This week, we’re featuring Fran Chelico of Fran Chelico Photography – a talented wedding photographer who has a passion for capturing the small, but important moments for couples on their special day. A Canadian with Italian roots, Fran now lives in Vancouver, B.C., with her husband and son, and says there is “nothing like looking out your window…
The old showbiz adage is that you’re only as good as your last gig. Same for any creative professional, especially photographers. The idea being that you always bring the experience and techniques you’ve learned over your career to every shoot. Your last shoot should reflect that being as good as if not better than anything you’ve…
We first saw Salvatore Dimino’s amazing work in Rangefinder’s 30 Rising Stars of Wedding Photography for 2014, and were immediately taken with it. As the article so accurately explains, “What clients and photo editors alike seem to love about Salvatore Dimino’s images is that they are full of atmosphere as he captures the beauty of the…
Phones have been slowly taking over the point-and-shoot market for years. And the days of the low-end point-and-shoot are completely over. There is no reason to purchase a cheap camera, when your phone does amazing 8-12MP photos. But, as professionals we all struggle. We have those times when we’re going to our kids’ football games,…
We’ve always loved the amazing photography by Montreal-based husband and wife team, Davina + Daniel. Since they started their wedding photography business in 2009, they have traveled all over the world shooting a variety of weddings, locations and couples. Davina + Daniel are also known for their incredible post-processing skills, and recently launched a post-processing and editing…
Kenneth Soong of Just Married Photography is an award-winning wedding and portrait photographer based out of Edmonton, but travels worldwide for his clients. Kenneth has a uniquely bold style, and prides himself on providing wedding photojournalism and cutting edge portraiture. Check out more of his work, and what makes him tick. How did you get…
It almost feels like cheating. Like finding your best friend’s notebook from a 7-week intensive lighting workshop. A notebook you secretly steal and never give back. It’s that good. But don’t do that. “Location Lighting Handbook for Portrait Photographers – Create Outstanding Images Anywhere” by Stephanie and Peter Zettl is an Amherst Media publication…
This week’s featured photographer is Brandon Burk of Brandon Burk Photography in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brandon is a wedding and portrait photographer, and has a knack for capturing those special moments between couples and families. He’s also an avid outdoorsmen, and says he rarely goes anywhere without his camera, tripod and other random items including his Carhartt jacket,…
Brett Jarnagin is an award-winning wedding and portrait photographer who created the Lightroom™ Retouching Toolkit, which is a set of adjustment brushes that allow you to retouch skin, enhance eyes, balance your images, apply makeup and more. For this week’s Tip of the Week, Brett shares some of his favorite tricks for making Lightroom even more awesome….
Todd Laffler is the owner and sole photographer at Laffler Photography, based out of Califon, New Jersey. His modern, fresh and quirky photography quickly caught our attention, and we’re looking forward to seeing more of him at this year’s Mystic Seminars. How did you get started in photography? I got stated in photography back in high…