About Me

I own the business Ryan Smith Photography in Myrtle Beach.

I’m 34 years old and I started out as a hobbyist doing things like nature photography and slowly worked my way into doing portrait and wedding photography full time. I’m proud of the fact, like many great photographers, I just had a passion for the subject and taught myself through books, podcast, and other resources. I very much enjoy photography and do it as my hobby as well as professionally.  You can see some of my landscape photography that I do for fun in the AboutMe menu above.  I’m experienced using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom so I do the post processing and touch up as well. I also do all the work on the website myself.

Everything that gets done in the business I do myself.  I’m the photographer, accountant, webmaster, etc.  I just prefer keeping things small, taking on the amount of work that I can handle, and not having the stress of getting big and having to worry about employees and all that comes with that. I’m never going to be rich working this way, but I get to enjoy what I do and it pays the bills while letting me have top of the line photography equipment to enjoy. The one thing I don’t do myself is the actual printing, the high end printing service I use is faster and better than any type of equipment I could have myself.

I use a Nikon D700 and Nikon D300 Body.  My main two lenses are Nikon’s top of the line 70-200 2.8VR and 24-70 2.8 both ED glass.   Other lenses are a Nikon 50mm Prime, Sigma 28mm 1.8 Prime, Tamron 17-50 2.8, and Tamron 10-24mm for super wide angle shots. I also use the Nikon Creative Lighting System with the new SB-900 and SB-600 Speedlights.