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The Profoto B1X is the off camera flash we were looking for. In the first year of our photography business, we relied on more inexpensive alternatives in the form of speedlites by Yongnuo and Canon. While these were good options for us at the time, as time has gone on and money has allowed us, […]

Profoto B1X 500 Air-TTL Flash – Review

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Every small photography business needs a plan for success. In 99.99% of photography startups, success or failure hinges on your ability to realistically plan ahead. Unless you have a Scrooge McDuck level of money hidden away somewhere, every decision you make – especially those that are financial – have the potential to bring you more […]

How to Make a Simple Business Plan for Your Photography Start Up Business

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Probably the least interesting part of running a wedding photography business is trying to wrap our heads around all the tax stuff. As a small business setup as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), there is a world of tax law and requirements that we were never used to in our normal life pre-business, because our […]

The 10 Common Tax Mistakes Made by Wedding Photographers

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For today’s post, we’re going to discuss a fairly simple aspect of photography – aperture – and how you can help define the look and feel of your images by successfully using it to get the photos you want. For all intents and purposes, in most ways this is really a photography 101 topic that […]

How to Shape Your Photography Look with Aperture

For Photographers

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 […]

How to Cull in Photo Mechanic in 10 Easy Steps

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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 […]

Micro Review: Photo Mechanic

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- becca + eric

"Five stars aren't enough. From the first minutes of our intro call to our wedding day send-off, Jes and Chris somehow exceeded our high hopes and then some. They are gifted, meticulous, kind, calm, and contagiously positive. You can't help but feel at ease around them, and you can feel confident in their steady support. Jes and Chris are experts not only in photography but in wedding day planning and execution. Know nothing about planning a wedding and need an entire day-of timeline? You got it. Need your veil pinned into your hair? Give Jes 30 seconds. Feeling nervous and need a pep talk? They got you. As for the photos themselves...our wedding sneak peek gallery left us with our jaws on the ground.”

"Best photography experience, we plan to use them for years to come."

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