Photo Fusion: A Wedding Photographers Guide to Mixing Digital Photography and Video

259 Pages·2010·7.87 MB·English

by  Jennifer Bebb

A Wedding Photographer’s Guide to

Mixing Digital Photography and Video

Photo Fusion

Includes instructional DVD
Jennifer Bebb

Photo Fusion
Jennifer Bebb
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Photo Fusion
Photo Fusion: A Wedding Photographer’s Guide to Mixing Digital Photography and Video
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About the Author
Jennifer Bebb is a fun loving, life living, hate-getting-up-early,
dream weaving, wife, mom, friend, daughter, sister, writer,
photographer, storyteller and business person, Jennifer has
certainly taken the idea that she can have it all to heart.
Together with her husband, Steve, she was thrust into the
international spotlight in 2007 when American Photo named
them as two of the top Wedding Photographers in the World.
Traveling the globe together, the Bebbs work tirelessly to
educate within their industry while keeping focussed on their
most important roles as spouses and parent.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, the Bebbs quickly grasped the
impact that Fusion would have on wedding photographers and
spear headed a revolution in storytelling. Spurred on by their
own wedding experience, and the raising of their children the
Bebbs are quietly Fusion-ing their way into their clients’ hearts.
Photo Fusion
Credits
Acquisitions Editor
Courtney Allen
Project Editor
Carol Person
Technical Editor
Lonzell Watson
Copy Editor
Carol Person
Editorial Director
Robyn Siesky
Business Manager
Amy Knies
Senior Marketing Manager
Sandy Smith
Vice President and Executive Group Publisher
Richard Swadley
Vice President and Executive Publisher
Barry Pruett
Media Development Project Manager
Laura Moss
Book Designer
Erik Powers
Media Development Assistant Project Manager
Jenny Swisher
Media Development Associate Producer
Doug Kuhn
Photo Fusion
Acknowledgments
I’ve often read this section in other publications and wondered at how many
people an author will thank. Having never written a book before, I had no idea
how many people were involved, how much collaboration there was with the
team, or how all consuming this process can be. So, I humbly offer my own
acknowledgments for those who helped make Photo Fusion a reality.
I must fi rst thank Barry Pruitt who rocked my world with an e-mail asking me if I
would be interested in writing a book. Thinking at fi rst it was a joke, Barry quickly
assured me that this was, in fact, a reality, and I am humbled that he reached out
to me.
To Courtney Allen and Carol Person whose unfl agging encouragement, gentle
critiques, and shared sense of humor helped me keep moving forward. Our
e-mail exchanges make me smile, even with deadlines looming. Though our
relationship started as business, I believe we have become friends through
this process and I only wish we could get together in person. Words don’t
adequately express how much I appreciate the two of them and I hope to work
with both of them again soon.
To Lonzell, my technical editor, thank you for helping me clarify the technical
aspects of this book and for reminding me that we must always be open to learn
something new, no matter how long we have been doing something.
To Erik who made the book truly beautiful, thank you for your appreciation of our
art and for making Photo Fusion a truly extraordinary extension.
To my extended family, friends, colleagues, and clients: Thank you for sharing
me with this project, for supporting me as I fulfi lled this lifelong dream, and
for understanding when I had to focus on this task. You are truly an amazing
group of people and I am humbled to have you all in my life. Mom and Dad, you
watched me grow up writing and though you may have wondered if it would
ever get me anywhere ... here we are! Thank you for your support even when you
thought I was crazy for the choices I was making. And Jackie and Trevor — the
world’s best in-laws, you gave me your son and with that a lifetime of support
and love. Thank you.
Photo Fusion
A special thanks to our clients Alicia and Alex and Lindsey and JP for letting us
use them as guinea pigs when we fi rst started Fusion. And to Stef and Jim for
reminding us why what we do is so very important.
Thank you, to all the people in the wedding photography, videography and
Fusion-ography industry, for answering my questions, clarifying my research,
and letting me put many of your products through their paces. I can’t thank you
enough for your patience as I worked my way through this new landscape, both
in writing this book, and in producing the fi rst Fusion DVD in 2008. Many of you
thought we were crazy for going down this road, and for a time I thought so too,
but Fusion is a reality and I’m thankful for that. I learned some very hard lessons
along the way, but we never strayed from our convictions that Fusion made
sense. Thank you for helping me stay the course
The men in my life — my husband Steve and my sons Logan and Ethan — without
the three of you my life would simply not make sense. Steve, my husband of
over a decade, you are my constant support, encouraging me to reach beyond
anything I ever dreamed for myself. Thank you for letting me take this on, for
letting me write these words, and for collaborating with me in our life, family, and
business. Until you are part of what I am doing, it isn’t truly a reality, and the “why”
of my life is so clear with you in it. I know that you consider this book mine, but it is
as much you as it is me, and I couldn’t ask for anyone better to share it with.
To Logan and Ethan, the heart and soul of my life, I could not imagine a world
where I was not your mother, and I am grateful every day that you are my
children. Without the two of you, the sun would not shine as brightly, the birds
would not sing as sweetly, and my dreams would not hold as much meaning.
My greatest hope is that in following my own dreams, I have encouraged both
of you to follow your dreams and to live your life’s passion with humility, grace,
and integrity. Thank you for sharing me with this project, for encouraging me with
cheers every time a chapter was fi nished, and for letting me love you both.