Category Archives: 05. Photography

Blog posts about wedding photography, engagement photography, and the business of photography by Shang Chen Photography

Kind words, another installation

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It is always with great honor and privilege that I get to hear what my clients have to say from my work via their reviews, I appreciate it so much!!! It is exactly due to these reviews that people who have never met me, who do not share any mutual friends who have been past...

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A review of the Jerry Ghionis workshop

If there was a photographer whose work made me cry, it would be Jerry Ghionis, master world class wedding photographer, who presented as a platform speaker at the WPPI conference in Las Vegas earlier this year. Of all the speakers, Jerry was the one I felt least “sold” to, but within 15 minutes I signed...

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So you want to intern, assist, or second shoot for a wedding photog

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(Emily‘s and my feet, San Juan, Puerto Rico, the day after we shot a destination wedding together) If there is one thing I wish I could have done more of in my first season of wedding photography, it’s that I could have had the chance to shadow more wedding photographers. Though I had a couple...

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WPPI 2011 Reflections

My deluge of emails did not stop while I was away in Las Vegas the past week! I guess that’s what happens when you launch a contest from the middle of the desert. So, in sum, I spent Friday – Wednesday at the world’s largest gathering of wedding and portrait photographers – WPPI 2011. It...

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A day in my bschool life with the 35mm

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For my Twitter friends, you know I’ve probably been tweeting and pining and waiting for the Nikon 35mm f/1.4 lens for who knows how long. When it didn’t seem like Amazon, Adorama, or B&H would have it in stock for MONTHS, I caved and got one from a Canadian store. Yeah, that just destroyed my...

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