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PLANNING YOUR LOCATION PHOTO SHOOTS RECAP

Location Shooting – Gear You Should Take With You

After many people read my articles on planning location shoots; traveling to the location and packing and security for your location shoots I got a lot of questions and I thought I should answer some of them now.

Here are the things you need to know that I may have failed to mention previously. I think the biggest question I’d been getting has been regarding travel days and scheduling shoots on travel days.

Preparing For Packing and Security During The Planning of Your Location Shoot.

In part one we covered the basic first steps of planning your on location photo shoot from booking models, health concerns, picking your team and your shoot sheets.

In part two we discussed a lot of the things you need for traveling.

Steps to Planning Your Location Shoot!

I am going to guess that every photographer and model dreams of one day traveling to some exotic locations for shoots, which isn’t unreasonable! It’s part of the job right? ???? OK just maybe traveling to exotic places for photo shoots isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time but for those of us who love it I thought that I would share some of my tips with you.

Over the now thirty something years I’ve been shooting I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to travel all over the world photographing beautiful women.

How Sales Hurt Your Business.

Do you have any idea how having sales and mini-sessions may be hurting your photography business? I’m seeing a lot of talking about holiday sales and mini-sessions. I find myself often screaming into the void for them to stop doing that! It is one of the types of things that can often diminish the value of the brand they’re trying to build.

Your photography business is not a retail business. You’re providing people with a service. A service that has long been a luxury service; and many of you call yourselves luxury brands and talk about how you’re creating a luxury experience for your clients.

You Must Use Contracts.

Contracts. That seemingly dirty word so many photographers seem to really dislike. It’s almost as if so many of these people don’t understand the purpose of contracts, or how having a written agreement protects them and their business. I mean really! How can you call yourself a professional and not use the tools of a professional.

I have seen some insanely ridiculous statements in a variety of groups lately about contracts and their use. Or their lack thereof. One of the groups in particular were run by a photographer who people consider a photography business mentor. She actually discouraged members in her group to not use contracts.

Less Photoshop; More Actual Skill

Having been shooting since back in the film days I am probably quite a purist of sorts when it comes to shooting. I was recently around a photographer who I could see was either under or overexposing each image he took.

When I called it to his attention he stated; “Oh I don’t worry about it. I can just fix it in Photoshop.”

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