And so we come to the end of the course. Today’s theme being all about the business.
This was the module that I was most looking forward to and one of the primary reasons I booked myself onto the course. Through my portraiture work I very rapidly realised that to run a photographic business, the photography was only a very small per centage of the whole. Marketing, sales, the supply chain, order processing, accounts all play a major part too as do the protective elements of insurance and legal. As much as I would love to keep costs down by doing it all myself, I have to be a realist. Some of this is going to have to be outsourced. If not, I’ll be saddled with a lot of peripheral activities that I don’t really want to do. Continue reading Wedding Seminar, Day 4 »
Day 2 has been even better than day 1 was yesterday. Great shoot this afternoon with two fantastic models and a bounty of amazing images too. Can’t complain.
Yesterday was an amazing and eye opening day. It really challenged my photographic knowledge, skills and pre-conceptions. The biggest thing for me was linking everything I’d learnt before together and more importantly, when to ignore that knowledge and to have the confidence and conviction to try something out, solve the puzzle and make it work. In hindsight a lot of the technique is blindingly obvious which probably makes it significantly harder to realise.
