How to Shoot Hybrid - Photo & Video

It has been almost a year since I lasted released a podcast episode, and so I felt like I needed to explain, while providing an opportunity to feel seen, heard and validated if you have found it hard to speak up and be yourself too.  So you will hear me talk about personal stuff, how I have been feeling about the photo and video industry, and the wedding industry. But most importantly how I have w...

The guest on this episode is a great example of constantly innovating and moving with the times whilst continuing to create outstanding work.  Jeff Wood is a wedding filmmaker who started capturing weddings back around 2008 and has worked with celebrity and luxury clients as well as being an influence for many UK wedding videographers over the past decade.  But rather than just sticking with the s...

On this episode I get to chat with a brilliant, multi award wining documentary style wedding photographer Erica Hawkins who originally came from a background in filmmaking.  Some of Erica's awards include Nine Dots Photographer of the Year 2024, This is Reportage Top 10 photographers in the UK, Fearless Top 50 Photographers of the World, TWIA regional winner and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Pr...

In this milestone episode (number 100!) I am speaking with Martin & Daiga Cheung who are a married couple providing photography and videography. Although they have separate businesses they are able to offer a combined photo and video package to couples as well as having their own clients, a really great business model to consider for any of you working with a spouse! We have a great conversati...

In this episode I go through why I think this year is the year that Hybrid Photography and Videography shooting will completely blow up. Sure, the past few years there has been a rise of people using both photo and video to tell stories, particularly to market themselves and we have seen the popularity of content creation becoming an integral part of all our businesses.  But I really believe we ar...

It has been a while. I have been working my way through the busy summer, giving 100% to my couples, clocking up the edits, spending time with the family and something had to give...it was the podcast.  Sorry about that, but inspired by the typical post summer season backlog and struggle to find life balance as a small creative business owner I wanted to pass on things I have learnt and developed t...

Working for free always seems to raise some controversy, but are there times when short term sacrifice can lead to longer term success? We will discuss that in this episode with plenty of personal examples of how you can create opportunities out of nothing and the downsides of not setting expectations with people when working for less than you potentially should.  Message Me On the How to Shoot Hy...

It is amazing how connected we all are today, and the world of social media has created some amazing marketing opportunities for us all to reach potential clients and speak to an audience. But what happens when it gets used in a more negative way, potentially in a way that impacts our business or even us personally?  On the back of a busy couple of weeks with various viral topics in Facebook group...

Inspired by us recently helping each other out with photographing and filming weddings we decided to discuss the practicalities and considerations of representing another person or business at a wedding. This conversations is helpful whether you want to or are shooting for someone else, or if you are looking for people to shoot on your behalf.  Song of the week from musicbed: Take my hand - Secret...

However you feel about the 'new thing' or what 'everyones doing' it is something we all need to be aware of so we can understand how the current trends will interact with us and our business.  The new trend might not be your thing, but we still need to be aware of what potential clients might be looking for. Even if that isn't something we want to offer them, it can help u...

In the middle of 2024 there is so much talk in the wedding industry, specifically amongst wedding photographers and wedding videographers about how enquiries are down, bookings are down.  The general concusses appears to be that it is more challenging to run a small wedding business at the moment, so for photographers and filmmakers we wanted to discuss ways to create opportunities to make money a...

For this episode I wanted to revisit a topic from episode 81 where I talked about how the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 could be a game changing cameras for hybrid shooters. Now I have had the opportunity to use it for a few more months on a variety of projects I wanted to give you a more up to date view of how useful it is as a tool for hybrid content creation or as a pure filmmaking tool for weddings and co...

As photographers, filmmakers and hybrid shooters what we offer to our clients is not just our creative skill, artistic flair or the technical knowledge we have to create photographs and films. Probably the most important element in our work and our unique selling point as a business is how we see the world and what drives us to do what we do and the way we do it. So in this episode we discuss wher...

In the last episode we discussed the options when it came to choosing a camera to shoot hybrid photo and video coverage. The natural follow on it the discussion around lenses.  We reveal what our favourite lens is and what are go to piece of glass is for different parts of a wedding day. We have a debate over zooms vs primes and ponder over what direction we might go in the future.  This episode h...

In this episode we talk about one of the most talked about things amongst photographers and filmmakers - cameras!  Hybrid photo and video shooting requires a different level of speed and features from a camera, so if you are looking to get into hybrid shooting this episode will be really useful when it comes to choosing which camera system and model to use.  We discuss the cameras we have used pre...

In our first proper episode hosting together we discuss the challenges of capturing a wedding in still photography and videography as a solo hybrid shooter. We go through an entire wedding day and discuss how we would approach each part of the day and the workarounds for the various aspects that need to be captured in both photo and video at the same time.  This is a great episode for anyone looki...

It's time for a change and to freshen up the podcast and we are starting a new series by introducing our new co-host Kieran Paul and photographer and filmmaker who has been in the game for almost a decade.  In this episode we get to find out all about how Kieran got into photography/filmmaking in his early years, how he made his way into the wedding industry and we chat a little bit about wha...

As it has been 3 months since the last episode I wanted to give an explanation and fill you in on the exciting changes to the podcast moving forwards.  Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photographers and videographers who want to build successful and sustainable business capturing weddings, live events, work...

Happy New Year and for the first episode of 2024 I am giving you my 10 important things to focus on for success this year with your photography / videography business. These steps are the things that will make the biggest difference to how you feel about what you do and will shift things forward whether that is revenue growth or finding further fulfilment in your business.  Message Me On the How t...

In this episode I ramble on about a topic really close to my heart - music. Music is a huge part of my creative inspiration and forms a large part of what I believe makes my work unique to others. Not necessarily because I pick completely different music to all the other wedding filmmakers out there, but because of the thought process that goes into using a song.  So that's what I talk about...

In this episode I discuss the reasons I believe longer wedding films / documentary edits / FOMO films or whatever else you would like to call them are more important than ever to our couples.  Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photographers and videographers who want to build successful and sustainable busin...

It is that time of the year when if you live and work in the northern hemisphere you will be winding down from wedding season and trying to stay motivated to get through the editing list before the ball drops for next year! After discussing a variety of topics around how we capture things on the actual wedding day we are shifting to how we edit what we captured into something that will tell the st...

It is rare these days that I get excited by a piece of camera equipment. Getting new stuff at this point is like getting a new car, its great, but when you realise it does the same thing as your last car (gets you for A to B) the novelty wears off pretty quick. A new camera now is just a replacement for the old one that does the same thing, but a fraction better than the old one.  But every now an...

In a very special and slightly different topic to our regular content Lyndsey and I drink alcohol and chat about running a business together whilst trying to live a normal family life.  As it becomes more popular for couples to work together on their photo/video business, particularly if you are offering hybrid we wanted to give you an insight into what it has been really like for us for the last...

In this episode I am talking through the advances that have been made in small, portable audio recorders in the last couple of years and discussing my current and potential future go-to set-ups.  Audio is so important for creating powerful and emotive films as well as capturing compressive wedding memories for our couples. For any photographers looking to add video to what they offer and for all y...