Wahoo! You’ve just upgraded to Pro
You now have access all of our Tutorials, Live streams and Behind the Scenes resources & materials today from some of the worlds best award winning photographers.
Wahoo! Registration successful
An email has been sent to your inbox (including your junk/spam folder)! Please check your emails and click the link to complete account activation.
Continue this Tutorial
with a membership
Access all of our Tutorials, Live streams and Behind the Scenes resources & materials today from some of the worlds best award winning photographers.
View this content
with a membership
Access all of our Tutorials, Live streams and Behind the Scenes resources & materials today from some of the worlds best award winning photographers.
Creative Flash Wedding Photography with Marlies Hartmann in Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based wedding photographer Marlies Hartmann joins us to share eight of her most beautiful images with behind-the-scenes breakdowns and has an honest and deeply resonant conversation about burnout, boundaries, and why shooting fewer weddings has made her a better photographer.
Live with Marlies Hartmann - Stunning Wedding Photography, Shooting Less on Purpose & Why Your Body Will Tell You When Enough Is Enough
Marlies Hartmann is one of those photographers whose work simply stops you in your tracks. Based in Los Angeles and shooting weddings across the US and beyond, Marlies was the very first non-UK photographer Neil reached out to when he launched his Patreon, and she said yes. We have loved her work ever since.
In this stream Marlies shares eight images with full behind-the-scenes breakdowns, talking through her creative process, her lighting philosophy, and the thinking behind some of her most memorable shots. But this stream is just as memorable for the honest and genuinely moving conversation she has about burnout, including a year so busy and stressful it gave her shingles, and her intentional decision to cut back, shoot fewer weddings, and reclaim her creative joy.
Beautiful photography, beautiful conversation, and a very important reminder to look after yourself. 🎉
The top 5 things you will learn by watching this stream:
- How Marlies builds her signature atmospheric and beautifully lit wedding portraits. Marlies walks through the lighting setups, creative decisions, and compositional thinking behind eight of her most striking images: sharing how she approaches each location and each couple with fresh eyes.
- Why shooting a new venue for the first time often produces your best work. Marlies shares her deliberate practice of not looking at other photographers' work from a venue before she shoots there and why arriving without preconceptions leads to genuinely original images.
- Why burning out is a physical as well as an emotional experience and how to recognise the signs. Marlies shares the moment she realised she had taken on too much: a case of shingles brought on by stress after an extraordinarily busy post-Covid run of weddings, travel, and long days. A powerful and important story.
- How to intentionally scale back your wedding business to protect your creativity and your health. Marlies shares how she has been methodically reducing her wedding count year on year and why shooting 15 carefully chosen weddings a year feels far more fulfilling and sustainable than shooting 30.
- Why your self-worth as a photographer should not depend on what other photographers think of you. Marlies shares a genuinely powerful perspective on the creative journey - reminding us that what matters most is whether the work moves your clients, moves you as an artist, and feels honest to who you are.
For more information about Marlies and her work, visit her website here: https://mhartphoto.com/
Marlies Hartmann
I am a Texas born, Utah-raised, NYU graduate who's been living in Los Angeles for the past 15 years. Listed as one of the "top 100 wedding photographers in the world", I blend my love of photojournalism with a timeless, editorial style, and hopeless obsession with beautiful light.
