Send us a text In this episode we celebrate our recent guests, Janina Brocklesby, Neil Ridley and duo Demi and James, as well as updating you on all the recent Flash Masters developments in the Flash Masters community - and there has been a lot! We've had our minds blown with the feedback from you, the Flash Masters community, and we can't wait to share the exciting developments we've rolled out - like our live streams that are all about simplifying off-camera flash. Prepare yourself as we ventu...
Jul 05, 2023•52 min•Ep. 43
Send us a text In this episode we are joined by the stars of Neil's off camera flash workshops and many of his YouTube videos - models Demi Hughes and James Taylor! Join us as we celebrate James' birthday and learn more about the incredible Demi and James, who share everything from their unique modeling talents to their thoughts on ghosts! Discover Demi's spot-on goat impressions, James' didgeridoo skills, and their journey into the modeling industry. We also dive into the challenges Demi faced ...
Jun 28, 2023•56 min•Ep. 42
Send us a text Have you ever wondered how a military veteran turned security manager could end up becoming a multiple Flash Masters award-winning wedding photographer? Join us as we sit down with the incredibly talented Lancashire-based Neil Ridley, who shares his fascinating journey, from starting out second shooting all the way through to owning his own photography studio! Throughout our conversation, we explore how Neil strategically grew his wedding photography business, rebranded as Neil Ri...
Jun 21, 2023•46 min•Ep. 41
Send us a text We recently had the absolute pleasure of chatting with the award-winning Janina Brocklesby of Reportage Studios, who shared her incredible journey and wisdom in the world of documentary wedding photography. With numerous awards and accolades under her belt from Masters of Wedding Photography, This is Reportage, Fearless and Rangefinder's Rising Stars, Janina gave us an inside look at the secrets behind her success and how she navigates the ever-changing wedding industry. Working i...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 40
Send us a text Are you ready to elevate your wedding photography business to the next level? Discover the secrets of organising a successful styled shoot in our latest episode, where we share our experiences and insights from a recent YouTube video project. Get ready to master the art of collaboration, as we discuss the importance of building relationships with other wedding suppliers and managing expectations of everyone involved. Dive into the world of TFP (time for prints) photo shoots and le...
Jun 07, 2023•53 min•Ep. 39
Send us a text In this episode we ask whether Adobe has killed photography with the launch of it's game changing Photoshop Beta and in particular the new Generative Fill tool, which revolutionises how we can edit our images. We now have tools which can do things we never thought possible - but is that a good thing? Join us in the Flash Masters community: Website: https://flashmasters.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flashmasters/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flash-masters Join us in...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 38
Send us a text In this episode we hear all about Helen's sky dive from 15,000 feet, plus we find out how her move from PC to Mac is going..... We then talk about the best way to deliver images and sneak peeks to our couples - is it on the day or is it best to wait longer for a better client experience? We also find out how Neil almost caused an argument between one of his couples by sending our anonymous chocolates.... Join us in the Flash Masters community: Website: https://flashmasters.co/ Ins...
May 24, 2023•50 min•Ep. 37
Send us a text In this episode we talk about the latest wedding we shot together and how Helen ended up hiding under a table, Helen's move from PC to Mac and the latest Flash Masters news - including talking about Neil's Introduction to off camera flash live stream, which is hosted in the Flash Masters member zone. We then discuss the rise of the wedding content creators - who they are and should we, as wedding photographers, be worried? Standby for a slightly more controversial episode... /////...
May 17, 2023•48 min•Ep. 36
Send us a text In this episode we are joined by incredibly talented UK-based wedding photographer Adam Lowndes to discuss how Adam started out in wedding photography, how he uses TikTok and his 360 camera to grow his business (gaining millions and millions of views and going viral in the process) and how he ended up keeping a cold pizza in his shower in New York... We cannot thank Adam enough for sharing so much invaluable advice with us in this episode. Not only is Adam an extremely talented we...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 35
Send us a text It's a packed episode! We talk about the latest Flash Masters news, including the release of Flash Masters Collection Six, the plans for our very first Flash Masters sponsored workshop with our incredible Australia based wedding photographer Ambassador Ben Connolly, we also pass on our congratulations to our friend Martin Cheung for launching his own wedding photography podcast and our previous guest Keri Lovell on getting married! Ben's workshop: https://bcphoto.com.au/wedding-po...
May 03, 2023•55 min•Ep. 34
Send us a text In this episode we welcome Cheshire wedding photographer Chris Wallace from Carpe Diem photography on to the podcast - and wow, we covered a lot of subjects from Chris' experience of going viral all the way through to how he and Helen fell out for months over karaoke... Not only is Chris an amazing photographer who has won a number of Flash Masters awards, but he is also Helen's longest industry friend and in this episode, Helen and Chris talk about how they first became friends a...
Apr 26, 2023•56 min•Ep. 33
Send us a text In this episode we talk to incredibly talented wedding photographer, Keri-John Lovell. Less than 3 years after starting his wedding photography business, Keri has grown his business to a point where he is shooting 70+ weddings a year all over the UK - an incredible achievement! In this podcast Keri shares the secrets of his success as well as giving us his top tips for anyone starting out in wedding photography who is looking to grow their business. On top of that Keri is himself ...
Apr 19, 2023•59 min•Ep. 32
Send us a text In this episode, we catch up by talking about Neil's latest wedding (and his embarrassing mistake) and find out how Helen is getting on designing her website (or not as the case maybe...) as well as looking forward to two exciting live streams in the Flash Masters community. We then give our advice on how you can best prepare your photographs so that they have as good a chance as possible of doing well in photography awards and contests! Website: https://flashmasters.co/ Instagram...
Apr 12, 2023•50 min•Ep. 31
Send us a text In this episode we look back on our amazing live stream with Flash Masters Ambassador Ben Connolly (available to rewatch now in the Flash Masters video zone) before introducing our lovely and extremely talented guests for this week's episode - our good friends, Daiga and Martin Cheung. Martin is a wedding photographer (and Flash Masters award winner!) based in Nottingham in the UK, where he lives with his wife Daiga, who is a fantastic wedding videographer. Although Martin and Dai...
Apr 05, 2023•59 min•Ep. 30
Send us a text In this episode we catch up talking about Helen's new website, why she has had a very stressful week changing passwords and also hear about Neil's off camera flash workshops and his day at Tank Space. We then talk about the moral dilemmas we have each faced as wedding photographers, including answering hyperthetical dilemmas, including what we would do if we caught people cheating in the background of one of our wedding photographs... Website: https://flashmasters.co/ Instagram: @...
Mar 29, 2023•49 min•Ep. 29
Send us a text In this episode we talk about why Neil had no air in his lungs on holiday and introduce the latest Flash Masters news, including our all new member video zone on the Flash Masters website - the new home of all our Ambassador video interviews, live streams and Zoom meetings. Plus we countdown to the deadline for Collection 6. We then talk about all things wedding photography workshops. Neil has two off camera flash workshops coming up this week so talk about the workshops we have e...
Mar 22, 2023•53 min•Ep. 28
Send us a text In this episode we talk about the latest Flash Masters news, including the announcement of Collection 5 and our recent live stream with the amazing US based wedding photographer, Jeff Tisman. We then ask whether AI is killing photography? The advent of AI culling and editing services, text generators and software such as Midjourney is changing the whole landscape of photography and what is possible within image making - but is that a good thing? Website: https://flashmasters.co/ I...
Mar 08, 2023•39 min•Ep. 27
Send us a text In this episode we talk about the importance of International Women's Day, which takes place on the 8th March 2023. We discuss the challenges faced by women in the photography industry and Helen speaks honestly and candidly of the issues she has faced as a female wedding photographer, both online and whilst working at weddings. We talk about what we can do to champion and promote the work of women in photography from an individual point of view but also how we can use Flash Master...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 26
Send us a text In this episode we talk to the incredibly talented UK based wedding and portrait photographer, Martin Hobby. Martin has over 30 years photography experience, covering weddings, music, pets headshots and corporate work. Martin's photography journey is fascinating, from starting out shooting weddings at 16 with his dad in the 90's on film cameras all the way through to covering a music festival in a cave. We were absolutely enthralled listening to him, Martin is such a lovely guy an...
Feb 22, 2023•56 min•Ep. 25
Send us a text In this episode we talk about how we are almost fully up to date with our wedding photography editing (Neil is now up to date and Helen is almost there) and then discuss how we would like our businesses to look over the next 12 months and the plans we are going to put in to place to try and make those things happen. We should warn you that this episode also features some very bad impressions... you have been warned. To join us in the Flash Masters community, please visit flashmast...
Feb 15, 2023•58 min•Ep. 24
Send us a text In this episode we welcome Christian Cardona to the Flash Masters community as an Ambassador - we are huge fans of Christian's work so to have him in the team is a huge honour. Thank you Christian! Christian Cardona: https://christiancardona.co/en/ We then talk about wedding fairs and Helen gives so much amazing advice and tips to help you get the most out of them- including why a photograph of a naked groom is pretty much essential to her success as a wedding photographer at a we...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 23
Send us a text In this episode we catch up and talk about a shoot we did at Tank Space in Nottingham, before then talking through our favourite photography hacks, which we hope will help not only your photography but also your business and your workflows. Our hacks include Studio Ninja, AirTags, copy and pasting from your computer to your phone, why sewing kits are so important and why you need to take a trip to Ikea...! To join us in the Flash Masters community, please visit flashmasters.co htt...
Feb 01, 2023•47 min•Ep. 22
Send us a text In this episode we introduce our amazing new Flash Masters Ambassadors and update you on the changes we are making to the Flash Masters Awards in 2023, including doubling the amount of images which our members can now enter in to the awards and we introduce 3 categories; Weddings, Studio and Environmental. We then play a fun wedding photography version of the game 'Would you Rather' where we ask each other hypothetical questions such as would you rather have 100,000 Instagram foll...
Jan 25, 2023•41 min•Ep. 21
Send us a text In this episode, as we have just released the final collection of winning images for 2022, we congratulate the awesome Rob Howarth on becoming the first Flash Masters Photographer of the Year! Well done Rob, an amazing achievement and very well deserved. We also congratulate all of the photographers from around the world who finished in the top 15 places on the global Flash Masters leaderboard. Well done to every one of our members who won an award this year, you are all extremely...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 20
Send us a text The sparks fly in this episode as we welcome Stefan Grundy aka the Tall Toastmaster, on to the episode to tell us all about how he became a Toastmaster, what is involved and some of the funny things he has seen at weddings over the past 10 years. Regular listeners to the podcast will remember that in episode 5, where we banished the things we most dislike about weddings in to Room 101, Helen actually had Toastmasters on her list.... so this was a real slugfest! Stefan, is of cours...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 19
Send us a text Happy New Year to all our listeners! In this episode of the Flash Masters podcast talk about the latest Flash Masters news - including details of upcoming live streams in the member community, and then discuss our individual photography resolutions for 2023. As well as our own New Year's resolutions, we also read out those of our members too - thank you to everyone who contributed! To join us in the Flash Masters community, please visit flashmasters.co https://flashmasters.co/ Ins...
Jan 04, 2023•39 min•Ep. 18
Send us a text In this episode of the Flash Masters podcast, our last of 2022, we host a very special wedding photographer edition of Would I Lie to You - and trust is, it is hilarious! Would I Lie to You is a TV game show in which the contestants read out either a truth about themselves - or a lie - and they have to convince the other contestants that they are telling the truth - regardless of the fact it may actually be a lie... We were joined on this episode by 5 of our amazing Flash Masters ...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 17
Send us a text In this episode of the Flash Masters podcast we look back on 2022, our busiest years ever as wedding photographers, and talk about our favourite photography memories of the past 12 months. Neil also talks about his recent YouTube day at Neil Ridley's studio in Lancashire. If you would to contact Neil about hiring his studio, you can do so by contacting him via his Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/neilridleystudio Just to remind all of our members, the deadline to enter Coll...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 16
Send us a text In this episode of the Flash Masters podcast we talk about AI writing software and how it can be used to help wedding photographers produce content for their websites before discussing what pieces of advice we would give to our couples to ensure that they have the best wedding day possible! Just to remind all of our members, the deadline to enter Collection Three of the Flash Masters Awards is Wednesday, 30th November 2022 so please make sure you enter your photographs before then...
Dec 07, 2022•52 min•Ep. 15
Send us a text In this episode of the Flash Masters podcast we catch up by talking about Helen's latest two winter weddings, and why winter weddings can be such a challenge for wedding photographers, before talking about what photography related presents we would buy ourselves for Christmas - for $10, then $1,000 then $10,000 (we wish!) Just to remind all of our members, the deadline to enter Collection Three of the Flash Masters Awards is Wednesday, 30th November 2022 so please make sure you en...
Nov 30, 2022•46 min•Ep. 14
