Posing for Bridal Party Photography
January 20, 2012 by Mark
Filed under Portraits, Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Posing is one of those words that I really never liked. It always reminds me of some uncomfortable pretzel style positioning where every finger, hand, toe is placed just right and really so much just right that the person being photographed looks as uncomfortable as they can be. When I pose my bride and grooms [...]
Getting creative at weddings – trying out unique lenses
December 21, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration, Wedding Tips
One thing I have consistently learned after years of photographing weddings and running a business is that your work must stand out and be different. It has to be good for sure but also different. Most of how your work will stand out is your creative vision, we all have a different vision and take [...]
Recording Audio with 7d built in mic vs shotgun and lav mic
December 18, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Recording Audio with 7d built in microphone vs a shotgun mic and lavaliere microphone. I have been very excited about using Fusion video to create amazing multimedia pieces ever since HD video came on to the scene for DSLR’s a few years ago. While many of our normal DSLR cameras shoot video now there are [...]
Some amazing work on 500px.com
December 15, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
If you haven’t heard of 500px.com yet, you might have been under a rock for the last few years. They were actually started way before many would think, back in the same year Flickr went live in 2004. It has never had close to the number of users that Flickr had but has always focused [...]
Some Awesome Photos of Christmas Lights
December 8, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
With Christmas coming up just around the corner it’s time to grab the tripod and start shooting photos of all the wonderful lights and trees. There is always so much amazing visuals around this time it can be fun for us to be creative and capture some cool stuff. I’ll be posting pretty soon some [...]
Wedding Photography Tips – Impact For Getting Ready Photos
November 9, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Wedding Tips
Weddings are emotional days and there never is a shortage of emotions to capture at a wedding. From the wedding vows to the emotional dance with the father of the bride there are emotions happening all day long that give us plenty of moments to capture. One of my favorite parts of the day to [...]
What if you didn’t have Photoshop or Lightroom?
October 3, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
I had a great talk with Jerry from PWD labs a little while back about post production and how much we can really rely on editing to fix our mistakes or lack of knowledge. The question that popped into my mind was “What if we didn’t have Photoshop or Lightroom”? Would we think differently while [...]
A Collection of Some Amazing Bokeh Photos
September 26, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
The term bokeh comes from the Japanese term boke which means blur. It’s a characteristic of many good portrait photos where you have a nice sharp subject and then a beautiful soft background. Generally images that have good bokeh are taken with lenses that have a very large aperture like a 85mm 1.2 lens. When [...]
Some Awesome Photos of Stars
September 3, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
We can find so much inspiration in nature and I am always amazed when I remember to take a few minutes on a nice clear night and look up to the sky. The large expanse of the universe and glowing stars just amaze me sometimes, it’s such a beautiful thing to stare at and soak [...]
Photography Questions & Answers
August 29, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
The goal of digital photo buzz has always been to help answer your questions and provide you all with some great photography tips and information that I have picked up over the past 12 years of shooting professionally. From time to time i’ll ask for questions on Facebook and Twitter (or Google + now) and [...]





