Professional Event Photographers and Videographers for Scottsdale, AZ, One Team Since 2004

A family studio that has photographed and filmed Arizona celebrations since 2004

IAZ Photo Studio began as Mi Foto Evento and has covered more than 500 weddings, quinceañeras and family events across Arizona since 2004, always with its own photographers and videographers. Three directors run the studio: Cristobal Varela directs photography, Sonia Varela directs videography and Melanie Rocha directs creative and social. The crew on your Scottsdale event works from their plan, their editing standards and their two rules, two video cameras at every event we film and three backups of every file.

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The IAZ Photo Studio team with their cameras at an Arizona venue before an event

The three directors behind every event

Cristobal Varela, co-founder and director of photography at IAZ Photo Studio, with a camera at an Arizona venue

Cristobal Varela

Co-founder and Director of Photography

Co-founder of the studio. He sets the photography standard for every event: the shot lists, the light, the editing. He is writing a book about the studio's story, where the two rules you will find on this site come from.

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How IAZ Photo Studio works as a studio, not as one photographer

We are a team. The directors plan each event, the photographers and videographers on the day follow that plan, and the directors review the edit. That is why we can send one photographer and one videographer who already share a timeline and a style, and deliver every film and gallery to the same standard.

The two rules we learned from our own mistakes

  • Two video cameras at every event we film, since a January quinceañera where dust damaged one camera's recording heads and half the picture was lost. The second camera is both insurance and a second angle.
  • Three copies of every file before an edit starts, since an editing computer died with a wedding edit on it; the originals were safe, so the client still got her film.

Why Scottsdale, and why the galleries show other cities

IAZ Photo Studio runs one site for each East Valley and Phoenix city it serves, and this one serves Scottsdale couples and families in English, with a Spanish twin. We have covered events across Phoenix, Chandler, Mesa, Gilbert, Avondale, Glendale and up to Williams, and every event in our galleries names its true city. We have not covered a Scottsdale wedding yet; when we do, it will be the first event page on this site. Scottsdale venues sit inside our no-travel-fee area, 50 driving miles from Tempe, Arizona (I-10 and US-60).

Where to read more about the team

Work with a team that has done this since 2004

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