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Hey it’s Lensel
And we are back for 2025 🎉 We are DAMN excited. Lensel is your source to grow, get inspired and stay ahead in the wedding photography game this year. We’ve got you. And we have some exciting announcements to make as our Lensel PRO membership expands this year. But for now, here is what is on today:
Guest shots x Germain Larkin
Black and White grain
Yashica thinks the people want a tiny camera sensor?
All the news and inspo from the week
Let’s jump in 👇
NEWS
Happening this Week
Mini Flashes. Our favourite value focussed flash maker Godox is on a roll and has released three new ‘mini’ flashes this week. The ‘iFlash’. Lightweight, affordable and compact, they’ll make no one nervous.
More precious editing seconds. Imagen AI announced a new background mask feature to save you another few seconds per photo. Simply tick the feature when running your images through Imagen and you’ll have a background layer mask applied to every image. The tiny things add up.
Film Prices take effect. Late last year Kodak announced a raft of pricing changes that take effect this month. Many black and white stocks are getting MUCH cheaper, while a few colour favs are increasing around 10%. Click here to see details.
Double booking situation. Jump into this discussion about how to deal with accidentally booking the same date twice. PS a lot of bad advice in here, as well as some good.
Yashica. A name you may only associate with older film cameras has recently released a bunch of new point and shoot cameras, called the “City Series”. Equiped with tiny sensors smaller than a iPhone 16 for the that low-fi, digicam look. Riding on that trend right?
DJI Drone Rumours. If you have recently crashed your drone (everyone has right?) and need to get a new one soon, perhaps hold off until the new Mavic 4 gets released. It’s looking like a big step up from previous models with a new 100MP 4/3 sensor and super long flight time. (PS it looks like it will a be March/April 2025 release)
A better photographers belt. Let’s be honest, most photographers gear looks dorky. This is the opposite. Practical too. It’s the belt every photographer should check out in 2025. See the UNCOMMON SENSE belt here.
SHOOTING
👠 Guest shot attention
Images: germanlarkin
Pay close attention.
Germain Larkin is at the top of the game. He shoots only the most exclusive weddings and events full of celebrity. WHY? Maybe there is something….
LENSEL PRO
🛠️ Workshop w/ Corbin Gurkin
Corbin Gurkin x LENSEL
Next Wednesday, 15th of February at 5.30pm CET, we are hosting a live workshop with Corbin Gurkin. One of the WORLDS most distinguished wedding photographers. Corbin brings over twenty years experience from the very top of the game as well as a unique aesthetic and approach to table. We can’t wait to hear her speak on “What Luxury Really Wants” and hear a few hot takes about the current state of the industry.
Workshop hosted inside our Lensel PRO community
Q&A opportunity with Corbin
Recording will be available to view one day after the event
Join Lensel PRO now to access this workshop. As well as many other benefits!
INSPO THIS WEEK
⬇️ Special mention for the wide lens choice in this set + the soft tones. Eric Mcvey never misses.
⬇️ The sneaky through the door detail shot bringing story to a detail shot. Greg Fincks detail shots are always worth a closer look.
⬇️ Details and GRAIN. It’s back. We’ve been seeing these images full of grain a lot more recently and we are loving it.
⬇️ Every single frame in this set with make you think.
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