I have a question for you; are you still submitting your work to wedding blogs? I was shocked to read in a group the other day that so many photographers are no longer bothering, citing lengthy submission processes and long wait times as some of the reasons for it...
This week, I am aiming to up my game on Pinterest. I confess that I kinda fell out of love with it a while back but recently I’ve got back into using it to plan shoots and I can see how useful it must be to anyone planning a wedding. The biggest change if you...
The very first public speaking that I did was a talk for Hasselblad when I won a British Journal Of Photography award (which I will never get over btw). The other speaker at the event was Hugo Burnand, I was basically his warm-up man. If the name is not familiar to...
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how at some point I went from being a photographer at weddings to a wedding photographer. Before weddings I was a music industry photographer and the first wedding that I shot was for my agent at the time. I said I would shoot it...
I’ve always had a soft spot for tilt-shift lenses and although I’ve rented them over the years, I’ve not yet owned one. If you’ve arrived at photography in recent years and gone straight to mirrorless, you might wonder what a tilt-shift lens...
Can I tentatively say that it’s good to be back? That we seem to be rattling through an almost normal year in weddings and that we can settle back into focusing on thriving and not just surviving. Instead of just doing our best in the circumstances at the time, can we...
When someone books you for elopement photography out in a dramatic landscape, they are trusting that you will make the best of the vista when it comes to composing images. They want to see the context of the surroundings as well as more intimate shots. But they would...
Flash – ahh-ahh, saviour of your 2022 weddings! Ok, that’s maybe not as catchy as what Brian May wrote, but flash IS having a major resurgence this year, and I am 100% here for it. Maybe thanks to the Peltz-Beckham wedding, maybe because it’s major...
There’s so much to love about this Image Of The Week from the very brilliant Scottish Duo Rachel and Tonie. The composition is perfect, with the couple carefully positioned in the central lower third area which is immediately pleasing. The hills behind cut...
