Taken on Jerry Ghionis Seminar In Toronto
Just an apology to all the people who have been following this blog, I know its no excuse but due to our best year ever, we did not have time to add all whats been going on, but I slapped my wrists and promise that we will keep you up to date with the latest in happenings in our world. Below is a brief taster which i will expand on, over the next few days.
Its been such a fantastic year for Mark Jordan Photography. The weddings we have shot have been incredible, yes some have been difficult were the typical British weather has tried to throw a spanner in the works especially in August but we are getting use to that now so its no problem…. The year started really well with the award of Associateship with the Society of Wedding and Portrait photographers (SWPP) in February ( only ten percent of wedding photographers have gained this distinction in the UK) and two weeks later, we won an “Award of Excellence” with the Wedding and Portraits International” (WPPI) in Las Vegas.We came back from Las Vegas to jump straight into the wedding season with our feet hardly touching the ground. For those of you who have seen me work, I love to see the fun and emotion at weddings and to capture that is my prime objective, and I truly have a great time at weddings myself. Its such a great day.
Anyhow I have been shooting weddings over 15 years and seen many changes in the industry, especially over the last seven years with the introduction of digital photography. I have noticed a lot of people picking up a digital camera and suddenly call themselves “photographers”. The majority , have no practical training and gain their experience by practising on real life wedding, shocking I know but its a fact. Which made me take a long look at my photographic training and tried to remember when was the last time I did some “learning”. Although I teach other wedding photographers how to market and shoot wedding photography, it had been a long time ago since I had actually been in a classroom. So I decided to do something about it and I looked at a few photographers in the world who’s work I really liked. The first name on the top of the list was “Jerry Ghionis” who has been listed as one of the best wedding photographers in the world and who I knew ran some training courses in Australia but I figured would be too far to go , but I had a look at his web site and noticed his was running a course in Toronto in June and by sheer luck I had a “window” and could attend. I flew 3,500 miles to join another selected handful of lucky photographers to spend five days with the man. It was the best five days ever. Later I will “blog” about the whole week of training so stay tuned as they say.
I also have a back log of weddings that I have taken over the summer and I know that some of my Brides have wanted to see them here and on my Facebook page, and I will do that too…Sorry Girls!!
Yvonne (my lovely assistant) and myself got to work taking some pictures of Lynsey. I decided to shoot a little bit different than usual, so I used a different form of lighting to compliment Lynsey. In this shot you see here we have used a bit of photoshop work on Lynsey, not because she really needed it but just to give her that extra special look that every Bride deserves on their wedding day. We also did a bit of PS on Andrew as well so he didn’t feel left out!
