Ken Luallen
Welcome
I created this site as a one-of-a-kind resource for my like-minded friends. I hope you are one!
It's designed to help us all become better photographers and business owners by using road-tested, original strategies.
My wedding work and client info:
My latest wedding photographs:
The Monograph by Édouard Boubat
The Monograph
- Typical online price: $50
- Photographer: Édouard Boubat
- Cover: 12×12 hardcover with dust jacket
- Content: 368 pages (250+ photographs, mostly 10×7)
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2004
Paris, 1948
The amount of wear on my copy tells you this is one of my favorite books. I’m a photojournalist who wishes he could shoot in black and white and tell human stories all the time. Édouard Boubat was a master who honed his craft the hard way – by showing up every day and shooting regularly from the late 1940s right up until his death in 1999. The breadth of his portfolio is impressive.
portfolio: ashimagery.com
Mike Smith is a film-based wedding photographer in Philadelphia with a wonderfully poetic style. In our field he is true to himself, a rare achievement.
I highly recommend enjoying Mike’s beautiful portfolio on his site and blog before settling into our discussion.
Podcast: Download
RUNNING TIME: 28 minutes
00:00 – 07:24 – leaving his bank job to shoot weddings (and what the bank taught him)
07:25 – 9:54 – ignoring wedding photography
9:55 – 13:59 – learning to shoot film
14:00 – 20:59 – investing in a beautiful website
21:00 – 23:04 – finding the courage to be different
23:05 – 27:35 – the state of the industry
Country by Jasper Conran (Book Review)
Country by Jasper Conran
Country
- Typical online price: $43
- Writer: Jasper Conran
- Photographer: Andrew Montgomery
- Cover: 13×10 hardcover with dust jacket
- Content: 304 pages (300+ photographs big and small)
- Publisher: Conran Octopus
Country is Jasper Conran’s effort to capture all the native textures, sights, smells, sounds, and faces of the English countryside in a single expansive edition. The pages are bursting with photographs of castles in the mist, shepherds with their flocks, knee-high flowerfields, dainty teacups, bustling pubs, and enthusiastic hunting dogs.
Interview with Punam Bean
portfolio: punambean.com
Podcast: Download
00:00 – 06:30 – the personal cost of destination wedding travel
06:30 – 08:20 – blogging your personal life
08:20 – 18:35 – destination disasters!*
18:35 – 23:30 – learning the business side
23:30 – 27:20 – building relationships with wedding style blog editors
27:20 – 34:00 – finding your artistic brand
*Ken’s favorite
