Find Great Light. Nail Your Editing. Make Gorgeous Work.
I get it - mastering the settings on your camera during a shoot is already enough to make a photographer go crazy. But then add in the element of posing a couple, and keeping your head on straight can be downright HARD. Jeff and I have taught a lot of...
Oh the hand trick!! Our easiest tool we’ve ever used - it’s laughable how easy it makes it to find great natural light at any shoot! I’ve mentioned the hand trick in this blog post here, but I’ve decided to expand on it more since that article has been so...
Oh the many stories we have of traveling with professional wedding photography gear! In January of 2009, Jeff and I landed in Venice, Italy, to photograph a bride and groom. This was our first international trip where we were actually PAID to travel for a...
Jeff and I are a married photography team, and we’ve developed an interesting approach to how we split up the responsibilities of shooting a wedding as husband and wife photographers. In fact, I believe it’s incredibly different than most married teams out...
It's a challenge that I love... I'll walk into a reception just before guests are allowed in, the staff is hurriedly setting out glasses, the coordinator is lighting candles, and I have T-minus-five-minutes to capture it all... Call me crazy, but I get a rush...
I don't have amazing skin. AT ALL. In fact, I didn't get acne until AFTER high school. I turned 18, went to my first semester of college, and my face turned into a 15 year old's acne nightmare. So as a adult-acne survivor, I LOVE seeing my not-so-perfect skin...
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...
When it comes to lighting, wedding days are totally against us as wedding photographers, especially if you do a LOT of First Looks, like Jeff and I do. Because we're shooting First Looks before the ceremony, we're also shooting the wedding party and family...
A while back, I wrote a post about how to bring out authentic emotion in your couples. In that post, I introduced the concept of Emotional Grounding, the idea of slowing down your couples to help them remember the moment. It’s something Jeff and I have...
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 is to be a second shooter for other photographers during...
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...
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 we shoot on Canon gear and the lenses we have are the best lenses for us - your needs may vary....
