Photobooths = Wedding vendor networking

Okay one more post in 2012. In the land of weddings, it's important to get to know other vendors and other photographers. They become referral sources (we can all only work one event on a Saturday, so once we're booked, we have to pass those people on). And because the wedding world is, honestly, such a funloving, happy place, much of our networking involves basically partying. Thankfully, at our monthly meetups, there is always a photobooth to document the occasion. Here are the photobooth printouts I saved from a year's worth of networking. Enjoy, if you can call it that. networking photobooth You really must forgive some of these scans. I don't have an expensive do-it-all scanner thing - just a portable guy that can be somewhat temperamental.    And, finally, the coup de grace - where Jonathan asked the photobooth dude what the record was for total number of people in the booth at any one time. We beat it. Well that will about finish up the blog for 2012. Have a very happy New Years and get ready for the awesomeness that will be 2013!

Wedding photographers’ get-together

On Sunday, I drove up to Baltimore's Inner Harbor for a fun little get-together with some great local photogs from the group Starting a Wedding Photography Business.  If you are in the business, this is a great forum in which to participate.  Endless knowledge streams out of the archives, if you'll only look.  Highly recommend!! We might have been a bit awkward at first, but once we got some burgers and quesadillas in us, it was time to rock it camera-style.  First, two images from our short photo walk around the harbor.  I really like these and I'm kind of amazed I got anything at all that I liked because we were really only shooting maybe 15 minutes, very casually. man chesapeake inner harbor baltimore maryland No, these people aren't with our group.  I took the shot I wanted (cute couple looking out on the water) but my focus point was wrong, so I went to do another and she turned around!  I expected this image to be her looking mad. cute couple in baltimore, md Jaimie and Rehan: Julia and Rehan Jaimie and Ayesha: Jamie and Ayesha Baltimore, md I've known about freelensing for a while but I got frustrated when it didn't immediately work out for me.  Ayesha showed us all how to do it right (or well, right enough - probably need to stop up quite a bit to actually get something in focus). ayesha with freelensing Angel: angel in baltimore, md These guys were there too, but I either didn't get any photos of them or didn't like the ones I took (hey, 4/8 ain't that bad!): Sarah Bill Doug Chris Looking forward to the next meetup!