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Welcome to Visual Exposure Photography!

Hi! My name is Michael Boardman and I am the Owner of Visual Exposure Photography. Our company is based out of Orange County, California but we are available to provide both domestic and international photography services.

I am a firm believer of the saying "if you love what you do, you will never have to work another day in your life". Photography is my passion and what I love to do. Photography has been a wonderful journey which allows me to explore and tell unique stories or creative expressions of the world around us.

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Comic-Con 2010 – Celebrities

07.28.2010 12:56 pm

I had a wonderful opportunity to shoot at the International Comic-Con 2010 and got to see a lot of wonderful celebrities at the different panels that were held. In addition to the celebrities the convention is filled with geeks, nerds, swag, cosplay, super heroes, anti-heroes, comics, comic book artist, writers and everything in between. Did I mention the place is CROWDED!! If you don’t like crowds, I suggest you stay far away.

This being my second year to the CON, I had a better game plan going in and knew what to expect moving forward. Rather than spending time in the exhibit hall bumping elbows with strangers, I chose to stay in Hall H for the majority of the time to stay away from the crowds, and of course to see celebrities!!

Drive Angry 3D panel:

This movie looks a little cheesy but it was shot entirely in 3D, if that appeals to some. It seems like a cheesy story and some of the action sequences were a bit too much. Let’s hope this isn’t bad actor Nicolas Cage we’re seeing, like we did in Ghost Rider.

Amber Heard

William Ficthner

Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard

Nicolas Cage

Skyline movie panel

The panel discussed the film as a low budget film and showed a short clip. After seeing the clip, I concur, it is a low budget film. There are a ton of special effects, but at times it seemed the effects were not in sync with the actors.

Donald Fasion

David Zayas

Brittany Daniel

Eric Balfour

Eric Balfour and Donald Fasion

SUPER movie panel

This movie looks promising and somewhat similar to Kick-Ass type vigilante movie. Rainn Wilson is a funny mothertrucker!! I also liked Nathan Fillion and has a great sense of humor.

Rainn Wilson

Ellen Page

Liv Tyler

Nathan Fillion

Michael Rooker

Nathan Fillion showing some love to Michael Rooker

True Blood Signing session

Kristin Bauer

Deborah Woll

Nelsan Ellis

Joe Manganiello

Rutina Wesley

Sam Trammell

Green Lantern movie panel

Ryan Reynolds

Blake Lively

Peter Sarsgaard, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Mark Strong

Sucker Punch movie panel

This movie looks interesting.. I think I may be a little optimistic about this film since Vanessa Hudgens is in it..It has a good story line with tons of special effects, so we will see how it plays out closer to release date.

Vanessa Hudgens

Carla Gugino

Jamie Chung

Jena Malone

Girls of Sucker Punch

Megamind movie panel

Will Ferrell

Tina Fey

Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell.. LOL..

Tina Fey copping a feel with Brad Pitt

TRON: Legacy movie panel

This was an awesome panel.. They showed a new trailer and an un-seen eight minute clip of the movie. They also did a special session where the entire crowd made noise based on instructions that were given on the screen. The sound, cheers, boos were to be used in the movie as part of the audience, supposedly… I am excited to see this movie.

Bruce Boxleitner

Jeff Bridges

The cast of TRON: Legacy

SALT movie panel

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber

I will have a follow up post with some of the costumes that were at Comic Con!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

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Jasmine Star Workshop

06.07.2010 10:08 pm

It’s not everyday you come across such an influential individual where their mere presence has such a strong effect on people (in a good way). Jasmine Star is one of those individuals… For those of you who don’t know, Jasmine is a top tier wedding photographer. She shoots weddings all over the world, is published in many wedding magazines, speaks at several events throughout her busy year. To top it all off, she has achieved this success in a relatively short period of time.

Jasmine is not only a great photographer, she’s a great individual and a great business person. I attended her workshop here in lovely Southern California in hopes to learn from one of the best. Let me tell you, this girl knows her stuff… I seriously look forward to implementing her tools in the upcoming year.

A BIG thank you to Heavenly Blooms for providing all the flowers for Jasmine’s workshop including this beautiful bouquet! Also thank you to the adorable couple Gabriel & Carlie of Gabriel Ryan Photographers for being such awesome models for us!

I love the presentation of the little gifts that J* provided to all attendees.

She seriously has a cool logo!!

There was definitely ALOT of note taking going on!! J* was dropping knowledge!

Thank you for visiting!!

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Ritz Carlton Wedding

05.19.2010 9:39 pm

What an amazing day! Today I had a great opportunity to shoot with the one, the only, The Becker!!! Becker is one of the premiere and most sought after wedding photographers in Southern California. He shoots high-end clients both nationally and internationally! His work is simply AMAZING!! I was extremely happy for the opportunity, Thank you Becker!!

I also got to meet and hang out with the super nice, Katie from Amanda K Photography.. Wassup Katie!!

The couple was simply beautiful! I loved the story and the video they played during at the start of the ceremony and the stories they told during our photo sessions.. You can truly tell the couple is in love!!

The wedding day started off at the Ritz Carlton, where the bride and bridesmaids were getting ready.. Then off to the South Shores Church for the ceremony and family pictures. Then back to the Ritz for more romantics of the beautiful couple and the Partaaay!!

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Race Cars of Grand Prix of Long Beach

04.21.2010 1:54 pm

Sunday consisted more of the same running around.. A mandatory media/press meeting at 7am, free Starbucks and off to the tracks we go.

The cars of the Grand Prix of Long Beach were AMAZING!!! Technological wonders that came together through hours of R&D, hours of assembly and lots of money.. Our closest thing to Formula 1 here in the states.

I don’t know what it is, but there’s something exhilarating about the sound of roaring engines, the thunderous vibration you feel as the cars pass 10 feet in front of you and the smell of ethanol as you walk through the pit area. I knew this would be an awesome day!

Here are some of my favorites taken from that day.

A very nice looking G35 drifting around turn 10 during a drifting demonstration.

A huge “Thank you” goes out to Randy you are awesome!!

Thanks,

Visual Exposure

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Celebrities at Grand Prix of Long Beach

04.20.2010 10:53 pm

What an AMAZING weekend! Three days of non-stop shooting. A wedding on Friday night (post still pending), and Saturday and Sunday I had a wonderful opportunity to shoot all-access at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Yep, I said ALL-ACCESS!! I jumped at this opportunity since this would be my first attempt shooting track side at any professional race. For those who know me, understand my love fast cars! After all, if I had my chance, I would love to be a Formula 1 driver! But that wont happen in this lifetime..

My day started at 4:30am, I finished charging my camera batteries and downloading images from last nights wedding. I only had 4 hours of sleep and since i’m not much of a morning person, dragging my tired, lazy butt out of bed was a challenge. I packed my gear and was on the road by 5:20am. I wanted to get an early start since I really didn’t know my way around Long Beach due to the different street closures for this race. Plus, I still had to pick up my press credentials at a separate location (Long Beach Hilton). To top things off, I had a mandatory media/press meeting at 7am! This was waay too many things for me to manage this early in the morning, without being armed with breakfast nor coffee.. Luckily everything worked out and i was able to make my mandatory meeting. Even better, they had free Starbucks at the meeting! Must. get. coffee!!!

The big event today was the Pro/Celebrity race. Luckily for me I was able to get into this event. I didn’t realize that there was a separate credential list I needed to be on, in order for me to access these festivities.. Luckily, I met some people, who know some people..

Here are just some of the celebrities I had a chance to talk with..

Tony Hawk