: | The toasts get me teary eyed every time |
| Interests: | dancing, ballroom, scuba diving, traveling, flash mobbing, reading, cooking, paragliding, hiking, geocaching, gaming…wow, I’m such a nerd. :) |
| Favorite Place: | Utah. My home away from home. 2nd fav: Egypt |
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Our Wedding Photography Philosophy
We believe that in hiring a professional wedding photographer, clients deserve a professional that is able to use his or her technological expertise and creative vision to create a product that clients and amateur photographers could not on their own. With digital SLR cameras becoming more and more affordable, there are many amateur photographers out there posing as professionals. Our goal is to educate our clients on the differences and provide artistic imagery that even far surpasses other top knotch wedding photography studios.
Therefore, our wedding photography philosophy has three primary parts as follows:
- Wedding photographers are artists and therefore must have a deep understanding of artistic theory including concepts on composition, lighting, color, design, balance, etc.
- Wedding photographers should be using professional grade camera and lighting equipment.
- Wedding photographers are constantly in unusual lighting situations with significant time constraints, thus wedding photographers must be masters of their equipment. Being able to quickly adjust camera settings, anticipate lenses needed for each scene, use on and off-camera lighting techniques, etc are crucial to being able to consistantly create a professional product.
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