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 [...]
Getting Started as a Wedding Photographer
November 3, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Business & Marketing, Headline
One of the most common questions I get is how do I get started in Wedding Photography, what gear do I need and how to I get clients? As I am wrapping up my wedding season this year I just shot my 300th wedding. It’s pretty crazy thinking back that I have photographed that many [...]
Nighttime photography for weddings
October 6, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Lighting, Shooting Tips & Inspiration
As things are growing much quicker than I ever imagined with this website one thing I am going to do is set a weekly schedule for posts. More to come on this later but it will give you all a great way to know what is coming on certain days of the week. I still [...]
New wedding workshops announced
I have been holding small workshops for 3 years now and am always amazed how inspired I get from meeting new photographers, learning about their photo journey so far and helping them to take their photography to the next level. The last few months I had to put our workshops on hold for a bit [...]
Wedding photography contest winner
And the Oscar goes to….. Well this might not be the Oscars but some really amazing image that were submitted for this contest. I was happy to see some really creative work, good lighting and expressions. Overall a very solid showing of work submitted and one of the hardest contests to judge. For this competition [...]
Photographing the wedding details
August 6, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
To continue with this weeks wedding theme here is a excerpt from an eBook app that I created for the iPhone and iPad awhile back. Photographing the wedding details, don’t forget the small stuff Some of the details brides have spent thousands of dollars on and months planning. Get to know your clients beforehand and [...]
10 great examples of wedding photography
August 4, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
I know there are many people who are getting into wedding photography who read this site and I wanted to gather together some amazing wedding images to help inspire. Here is a good mix of different types of wedding images to get those creative juices flowing. Remember you can always start a conversation below by [...]
Show us your best wedding photo
** Update – You can now view the winners here: Best Wedding Photo Contest Winners ** This months photo contest is going to be on my favorite subject…. Weddings. Weddings for me are the ultimate thing to photograph. It’s a day packed full of excitement, you are working at an insane and rapid pace but [...]
What are you doing to think different
July 31, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Business & Marketing
One of my favorite ad campaigns has to be Apple’s “Think Different” slogan and the TV ad they created back in 1997 which looking back was the start of a very pivotal time in their company. As many of you know the start of the 90′s were not good years for Apple, they were taking [...]
Off camera flash TTL
July 9, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
I am excited to finally have the new PocketWizards in the studio (the PocketWizard MiniTT1 and Pocket Wizard FlexTT5 Transceiver) and am getting ready to do a series of articles on off camera flash and all the different ways you can use it to get great shots. One of the things I am looking forward [...]





