Starting your own photography business is tough work, but with the right guidance you can join this rewarding profession along with the other ~50,000 photographers in the USA. Hand and Arrow Photography began in early 2017, and as we began to grow, take on new clients, and experience new things as photographers and business owners, […]

Hands down, the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM camera lens is an essential in just about every photographers toolkit. The 50mm focal length has long been one of our personal favorites. Much of our early photography growing up was centered around a 50mm kit lens that came along with more inexpensive, beginner camera bodies […]

As a creatives, collaborating with other creatives helps teach, renew and inspire us. Which is exactly why we love to participate in styled shoots and attend photography workshops whenever we can. These shoots are also a great way for wedding vendors to collaborate with each other who either haven’t worked together before or are well […]

Wedding photographers live and die by whether or not they can book clients. And not just any clients, their ideal clients – which help to make taking wedding photos a fun experience that can pay the bills. When setting up your own photography business, it is important to be critical of what kind of client […]

While we love taking photos, one of the things we have really started to not care for is culling through thousands of them just to find the ones we want to keep. In an average wedding, between the two of us, it is entirely possible that we will shoot 3,000+ photos. During our first year […]

In today’s post, we are going to give a quick overview and our opinion on the culling and basic editing software known as Photo Mechanic. For a more in depth look at how this software directly benefits our workflow, check out our article How to Cull in Photo Mechanic in 10 Easy Steps. Our quick […]