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Photographer and couple climb two mountains in freezing weather to take wedding photos

April 21, 2017Dunja Djudjic

Taking the perfect wedding photos isn’t easy. The competition is high, and there are many clichés that can be difficult to beat. But a Malaysian photographer Keow Wee Loong managed to take wedding photos that probably not many people will try to replicate. The photographer and the happy couple climbed two mountains to take perfect […]

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If we didn’t hire a professional wedding photographer, this is what we’d be left with

April 11, 2017Eirik Halvorsen

“The wedding was so expensive so we couldn’t afford to hire a professional photographer, but nowadays cameras are so good that our guests can take all the photos for us for free.” We have all heard it: “save money by hiring a hobby photographer” or “my uncle got a really great camera and he will […]

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Using natural light to slim down and shape people without photoshop

April 6, 2017Andrew Szopory

In today’s modern photography there can be a stigma that almost everything seen in magazines, online or in editorial publication has been photoshopped to make the models look slimmer, softer and more shapely. What if with a few simple “in camera” steps you could minimize the amount of work that needs to be done in […]

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The seven camera GIF rig: taking wedding photography to a new level

March 16, 2017Jeffrey L Bennet

In the summer of 2016, photographer Jeffrey L Bennett experimented with creating animated GIFs using multiple cameras. He wanted to animate a moment, frozen in time, from several angles. It wasn’t my first experience with animated sequences of images, for years I’ve been incorporating animated GIFs in my wedding, engagement and portrait work. They have […]

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Save Your Sanity – Automate Your Email Responses

March 11, 2017JP Danko

Replying to email is one of those daily chores that never seems to end. If you’re a retail photographer (weddings, portraits, events, boudoir), you can probably guess what an email from a potential new client is going to say before you even open it: What are your rates? How many photos do you take? Can […]

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This photographer uses sequin dresses to make wedding ring photos pop

February 3, 2017John Aldred

Weddings happen in a whole variety of different locations. Not all of them are as pretty as others. Sure, it’s nice to be shooting in a glorious venue, but sometimes you’re stuck in a boring grey room. This can make things tricky for shooting detail shots like the wedding rings. But there are ways to […]

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Photographer puts a Samsung Gear Watch in a Kodak TLR to attract clients

January 28, 2017Udi Tirosh

Wedding fairs are a hard competition. If you are a wedding photographer, there is sometimes no way around those, though. Finnish photographer, Aaro Keipi, found a cool way to attract clients to his booth. He replaced the insides of a Kodak Duaflex II twin lens reflex with a Samsung Gear watch to attract clients and initiate a […]

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Bride-to-be shows up in T-Rex costume for “First look” photo shoot

January 26, 2017John Aldred

Everything about a wedding is important. Including how they’re documented. Whether it be through photographs or video. Coverage often begins long before the wedding itself. Telling a couple’s story leading up to the big day. Ideally, you want this story to show some of your subjects personalities and humour. That personality and humour is exactly […]

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Epic pre-wedding photo shoot turns a couple into characters from Diablo III

January 9, 2017Dunja Djudjic

If you and your significant other are huge fans of Diablo and you even met in-game, what would be better than a Diablo-themed pre-wedding photo shoot? Singaporean photographer Mezame Shashin-ka created a fantastic photo series that turned Alvin Lau and Alexis Loo into characters from Diablo III. It took some time and it was challenging. […]

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10 images for the price of none?

December 31, 2016Angelina Wiese Devine

Here is why (I think) you shouldn’t sell your files in bundles! Doing IPS (In Person Sales) does not mean that you cannot sell your files – but it does mean you shouldn’t be giving them away as a Shoot and burn photographer (S&B). And now some of the S&B’ernes will object, they are not […]

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