Grow Your Photography Business Podcast

Luke is a Toronto based wedding photographer and has been photographing love stories since 2013, and is very much a self proclaimed romantic. He runs his full time photography business Cleland Photographs with his wife Allie. Luke is passionate about giving his clients a fine art product that is both authentic and timeless. Some of his favourite weddings to photograph have been located close to home in Toronto, and in South Carolina where he met his wife in University. He has also had the privilege to travel across the globe to Paris, London, New York City, Los Angeles and Hong Kong capturing beautiful love stories. 

While he photographed his first wedding in high school, he didn’t realize this budding photography career was a viable option. But throughout his BFA in Graphic Design, he continued to build his photography skills and portfolio, and by the time he graduated in 2013, he had a summer full of weddings to shoot and never looked back.

Recently, he has started a Youtube channel where he educates photographers not only on how to be a wedding photographer, but to learn how to shoot weddings while thinking like an artist.

Jeff Brown is an International Photography Business Mentor and Best Selling Photography Business Author, having delivered courses and workshops around the world, Jeff works closely with photographers from all niches and photographic backgrounds.

He personally mentors photographers in over 20 countries worldwide, helping them develop their brand to become the “Go-To Photographer” in their niche and achieve the success they deserve. Part of Jeff’s major focus and teachings are in the areas of Mindset, Self Belief, Goal Setting and Consistency. It’s essential to have a mindset for success and a clear path to follow, no photographer
can grow or succeed without goals, direction and a positive mindset to achieve.

Jeff has written 4 best selling photography books –
 The Photographers Missing Link-edIn
 The Ambitious Photographer’s Journal
 Help My Photography Website Needs More Customers
 The Photographer’s Gratitude & Mindset Journal

He writes for several photography magazine and associations and is also an ambassador for OM System, The British Photography Awards, Studio Ninja, The Societies of Photographers, President of The BIPP, and the UK and US Brand Ambassador for The Shutter Studio App.

Website:www.thephotographersmentor.com
Facebook:www.facebook.com/JeffBrownThePhotographersMentor
LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/thephotographersmentor
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jeff%20Brown/author/B09M76J1XK

Having founded her business in 2017 after turning to photography as a way to help recover from postnatal depression; Lauren Chambers quickly specialised in wedding photography. Growing up and living on the iconic Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland, it's no surprise that Lauren quickly started shooting elopements. Combining her love for capturing moments and landscapes Lauren's style has earned her recognition with awards, but it's the feedback and connection she gets from her couples that brings her the most joy. She has built a business that is rooted in her core values and allows her to be a mum to her two children. 

Lauren also hosts and runs Capture Love; a retreat and workshop for women in the wedding photography industry. She is extremely passionate about supporting other women in the industry and building community. Lauren loves the business side and believes that you can have a values based business that is profitable. In a time of uncertainty she has diversified her business and strengthened it. She shares how she has done that whilst staying true to her core values and ensuring her businesses work for her.

https://litphotographyni.com/capture-love-northern-ireland-elopement-workshop/

Starting as a political news and celebrity portrait photographer in DC, Sam was instantly drawn to wedding photography as a space to promote more inventive ideas. Sam’s focus is on photographic techniques that are deceptively simple but have the potential to transform difficult or uninspiring shooting environments into one-of-a-kind opportunities for every photo made.

Faye Cornhill is a business coach to the wedding industry. With her signature mix of positivity, motivation and common sense, she specialises in helping aspirational business owners follow their dreams of making it in the world of weddings. Faye's career as a business coach follows a decade of hands-on experience as one of the UK's leading fine art wedding photographers. Today, as well as working one-to-one with many of the wedding industry's movers and shakers, Faye also runs The Wedding Business Club. This private members club has become a thriving community of wedding professionals from all across the globe. Faye firmly believes that mindset is the foundation for any successful business. Her followers praise her ability to inspire and energise and she is commended by prominent figures in the industry for leading by example.

Find out more at www.fayecornhillcoaching.co.uk and www.theweddingbusinessclub.com or on Instagram www.instagram.com/fayecornhill

Adam is based in the county of Staffordshire in the United Kingdom where he operates his down-to-earth wedding photography business. Adam has lofty dreams of where he wants to take his business but unlike most, they don't involve working too far from his hometown. He values connections with everyone he meets and even more so his friends and family hence the local focus of his brand/business. With the help of his vast array of Insta360 cameras and his super likeable personality Adam has become widely known as "Mr Behind the Scenes". A business niche which was nurtured by his love for organic growth within his Instagram and now TikTok. If you haven't seen one of Adam's Behind the Scenes videos then check out this one.

If you'd like to hear more about Adam and his passion for Behind the Scenes content then you can actually go and see him talk in person at this year's Click Live Expo in Coventry, UK on Sunday, June the 23rd at 12:00. You can read more about Adam's appearance at Click Live and the multitude of other educational offerings Adam is working on via dropping by his Education side of his website.

Jemella is an established photographer and has been working in the industry for over 13 years. She runs her own full-time photography business Mellz Photography, specialising in Maternity, Newborn, baby milestone sessions and weddings. Jemella's passion for photography comes from capturing her clients special milestones a printing them to last for generations in a digital consumed world.

She is also the founder of the UK Black female photographers Community (UKBFTOG) . A community started due to the lack if diversity in the photography industry. Over the last 7 years the community has helped members connect with others Black Female
photographers through meet ups, having opportunities of becoming published photographers, work experience in the photography industry such as capturing the BAFTA red carpet, as well as recently becoming an award winning community with with “Readers Choice Exhibition of the year”.

Fiona Elizabeth, Founder of Wedding Photography Mentor, has been in the industry for over a decade. Her recent accolade at the Icon International Photography Awards as a Category winner in the Boudoir & Fine Art Nude portrait division is another feather in her cap, placing Fiona among some of the world's leading photographers.

With six professional photography qualifications in Documentary, Wedding, and Creative Portrait, including a Fellowship and multiple awards in the UK, Fiona has been judging photography and mentoring photographers for over four years.

Her mentoring and membership program is designed for beginner and intermediate photographers who want to grow, scale, and refine their craft in wedding photography, creating signature work that appeals to high-paying clients.

Fiona is passionate about helping other photographers succeed. Her nurturing demeanour, passion, and professionalism provide a safe space for photographers to be part of a motivational and inspiring community, resulting in fast-paced growth and development!

www.theweddingphotographymentor.com