The guest on this episode is a great example of constantly innovating and moving with the times whilst continuing to create outstanding work. Jeff Wood is a wedding filmmaker who started capturing weddings back around 2008 and has worked with celebrity and luxury clients as well as being an influence for many UK wedding videographers over the past decade. But rather than just sticking with the status quo, Jeff has embraced the way technology has started to change the industry and has started usi...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Season 6Ep. 102
On this episode I get to chat with a brilliant, multi award wining documentary style wedding photographer Erica Hawkins who originally came from a background in filmmaking. Some of Erica's awards include Nine Dots Photographer of the Year 2024, This is Reportage Top 10 photographers in the UK, Fearless Top 50 Photographers of the World, TWIA regional winner and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize which provided Erica with the opportunity to see her work exhibited in the national portrait gallery! ...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Season 6Ep. 101
In this milestone episode (number 100!) I am speaking with Martin & Daiga Cheung who are a married couple providing photography and videography. Although they have separate businesses they are able to offer a combined photo and video package to couples as well as having their own clients, a really great business model to consider for any of you working with a spouse! We have a great conversation about their experiences of how the industry has changed over the last decade or so and how they f...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 6Ep. 100
In this episode I go through why I think this year is the year that Hybrid Photography and Videography shooting will completely blow up. Sure, the past few years there has been a rise of people using both photo and video to tell stories, particularly to market themselves and we have seen the popularity of content creation becoming an integral part of all our businesses. But I really believe we are at a tipping point where video is no longer an afterthought or a tag on to what consumer / clients ...
Jan 09, 2025•54 min•Season 5Ep. 99
It has been a while. I have been working my way through the busy summer, giving 100% to my couples, clocking up the edits, spending time with the family and something had to give...it was the podcast. Sorry about that, but inspired by the typical post summer season backlog and struggle to find life balance as a small creative business owner I wanted to pass on things I have learnt and developed that may be helpful. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Vid...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 98
Working for free always seems to raise some controversy, but are there times when short term sacrifice can lead to longer term success? We will discuss that in this episode with plenty of personal examples of how you can create opportunities out of nothing and the downsides of not setting expectations with people when working for less than you potentially should. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photograp...
Aug 02, 2024•57 min•Season 5Ep. 97
It is amazing how connected we all are today, and the world of social media has created some amazing marketing opportunities for us all to reach potential clients and speak to an audience. But what happens when it gets used in a more negative way, potentially in a way that impacts our business or even us personally? On the back of a busy couple of weeks with various viral topics in Facebook groups, Instagram and TikTok in different parts of the world we discuss how we are so close to something e...
Jul 16, 2024•52 min•Season 5Ep. 96
Inspired by us recently helping each other out with photographing and filming weddings we decided to discuss the practicalities and considerations of representing another person or business at a wedding. This conversations is helpful whether you want to or are shooting for someone else, or if you are looking for people to shoot on your behalf. Song of the week from musicbed: Take my hand - Secret Nation MB015P91JTI1E29 Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo,...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 5Ep. 95
However you feel about the 'new thing' or what 'everyones doing' it is something we all need to be aware of so we can understand how the current trends will interact with us and our business. The new trend might not be your thing, but we still need to be aware of what potential clients might be looking for. Even if that isn't something we want to offer them, it can help us by understanding what we do that is different and how that will help us identify and find our ideal client. So in this episo...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 94
In the middle of 2024 there is so much talk in the wedding industry, specifically amongst wedding photographers and wedding videographers about how enquiries are down, bookings are down. The general concusses appears to be that it is more challenging to run a small wedding business at the moment, so for photographers and filmmakers we wanted to discuss ways to create opportunities to make money and develop additional revenue streams. And as usual, we have a good laugh along the way and share our...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 93
For this episode I wanted to revisit a topic from episode 81 where I talked about how the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 could be a game changing cameras for hybrid shooters. Now I have had the opportunity to use it for a few more months on a variety of projects I wanted to give you a more up to date view of how useful it is as a tool for hybrid content creation or as a pure filmmaking tool for weddings and commercial work. I discuss the positives and negatives, how I have been using it. I also discuss some ...
May 10, 2024•47 min•Season 5Ep. 92
As photographers, filmmakers and hybrid shooters what we offer to our clients is not just our creative skill, artistic flair or the technical knowledge we have to create photographs and films. Probably the most important element in our work and our unique selling point as a business is how we see the world and what drives us to do what we do and the way we do it. So in this episode we discuss where our own creative inspiration and motivation comes from and how that influences our work and the wa...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 5Ep. 91
In the last episode we discussed the options when it came to choosing a camera to shoot hybrid photo and video coverage. The natural follow on it the discussion around lenses. We reveal what our favourite lens is and what are go to piece of glass is for different parts of a wedding day. We have a debate over zooms vs primes and ponder over what direction we might go in the future. This episode has got loads of great content in it, even if you don't shoot hybrid and you just shoot photo or video,...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 5Ep. 90
In this episode we talk about one of the most talked about things amongst photographers and filmmakers - cameras! Hybrid photo and video shooting requires a different level of speed and features from a camera, so if you are looking to get into hybrid shooting this episode will be really useful when it comes to choosing which camera system and model to use. We discuss the cameras we have used previously, what we use now and what we will potentially look for in future cameras. It's not just about ...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 89
In our first proper episode hosting together we discuss the challenges of capturing a wedding in still photography and videography as a solo hybrid shooter. We go through an entire wedding day and discuss how we would approach each part of the day and the workarounds for the various aspects that need to be captured in both photo and video at the same time. This is a great episode for anyone looking at offering hybrid who is unsure about how they can get the coverage they want, we hope it is help...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 88
It's time for a change and to freshen up the podcast and we are starting a new series by introducing our new co-host Kieran Paul and photographer and filmmaker who has been in the game for almost a decade. In this episode we get to find out all about how Kieran got into photography/filmmaking in his early years, how he made his way into the wedding industry and we chat a little bit about what is to come next with the podcast. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things...
Mar 29, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 87
As it has been 3 months since the last episode I wanted to give an explanation and fill you in on the exciting changes to the podcast moving forwards. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photographers and videographers who want to build successful and sustainable business capturing weddings, live events, working with commercial clients or working on creative projects. We discuss different topics around photo...
Mar 27, 2024•11 min•Season 4Ep. 86
Happy New Year and for the first episode of 2024 I am giving you my 10 important things to focus on for success this year with your photography / videography business. These steps are the things that will make the biggest difference to how you feel about what you do and will shift things forward whether that is revenue growth or finding further fulfilment in your business. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for...
Jan 01, 2024•55 min•Season 4Ep. 85
In this episode I ramble on about a topic really close to my heart - music. Music is a huge part of my creative inspiration and forms a large part of what I believe makes my work unique to others. Not necessarily because I pick completely different music to all the other wedding filmmakers out there, but because of the thought process that goes into using a song. So that's what I talk about in this episode and I talk about where I get my music from. More to follow on the music thing in coming we...
Dec 14, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 84
In this episode I discuss the reasons I believe longer wedding films / documentary edits / FOMO films or whatever else you would like to call them are more important than ever to our couples. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photographers and videographers who want to build successful and sustainable business capturing weddings, live events, working with commercial clients or working on creative projects....
Dec 04, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 83
It is that time of the year when if you live and work in the northern hemisphere you will be winding down from wedding season and trying to stay motivated to get through the editing list before the ball drops for next year! After discussing a variety of topics around how we capture things on the actual wedding day we are shifting to how we edit what we captured into something that will tell the story of our couples weddings day and bring back all the excitement and emotion. Editing is the most t...
Nov 20, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 82
It is rare these days that I get excited by a piece of camera equipment. Getting new stuff at this point is like getting a new car, its great, but when you realise it does the same thing as your last car (gets you for A to B) the novelty wears off pretty quick. A new camera now is just a replacement for the old one that does the same thing, but a fraction better than the old one. But every now and then you see an opportunity. You can see a potential for being able to use something to do things y...
Nov 06, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 81
In a very special and slightly different topic to our regular content Lyndsey and I drink alcohol and chat about running a business together whilst trying to live a normal family life. As it becomes more popular for couples to work together on their photo/video business, particularly if you are offering hybrid we wanted to give you an insight into what it has been really like for us for the last 6 years . We also talk about some big changes we are making and what that means for business and the ...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 80
In this episode I am talking through the advances that have been made in small, portable audio recorders in the last couple of years and discussing my current and potential future go-to set-ups. Audio is so important for creating powerful and emotive films as well as capturing compressive wedding memories for our couples. For any photographers looking to add video to what they offer and for all you hybrid shooters and filmmakers out there I give you a real example of why the newer audio recorder...
Oct 20, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 79
Moving on from the last episode around practical considerations when composing shots on a wedding day we go into the equipment and techniques that need considering to be able to hold those cameras. How they will give you different looks to your footage. How those techniques/approaches will help or hinder you in capturing images - in particular as a hybrid shooter. If you are moving from photography to add video into what you offer this is an important episode. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybr...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 4Ep. 78
We have already previously done a number of episodes where we went fairly deep into lighting and composition techniques and options (E37, E38 & E39). But in this episode I give you an honest and real world view on how lighting and composition is used at weddings. I also talk through a typical wedding (my latest wedding) and the pitfalls I encountered through the day in relation to lighting and composition and how I negotiated them. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about ...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 77
This episode was a challenging one to record. How do you make something that is quite a dry and long topic sound interesting? I realised I can't! Don't judge me on this episode, but as I spent so long recording it and it is a really important topic for those trying to develop their practical wedding shooting skills I decided to put it out anyway! I hope it helps someone out there. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a p...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Season 4Ep. 76
Following on from the last episode where we discussed the fundamentals of things to master for wedding photographers and videographers, in this episode we focus on why we use particular cameras, lenses and settings to shoot hybrid. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photographers and videographers who want to build successful and sustainable business capturing weddings, live events, working with commercial ...
Sep 06, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 75
When we first started out there wasn't one place we could go, one person who could explain the basic fundamentals of what we would need to consider and the knowledge and skills that we should develop to become confident and competent at shooting weddings as a photographer or videographer. So as most people are likely to be in the thick of their wedding season and will be actually shooting weddings rather than focussing on editing, marketing and their business we thought it was a great time to re...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 74
It's that time of the year when we are all super busy and there are lots of questions and things that come up while we are shooting weddings. So based on our own experiences from the past few weeks as well as posts that have been discussed in online groups we thought we would chat about some of the hot topics that have come up. Message Me On the How to Shoot Hybrid Podcast we talk about all things Photo, Video and Hybrid Shooting! This is a place for photographers and videographers who want to b...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 73
