Our Photographer / Cinematographer : Michael Soo


Michael Soo, photographed by Tiffany (our makeup artist / hair stylist) after a wedding at San Francisco		 Being a hitman professionally didn't pan out, Michael Soo's alternate plan is to shoot, instead as a photographer. Recipient of one of the highest awards in photography by the largest photography magazine in the world, Soo and his team fuses life, love and art into a blend of poetic imagery and motion cinema.


Soo's pizzazz and precognitive visualization in story-telling makes people feel comfortable and beautiful before his cameras, allowing them to capture wedding imagery that transcend time. His fashion and wedding images have appeared in wedding magazines and publications worldwide.

A romantic at heart, Soo brings a sense of style and grace to his work, and his energy knows no bounds. Every day he feels very blessed to be able to work as an artist, and he truly pours his heart and soul into his work, drawing from his own experiences as a father, a son, a brother, a friend and a soulmate.

Soo is a photographer because he has to be. His photographs are his passion and pride.

Behind the Scenes Cinema

Destination wedding with Capture The Love team

It’s a beach in the Caribbean where white sands and crystal waters tickle your toes. It’s that spot in Paris when you met for the first time as exchange students, locking eyes at the foot of the Eiffel Tower illuminated in light. It’s a vineyard lush and laden with fruit, where rows and rows of grape vines serve as the picture frame for the declaration of your love. Wherever your “special place” may be, there’s an unmatched appeal to destination weddings, where you can get married in an atmosphere that is most meaningful to you.

Engagement Session - Downtown San Francisco

Actor Carl and Ilona are Hollywood celebrities in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Carl's career didn't start that way. He was an officer in the NYPD New York Police Depart. Coming to San Francisco and changing his career into an actor created the opportunity for him to meet Ilona on the movie set.


Their wedding was a supernova of stars. What I love about their engagement session in downtown San Francisco is the part where they were in each others arms and time stood still, literary in our photos and cinema.

Save the Date - Napa, Calistoga & Yountville

Getting rained on during an engagement shoot can be fun too! Ask Mark and Janet about it as they enjoy the pinots and carbernets on their Engagement-session / save-the-date / wine-tour in Calistoga, Yountville, Napa, visiting half a dozen wineries such as Chateau Montelena, Jessup Cellars and Castello Di Amorosa.


Being a foodie and a wine snob, our engagement session is more than just photography. Good friends, great clients, superb food and love for live is what we do and capture.

Engagement Session at the Legion of Honor & Golden Gate Bridge

People always think of the engagement session as a day of posing and being pretentious. Not in our sessions! Our engagement session is a fun and relaxing experience. Not only that, our brides always return to tell us that they were mystified over our approach. They enjoyed the day tremendously and it made them experience the feeling of falling in love all over again.


Perhaps that's why people fly all the way from Milan and Indonesia to spend a day with us. We're truly blessed to share our day with two people in love.

Family Portrait in Atherton

A short 1 hour Family Portrait session in the backyard of this Atherton home allowed us to create this amazing video. Yes, one hour.

Trash the Dress in San Francisco Bay

Photographing bathing suit calendars with scantily clad models is exciting, the haute cuisine food photography has ruined take-out food for me for life, and my happiness for the ecstatic brides and grooms and their families I photograph already warms my heart on lonely winter nights into the next century. I do love my work, but when a photographer REALLY wants to have fun…

Commercial Shampoo & Conditioner Model Photoshoot

We really miss our Cupertino Photography Studio but our new San Jose studio is larger and better equiped. Best yet, it's 5 minutes away from Santana Row! This is a fashion photoshoot for Roman Shampoo and Conditioner. The models really rocked it!

NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders Swimsuit Calendar Photoshoot, St Petersburg, Florida

Five sunrises at 5am + five sunsets at 7pm + continuous computer work + 3 hours sleep per night x 5 days straight. At this rate, even 35+ hot cheerleaders in swimsuits can start to look uninteresting.


On another note, the triple engined speed boat took us over 60mph. That's whooping crazy. My favorite hat flew off my head a few times. The waves felt like iron plates slapping against the boat. It was exhilarating and FUN !!!

NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders Team Shoot, Tampa Bay, Florida

Working in a team is a wonderful feeling. So much more can be accomplished in a relatively short amount of time, rather than working as an individual. Managing a team, on the other hand, can be challenging, especially when it involves over 50+ people, models, makeup artists, hair stylists, photographers, videographers, coordinators, wardrobe stylists, etc.


You do know that you are doing a great job when you see smiles and people having fun. At the same time, the images turn out extraordinary!!! Kudos to the team for making a big shoot like this a major success!!!

NBC 11 - Sneak Peek into the NBA Golden State Warriors Cheerleaders' Swimsuit Calendar Photoshoot

NBC 11 interviewed me. Boy, I'm not supposed to say that I'm not a basketball fan. That's a big no-no. Got a wrist-slap for saying that. LOL

NBA Golden State Warriors Cheerleaders' Swimsuit Calendar Shoot, Los Gatos, CA - Behind the Scenes

You'd be surprised how much knowledge we transfer from fashion and swimsuit photography to weddings. For example, shooting from a higher angle allows a person to look slimmer on the cheeks and neck area or turning the body away from the camera creates thinning lines. These applies to brides too. Also using studio lights to create hollywood (or natural) style images in dark reception halls. These are techniques we employ, the knowledge, transfered from the basis of Studio and Fashion Photography.