I’ve heard this more than a few times: “Yeah, but MY weddings aren’t as nice as yours.” The implication is that there is no opportunity to make portfolio images or images that will take you to the next level. Respectfully, I call bullshit. :) You may not be shooting a wedding in the nicest of [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Climie
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So I flew out of the country to shoot this wedding, and just before the wedding it started pouring. I was looking for an ark out of the corner of my eye the whole time. It looked like we wouldn’t get any portraits outside that evening, though eventually we’d have about 5 minutes of a [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Climie
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Ok! So here we go! I get request for help a lot. How do you do what you do, etc. The questions seem to lean technical and process. There are numerous workshops out there, so I wanted to do something different. There are numerous mentor programs out there, but I still wanted to do something [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Climie
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As wedding photographers, we have to provide lots of high quality images at every event under extreme time constraints and with minimal equipment all while remaining extremely adaptable under every conceivable scenario. Piece of cake, right? This is why the sooner you learn to use equipment limitations (or intentionally limited equipment) to your advantage will [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2009 by Climie
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So I got the amazing opportunity to shoot with Seshu up around his home turf in the Northeast. He’d been wanting to shoot with me for a while, so we made it happen. We were looking to make this a learning experience, which, because of his schedule and where the wedding was, means we have [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Climie
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