Carmen and Ingo Photography

Last year we had the honor to cover Gerhild’s and Martin’s wedding in Carinthia. There we first met Rike and Holger as they are neighbors and very good friends of the former bride and groom. Later that year we spend a great time with Jasmin and Simon in Thailand, which are very good friends of these both couples. Even though they said it had nothing to do with that, Rike and Holger hired us just right after our Thailand vacation for being part of their wedding in Austria.

We still don’t know if Jasmin and Simon where only spying for them in our holidays. Hahah! Just kidding! Read more

Just between next assignments and weddings we are stoked to once again show you the brilliant work of our Candi Wedding Workshop Team from last week’s workshop in Reith b. Kitzbühel plus some portrait shots and BTS.

Before we start with the creative team, we need to sum up the incredible and very professional performance of our four workshop models. We could not imagine, that we were lucky enough to again have two couples, which fit so perfectly into the workshop group. We are a little proud of ourselves too, that we found 4 couples out of 70 and they were such a great fit for both Workshops. Also, we would like to thank every one of the attendees making this couple of days unforgettable for us! Thank for coming from all over Europe! You guys made our days! Read more

During our stays in Carmen’s home town we not only have her Mom hosting us but also some of our best friends. Ingrid and Stefan, aka Stinglight Photography, are dear friends since years. Stefan is Ingo’s longest – more then half of our lives already – and best friend.

When they got married back in 2008 we were of course part of the wedding and did also shoot a lot of photos during that day. Ingrid was that kind of bride who spent a lot of time in Internet forms and thus she of course shared our photos on those platforms. The huge response from that was one of many reasons that we started this all out. Read more

Here we are, exited to show you results and behind the scene images from this weeks wedding workshop in Munich.

Remember when we searched for couples to model for our workshop? We had over 70 applications and it was such a hard decision for us to get down to 4 couples. Two of them were part of this workshop and we are very happy about the choice we made.

Melanie and Thomas (wedding couple) were unbelievable patient with us and our attendees. They not only looked stunning but they also were the perfect wedding couple fit for the shoot. Very emotional, personal and not much acting as well as super fun! Just like real couples during a wedding day.  Everyone loved you both! Thank you both so so so much for being part of this!

Leonie and Andi (E-Shoot) are like a dream for every photographer! Seriously, we personally got itchy feed seeing them getting ready for the shoot. Young, tremendously sweet and good looking. Very funny and extremely patient too. You blew everyone including us away! Thank you guys so much for being with us! We had a blast!

Together with the creative team around our dear friend Doreen Winking we are planning and working for this two workshops in Munich and Reith (Austria) since January. Our part is to feed the attendees with every information possible about photography and the wedding business. That is a tough thing for only two days so we talked a lot and very fast Read more

Last weekend the summer wedding season has began for us. After a long winter with super sweet and wonderful snowy weddings we could not wait for the day to come.

Summer? Well, sure we know when technically summer begins but we also know when spring should start.

Since that was a big mess this year we were really happy to see the weather forecast for Saturday. It was just perfect for Christina and Flo to get married. It was 26 degrees warm, little cloudy but mostly a sunny day. Read more

Boy, looking at these photos from our recent trip to the USA makes us want to go back or just call our friends for a small chat. It was such a great and funny time. During the stay in Las Vegas we spontaneously decided to head out to the desert to do a fun shoot with all of us. You know, just everyone poses for the other one and it’s basically hanging out with our buddies and enjoying this gorgeous light in Nevada.

We love these guys so much and we cannot wait to meet them again. Also Ingo enjoyed having so much quality time with his long time buddy and best friend and all around nice guy Stefan from Stinglight Photography. He took the photos from us both. Thanks dude for everything!!

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Wir ahnten zwar, dass dieser Zeitpunkt kommen wird aber ehrlich gesagt waren wir nicht sicher wann. Heute ist es so weit: Wir suchen offiziell jemanden der mit uns Arbeiten will und uns in unserem Daily Business unterstützt. Und bevor hier Gratulationswünsche losgehen: NEIN! Carmen ist nicht schwanger

Wir haben einfach sehr viele Projekte und viel Arbeiten auf unserm Tisch liegen und das bevor die Hoch(zeits)saison richtig gestartet ist. Da wir an einer langfristigen Zusammenarbeit interessiert sind, und es sicher nicht einfach sein wird jemanden zu finden der perfekt zu uns passt, starten wir heute mit der Suche.

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In case you come back here to the blog now and then you might have seen that we spent some time in the USA recently. The main reason was, that we attended the largest and coolest photography convection of the year in Las Vegas: The Wedding and Portrait Photographer International aka WPPI. Second was to do our new PROMO video with the one and only Cana Family. In case you missed this, here it is. And third, we needed to get away from the never ending winter Read more

Hello everyone!

How is your weekend going? We hope all is well in your world. Today we would like to notify you that Lightroom 5 Beta is out, how cool is that? We have been playing a little bit with it already and checked out the fantastic new features. If you are using any of the Lightroom versions you gotta check this FREE Beta out. And if not, this is a great way to get started, as it is free of charge! No matter whether PRO or hobbyist, Lightroom will change your editing workflow. We cannot wait for the final release and to bring it to our daily workflow.

We have been working to update the Candi Presets to Volume 1.1 in order to get them to work with the latest features with LR5 (and sure LR4 of course).

Quick NOTE: The Version 1.0 works just fine with LR4 and LR5 but they now use the powerful Process2012 engine. Read more

We do it at least once a year to be in front of a lens of another photographer whom we admire and love to work with. For those of you coming regularly here to our blog might have seen this last years shoot in Tuscany with our dear friend Nadia Meli or this one with Mike and Rachel Larson.

The reasons for such an annual shoot are obvious. You get fantastic pictures and second, as a photographer, you gotta see how this person works Read more

Wohoo! Yesterday we have got an e-mail from Ben & Drew aka The Cana Family, with a link to Vimeo. All of a sudden Carmen was shaking a little and we both were super nervous and excited. It does not happen often that we have to give up control for something about us and we were afraid of how we would look and how we come across. Carmen was worring about her hair and make up after hiking for hours through the forest as well

Can you see the cow dung on our feet? Haha, that was really funny!

Yesterday we got that kind of feeling that our brides and grooms must have when we send them the links for photos or fusion. Normally we can only imagine how they must feel when they talk about their excitement. Read more

Marele and Luis are two expats from South Africa living in the Bay Area. During our trip through California last month we were lucky to do a couple of shoots with some very cool people.

We met them one day between Carmel (by the Sea) and Monterey to do a casual portrait session in this stunning scenery of this part of California. We talked about the fantastic light there already and even though we did not have much sun that day it was still different to what we have here in Europe. Read more

We have done this in the past for almost all of our workshops: Getting real people to model for our attendees rather than professional models. Even though we love working with professional models, but if it comes to teach people how to work with clients it does not make sense to “fake” anything. So real people for real shoots is the real deal, right? Does this make sense to you? Read more

Hi everyone,

we hope all of you had a superb Easter weekend (or even holidays) with your beloved ones. We had some great time with family and friends these days too.

Today we are thrilled to see our first cover shoot released by our dear friends over at the Austrian top wedding blog Hochzeitsguide. Lovely Susanne and her husband Thomas approached us back in December to help them realize an inspiration shoot in January. No need to tell you that we were honored to be part of this second edition of their E-Mag. In case you missed the first one you can find it right here. (also freaturing a shoot from us)

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We are beyond excited to share this sweet casual portrait shoot with you today. In case you follow us over at Instagram you have noticed and seen that we are on the road again. After some very inspiring and fun days in Vegas during WPPI we are spending some days travelling California and visiting places we missed during our TATW due to heavy rain and flooded roads. Read more

Just in time when the sun is coming back here in our area we are heading out of town to enjoy even a little more sun. California (and Nevada) is calling.

Some of you might know that we went to world’s largest wedding and portrait photographer convention last year: WPPI – we have blogged about this here and HERE.

This part of the states isn’t totally new to us. We have spend almost three weeks during our trip around the world in 2011. In case you would like to see what we discovered back then, here are the postings about this. Oh and HERE. Read more

We are very happy to see our work being released over at Nadia Meli’s blog today. Those who follow us on a regular basis might know already that we do Video now and then. It has always been fun and a great addition to our still picture story telling.

During our workshops we preach how important it is to have an image film as photographers, to make clear what brilliant person stands behind the work and lens of this company. Even though our own image film is getting a bit long in the tooth we have a measurable ROI for this half day self produced fun video. And we are very excited to hopefully release a brand new one in the near future. Read more

If you are getting married at the end of January at our latitudes all you are wanting from the weather god is snowing the week before and having sun during the wedding day. We have no idea how our couples are doing that but they must have a special deal as it is just perfect every time.

Rut and Holger, adventure and mountain loving guys could not ask for a better weather for their wedding at Starnbergersee. We personally are super happy for them, as they have put so much love and detail into the planning and making of their wonderful happening. More than one and a half year of doing handicrafts from invites to all the little things for the tables and nametags everything just fitted together. Rut even knitted her bolero herself! Read more

Hallo liebe Candi Wedding Workshop Interessierte!

Wir haben heute erfreuliche Nachrichten für euch. Wie bereits nach unserem letzten Workshop im November angekündigt gibt es auch für 2013 wieder ein paar wenige Termine für einen Hochzeitsworkshop bei uns. Auch haben wir kommuniziert, dass eine Email im Falle von Interesse eine Vorabinformation ermöglicht. Diese Option haben weit über 100 Fotografen in den letzten Wochen und Monaten in Anspruch genommen, sodass ein Workshop, und zwar der hier in München leider bereits ausverkauft ist bevor wir ihn öffentlich gemacht haben. Read more

Last month we have posted three Candi Fusions from last year and we promised to show some more. In case you missed this post, it’s right HERE.

Since we don’t want to post all the 15 video projects we have done we would like to point you to our vimeo.com account for a deeper look.

But for one of the most viewed weddings on the blog we also produced a fusion which we would like to show today. Yes, we are talking about the fabulous wedding of Angelika and Artur, aka “Die Hochzeitsfotografen”, from August 2012 in Tuscany. Read more