Wedding Photography Blog by Los Angeles Photographer Ian Grant

Welcome to Ian Grant Photography [the blog]

Thank you for checking in on our blog! My name is Ian and I'm a photographer in greater the Los Angeles area. That's my wife Tanya over there too- she's great with clients and has a fantastic design sense. I specialize in Wedding Photography and Headshots but you'll often catch me out shooting landscapes and visiting National Parks in my spare time. In my wedding photography I like to combine both, so I guess I'm a landscape-wedding photographer. I love long roadtrips and have been all over the US from Rhode Island to California. I enjoy planning far away trips and going over to Europe to drive around aimlessly for an extended amount of time. Tanya and I run Ian Grant Photography out of our beach spot in the Los Angeles suburb of Playa del Rey, CA. Enjoy your stay, and feel free to introduce yourself!

Wedding dates for 2010 are quickly filling up! If you're interested in having us shoot your wedding or event, please contact us and we'll get right back to you! Feel free to let us know your wedding ideas and how we can help!

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Preorder the Apple iPad

Monday, February 1, 2010

Preorder Apple iPad

I’m totally an electronics person, so it’s kind of nice that buying cameras and computers can be part of my job…or at least it gives me an excuse sometimes. Anyway, people have been pretty split over this Apple iPad thing, and my take is it could be a really great tool for us photographers. I don’t have a Blackberry or iPhone, so staying connected when I’m out and about on road trips is a bit of a problem. Especially when going out into the middle of nowhere. Most of the time I have a cell phone signal, so being able to have a pretty large screen that I can whip out and write back to clients could be really nice [especially when I don't have to squint really tight]. I’ve been thinking about picking up the 3G 16gb version and the $30 a month for wireless internet isn’t the worst thing ever. Maybe I can justify to Tanya that if I’m ever out in the desert and break down it could save my life, so that alone would pay for itself.

What are your thoughts?

PS: So far the only place I’ve seen you can preorder an iPad is at J&R in New York [which I order from all the time anyway]. Grab one while you can!

UPDATE: Not so fast! Joe at J&R told us it’s not quite ready for a pre-order…as soon as it gets the FCC approval, we’ll be good to go.

General Bloggings

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February 7, 2010 - 12:28 am

ian - I’ve been all over the place in tech decision-making lately…it’s not coming out for a few months, so I have some time to decide thankfully. I appreciate the info!

February 3, 2010 - 11:53 am

Shasha - If you’re out in the middle of nowhere, you will likely get Edge (that’s the slow non-3G service) wherever you can get a cel signal. So if you have AT&T, and you know where your phone works, that’ll help. I don’t know if the ipad has edge capability or just 3G. Edge is ok on my iPhone, but it would likely be terribly slow if it was loading pages and such at a much higher resolution on something like the ipad.

February 2, 2010 - 1:45 pm

ian - Question for you then: Does it get regular internet service, and just not 3G? I don’t mind having slow internet if I’m like hanging off a cliff or marooned in the middle of Death Valley. I have an iPod touch, and I agree with you- it doesn’t really do a whole lot more than the touch…it’s just bigger. I think it’d be great to take to meetings and franking I think I’m most excited about Square that’s coming out soon.

February 2, 2010 - 1:40 pm

Shasha - stopping by from lj, just an fyi… you’re not gonna get 3g coverage in the desert. I have an iPhone, and although the ipad is something I’ve considered, the fact that it can’t do anything that my phone can’t do completely turns me off. and my phone is already 32gb.

February 1, 2010 - 5:11 pm

ian - I’d just assume not jump on the AT&T bandwagon too- I really like the idea of the Mifi, though the idea of limited data kind of scares me…especially when you’re getting nailed by the K with Verizon [I do like their service with my current phone though]. Its an amazing concept though!

February 1, 2010 - 4:41 pm

Joe Wang - Ian,
Thanks much for the plug, but we at J&R jumped the gun and put the iPad on pre order accidentally. Apologies for the bad link!

I’m more than likely going to get one myself, but base non wireless version. I’m thinking it may be more cost effective to purchase the Verizon Mifi ($60 a month data access). This way I have wifi data access to the iPad, notebook, and iPhone. Data service is iffy AT&T here in the downtown NYC area.

RE: Talking Tanya into this, being that you can directly import images from your camera to the iPad directly… Isnt this tax deductible? :)

New Zealand Photos are Posted

Thursday, January 28, 2010

For all those people who don’t want to wait for me to transcribe Tanya’s lengthy New Zealand travelogue, I’ve posted my favorite 75 or so photos up on Distinctphoto. Out of 1,200 photos, I came out with around 450 of my personal favorites [yikes], and I got it down to the 75 or so that are in the gallery. I hope you like, editing photos from epic trips is almost as much fun as going on them for me. Check out the New Zealand Gallery and if you want to pick up a few prints for your home, my favorites are in the Distinctphoto Store.

Milford Sound Waterfalls

Mount Cook and the Hooker Valley Track

New Zealand, Travel

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February 1, 2010 - 2:26 pm

David Murphey - Nice shot of the fog and waterfall.

New Zealand: Abel Tasman National Park [day one]

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Since Tanya is the writer in the family, I put her in charge of keeping a travelogue of our little honeymoon roadtrip through New Zealand. Over the next couple months I should be posting up images from our adventures and her tidbits from over there. Enjoy the pics, we ended up with over 10 gigs worth of images which got whittled down to around 1,200 final photos that I spent a month going through. Enjoy!

Leaving Los Angeles [Dec. 19]

The cab driver comes ten minutes early, which means we don’t have enough time for proper pet goodbyes. A kiss on the head for the dog, cat, rabbit and we are at the door. The air on the way to the airport tastes like the regret of unfinished business, but mostly of adventures to come. We take off late at night so falling asleep comes easier, but we’re still in a vessel of canned air trained at 38,000 feet. Sleep comes but it doesn’t stay.

First dinner arrives, prepackaged reheated meals that burn my fingers as I lift the aluminum lids on each compartment. The options were Mahi Mahi which sounded like ‘marbles’ in the mouth of the New Zealand flight attendant and yet so quaint, but there’s something off about eating fish when you’re so high in the air. And chicken. ‘It’s ten hours to the next meal’ the flight attendant tells the passenger one row up who turns down the hot food.

After a few bites of the chicken I turn down any more, unroll my blanket and get back to the business of sleeping. Up in the air they turn down the lights and then turn them back on again when they want you to wake. I sleep, Ian in and out of consciousness on my shoulder and the window. Muscles freeze into a tired stupor and later I find I can’t turn my neck to the right. Ian’s on my left, so none of that matters anyway.

Later, a child a few rows back lifts his shade. Sunshine pierces through the artificial dark. The whole cabin floods with light.

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New Zealand

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Los Angeles Headshots

Monday, January 25, 2010

Los Angeles Headshots

We’re currently getting into pilot season here in LA, so that means we’re starting to get lots of headshot bookings. With this I decided to revamp our LAHeadshots.tv website to show off more of our past clients and style. It was fun going back through all our past headshot clients and I think we have a better site to reflect what we do. Check it out!

For more of our images see our Los Angeles Headshots gallery

Headshots, Los Angeles

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