How do you top of a unique event like Inspire Boston? The Jug Band! These fellas and ladies have been playing every Wednesday night at the Colonial Inn for the last 30 years. After the pizza party at LensProToGo about 20 people were left and evryone migrated back to the Colonial Inn for a last couple of hours of socializing. You had 30 wedding photographers whipping out everything from their cameras to mobile phones. One time when I Looked back there were literally 5 cameras and 10 phones up and at the go. The clarinetist is the a member of the White Heat Swing Orchestra and they played a wedding I shot last spring and were a blast to listen and watch. Nothing like everyone in the band in white dinner jackets to bring a little classic class back to a wedding reception.

These were all shot using a D700 at ISO 6400. Not the prettiest pictures in the world, but when you need the shot even in the worst light they deliver! As a photojournalistic wedding photographer I’m looking to capture small moments and nights like this are great practice for weddings and more importantly, they’re a lot of fun!
Here are some over wedding photography and planning related sites that I found for you to browse. Thanks for visiting Mark Andrew Photography!

100 Layer Cake Blog
Wedding Aces
A Practical Wedding
Ruffled Blog
Once Wed

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At Inspire Boston we had wonderful Robert Norman do a series of interview for his PHODCAST series that interviews wedding photographers. I believe he conducted 11 interviews and I had the unenviable job of following up Jim Collins, the CEO of Pictage. It was interesting to say the least. Let’s just say that technical difficulties required a second take, but the first take would have worthy of any highlight reel. I agree with Jim that it was probably divine intervention that the first one was unable to be recorded! You can only imagine the jokes about the “large white balls” of the microphones he was using.

There was quite the cast of characters coming in and out of the room and Robert kept his interviews on track and blocked all of us out as we socialized and chatted. A real professional at work.

Robert I’d love to do something more in-depth with you sometime. I Know everyone I spoke with felt the same way.

The reason that the first Inspire Boston Conference was so successful is that every single person that came brought something extra to the table such as Robert with his Phodcast series. You can find Phodcast on iTunes if you look for “Connecticut Phodcast”
Here are some over wedding photography and planning related sites that I found for you to browse. Thanks for visiting Mark Andrew Photography!

Wedding Aces
NY Times – How to Take Great Wedding Photos
Fearless Photographers
Hi Fi Weddings
http://www.utterlyengaged.com/

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A quick special thanks to Matt and Enna and to all the organizers. I’ll have a long blog post up tomorrow, but just wanted to thank you for having the vision to pull everyone together! As you can see we were working and planning all through the event. Matt and Enna are leading our last organizational session on Monday night.

I’d like to thank everyone that attended my session on Color Management. It was humbling to have such wonderful people in the session. Everyone that put their faith in attending a conference being held for the first time really made it a success. The wedding photographer community in New England truly is special.

Please e-mail me with any questions you might have. I’d be glad to answer them for you!

Here’s the CM INSPIRE Keynote

Here are some resources on purchasing color management hardware

Xrite for EyeOne Display 2 and Colormunki and the  ColorChecker Passport

Spyder for Spyder 3 Pro and Elite

Calibration Direct has best prices on the Spyder 3 Pro and Elite

Expodisc for custom white balance

Whibal for a great gray card
Here are some over wedding photography and planning related sites that I found for you to browse. Thanks for visiting Mark Andrew Photography!

Fearless Photographers
Wedding Aces
Well Wed Magazine
http://www.utterlyengaged.com/
New York Times Wedding Resources

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