Exactly this. Clients want to know what type of photographer they are hiring. If a certain shot is in your portfolio, they are hiring you because they want you to take that style of shot for them.

I yearn to encounter my grandparents in their youth, capturing the essence of their daily lives.

This would be pretty damn cool. I was just going to say for Panasonic’s eye AF to work, but yours wins.

“But…bokeh bro…look at the creamy bokeh bro”

Same. On1 Photo Raw and Davinci Resolve, never missed Adobe.

A lot of these YT photographers aren’t that great themselves, especially a lot of the street photographers. They just walk down the street taking run and gun photos of all the good looking girls they see then ‘slap’ a filter on. And most of the photos aren’t even of them doing anything interesting or in interesting light, they are literally just walking.

So many bad photos on instagram like this. A street photo of the back of some random person just standing there not doing anything interesting, convert it to B/W and it becomes ART!

I hate it when my friends ask me this, the second question they usually ask is ‘What filter did you use?’

When I reply with ‘an ND filter’ they look at me like I’m crazy because it’s not an instagram filter.

What type of movement do you want to do? A gimbal will prob be your best option for movement, then a tripod for static shots.

But the best people to ask would be r/videography

Depends on the height of your model.

I also recently done headshots for a law firm lol, and this is 100% correct. I took one headshot of the CEOs PA and I got two shots that I really liked, to the point that I would consider both of them a portfolio shots. But she hates thrm, I had to convince her that it was a REALLY good headshot.

Most of them are corporate people, they have worked in corporate their whole lives. So they don’t understand what a good, or bad shot, looks like.

It’s the same as when you’re first starting wanting to get into music photography, corporate photography, event photography, etc. Most people start off because they know someone. Getting a start in photography really is about who you know.

What type of photos? What are you using to edit them? Where are you displaying your photos?

Depends what you are doing. I started as a secondary shooter for events, and I just watched what the main shooter was shooting, and got something different. For e.g, if the main shooter is shooting the person on stage, you can shoot reaction shots of the audience. Also get angles that the main shooter isn’t getting. For e.g if he/she is getting wide’s, you get tight shots, or if they are shooting from the back of the room, you shoot from the side of the room. In short, try to tell the story of the day.

Are there websites aimed at photographers in Ohio? I’m in London and there are lots of websites advertising jobs for photographers.

Get them to trust you, and feel comfortable around you. Models are humans too, and if they feel uncomfortable around you they won’t perform as well. I think it’s different with everyone. I worked in sales before this and I had to learn how to get people to trust me quickly, so I apply some principles in sales to when I’m working with models.

Most of the time you can tell when it’s AI because it’s too perfect. They never have any creases in their clothes, their hair is perfect, everyone they have taken photos of is incredibly good looking. And the lighting never really makes sense, or is always really harsh. I can’t see AI taking our jobs anytime soon tbh.

This sounds very interesting. Please keep us updated and if there is a link it will be good to follow 😁

Deffo is about networking. Go to local photography events, join local photography clubs, join local online photography groups (most have a Facebook page), etc. Become “known” in your community as a photographer. When I was first starting my first clients were all people I knew from previous workplaces, or old school friends, or my local area.

I have moments I think I made it, then a few days later I do a shoot, get nothing I really like and question what I’m doing with my life again.

This year I done the album cover for a very well known local rapper and was the Camera Operator for a film that won an award. Two days after coming home after the awards how I went out to do some street photography, then when I got home I realised I had missed the focus for every shot except two 🤦🏾‍♂️

I usually do something that makes me think I’ve made it and straight after I do something that makes me think I should get a “real job”