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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 and their experiences of shooting hundreds of weddings together - the good, the bad and the ugly!

Chris also tells us about how his work has gone viral, amassing tens of thousands of website visitors every day for months on end and gaining him lots of wedding bookings, and how he has embraced using FPV drones to grow his business.

Oh, and how he ended up photographing a bride and groom in a variety of "interesting" positions in their honeymoon suite.... You don't want to miss this one!

Find out more about Chris on his website: https://carpediemphotographycheshire.co.uk/

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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 getting married in less than two weeks time so we ask him all about his own wedding planning on whether shooting as many weddings as he has, has impacted on his plans for this own wedding day?!

As you will hear in this podcast, not only does Keri share so much amazing business advice with us, but he also left us feeling us feeling so inspired and motivated - listening to this podcast will help you to feel like you can take on the world!

A huge thank you to Keri for being such a fantastic guest - we also wish him all the very best for his own wedding!

Find out more about Keri on his website: https://www.lovellpictures.com/

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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!

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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 Daiga run separate businesses, they often work alongside each other at weddings and in this fun episode we talk to them both about how they find working alongside each other and the ups and the downs that this brings! 

We cannot thank Daiga and Martin enough, not just for their time and making this such a fun podcast, but also for hosting us for the day and looking after us both so well - we recorded this podcast in their kitchen! Thank you both so much!

Find out more about Daiga and Martin on their websites:

Daiga: https://www.noordinaryfilms.co.uk/
Martin: https://www.martincphotography.co.uk/

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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... 

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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 each been on in the past, what we have learned from each of them and our experiences of running our own workshops.

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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?

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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 Masters as a positive vehicle for change.

To find out more about International Women's Day, visit: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

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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 and very funny too! He has so many stories and shares so much in this podcast - including how he ended up taking the portrait of the portrait master himself, Rankin!

A HUGE thank you to Martin for joining us on the podcast and sharing so much with us!

Check out Martin's work:
Website: https://www.martinhobby.co.uk/
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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.

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Flash Masters is hosted by:

Helen Williams: https://www.instagram.com/helenwilliamsphotography/
Neil Redfern: https://www.instagram.com/neilredfern/