In the big wide world of wedding photography, we curate and discuss the best ideas to keep you ahead of the game. Here is what we have today:

• Is Good, Good Enough? Fighting the wedding time pressure and creating ART.

• Shooting Rangefinders and feeling like a storyteller again

• + inspo of the week

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IMAGE REVIEWS

Good Photos vs ART

Picture yourself mid wedding.

Excited to create something cool but there’s a thousand different photos you feel like you need to get.

You glance at the time. Oooh, there’s not that much time.

*stomach turns anxiously*

You quickly scramble to make the best of your situation, light, location and take the shot. It’s good!!

You move on. The end.

This is a HUGE part of the skill of being a wedding photographer, making something ‘good’ in the midst of the chaos. But, is good, good enough?

How can we push past just ‘good photos’ and make something we love? aka make ART!

Today we are looking at a couple of photos from Ana and Pablo of Pablo Laguia (insta link). Amazing photographers and long time legends in the wedding game.

⬆️ This is an image they shot of some bridesmaids from a recent wedding. They utilised the cool lavender field, set up the bridesmaids out into the lines and found a frame. It’s a good photo! It’s beautiful. BUT, here is what they had to say about it:

We love that Ana and Pablo didn’t settle for a ‘good photo’… for good enough. The first shot is good, but the second shot… That’s ART. That stands out. That moves.

So in the midst of that stomach turning wedding day stress, it can pay off to give yourself a few more seconds to think again through your shot. Is there a different perspective here? A different focal length or a different pose here that I can try? How can I push this further and give this a real concept? Give yourself those few seconds.

A wedding day is always fighting us and pulling us towards that “good enough” shot.

But we need to fight back and move towards ART!

NEWS

Happening this Week

• Actually Disposable. With 17 usable photos out of 162 this couple were less than impressed with their disposable camera shots from their wedding day.

• Reviews of the Pentax 17 are in. And could it be the perfect little wedding film camera?! Turns out it’s pretty awesome. Here’s a great Youtube review.

• Who is the groom? This short reel from Danilo and Sharon at Villa Balbiano went viral this week. 6M views and counting. Damn content is king rn.

• Costing less than Adobe. This week the Canva CEO directly stated their intentions to dethrone Adobe and continue to ‘democratize creative tools’.

• The Biebs. A little review and inside look into Justin Bieber performing at a HUGE wedding in India this week. PS, he got paid $10M - raise your prices 😉 

• Phone Warriors. There’s some good ideas in this thread on how to deal with phone warriors at weddings!

• Spare a thought for the bridal party. This freakin hilarious reel about the bridal party ‘walk in’ humiliation moment.
  

SOFTWARE

Pic-Time with AI Protected Watermarks

Watermarks are so 2007 right?
Well, maybe, but there are lots of situations where you might want to keep a watermark on your images. Think of those pesky vendors who never tag or credit perhaps..

Pic-Time has released a pretty seemless and easy way to add watermarks to some images, and they are even protected from AI watermark removers! And of course you can set different settings for different parts of your galleries. So good. See more here and sign up here to get a free month of Pic-Time!

INSPO THIS WEEK

⬇️ Always on the hunt for a new way to show off a veil.

⬇️ Perspectives and Posing

⬇️ Feeling like a storyteller again. Daniel sent us this series and said “A full rangefinder day out for the film cameras and honestly it’s the first time I’ve felt the whole ‘storytelling’ thing be true of my work” Cameras used, a mix of mamiya 7ii, Leica MP and Contax G2.

We love the subtle ‘storytelling’ elements to these frames - the bush in the bottom of the first photo to give an observers perspective 👌🏼

⬇️ This light on the black background is winning today

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