About · Taz and Elijah
We bring your vision to life. You get to live in it.
Two Florida natives who photograph and film weddings in Tampa Bay. 300+ weddings, formerly Taz Smith Photography.
What our couples say
- “They brought our vision to life.”
- “They captured our wedding exactly how we imagined it.”
- “The day was fun, relaxed, and gave us space to live in the moment.”
Co-founder · Tampa native
Taz
Fourteen years of wedding days, and the real moments still get me.
I grew up in Tampa and picked up a camera young. Fourteen years and a few hundred weddings later, I have shot for big brands as a commercial portrait photographer, and I would trade all of it for a wedding day: real emotion, the kind you cannot direct. Couples tell me I put them at ease and make them laugh, which is most of the job. The rest is helping you live the day, and then keeping it, in photographs and film you will go back to for the rest of your marriage.
When I am not working I am with my son, training for the next event, or finding the next adventure, ideally one with a helicopter in it.
Co-founder · Clearwater native
Elijah
I got into this for the purest moments of life, and a wedding is full of them.
I grew up in Clearwater. Before cameras it was music, poetry, and sketching, and photography became the way all of it came out. Ten years on I am a wedding and lifestyle photographer, a husband and a father, a lead pastor at Free Church, and I still make my own music.
I love to live life and have fun along the way, and I bring that to your day. What you will notice is that I am calm, I am present, and I am paying attention to the people, not just the pictures.
The art first. The technology to carry it.
01
The art first
Photographs with presence and films with a pulse, made by people who treat the day as an art form, not a shot list.
02
The best cameras, twice over
The highest-quality cameras made, every frame written to two cards as it is taken and backed up before we sleep. Nothing gets lost.
03
Our own software
We built The House so you always know what is happening. Technology carries the plan. We carry the camera.
A small, carefully chosen team of photographers and filmmakers who work from the same creative standard, led by a producer who knows your day by heart.
Is this you?
We are not for everyone.
We would rather you know before you write to us.
- For you if
- You want to be in your wedding, not managing it.
- You would rather see your photographs this week than in three months.
- You want your guests and your family in it, not just watching it.
- You care how the year before the wedding feels, not only the day itself.
- You like knowing what happens next.
- Probably not us if
- You want five thousand unedited files on a hard drive.
- You are choosing on price alone. Photography starts at $3,900.
- You would rather not hear from your photographer until the morning of.
- You want the day shot and shipped, with no questions in between.
Where we work
Tampa Bay, and the places your day takes you.
Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota, and the places your day takes you.
Start with your date
Step inside The House before you decide.
Tell us the date and the place. If it is open, we set up a short call, and you get your key to The House before you commit to anything.