Las Vegas wedding photographer Emily Ku

Welcome to my blog and please take a look at my galleries above! I love capturing memories with my camera and I drag my camera almost everywhere with me. I love getting to know people and showcasing their personalities in amazing photos!

I am a portrait and wedding photographer who resides in Las Vegas. Every once in a while, I'll documenting my travels and my life on the blog.

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(photo by Binita Patel Photography)

Archive for July, 2011

Las Vegas newborn session :: Little J

July 24, 2011

I had the pleasure of photographing a newborn at two weeks old! He is so cute and precious and did so wonderfully on his first photo shoot! Seriously, I don’t think babies come cuter than this one.

His daddy is from New York so Little J is already a big Jets fan and no doubt will grow up to be a great football player.

He’s smiling for the camera! He looks so much like his mommy in this photo.

Changing the diaper! I don’t have any kids yet, so I am amazed at how many diapers babies go through!

His little puckered lips are so adorable.

This is one of my favs.

So peaceful. It took a few tries, but we were finally able to get a cute nudie pic without disturbing his slumber.

Then he woke up again and fell right back asleep in mommy’s arms.

Tags: Las Vegas newborn photographer, Las Vegas newborn photography, Las Vegas portrait photographer, newborn portraits
Posted in Lifestyle/Portraits | 3 Comments »

Stephanie and Jason :: fun and playful Las Vegas engagement session

July 22, 2011

Meet Stephanie and Jason. They are proof that you can find love in the unlikeliest places, like at the airport! Yup, they were both in Las Vegas – Stephanie for a bachelorette party and Jason for a job interview, and on their way back home to Ohio, their flight was delayed for several hours. They somehow started chatting and hit it off. So what was bad news for them actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise!

Now they both live in Las Vegas and getting married this November. I can’t wait to photograph their wedding at Anthem Country Club!

I am so excited about how these engagement photos turned out! As a photographer, I spend a lot of time with my couples to create a vision and plan the details of their engagement session so that their images turn out amazing. This session was no exception. While sometimes plans never always work the way you want, everything worked out great in the end and we had such a fun time on this engagement shoot. Most of these were taken downtown, which is a fun mix of vintage and modern.

They both went to Ohio State, so I thought this red wall would be a great tribute to their alma mater! Plus it matches Stephanie’s dress.

When I saw these escalators, I had this really cool idea in my head. No escalators were harmed during this photo shoot. Okay, I have to let you in on a little secret: these were non-working escalators so it’s much easier to get a pose like this where they are on opposite escalators!

Stephanie and Jason have the nicest smiles!

One of my favs from the session.

Sometimes when you’re walking through downtown, you never know what you’ll run into. Like this gargantuan modern wall art.

And no downtown Vegas engagement session is complete without taking a picture with a neon sign.

Another one of my favorites. Simply beautiful.

I’ve had my eye on this building for a while but it’s always been too sunny and was always afraid it might be too reflective. I love the modern lines and curves of this building. Luckily it was cloudy during our engagement session, so I was finally able to shoot here!

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Tags: downtown Las Vegas, engagement photos, Fremont Street, Las Vegas engagement photographer, Las Vegas engagement session
Posted in Engagements | 4 Comments »

Dry lake bed portrait shoot

July 5, 2011

I finally had some free time over the long weekend to process these pictures, and I am so happy to finally be able to show you! My friend Erin of Erin Hatch Photography organized this awesome shoot and brought along some amazing girls – Mariah, Denise, and Kamille. They aren’t professional models but they did such an phenomenal job that they could totally pass for models. And very stylish too! It was unusually cold that day, so a few girls had goosebumps and I felt so bad for them. But they really hung in there, and we had such a fun time. Each model had a very different, beautiful look and a different approach. It was fun to have so much variety shooting in one afternoon! Seriously, I can’t wait to go back to the dry lake bed!

Getting there was quite an adventure because it is off the beaten path. There are a few dry lake beds in town, but none of us had been to this particular one before, and there are no road signs directing you where to go. And we were so far out of town we didn’t have reception, so I couldn’t look it up on Google maps. At one point, we took a wrong turn and ended up off-roading it on a really bumpy dirt path. Luckily, I was riding in my friend Tirzah’s ginormous truck, which handled the terrain quite well.

This is a close up of the dry lake bed. It’s a very interesting texture!

You can see quite a few people go off roading here, and it was impossible to find a perfect patch without any tire marks. So I made it part of the photo!

The light at the dry lake bed is stunning combined with the silhouette of the mountains. There were a few guys riding dirt bikes all around us, and you can see the dust that they created in the background. It makes for a neat effect.