Occasionally, I’ll get asked by a perspective client or someone at a wedding, “where did the name Lumen Photography come from?”  It’s a long story but I’ll start at the beginning.  I started Lumen Photography my freshman year of college and at the time I was having a lot of trouble thinking of suitable names.  Evan Uribe Photography… Uribe Photography… etc.  None of those names rung true for me unfortunately.

From there, I was stuck.  I began to try and brainstorm names that wouldn’t be so common.  What I eventually came upon was Lumen Photography.  Lumen stands for light in Latin.  A Lumen is also a measure of the total amount of visible light emitted by a source of light.  Depicted by the symbol lm.  Without light, there is NO photography.  In both film and digital cameras, the film/sensor record the light they are exposed to during an exposure.  Additionally, when you hire a photographer, you’re not hiring them for their ability to just snap a photo with a camera – you’re hiring the photographer for the knowledge on how to use light.  When harsh light is appropriate versus soft light, when to block a certain intrusive light source to create a more flattering shadow.  The list goes on and on.  As a professional photographer, it is my job to use light to make you look adventurous, couture, and awesome.

After coming upon the idea of Lumen Photography as a name, there was no other option!