Shooting outdoors with flash can feel overwhelming, but I promise you it’s easier than you think. Flash brings a lot of control with it. Control in the sense of controlling the outdoors and the final look and feel of your images.
How do you package and present your work to clients? Does your packaging look professional? Does it represent you and the quality of your work?
The perfect keepsake for weddings, graduations and much more. The Perry album features heavy-weight repositionable adhesive pages that won’t wrinkle; simply place your image on the adhesive and apply pressure to the photograph to adhere to the page.
Too many wedding photographers make the mistake of thinking that the digital era has fully replaced traditional prints. At least for now, that’s not the case. There’s still a thriving market for wedding albums and other printed products.
A question I get all the time from photographers and videographers is, “How do we break into the luxury market?” That’s a fair question… but first let’s talk about why you would want to be a luxury wedding photographer.
The first thing you want to do is come up with your purpose. Why do a styled shoot? Is it to build your portfolio? To get a chance to shoot at a certain venue or work with certain vendors? Is it to get published?
With Adobe’s recent October 2020 release of Lightroom Classic v10 comes the replacement of Split Toning with a new Color Grading tool. This is the tool many of us have been waiting for in Lightroom, and now we no longer have to go into Photoshop to utilize it.
You can create your own magic anywhere you want with a battery-powered light and a small softbox or umbrella. When shooting outside, I love using the sun as my hair light and a softbox as my main light. No matter how bright the natural light is, placing the sun behind your subject will either create a subtle rim light on a cloudy day or a brilliant one on a sunny day.
As photographers, one of the things we gravitate to is light. Makes sense right? Light is the foundation of an image. How you use light is what starts to help you develop your identity as a photographer.
In essence, you could say that out of Covid came some really good news for our businesses. This situation has offered us a way to expand our services while presenting to us a new demand within what I feel was becoming a stale industry pre-pandemic. Pivot and discover.
In today’s competitive landscape, quality online photography training and education is priceless to your growth. Unfortunately, most publications contain a ton of fluff. No real meat to their content. Not at Behind the Shutter. We are committed to the photography community and improving professional photography by providing current, insightful, and in-depth educational content.
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