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Welcome friend! I'm Mabyn a creative obsessed with helping women shine bright! Get ready because this blog is full of incredible female entrepreneurs, branding, and business tips to help your business thrive!

Before learning about aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lenses, and flash there is one element of photography that is intrinsically more important than any other. That is of course light! At the most basic of levels, photography is all about light, how we see it, how we manipulate it, how we utilize it to tell our […]

Photography Basics – Light

the sunlight kisses this engaged couple during their photography session in the mountains of North Carolina. Photography by Mabyn Ludke.

When I first started shooting, It felt like I was always inspired. Every time I picked up my camera a light bulb with go off above my head and I would get SO excited. As the years went on that “excitement” became less and less and for creatives that can be a death sentence. I […]

How to Get Out of a Rut and Stay Inspired with Photography

A beautiful woman watches the sunset over the appalachain mountains at Doughton Park North Carolina. Photo by Mabyn Ludke.

I was standing in a dark parking lot half elated half terrified with what I was about to do. My heart was racing, my palms were sweaty, and I was questioning myself even as the words came tumbling out of my mouth, “So…You want to do this again?” The awkward pause that followed felt like […]

How to Beat Insecurity & START!

Looking Glass Falls & Black Balsam Knob Double header weekends are tough. When Monday morning rolls around, my body aches and it takes extreme effort to focus my mind on the tasks at hand. On Saturday I second shot a wedding with a friend. Sunday Daniel & I prepared for Liz & Nathen’s Black Blasam […]

A Magical Black Balsam Knob Engagement with Liz & Nathen

Pisgah National Forest engagement session with Mabyn Ludke Photography at Looking Glass Falls

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