
Creating Impactful Wedding Portraits
No matter what your style of wedding photography is—photojournalistic, editorial, etc.—creating images with high impact should always be your goal. Question is, what makes an image impactful?

No matter what your style of wedding photography is—photojournalistic, editorial, etc.—creating images with high impact should always be your goal. Question is, what makes an image impactful?

Solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses across every industry are searching for photographers to provide content that converts. The demand for branded photography is higher than ever, so it’s an excellent way to expand your photography business.

Lightroom is a great tool in the arsenal of any photographer. If you’re serious about photography, you likely already use Lightroom. In this post, I’ll share with you some of my favorite tips that improve my workflow and help to create more compelling images.

Whether you are just starting out or have been in business for years, you’ve likely come across Adobe Lightroom Classic. Learning this tool can be daunting at first—and with all the tutorials and courses you can buy, it seems hopeless to start. Having used this program for almost a decade, I am still learning and making my own workflows better.

Why is it important to understand and test your gear? Well, because Murphy’s Law is the source of all pain when it comes to run & gun photo shoots. What do I mean by this? Simply, what can go wrong, will go wrong.

From tight beauty shots, to wide portraits that showcase the entire scene—you can capture it all with the Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD for Sony. This fast-aperture zoom lens is ideal for creating portraits on the go when you don’t necessarily have the means or time to be switching back and forth between lenses.

The new Clic Softbox Octa generates a soft and flattering light ideal for close-up portraits, flat-lay, and still life/product photography with the Profoto A-range flashes.

The Folio Box Prints + USB Set from Zno is the perfect way to deliver a final product to my clients. This simple, elegant product allows me to showcase a small collection of their best images in a way that can be displayed both physically and delivered digitally on a branded thumb drive.

As a new boudoir photographer, one of the most difficult things for me to understand was pricing. Even though I had been in business as a family photographer for a couple of years

You don’t have to only shoot weddings! The one thing I was told when I first started in photography was to stay with one genre and do not do multiple. Worst advice I ever got LOL.
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