About six months ago, I was approached by a couple of cute girls that run the Chic Critique forum for woman photographers. ‘What’s the Chic Critique Forum?’ I thought. Come to find out, it’s pretty a stinkin’ awesome place for talented female photographers to build skills and improve their photography. I was immediately hooked! Which Continue Reading
Category Archives: TechniqueSpoiler alert: Jeff and I love to throw parties. Which isn’t much of a shocker with how much we love food, wine, and general merriment. In fact, crafting the perfect party has become an art form for us with years of trial and error on party greats and party fouls under our belt. What we’ve Continue Reading We absolutely LOVE that all of our couples have such unique stories and personalities – we wouldn’t trade this job for anything – but photographing so many different types of personalities can also be challenging, right? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if every one of our couples responded the same way to our jokes? Continue Reading In this Reader FAQ, we answer: How do you set your White Balance? Do you use auto or Kelvin? Do you worry about manually choosing a focus point or do you let the camera auto choose for you? Seems that manually choosing would be too time consuming.Continue Reading In this Reader FAQ, we answer: All of your images have a special “crisp-ness” to them. What’s the secret? What sharpening method do you guys use? Welcome to another Reader FAQ! Thanks for submitting your questions to us - we get such a thrill out of answering our readers most pressing questions about their businesses. This is an ongoing series, so make sure to read the rest of our Reader FAQ posts. If you have a question that hasn’t been answered already, check out Continue Reading One of the questions we get asked most often is about the gear we have in our bag – what lenses we love and why. Before we get started, I want to mention that the lenses we have are the best lenses for us - your needs may vary. It’s important to have purpose behind each Continue Reading There’s nothing better than a stress-free wedding day when everything runs on time, people are ready to take pictures when you need them, and you have creative freedom to do your job well. Can I get a ‘fo-sho’ from my wedding peeps out there? And you know what the best part is? There’s a lot Continue Reading If you think about it, wedding days are totally against us as photographers, particularly when it comes to light. I mean, who has two thumbs and ends up shooting bridal parties at high noon in July? For four weekends in a row? This girl. One of our most frequently asked questions at The Youngrens is Continue Reading Some people ask why we include engagement sessions with every wedding that we photograph, and the answer is simple. We’re selfish. The engagement session is the perfect excuse to hang out with our clients, get to know a LOT about them, and allow them to get used to being photographed by us. These are big Continue Reading Confession: I’ve been avoiding this question… We’re totally digging on our Uservoice page and stoked on all the thoughtful questions people have been asking and voting on, and this is one that has slowly risen to the top, and now I simply can’t ignore it. The truth is that the answer to this question is super simple for Continue Reading In this Reader FAQ, we answer: If you only could use one lens for an entire wedding which would you choose? And do you guys shoot wide open? The light is always so awesome in your pictures!!Continue Reading In a recent post, we talked about how to find your style as it relates to photography and the discussion was really centered around just getting out there and shooting a whole lot. One of the ways to do this while also refining your style is to second shoot for other photographers during weddings whenever Continue Reading A while back, I wrote an article about how to bring out authentic emotion in your couples. In that article, I introduced the concept of Emotional Grounding, the idea of leading your couples into their core feelings for each other. It’s something Jeff and I have been developing and using with our subjects for a Continue Reading |
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