Discovery Call (15 mins)
£50.00
Ben Appleby
HBA Photography
Hey, I’m Ben! The dreadlocked, bearded, overly excitable wedding photographer and I’m here to help you guys avoid some of the mistakes I’ve learnt over the last 16 years and 1000 weddings.
Having spent the first part of my career touring the world as a musician, I found photography by accident. Now, having shot over 1000 weddings in the last 16 years, I feel like I’ve seen it all, but every wedding is still different. I still get a total buzz at the thought of creating new images and awesome memories for couples.
For every wedding I shoot, I know how important every frame is. I want my couples to look at their images and instantly feel something. But more importantly, I want them to look at the images in 30 years time and truly feel something. Something deeper.
But what makes me tick..? What keeps me fired up for each and every single wedding and what stops me from getting wedding fatigue year after year? Honestly, I don’t know – all I know is that I’m desperate to do everything I can, emotionally and creatively at each and every single wedding.
What I do know is that photography doesn’t always have to be your main passion. I learnt photography as a career skill, not through a growing passion. Of course, now, yes, it’s a passion. I look at everything through a viewfinder in my mind’s eye, and I can’t unsee lines, compositions, or light and shade. That’s just who I am as a result of an endless pursuit of perfection, or at least as perfect as I can make it. But I love my downtime away from weddings and photography so that I’m 100% fired up and fresh on a wedding day, ready to create. I love to make things, build things, and be outdoors. I love to hate exercise…Some of my best thinking is done when I’m out on a run or swimming in a lake. To me, everything around me is an inspiration, and you don’t have to always be behind your laptop to succeed.
I have so many little ideas that sit and percolate ready to be pulled out at a wedding when the inspiration hits, tips and tricks to help with that “oh shit, I don’t know what to do moment”, and ways to calm your brain when its in worry overdrive, wondering if you’re enough.
I can’t wait to mentor you guys and help a new generation of awesome photographers emerge. We all learn from each other, and I can’t wait to take inspiration from you too!
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