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We are Michael & Laura, a husband and wife photography team based in Richmond, Virginia (though we LOVE to travel!). We hope you enjoy browsing some of our most recent work, reading our tips and tricks for brides, and taking a little peek into our life.
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Since coming back from Kenya, we have been trying to blog more consistently. While we haven’t been completely consistent each week, we have been blogging much more than we have in the past. And one tool that has made a HUGE difference in our blogging process is BlogStomp. This is a photo processing tool that turns those perfectly edited images of yours into optimal photos for your web presence. If you have ever tried to upload and edit your images using your blog, you will quickly find that most blogs don’t give you very many tools. Resizing can be in “large, medium, or thumbnail”, and spacing never seems to be the same either. Plus, those large image files are optimized for your clients to print or view outside of a blog post, and your blog is not designed in the same way. BlogStomp makes it easy to get your photos to look perfectly formatted on your blog.
We have been Nikon photographers from the beginning. We started with a Nikon D80 and a D5000 several years ago, but have moved up quite a bit since then not only because we wanted to serve our clients better, but technology continues to grow. Nowadays, there is so much gear to choose from, so we thought we would share a little of what we use.
Our Main Cameras: Nikon D750. If you follow the camera world, this is one of the most recent releases from Nikon, boasting that it’s the best Nikon has to offer when it comes to capturing great light, focusing in all situations, and incredible ISO settings. Both Laura and I spent time in the darkroom, where we learned to appreciate keeping your images looking natural, like film photographs, & not pixeled like digital can be. With the D750, shooting at ISO’s as high as 6400 still look flawless and crisp, with full range going to 12800.
New camera gear is constantly being released. So upgrading gear is constantly available to us. The question is what should you be upgrading? I think it all depends on the stage you are in with your photography. We started with two cut frame (DX) cameras for our first few weddings and some basic lenses that came with their bundles. So, upgrading for us started with getting a professional full frame (FX) camera body first. The price between the two are about double, but for that you are getting the entire surface of your image sensor to capture your photographs on, so your images are not only larger in size, they are also more versatile and higher quality, especially if you plan on cropping in. Seriously, this became a huge game changer for us.
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