I just got an email that I want to respond to on the blog for everyone’s benefit.
Alicea writes:
” I realy like ur images and I like your logo. We are going nuts trying to find a logo designer that has some style and won’t break the bank. Who did your logo? Also just curious as to what lens you were using in the featured wedding and what aperature you were shooting in the pic of them at the alter.”
Melanie and I worked together to create the logo ourselves! I hear all the time from photographers who are very established in this business that your branding is everything! Like Alecea, I am not at the point where I can afford to get professional branding done at this point, so I said to myself, “Self, you need to come up with something that you can stick to for the next 3-5 years while saving for some professional branding makover.” You see, I tend to change alot and become dissatisfied with the old and trying obsessively to rise onward and upward. Since I wanted to do something I could stick with, I decided to do some reasearch and start thinking about different ideas. For those of you who are members of the [b] school (if you are not a member, I hightly recommend it!), I found a really cool thread about branding at this link.
At weddings, I use a varity of lenses plus I have a second shooter with access to those same lenses. I am sure that I used a couple different ones for the shots referred to, so here is the list of lenses that I use during a ceremony:
These are all Canon lenses:
50mm 1.4
85mm 1.8
70-200 L IS 2.8
Also, during a dimly lit ceremony we always shoot wide open and avoid flash whenever possible not only so that it doesn’t distract from the ceremony, but so that we can take advantage as much as possible of any ambient light.
Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
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