Ken Mendoza is an International Award Winning Wedding and Landscape photographer and Master of WPPI. Ken has over 100 recent International Awards in top competitions such as Wedding Portrait photographers International (WPPI), Cosmos Awards, Wedding Portrait Photographers Europe (WPE) and Asia Wedding & Portrait Photographers (AsiaWPA).
Ken started his photography as an amateur landscape photographer, which led him to work on weddings is Yosemite National Park .
Ken adapted classic landscape photography techniques to weddings and created a dramatic style that equally emphasizes the environment and the subjects. Serious study of off camera flash techniques and posing resulted in balanced style where the images show the subjects connection to nature as opposed to simply, “a landscape with a couple” .
In addition to his outdoor wedding style, Ken has developed a dynamic indoor style where Bride’s “spin” their dresses showing the raw joy of a Bride and her dress on their wedding day. Ken also uses landscape techniques to make indoor spaces look dramatic and impactful.
All of Ken’s wedding work and awards are with real couples, mostly on their wedding day, with no use of models. Ken uses photographic competition as a way to push his work to the next level so that his clients can benefit from actual competition, rather than to create showy pieces that are not possible within the constraints of a wedding day.
Ken continues to pursue his love for landscape photography and currently is using COVID wedding “downtime” to explore the Sierra Nevada on multi-day backpacking trips with his trusty Sony A7RIV, 16-35GM, and 100-400 GM lenses.
