Practice makes perfect

Starting up a business is interesting. You have so much to learn all the time. I'm learning so much with every wedding I do and I'm surprisingly enjoying the challenge. Something I'm finding interesting is finding an editing style. I came from working with film cameras at uni which I wouldn't edit, unless I was physically doing so in the dark room with filters and manipulating the light with my hands to cast shadows, so using programs like Lightroom has been a lot of fun and a lot of work.
Finding a style is extremely important for a photographer and that style comes from the way I take a photograph in the first place and then what I do with it to edit it. It is also important that the person I'm photographing likes my style too as being a photographer doesn't mean you can take an exact copy of another photograph by another person.
It may sound pretentious but I honestly feel that a photographer is an artist. I have always considered myself an artist with my photography. My style is that I look for lines and colour, I love soft lighting and I am quite formal with my composition. This style has taken me years to develop and I am pleased with how far I've come with it.
Wedding photography lets me be a little more experimental and fun which I am really enjoying. I'm also loving the experimenting with the editing style, and I hope to continue to improve with each wedding I do till I can put my images next to top photographers and not cry with despair over the difference.

I do miss my university days with large format film cameras and a sense of being a tortured artist of some kind, thinking about the way dust looked through window light or taking images of people with dead pan expressions. I am pleased with the photos I took then and so you can see where I came from before I picked up my digital Canon camera and got to know editing programs intimately, here is a sample of my art work.