Was just at Pensacola beach the other day shooting a family beach portrait this time of year has some of the best sun sets of the year with the sun setting over the water. It was a little cold but not to bad.

Now beach weddings in Pensacola

If you are planning a beach wedding Pensacola is a fantastic place for a beach wedding. We have miles of white sandy beach, sea oats and you can many times see dolphins jumping around right off shore.

Having a wedding on the beach in Pensacola can be fun and offers a lot for your guests, Also a beach wedding can save you money over a church wedding that can cost a lot more. We provide wedding photography services in Pensacola and all up and down the coast. Check out our Pensacola beach wedding website here or check out on of our new web sites we are working on here .

Starting in 2009 we are going to work hard at adding new posts and new photos from weddings including Pensacola beach weddings on our Blog. This year we fell behind on updating things we just got swomped with work. We have worked on some new ways to manage our photos so they will be ready to post on our blog faster for all of you to see.

A New Blog For 2009

As part of our new plans for next year we we will have a all new BLOG/website Yes a Blog that is also the web site Cool..!! so all you blogger need to check it out when it all done.

Some of the new features of our new blog will be a easy way to look up weddings by any town we have shot in and see wedding photos and lots of them, Look up by month or type of service like weddings, Family Portraits, Business and so on. We will have new Blog Flash gallery’s i have been testing and they Rock!! they load fast and look great. The new Flash gallery’s will show from 12 to 20 images from each wedding and will pop up over the top of the blog page using a special plug in i had a guy make for mt just for this. The new blog will let people post comments in a new drop down comment box under each post. It’s gone be cool so look for it sometime in Jan 09 at out At The Beach Weddings  website here .

Hiring a photographer for a wedding is a must. So much planning goes into a wedding that a couple will certainly want to have great pictures to document the  occasion as it unfolds . Plus, family members and friends are going to want photographs to remind them of  Your  wedding day. While amateur photos are nice in some instances, there is nothing like a  professional photographer & a complete professionally designed wedding album to reflect on . Grand Photography offers many Wedding Albums to choose from & offers wedding packages to fit all couples needs.
Couples should begin the process of looking for a wedding photographer  at least a year in advance of the wedding date. Grand Photography only books one Wedding per day because we want to give our clients the one best time for their wedding pictures.
While the cost of a wedding photographer may seem a bit exorbitant, in truth, to not hire a professional photographer a couple is opening themselves up to the possibility of disappointment. While family members and friends may take fantastic photos on vacations and the like, there really is no guarantee that they will take outstanding photos on the wedding day. Besides, family and friends should be focusing on the fun day, not on working during the wedding!

coming soon a new website that will feature a people posting guide for photographers.

After many years of shooting hundreds of weddings and hundreds of family portraits we are going to offer a 100% free posing guide website showing all our favorite poses.

• Poses of the bride
• poses of the groom
• poses of the bride and groom
• poses of the wedding party
• engagement session poses
• family portrait session poses including many different group sizes
• high school senior poses
• and anything else we can think of to throw in

But we need your help to make our posting guide website be a successful tool for you and other photographers looking for inspiration and new poses for different photography assignments.

Not only can you help us but we will help you by providing a link from our website to yours for each pose that you submit in to us that is accepted. So you can help us with new poses of yours to be added to the website with your name and website address to help promote you and your website.

We are still working on the website format. Right now we are thinking it will be in the format of a blog with different categories for different styles of poses. Ed from grand photography will be the website administrator and original contributor with poses to kick things off.

So stay tuned and look for our new website soon.

Megapixels when is enough enough?

every year we see all the camera manufacturers come out with new cameras and every year the new cameras have a larger and larger pixel count. What is the right amount of pixels for what you shoot? do you even know!.

If you are a weekend shooter shooting for fun and as a hobby how big of prints do you print? most people shooting for fun or as a hobby print 4 x 6,  5 x 7,  8 x 10 and some 11 x 14 prints. Very few people in this range of photography ever print a 16 x 20 or larger. So for the weekend shooter or hobbyist the question would be why spend a ton of money on a 12 megapixel camera when you don’t need one.

Let’s take a look back at Digital photography just a few short years back. Professional photographers were shooting with two megapixel and three megapixel digital cameras and printing and selling 16 x 20, 20 x 24 and larger prints. Sports shooters shot double-page spreads for every national Magazine you can think of all with two to three megapixel cameras.

I myself shot with two megapixel, three megapixel, four megapixel, six megapixel, eight megapixel, 10 megapixel and now 12 megapixel cameras and I have printed 20 x 30 size prints from all of the cameras over the years. What is change the most is not that a larger print has more pixels in it making it look better it’s that newer cameras over the years produce better colors,   better shadow detail, and much better low light shooting abilities.

If you look back at a camera like the Nikon D2Hs a four megapixel camera and you look at prints printed at 20 x 30 and then look it a print from a 8MP or 10MP camera printed at the same size looking at both prints side-by-side you will see no visible difference in the print quality the four megapixel print will look just as good and not show any pixelization at all in fact if you do not know what camera shot each print it would be very difficult for you to tell what camera shot it.

So if you’re shooting for fun and even in a professional capacity more is not necessarily better. One of our favorite cameras is the Nikon D40 it is a fantastic six megapixel camera that can produce outstanding large prints in any size you want including billboard sized prints. This camera sells for around $600 with a kit lens. This is by far the best all-around low-cost camera you can buy today.

I currently use a Nikon D3 as my main camera for most everything I shoot. One of the big advantages of the D3 is the ability to put the camera in a cropped mode of shooting. In this mode the camera instead of shooting large 12 megapixel files it can shoot five megapixel files that are fantastic and can be printed large looks grate and have all the high end color technology and low light shooting abilities of the D3. Also we have a Nikon D700 camera that offers the same cropped function so we get the best of both worlds small files that print large and large files that print even larger and give us lots of extra room to crop the image we want. See us at here

Nowadays with the huge onslaught of different brands of cameras that offer different size chips and different formats many people ask what is the best format to shoot in.

We have the cropped APS format, Full Frame and the Olympus 4/3’s format for starters and other commercial side high-end photographers are shooting in super high resolution digital medium format sizes.

APS size is normally found on mid-to low and digital cameras but many professionals including wedding photographers portrait photographers sports photographers and commercial photographers do the use APS format cameras like the Nikon D300, D90 or the cannon 40D, 50D or all the other famous brands offering APS sized cameras.

Full Frame seems to be the professionals choice and every year we see more and more full frame cameras available like the Nikon D3 and D700 and now older Canon 5D. Full frame makes the most sense it represents the same size image as 35mm film in a digital version. Larger viewfinders that are brighter and much more easier to use. The newer way of full frame cameras also offer outstanding lowlight shooting abilities never seen before on any cameras before them.

Each year all the different camera manufacturers bring forth their latest and greatest digital cameras for you the consumer to consider. And each year we see being or and bigger pixel counts on the new cameras. Do you really need more pixels for what you shoot we will discuss that in our next post.

what is a master of photography? how can you become one?

a master of photography can be viewed many ways.

• A photographer who has a master of photography certificate from PPA.
• A professional photographer who has been in business successfully making a full-time living just from photography.  After years of experience a photographer can become a master of photography within his own business as a successful full-time working photographer.
• Many photographers after years of running a successful business also go on to teaching or doing photography seminars showing others the style and approach to their photography.

To master photography it can take many years of shooting understanding camera techniques how the camera works including all the functions of the camera. Also to master photography you must master lighting whether it’s natural light studio light on camera light or a mix of both mastering the light is a big part of mastering photography. If you are a photographer who shoots people like weddings family portraits children and small babies you will also need to master the art of posting and the art of being patient with your customers.

A master of photography means many things to many different people but in the end it’s the final image that is the true judgment of the photographer’s ability to capture the subject the light and the emotion to create a masterful image that when viewed by anyone they will see a quality photograph that has above average qualities over just a snapshot anyone could of shot.

Are you a master of photography?  Or are you on your learning path to become a master of photography?

To truly master photography can be a lifetime of learning as cameras and lighting techniques change the modern photographer needs to stay in touch with what his or her clients want from the photos they take.

Film Is dead and Digital is here to stay.

At Digiprintstore we offer printing services for all your digital files. We can print your digital files into just about any size print that you want from small wallet sized prints to large wall sized prints including many different types of mounting.

Top photographers like Ed Morgan from grand photography a world-class wedding photographer and family portrait photographer used our print service for all their print fulfillment. Ed specializes in beach weddings in the Destin Florida, Pensacola Florida and Gulf shores, Orange beach and fort Morgan Alabama areas.

Ed also sheets 100 plus families each year on the beach shooting beach portraits. That is one of the leading each portrait photographers in the United States take a look at his website at the beach portraits and see his outstanding family beach portraits for yourself.

If you’re planning a beach wedding and looking for a wedding Minister or a complete wedding set up checkout Suncoast beach weddings they offer complete wedding setups with wedding arch flowers fall wedding ceremony with Minister of complete package for your beach wedding.