How to Shoot Hybrid - Photo & Video

Hi everyone, We hope you’re all well and have had a great week so far? On this week’s episode we’re highlighting how important it is to know your numbers! A way we can all have piece of mind in knowing we have the right amount of income, enquiries and bookings to make this a reality, and to feel empowered to price our services confidently, is to fully understand our numbers! We discuss starting wi...

Hi everyone, We hope you’re all good and 2023 is treating you well so far. This week we’re talking Money & Taxes. Around the world the process of submitting your tax return and filing your company accounts is different. So locally, you’ll know what the important dates are for you. Here, in the UK the deadline for submission is 31st January.  We’re taking today to talk through the importance of...

Hi everyone, We hope you’ve had a nice start to the new year? Today, we talk Goals!  Are you thinking about setting yourself any goals for you and for your business for the short, medium, or long term? How do you set your goals? How will you monitor them and know whether you will achieve them? We spend some time reflecting back on the goals we set for our business back in January 2023, (Episode 15...

Hi everyone, Happy New Year everyone! and welcome to our first episode of 2023, and what's more is that it's our 50th episode! Today we wanted to start the new year with a pause for thought, by reflecting back on some of our previous episodes in which we discussed the real "business" of what we all do. We wanted to highlight that by effectively using the quieter time over the n...

Hi everyone, We hope you’ve enjoyed the festive period, been able to take some time to rest and you’re looking forward to the year ahead.  We have been in a very fortunate position to receive some excellent reviews from our couples this year and to have used effective marketing strategies to generate lots of enquiries - what we didn’t expect however, was not to convert a single one in around six m...

Hello Ho ho, We hope you enjoyed listening today and it’s given you some explanation of where we have been the last few weeks. We hope it might also have prompted you to consider your own health and happiness as a small business owner, and think about ways in which we should all seek support when needed, make adjustments to how we plan and work, and support one another in our community. We can’t b...

After last week’s episode on how the cost of living crisis might be impacting our businesses, we wanted to talk about the different ways in which you could build the resilience of your business by introducing other revenue streams. We discuss opportunities within and outside of the wedding industry and emphasise the importance of the skills, knowledge and adaptability you have as a wedding photogr...

In this weeks episode we discuss and share our thoughts on the current cost of living crisis and how this will inevitibely, and probably already is effecting the spending behaviour of couples getting married in 2023 and 2024. We give an honest insight into how we have seen the events of recent months and weeks impact our conversion rate from lead to booking and offer some practical advice on what...

In this weeks episode we discuss and share our thoughts on how social media has changed the way wedding photography and videography is shared online. We would be the first to advocate for the benefits of having used social media platforms to elevate and grow our business over the last five years, but as with all things tech, these platforms have evolved, and so too, has the way in which we use thi...

In this weeks episode we discuss and share our top ten tips to help you achieve a successful wedding day.  Spending money on workshops, equipment, buying presets or LUT’s, will all get you improved results, but sometimes the most effective changes and improvements we can make in our business are simple, easy to implement and don’t cost us anything.  These don’t get talked about as much, probably b...

A very important topic, even if you think it is dry and boring...I promise if you are a wedding videographer/filmmaker you will get something from this - if you are a photographer, you might find out why videographers piss around with microphones and audio recorders so much! In this episode we discuss capturing/recording audio on a wedding day. Why we do it, what we record, what equipment we want,...

We are right back onto the topics related to shooting weddings and this one is linked to how you choose what shot to go with, lens to use and composition to make. In fact IF or HOW you use motion or movement in your shot could really make or break things for you as a filmmaker (not so much as a photographer!) Anyway, we talk through how you shoot your shit in this episode. Lets talk moving or stil...

After a little break over the summer we are back with Season 3 of the podcast - and we are pumped! At this point in the year it is typical to have a backlog of edits, be quite tired, less motivated and feeling the burn of the crazy summer wedding season. We discuss the reality of this and how to implement things to ease the effects on yourselves and your business. The wedding mavericks podcast is...

In this episode we follow on from the discussion around composition to talk through how we use different types of lenses, focal lengths and shot types to tell more compelling and immersive stories through our wedding photography and filmmaking. From zooms to primes, 20 to 200mm, close up's, mediums, wides, high and low angles. We look at how these different choices in the tools we use and the...

Following on from discussing light in your wedding photographs and films we are looking at how we consider composition in images to enhance storytelling and make the memories we create aesthetically pleasing for our couples. During this episode we cover why understanding composition is so important, what the basic compositional elements are in photography and filmmaking, what are some general rule...

It is part 2 of our discussion around understanding light and how to use it to create or compliment your style of wedding photography and filmmaking. This is one of those episodes we wish we had to listen to 5 years ago when we were starting out as it would have provided us with a massive shortcut to getting things looking and feeling the way we wanted. So skip months and years of experimentation,...

In this episode (a 2 part episode) we discuss the most fundamental element of photography & filmmaking - light! As a photographer or filmmaker the one thing you always want is control over your light, but at a wedding this might not always be possible. So understanding the different types of light and how they will effect your images stylistically and practically is even more important than ot...

This episode is about figuring out and understanding the WHY at the core of your wedding photography and videography business. By understanding what that is you can ensure that you focus your energy into creating the work that aligns with who you are and what makes you want to be a wedding videographer or photographer. This underpins everything you do from the technical side of lighting, compositi...

In this weeks episode we share our experience, thoughts, feelings and learning points from shooting 4 weddings in 4 days. Recording the episode each day as we travel around the North of England we discuss the practicalities of multiple weddings in a row, how to prepare for and maintain delivery of a high quality service with the challenges of quick turnarounds and not enough rest! It is likely tha...

This weeks episode is an overview of the equipment we use to hybrid shoot on wedding days to provide you with an insight into what you might need if you are looking to provide both photography and videography to your couples. Although we like to keep things minimalistic in general, there are always occasions where extra pieces of equipment will be useful or necessary, so we talk through the things...

This week we are having a discussion (or you could call it a vent) about what a documentary wedding photographer or videographer actually is.  You may have your own views on this, we would love to hear them. But the inspiration for this topic came from an experience at a recent wedding and we thought it was an interesting point to mull over in a world wherever we all use terms to describe the serv...

This weeks episode has us starting topics around the more practical and creative side of wedding photography and videography by jumping straight into hybrid wedding shooting. This topic can sometimes create some differences of opinion amongst people in the industry, so we have a detailed conversation about the issues surrounding being able to provide both photography and videography as one service...

In our special 5 year anniversary of being in business episode we talk about the 5 key things that we have learnt through starting, running and growing our business. We talk organisation, planning, couples/clients, understanding why you do things and how you continuously should look to improve. The wedding mavericks podcast is a great place to learn, discuss and help you grow your wedding photogra...

This is the second part to the previous episode (E29) where we shared our experiences of the first 5 years in business and everything that we have learnt/experienced along the way. In the last episode we got up to where the covid pandemic had just begun here in the UK and we pick up there to discuss how we managed to keep the business going through this difficult time and how it changed the course...

Yes, that is a real amount, but full transparency it wasn't in one year! This isn't a flex about money, instead it is a story to provide insight and hopefully some inspiration. As we approach the 5th anniversary of our wedding photography & videography business we decided to reflect on the crazy journey we have been on and discuss all the highs and lows of starting a business, learni...