Are you a Specialist or Generalist? Today we’ll talk about what this means, why it matters & how to figure out which category you belong in. Specialization and generalization are two totally different approaches to doing business. Business owners…

I heart NY.
I’ve been putting off writing this blog post for quite a while now. Don’t get me wrong; I’m honored to be asked by The Photo Life to write about ANYTHING I do, I just don’t like to write. I mean I have the world’s most neglected b…

by Peter Zack
  
American Photo May-June 2011 issue. The world's top 10 Wedding Photographers
Soon (05/10/11) to hit the news stands near you is the May/June issue of American Photo magazine and it features this year’s 2011 top 10 Wedding Photo…

Jeff and I were just in San Francisco this past week and in the course of four days we shot three engagement sessions for three incredibly unique and beautiful couples. Each couple was very different from the others – their stories were distinct and…

Fuji X100, f/4, 1/150s, ISO 200.
by Ian Wilkinson
  
Editors’ Note: Ian Wilkinson, a wedding photographer from Brisbane, posted his first impressions of the Fuji X100 in part 1 of this review series on EtL: Real World Use Shooting a Wedding.
  
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Fuji X100, f/2.8, 1/55s, ISO 800.
by Ian Wilkinson
  
Editors’ Note: Ian Wilkinson, a wedding photographer from Brisbane, has always been an early adopter of new technology, and is one of the first Australians to have received the much anticipated …

When I first started out I dreaded the engagement session. In fact, I dreaded anything that meant I had to actually pose or direct my clients. It just scared me because I had no idea what to do with them. But as the years passed and I got more comforta…

Why do clients hire you? Think about it for a minute.
Over the past 13 years as a photographer/entrepreneur, I’ve realized that the reason people hired me was not always what I assumed it was, especially in the beginning years of building my busines…

Destination weddings have taken the photography business to a whole new level. Once reserved only for the elite bride and groom, now many couples are choosing to have destination wedding as an opportunity to spend more time with their families and fri…

We’ve all been there before – something runs late on the wedding day, and suddenly that cushy hour of photo time that was on your schedule evaporates into 15 minutes of chaos with a 24 person bridal party and a list of family portraits a mile long….