The Tofield Mercury, Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - Page 3
Local photographer receives accreditation in “Wedding Story” from Professional Photographers of Canada BY KARI JANZEN Carla Lehman, a local professional photographer born and raised in Tofield, has recently received her accreditation from the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC) in the Wedding Story genre. On Lehman’s blog she wrote, “For Wedding Story, ten images must be submitted that tell the story of a couple’s wedding.” Lehman said when she first heard the news, “I was actually completely shocked and then I was overjoyed. I actually bounced up out of my seat and did a little
happy dance. It is very difficult to get accreditation on your first submission. I received a grade of very good, which is amazing. So I was very, very happy. “The accreditation process is actually quite stringent. You're judged by a group of your peers who are master level photographers, or higher level photographers, and they have been trained in the judging process and they know what to look for. And so when you're submitting your work for accreditation, you want to be submitting your best work. And it's all about attention to detail
and making sure the images are above average quality.” While receiving accreditation in Wedding Story is a huge honour, Lehman has been accredited in other genres as well. “I've been accredited for a while in different genres but for this wedding portrait, I just have never submitted and I've been a wedding photographer for 20 years and I thought this is ridiculous. This is something that's on my heart and I love telling wedding stories, and I need to actually submit one of my weddings for accreditation and so I decided in
early spring 2023 that I was going to choose one of my weddings from last year and submit it.” Lehman used photos from Riley and Delanie Ferguson’s wedding in 2022. In Lehman’s blog she said, “I don’t photograph weddings, I document love, connections, moments, memories.” Expanding on that, Lehman said that “everything that I photograph I am photographing at the best of my ability to create a legacy for my clients. One of my clients said to me once, ‘I don't see what your photos look like, I see what they feel like.’ And that was the greatest compliment I could ever get. Because that's why I do what I do.” Through the accreditation process and Lehman’s experience with being a note taker for the PPOC, she says
Tofield’s Carla Lehman “it's taught me to be more particular about my compositions and about lighting and about staging my photos. They judge very strictly and they are very particular and so spending that year as a note taker, I really learned about what the judges are looking for. That more than the accreditation process actually changed my thoughts about how to photograph something. And it makes a
huge difference. “I think they're an excellent organization. And it is peer run and it is peer led and it is there to support photographers and to help them grow.” Lehman’s professional photography business began in 2003 but she has always had a passion for photography. “Even in high school I was the photographer for our newspaper and our yearbook.”
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