Weddings By The Percentages

The average wedding today here in the US is right around $20,000. While everyone has their own tastes and preference, averages show a couple will spend their money in the following way: 51 percent on Reception, including reception hall, catering, cake and alcohol 10 percent on Photography 8 percent on Videography 9 percent on Ceremony [...]

Wedding Photographer Stumbles

UPDATE: After a short timeframe, the company decided to pull the video due to copyright. It’s also a sign of someone not understanding how to best use social. Instead of pulling it, they should have added logos and website addresses to catapult themselves with the free traffic they were getting. Expensive camera equipment and walking [...]

7 Ways To Be More Creative At Your Next Wedding

What is your idea of photojournalism? For many photographers, its simply snapping a candid of guests at the party, or of kids playing on the dance floor. Photojournalism is so much more. It’s capturing the essence of the day through photography. It’s capturing emotion. It’s photographing something that tells a complete story within the image [...]

Photographers – The History Killers

On my mom’s wall, she has a variety of  photographs. There’s a beautiful portrait of both sets of grandparents on their wedding days. Next to those images is a picture of my mother and father on their wedding day. And of course she has an image of Andrew and me on our wedding day. Fast [...]

Photographing By The Page – The Only Way To Shoot A Wedding

How did you photograph your last wedding? If you’re new to it, you may have taken along a checklist to make sure you take the top wedding photographs. (I’ve seen a ton of courses recommend the checklist style of photographing.) If you’re new to wedding photography, it may help you stay on track. But if [...]

Wanted: Wedding Photographer with The Credentials of Annie Leibovitz and the Price Tag Of Wal-Mart

Hiring Photographers – Amateurs Can Work was the title of the section on photographers in a newly released wedding planning book I found on the shelves of my local library. I picked up the book, well, just out of curiosity. Being in the wedding industry for as long as I have, I still pick up [...]

Wedding Album Design – Is It Up To You Or Your Customer?

Most wedding photographers concentrate on the photographs. They design their packages to provide a certain number of photographs. And the client can choose what images to place into the album. A typical package may be: ·    Up to 8 (eight) hours of time ·    Unlimited 4×6 images (Average 550 – 900 images) All yours to [...]

Turn Your Photography Into A New Business

So you’ve been photographing for awhile. You’re fairly well known in the industry, and most of your business comes to you through referrals. You have the business part down, and you are ready to try something new. Now what? I had those same thoughts seven years ago. So I decided to take on a new [...]

Target The Right Clients With Your Photography

Happy Halloween! This has always been one of my favorite holidays. It’s a great time of year with lots of color, and this year its still in the 70′s here in Denver! No snow tonight for trick or treating. Every year our daughter gets excited to head out and gather candy. When she was little, [...]

The Fate Of Wedding Photography

As a whole, where does the industry of wedding photography stand today? I just read an interesting post by David Ziser (a June post, must have missed it when he originally wrote it) and thought it was filled with a lot of things I too have witnessed in this industry. (It’s worth the read.) Wedding [...]

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