Wedding Photography Unveiled

Culling shouldn't take you longer than the wedding itself. In this episode, I break down how I get through an entire wedding's images in under an hour, starting with why I cull on the day rather than waiting until I'm home.
I cover:
Why culling at the wedding, while your mind is still fresh, beats doing it days later
The maths behind speed: how shaving even a second off each image selection adds up to hours saved over a season
A live demo of FastCull, the culling app I built from scratch specifically for wedding photographers

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In this episode, Mark Pacura shares insights on the importance of printed albums in the digital age, how to sell them effectively, and introduces a new album design tool that simplifies the process for photographers.

Key Topics
The enduring value of printed albums in the digital age
Strategies for selling albums to clients
The impact of AI on photography and printing
Designing albums that clients love
Pricing and markup strategies for albums
Using albums as marketing tools and legacy items

Resources
Spread Album Design Software
⁠Website⁠
Wooden Banana

It's kind of fitting that our 100th episode is to talk about our own daughter's wedding!
We unpack how it felt to be on the other side of the camera for once. Could we resist telling the photographer/videographer what to do? What actually happened, how did we feel and what did we learn?

Shoutouts
Laura-Jayne Photographer
Drop D Wedding Films
Weddingcontentbyjadem

Seventeen years in, wedding photographer Aiden Priest joins me for a wide-ranging conversation covering everything he's picked up along the way.

From a chance start second shooting for his postman to running one of the fastest turnaround workflows in the industry, Aiden shares the systems, mindset and hard-won lessons that keep him consistent after hundreds of weddings.

We cover so much including editing efficiency, kit philosophy, second shooter selection, data security, handling negative reviews and some of the more extreme situations weddings can throw at you, all tied together by the idea that experience teaches you what actually matters and what you can let go of.

Website: https://adenpriestphotography.co.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adenphoto/

Two years after Cloe was a guest at a wedding I shot, she got back in touch to ask if I'd reshoot her portraits and key moments after being unhappy with her original gallery.
In this episode I have a chat with Cloe about:
How she found her suppliers and specifically her photographers.
What she felt her gallery missed and what hindsight has taught her.
Why Cloe booked a content creator despite having two photographers and a videographer already.
Why she chose not to leave a review, and how the reshoot completed the story for her
Her advice to photographers listening to this episode.
Conclusion
This is a conversation I'm genuinely glad I recorded. Getting an honest account from a bride who was not thrilled by her wedding photographs isn't a conversation many of us genuinely hear. And I'm incredibly grateful that Cloe shares her experiences without bitterness and with real generosity toward the photographers involved. Her reflections on communication, expectations, and timelines are lessons we should all take on board and her advice on getting involved earlier in the planning is something I'm going to take seriously.