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For the next 72 hours, the kind folks at @imagen.a

For the next 72 hours, the kind folks at @imagen.ai will be gifting 50% off my two-part workshop at @wayupnorth Learn how I convert inquiries into bookings without getting ghosted and then join me on a styled shoot with a couple through the romantic streets of Florence for a hands-on portfolio-building session. Get a free drink at registration afterwards on Imagen and kick off Way up North Spring 2024!

To reserve your spot, head over to store.wayupnorth.co and look for the workshop with Jeff Chang!

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Camera Settings and 👇How To in Caption👇

It’s usually a one handed operation: one for holding the veil and one for holding your camera. So I’d recommend using a light lens, preferably a prime.

Start with a 35mm or 50mm for best results. Anything longer, and you’ll be too close to get a nice frame. What’s so wonderful is this particular distance from the subject creates really beautiful foreground blur. Experiment with letting the veil fall in front of the lens, on the edges, from above etc.

In daylight, start with f/2.8 ISO100-200.
Shutter speed should be somewhere between 1/500-1/2000 depending on how bright it is. Remember that the closer you get to a subject, the shallower the depth of field regardless of f-stop. So if you go down to f/1.4 but you’re only a foot away, the DOF will be super shallow.

Working with the couple - After a few minutes of regular portraits with the couple, and getting them warmed up, move to using the veil. Once the veil is on top of them like a mosquito net, pull a chunk of it towards you and use it to create a tunnel effect. If the veil is very long, try pinching either side of the veil together in one place, and shoot through the tunnel you create. If the veil is short, hold it up high above your camera, and gently lower until you see it in frame, this will create a wonderful foreground blur.

The whole time, keep talking with your couple. Tell them to give each other kisses on the cheek, or whisper something into their ear. You can try variations, where the couple hold each other’s faces for a kiss, or wrap their arms around.

We’re Jeff and Cat and this was episode 97. If you’d like to learn more about wedding photography, editing and the business behind it all. Make sure to give us a follow.

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It was windy... so we made contemporary art :) //

It was windy... so we made contemporary art :) //

Can't turn down the opportunity to share a few bla

Can't turn down the opportunity to share a few black and white photographs from M+J wedding day //

Backup workflow below👇 Save for later. Backup

Backup workflow below👇 Save for later.

Backup is maybe the most important technical aspect of being a wedding photographer. There just isn’t any way of coming back from losing images from a wedding day.

Our backup workflow:

1. Dual redundancy cards in all cameras
2. At the end of the event, one copy of all cards is in our equipment bag, and the other is on our person.
3. When we get home a copy is made onto our server (which is also dual redundancy)
4. Another copy is made onto a hard drive that then goes to our off site location

So at the end of the night we have 5 copies, but eventually that will be three once we wipe the cards for the next wedding. Before wiping cards, we will create a Lightroom Catalog and ensure the images loaded on properly without failure or corruption.

The offsite never gets clear as it’s always nice knowing every photograph we’ve ever taken is safe outside our home.

The server we use is called Drobo, but they don’t exist anymore! Which is too bad because we love the simplicity of it. Eventually we’ll get something to replace it, probably from G-Tech or SanDisk.

Speaking of that, if @sandisk or @sandiskprofessional or @lexarmemory or @westerndigital if y'all wana work together drop me a line :)

We’re Jeff and Cat and this was episode 95. If you’d like to learn more about wedding photography, editing and the business behind it all. Make sure to give us a follow.

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Nerd alert. Did you know the flash duration is dif

Nerd alert. Did you know the flash duration is different depending on the power output of a speedlite? On the Canon 600EX for example, the greater the flash output the longer the flash duration. But just how long? At full power 1/1 it’s approximately 1/890 sec. That’s pretty darn fast. Which is why flash is great for freezing motion, when it’s the primary light source in a photograph. And also why people look sharp in a dragged shutter (slow exposure) shot. Since the longer exposure time doesn’t actually add any more effective light to the subject, the subject relies entirely on the light from the flash. And since the flash is so quick, like 1/5000 quick, the motion is captured as a sharp non-blurry image..

Here’s the breakdown:

1/1 Flash: approx 1/890 sec
1/2 Flash: approx. 1/1200 sec
1/4 Flash: approx. 1/2800 sec
1/8 Flash: approx. 1/5600 sec
1/16 Flash: approx. 1/9700 sec
1/32 Flash: approx. 1/15000 sec
1/64 Flash: approx. 1/23000 sec
1/128 Flash: approx. 1/34000 sec

Settings for taking dance floor photos with light streaks:

Shutter 1/8 (slower for more streaking, faster for less)
f/2.8-5.6
ISO 100-400
Flash output: auto or start at 1/128 and move up from there

I hope that shed a little light on that subject. See what I did there. We’re Jeff and Cat and this was episode 94. If you’d like to learn more about wedding photography, editing and the business behind it all. Make sure to give us a follow.

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