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Go-to pose ideas. Yeah, the ones you can fall back on in a pinch!
A ticket giveaway to the Way Up North photography conference
Crazy drone fines that will make you think twice
Let’s go ⬇️
NEWS
The News this Week
Serious Drone Fines in Spain. Yes, we know many photographers just fly, license free, and hope for the best with drones, but it’s getting serious guys! This drone user faces at $231,000 fine after flying at the wrong place at the wrong time. Go get the drone license.
Instagram’s new repost feature. This week saw a few big updates from Instagram, including a ‘repost’ feature and section on your profile - with some photographers already out there curating a ‘repost feed’ you can check out how it works here.
Sigma doing a good thing and NOT raising prices (like EVERY other company) in response to tariffs. See their release, and beautiful website here.
Best of Film 2024. Well known Spanish film lab Carmencita, releases ‘Best of Books’ each year and they are awesome. Finally seeing 2024 out now.
EF to L-Mount. Meike just dropped a new adapter to allow L-Mount cameras (Panasonic, Leica and Sigma) to use older Canon EF lenses. Nice.
Tripod Innovation gets even better with this new Ulanzi tripod that seems perfect for the travelling wedding photographer.
Lost in Love Replay. This week Lyndel of Lost in Love Photography presented a wonderful workshop in Lensel Pro titled, “From Solo to Studio.” All about growing a wedding photography team and business. The REPLAY is now available to view! For members you can view it here. For membership details visit here.
THE BIG IDEA
👌🏼 Easy Poses: Posing ideas you can always fall back on + Downloadable Moodboard
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Posing shouldn’t be complicated or hard.
Sometimes you need posing ideas and prompts that just WORK. No overthinking. No second-guessing. Easy and simple.
Ideas you can pull out anytime and know you’ll get the goods. Tucked away in your back pocket next time your mind goes blank (it happens) and you aren’t sure what to do next on a shoot.
So here’s a list of SIX go-to posing ideas to save the day.
PLUS: a downloadable moodboard that you can save, keep, and refer to any time.
Images by: andrewbayda_wed and foolishlyrushingin
1 - HOLD BOTH HANDS
Making comfortable poses is often as easy as…
Plus you will also get the downloadable posing board.
AND all the other amazing benefits of being in the membership.
See Lensel PRO details here.
GIVEAWAY ALERT!
🇸🇪 Reply to win tickets to WAY UP NORTH
Way Up North is one of the most inspiring photography events in the world. Two days of talks, ideas, and connection with some of the most creative minds in our industry. This year, the line up of speakers is incredible and it’s happening in Stockholm. The theme is “What if” — a celebration of the questions that push us forward.
We’re excited to have 2 tickets to give away for this year’s event.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Dates: October 28-29 2025
See event details here
To enter, just REPLY to this email and tell us:
What’s one ‘what if’ moment you’d love to make happen in your wedding photography career?
It could be a dream location, a wild creative idea, or a big change you’ve always wanted to make. Big or small, we want to hear it.
“What if I shot film only??”
Your email address will be entered in to win and we will randomly draw a winner from all replies. WINNER announced next week.
REAL WEDDING FEATURE
A Bold Paris Wedding Full of Film: By Nicole Plett
A Paris wedding, but not as you know it! Incredible curation around the bold red details, full of incredible film tones, and a thought through yet spontaneous feeling. Dive into the details of how wedding photographer, Nicole Plett captured it all.
“When working with film mediums, I use a variety of both natural light, available light, and flash to create a desired look. In this instance, the bride peered back at me through a dark hallway, so I chose natural light to create a cinematic frame full of suspense.”
INSPO THIS WEEK
⬇️ Ghost girl by Cara Mia.
⬇️ COMPOSITION Alert. Dive in for some non-wedding inspo on composition and framing. Let us draw particular attention to slide number 4…
⬇️ How a simple place can be curated JUST right and elevated in all the right ways. Plus scroll through for some top class film work.
⬇️ Daniel Knight Harris with some v nice film work here. Kodak Gold we hear!
Till next week,
