To start from the beginning: Client Consults Series Pt 1: Pre-screening Client Consults Series Pt 2: Emails Client Consults Series Pt 3: Scheduling the Consult When I first started photographing weddings, I’m embarassed to admit that I’m not sure how much, if any, consulting was happening prior to booking. I just wanted to book,…
To start from the beginning: Client Consults Series Pt 1: Pre-screening Client Consults Series Pt 2: Emails I’ve already talked about how I pre-screen and email with my potential clients. Today I want to talk about how I actually go about scheduling a consult. I’ve had to rework this whole consult arrangement over the…
To start from the beginning: Client Consults Series Pt 1: Pre-screening I believe that communication is important. Like, really really important. I do most of my communication via email because it allows my brides and I to contact each other on our own time schedules. Brides are very busy people; they are juggling their…
Consults can be scary. If we’re honest, it is like a first date…and those are downright nerve-wracking. Not that I’ve had one in, oh, 6 years (and even that wasn’t nerve-wracking because it was my best friend who ended up becoming my husband–it took us a long time to even figure out when our technical…
My husband sent me a list a few weeks ago titled, “100 Tips from a Professional” by Eric Kim, a street photographer. This list made me think. And I kept pulling up the email from my husband to read through the list again and again because I kept thinking about one and wanted to fist-punch the air and…
I didn’t know what f-stops or shutter speeds were. I just wanted a camera. I didn’t even have a business in mind at the time; I just wanted to take good photos. I have a history of high hopes and failed dreams. Here is a great example: Several years ago, I had my hopes set…
