This past year, I’ve been stepping up my off-camera flash game. I’ve been getting a grasp on it overall, and it has now found a home in my workflow and shooting style. Now I’m looking to take it up a notch...
The ringlight I used for this article is an 18-inch constant with a gooseneck. The gooseneck is vital to the flexibility of the light, allowing me to bend and direct it. I prefer the 65W with 5400 Kelvin temperature.
Photography has continued to become more diluted over the past several years. Fewer people are hanging wall portraits. Even fewer get images printed any longer. Point-and-shoot cameras are rarely seen anymore in public.
How could a mobile phone provide satisfactory results for a wedding? This is not a joke. I’ve always believed it was inevitable that the day would come when the iPhone is taken seriously as a professional filmmaking tool.
It’s probably the best definition of entrepreneur I’ve ever read. The meme is a hilarious yet insightful commentary about those of us crazy enough to pursue our dreams as business owners:
We all know what people refer to when they describe something as being “classic.” Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, the dictionary defines it as being “judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.”
Wedding photographers don’t have the luxury of controlling all aspects of where we work. Of all the photography genres (aside from pure photojournalism), we often have to work in some of the worst lighting and locations imaginable.
If you’re like me, you’re a visual person and probably have childlike appreciation of the world around you. You’re excited by the wealth of visual content that surrounds you.
If we’ve learned anything about our industry in the past 10 years, it’s that advertising doesn’t work the same anymore, but relationships still do. Why?
Want to define your style? Allow me to tell you the surefire way not to: Copy what other photographers are doing. Sure, you love their work, you are a fan even.
