This summer is already shaping up to have several horse shows, potential travel to Tennessee (for fun), and maybe Virginia/D.C. For both photography and maybe a mini vacation.
With that being said I am scheduling out my year fairly quickly in advance.
Every wedding is different. Every photographer is different. Every business has different booking deadlines. So where do you start?
If you spend enough time doing anything you will unconsciously develop a set of rules you live by. Photography is no different.
As a 25 year artist, 13 year professional photographer I can attest that there are times when the struggle to stay creative is hard and the lure of financial stability beckons hard. I have struggled to generate profits, and I have dealt with he guilt of potentially walking away from my passion for a steady income and normal job. There is no right answer but no matter the choice you make to stay creative you will always be an artist.
It means that photographers do not spend all their time taking photographs. In other words, photographers spend less than half their time shooting and the rest is spent doing decisively less fun things.
Back in February I had to update my headshots. Not because mine were outdated but more because I was bored with then and my preference leans toward darker, dark back grounds single lighting source and what I needed was bright and light.
I sometimes forget that my first experience shooting for a university wasn’t my home university where I received my degree but rather for Semester at Sea through the University of Virginia— at that time, they have moved universities since.
Portrait photography is one of the most common forms of photography and arguably one that everyone is familiar with. This is because when you see awesome images on social media featuring friends, and families they are portraits.
Portraits are our everyday image.
I was a student of Ohio University Eastern and was employed as a student with the media director on campus who knew of my interest in photography and approached me with the marketing director asking if I would take some photos around campus for marketing…
So usually when I am editing photographs I am either listening to music or watching something on Netflix — of usually I put Grey’s Anatomy on because I have seen it and can listen without watching. But lately with my deep headfirst fall into TikTok I have discovered some singers and songs that just freaking get stuck in my head.