Today I have been working on editing a wedding I shot last month. And one of the images inspired me to do a blog post. This one is for you photographers...although I think it might be educational to anyone who is in the process of hiring a wedding photographer or thinking about it.
So anyway most of us wedding photographers like to photograph the wedding gown before the bride actually gets into it. It's just something we do. Many of us have to seek out a decent-looking wooden or silk hanger just to get the dress off of the god-awful plastic thing that the dress shops provide. It just doesn't make for a pretty picture. So once we've found a decent-looking hanger, we look for a good location to photograph the dress. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes it's hard. This particular wedding was at a cool, private home with some interesting
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Tags: making moments happen, wedding photography tips
Today for educational purposes (for clients, other photographers, friends, family, whoever is interested) I thought I'd share what my weekends look like...because I think they look quite different from people I know who have what I like to call "a proper job."
This first photo (on the left) was taken yesterday (Saturday) when I was about to leave to go shoot a wedding. Please note the bottle of water (futile attempt to hydrate) and the bottle of Advil (an absolute necessity). Now I love my job as much as anyone, and I feel incredibly lucky to do what I do. However, I feel that now and then it's good to hang it out there into the public just how hard it really is...since every time I see an article or a tv piece about how anyone can be a wedding photographer, I get just a little bit hot under the collar.
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Tags: wedding photographer weekend
Exciting news everyone! This has all come together over the course of just a few hours really but I was excited and thrilled when Walter Van Dusen, an awesome wedding photographer and the host of the Mystic Seminars asked me to speak at Mystic 6 which is to be held...where else? Mystic, Connecticut on January 6-9, 2011. And what a lineup he has! I'm both flattered and humbled to appear amongst such greats as Cliff Mautner, Michael Greenberg, Yervant, Jesh De Rox, Angela Carlson, John Edgar, Sean & Mel McLellan, Sergio, Richard Esposito, Chuck Arlund, Doug Gordon, David Beckstead, Andrew Funderberg, Matt Mendelsohn, Todd Laffler, Davina & Daniel, Joseph Victor Stefanchik and of course Walter Van Dusen himself.
I will be talking about creating a consistent shooting style that is both modern and classic, but inclusive of the traditional aspects of photography that your clients want. How to interact with your
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Tags: mystic 6, mystic seminars, wedding photography seminar
Clients, you all know that Pictage is my lab of choice for posting your wedding images. It is the first place you see all of the images from your wedding. These are also the fine people who print and deliver the images you decide to order in print form. They allow me the freedom to concentrate on things like shooting your weddings, designing your albums, answering your emails, working on your slideshows and all of the other millions of things I have to do (but love to do) as a photographer and business owner.
Photographers, some of you may have had some ups and downs with Pictage over the years, I have as well. But I can't tell you how incredibly thrilled I have been ever since they were taken over by new management about a year and a half ago. Since then Jim, Simon, Kevin, Danny, Nitin & Jen have
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It's Labor Day weekend which means almost complete insanity for every wedding photographer in the country. Even as I write this my mother, Diana Adams and my awesome associate Jenni Green are photographing a wedding in Baltimore together. Jenni is shooting another wedding in DC tomorrow.
I only have one wedding this weekend, phew. :) Seeing as how it's down in San Diego which is a little bit of a drive from LA, I decided to head down this afternoon so that I will be nice and fresh for tomorrow. And that means packing extra carefully because I can't exactly head home if I've forgotten something. So I just laid everything out on the floor of my prep room...that is what I'm naming the room in our house which we have opted to leave empty so that I have room to spread out all of my gear to pack, charge batteries
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