I’m really thankful that I no longer work in a corporate office for a myriad of reasons, and one of the major-day-to-day reliefs of working from home is that I don’t have to impress anyone with my outfits each day! Believe it or not, one of the most stressful parts for me of my old…
I’ll be completely honest with you guys- my method for shooting family formals was actually born out of an inability to use external lighting. During my year of second shooting with my mentor Mike, I saw that he used an off-camera flash inside the church for the post-ceremony formal photos. The flash was necessary because…
A while back, my sweet friend Natalie Franke wrote a blog post about prints. About the fact that our digital world has made it less and less urgent to print our images because the files can find a home on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, etc. And as a photographer who spends so much time working on…
I think, if I ever retire from wedding photography, I’m going to take up as job as a meteorologist. After watching our weathermen and women over the past few years, I’ve decided the only apparent requirements are a) the ability to gesture at a large map-aka-green-screen behind you, 2) a general idea of the approximate…
I don’t know where I got it into my head that I’m not allowed to take time off, but somewhere along the way, this became my mantra. Going on vacation? I better take my laptop and edit while I’m there! Going to my Granny’s house for the weekend? Can’t forget my external hard drives so…
