Sep 11, 2011

This week I’ve been lucky enough to interview the fantastic London wedding photographer, Marianne Taylor. Marianne specialises in creative, reportage wedding photography, and her shots instantly drew me in when I came across her website. I really love Marianne’s work, and also admire the way she handles such a busy schedule, but at the same time...

Aug 25, 2011

If you’re a regular reader of LearningTheLight.com, you’ll have noticed that I like wedding photography – a lot. I’ve written a piece on why you can learn lots from wedding photography, for instance, and have recently been lucky enough to interview two top wedding photographers, Emma Case and David Charlwood. Anyways, I was lucky enough...

Aug 16, 2011

I’m really thrilled to bring you an interview with David Charlwood today, a fantastic wedding photographer from the UK. David was one of the very first photographers I started to follow on Twitter (follow him here), and he also featured in my very first ‘I Wish I’d Taken This Photo’ article back in March 2010. So, without further ado,...

Aug 8, 2011

Emma Case I’m very excited to announce the first of what will be a new series of posts on LearningTheLight.com: ‘Learn From The Experts’, where professional photographers will share their tips, tricks, anecdotes and words of wisdom for us all. And I’m even more excited that our first expert on board is none other than Emma Case, of...

Mar 30, 2011

Captured By The Light by David Ziser (available from Amazon US and UK) is the best wedding photography book I have read so far – and I’ve gone through a fair few, I can tell you! There are many reasons why I rate it so highly, but perhaps the overriding factor that makes it stand out from the rest is how it is written for the layman – simple to...

Feb 6, 2011

OK, I may have already posted this on our facebook page last week, but I thought I should feature it on the site too – it’s so funny! Check it out if being a wedding shooter is appealing to you at all – you may change your mind after watching! By the way, the language is pretty ‘colourful’ so you may want to check out the G-rated...

Jan 4, 2011

You may have a keen interest in wedding photography, or you may not, but I think you can learn lots from studying it – and I’m not just meaning that you can learn lots about how to shoot weddings. No, I mean that by studying various examples of wedding photography, you can learn how to take better photos in general. Think about it: In what other...

Aug 5, 2010

I recently had the pleasure of taking photos (lots of them!) at 2 friends’ weddings over 3 days. Yep, quite exhausting, but good fun and really good experience. Of course, I wasn’t the main photographer at either of the weddings – not even a ‘second shooter’, as both weddings actually had 2 pros at each. But I was more than happy to...

Jun 22, 2010

It’s been a while since I posted some of my own photography on the site, so I thought I’d just do a quick post to show some wedding pics I took recently in Liverpool. I obviously – and thankfully! – wasn’t the ‘proper’ photographer for the day at all, but it was still a good chance to have a go, without the added...