Toot Your Own Horn: 7 Steps to Maximize Visibility After You’ve Been Published
Guest Post by Lara White When you see your work published, it feels incredible. It’s an amazing validation of the work you do and the impact you are having in your field. But what does it really do for your business? Do you start to fill all those empty Saturdays because you have a featured...
A Wedding Video Shot with the Mindset of a Still Photographer
Wedding photographer Lee Morris recently had the idea of trying his hand at making a wedding video with his still photography mindset. His idea was to slow down the video to make it more of a “moving image”, bringing it more into his realm of expertise. To do this, he photographed a wedding at 60fps...
Wedding Photographs Turned into a Stop-Motion Video
New Zealand-based wedding photographer Delphine Ducaruge takes photos from her wedding shoots and combines them into creative stop-motion animations. You can find more of them over on her Vimeo page.Delphine Photography (via Xatakafoto)
10 Tips for Creating a Photography Portfolio – Part 2
Welcome back to the 10 Tips for Creating a Photography Portfolio. I hope you enjoyed last Wednesday’s first half of the article on the same subject. It was getting so long that I thought dividing it into two parts would be better for everyone. 6. How should I choose which photos to use? – Here...
Wedding Idea: Chalkboard Messages in Polaroid Pictures
Instead of using a traditional guestbook at their wedding, Jess and Sloane asked wedding guests to pose for Polaroid pictures while holding messages written on a small chalkboard. Awesome idea.Image credits: Photograph by Souder Photography and used wi...
podcast #54 TWiT Photo host Catherine Hall now online
Catherine Hall is a photographer with many talents as well as the co-host of TWiT Photo with Leo Laporte. We had a great conversation about photography, social media and impacts to photographers, google plus, and more! The Podcast Of course, you can now see this on the new planet5D podcast section of the planet5D site...
Testing out the RED Epic for weddings – from @stillmotion
You guys all know we love the folks at stillMotion and you know they love HDSLR shooting – so what the heck is up with them using a RED Epic on a wedding shoot? And, just how’d that work out for them as compared to their friends the HDSLRs? Find out a bit in their...
planet5D Live with TWiT Photo host Catherine Hall Monday Sept 19th 21:00 GMT
planet5D live with photographer and TWiT Photo host Catherine Hall Monday Sept 19th – 5pm ET, 4 CT, 2PT – 21:00 GMT so Europe can join! please join us for this live conversation where you get to ask the questions! To convert GMT for your time zone, use this GMT conversion site Who is Catherine...
Clever Wedding Photo Booth Made Using a Canon T3i
We’ve seen DSLR photo booth projects before, but usually they’re just simple ways for guests at an event to take self-portraits of themselves. Kevin over at I Dream In Code actually made a fancy photo booth for his brother’s wedding that prints out a nice keepsake for guests: It is an Arduino connected to a...
Why Cheap Craigslist Photogs Won’t Kill the Wedding Photography Business
Poke around on Craigslist, and you’ll find that it’s filled with ads selling professional services at dirt-cheap prices, including photographers offering to shoot weddings for just a few hundred dollars. Does this spell doom for the wedding photography business? Probably not. Jeff Revell over at PhotoWalkPro writes, Well yesterday [a friend] called me and I...
Photog Bling: A Leica f/.95 Noctilux Ring
When Matthew Harrison (aka The Leica Guy) got married recently, he was given the awesome gift of a f/.95 Noctilux ring: As is tradition, the bride and groom exchanged gifts prior to the wedding. While Matthew purchased Emily the watch that she had always wanted. Emily commissioned a custom ring for Matthew’s shooting hand (as...
Beautiful Wedding Photographer Promo
Wedding photographer Kirk Mastin hired Shep Films to create this stunning promo that really conveys his passion for the art. It’s pretty inspirational, even if shooting weddings isn’t your thing. How can you pass up hiring the guy after wat...
