A short while back I mentioned in an interview that new photographers in business should decide what they want to photograph, and focus most of their attention and skills on that particular genre. I recently read this at the bottom of a wedding photography website, and it is a good illustration of what I don’t mean,
“we specialize in weddings, studio photography, corporate functions and events, product photography, schools, matric farewells, modeling, families and birthdays”
We had a professor in Homiletics class who had to constantly remind us that, “if everything is important, nothing is important”, referring specifically to the way some students were basically yelling all the way through 40 minutes of preaching.
If you specialize in everything, you don’t really specialize in anything. So, what is it that you want to shoot?
Nicky and Warren’s was a sweet, intimate wedding in a romantic dark chapel, with looming clouds waiting for us outside, which later had us pulling out our jiffy bags for camera protection during our photo shoot in the woods, right across that mile long driving range (who hits a ball that far?). It wasn’t really one of those romantic kind of showers, you know, where the couple spends a few minutes dancing around the wet with the photographer creating stunning “I’m singing in the rain” kinda images. No, this was more like the kind of rain that Noah could have expected, and had us praying that someone with a giant umbrella would magically show up. It didn’t happen, at least not for us. Upside is that if I had to choose a place for this to happen, Casalinga would probably be it, with guaranteed caffeine goodness awaiting you after any wet escapade.
Following are a few images, and I included some details shots this time…we actually do shoot them.
…on stringed instruments
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