New Maring Website

Well, it's official! Today we launched our new website. A lot of work and thought went into it's creation. Special thanks to several friends and fellow photographers who helped us to narrow our focus.

Our new website was inspired by our wedding couples. Your kind words helped us to realize that we needed a place that was more personal. Many have stated that to Jennifer and I that we are very approachable, down to earth, and humble. A few have mentioned that we have more of a California vibe as we are so relaxed and laid back and it's hard to believe we are New Yorkers and from the Northeast. Those are kind words, we appreciate it, and it has helped shape our new site.

There are some personal sections in the new site. Some of you will enjoy it, some will probably think it's sappy. But it is every bit us and who we are. We hope you enjoy our online presence we will be working hard behind the scenes to update and tweak it along our journey.

Wide Color Gamut

There is exciting news regarding our printing technology at Maring. Our Poliellotronica Laser Lab, which we imported from Italy, is one of the world's most awarded digital photographic printers. Poli has developed a new wide color gamut. We have put this new color to the test and the results were so superior that we have are sold and have made the upgrade.
As many of you know, we print all of our photographs in house in order to control quality to a higher standard. It also allows us to have better turn around times. I can remember years ago the challenges when we had to use a third party lab to print the majority of our work. We would send out prints over the internet only to be disappointed in the results. Then, we would send them back and wait for reprints. Then send the to the album company only to hear that a few got bent. Then have to relive it all again. Our decision to purchase the world's most state of the art printer was the best decision we ever made for our quality control and customer service.
The large majority of professional labs across the country used by other professional photographers actually rely on digital mini lab equipment for printing photographs. In contrast, all of our photographs are printed on a professional level of printer designed to reproduce color, sharpness, and contrast to a higher level. If you never put the prints side by side, you wouldn't ever know the difference. But when you do, the difference is astonishing.

Digital cameras can actually capture dramatically more shades of green, yellow, and magenta than printers could reproduce. Even the best color monitors used to view photographs can't show the depth of colors that can be captured. This new update allows our photographs to be printed in 16 bit or 8 bit, and opens up the door to millions of more shades of color and the ability to reproduce them. We see a dramatic improvement in color integrity and sharpness. Especially with sunset photographs, and photographs with a lot of yellows and greens. There is simply more detail than ever before.Cameras have two modes. sRGB and Adobe RGB. Up until now, it was useless to capture in Adobe RGB because photographic printers simply couldn't reproduce that much color. The update on our exclusive printer now allows us to reproduce color on a whole new level. The diagram above shows sRGB in white and Adobe RGB in black. You can clearly see the differnce in the amount of colors that can be reproduced with a wider color gamut in dark, medium and light shades. This new update is exciting as it builds further on our quest and commitment to be the best of the best.

Let Go and the Moment Appears

Can you ever be too technical of a photographer? Does focusing on perfection keep you from finding emotion in your photographs? Where and how is your time better spent? As photographers, these are questions we have to ask ourselves as we evolve our styles. 

I for one find that when I let go, defining moments appear. Yet when I try to control light and focus on the technical, no matter how real, there is something missing in the eyes. So, we have learned and trained ourselves to let moments flow through us onto the paper. We don't create moments. We capture them. Being fully in the moment and behind the lens is a rush that we can't explain. In many ways it is spiritual capturing real people breathing, thinking, loving, and living. 

As a bride you should be aware of the questions that haunt photographers. The truth is, photographers can't be all things. Simply put, there are only so many minutes in an hour and the human brain can only think of so much before it is in overload. The heart of the moment is missed when the artist's focus is too much on perfection. 

For those musicians out there, you know what I am talking about. The notes flow through you and not from you. You have to let go, and stop thinking about technique to be in the zone. 

If it seems like I am thinking out loud, then I am. It is just an observation and perspective I wanted to share.

This is why we take a minimalist approach to weddings and events. We carry very little in regards to lighting which allows us to work in a more freestyle and in the zone way.  A recent article stated that Maring's photographs make the ordinary... Extraordinary. That is such a kind statement. All I can say is that we feel that when an image has truth it has soul. It's not perfect or Godlike. It's human and that is in itself perfect enough.