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You probably don’t need more content ideas. You n You probably don’t need more content ideas. You need somewhere for the good ones to go. Because somehow they end up everywhere…Notes app, screenshots, saved posts, half-written captions… and the idea you swore you’d remember but absolutely did not. 😅 And then when it’s time to post? You’re staring at a blank screen trying to come up with something from scratch again. That’s exactly why I created my Content Planner. One place to keep the ideas, visuals, hooks, captions and plans that are already floating around in your head, so content stops feeling exhausting. Comment PLANNER and I’ll send you the link 🤎
I think one of the harder things to learn as a pho I think one of the harder things to learn as a photographer is that you don’t always have to make so much happen all the time. Especially when you’re newer, because you walk into a session with all the things you’ve saved in your head. The poses you want to try, the prompts you saw someone else use, the shots you know you’re “supposed” to get. And you’re so busy thinking about what you should do next that sometimes you miss the really good stuff that was already happening. I still guide my families, obviously. I move people when the light isn’t working, I’ll put them somewhere that makes sense, I’ll give them something to do when they need it. There’s definitely intention behind what I’m doing. But I’m also watching all the time. I’m watching how mom naturally holds her baby when I haven’t told her what to do. I’m noticing where the light is falling and what happens when someone moves six inches closer to a window. I’m paying attention to hands and expressions and all those tiny things that would probably mean absolutely nothing to anyone else in the room. And I think that’s the part of photography that took me the longest to understand. You can learn your settings. You can learn posing. You can save a million prompts and study other people’s work until your phone runs out of storage 😂 But eventually you have to stop looking outside of yourself for the next photograph and start trusting that you can recognize it when it’s right there in front of you. That’s what I mean when I talk about learning to see. It’s not some magical eye that a few lucky photographers were born with. It’s paying attention, over and over and over again, until you start noticing things you used to walk right past.
Hot take - the fastest way to make your work look Hot take - the fastest way to make your work look dated is to build your entire style around a trend 😅 Trends can be fun, and I’ve embraced plenty of them (some were very unfortunate 😂) but I really think the photographers who last are the ones who know how to borrow from the trends without relying on them. What’s one trend you love now or have loved, or one you’re really happy is over 😅 😱??
Relaxed family sessions don’t start when you pick Relaxed family sessions don’t start when you pick up your camera…They start with the expectations you set before you take a single photo 🙌 What’s something you do to help your clients feel relaxed before or at the start of a session?
You know that feeling when you land on someone’s I You know that feeling when you land on someone’s Instagram and within seconds you just know they’re your person? Your clients feel that way about you too. And the people who book you without hesitating, who don’t ask you to justify your prices, who just get it, they found their way into your world before they ever sent you a message. Most photographers don’t think about their work that way though. They think image by image, session by session. They post one photo or session they love and move on. But your body of work, all of it together, is what tells people who you are. What you notice, what you’re drawn to, how you see. The problem is most photographers have a really distinct way of seeing but don’t trust it enough to actually show it. So they play it safe online and end up completely overlooked by the exact people who would have loved them. The photographers whose ideal clients find them have figured out how to invite the right people into their world. You scroll their feed for ten seconds and you just know. It’s a work in progress for me, but it’s the shift I’m making right now with my own feed and it’s changing how I think about everything I put out. Are you posting the photos you think people will like, or the ones that actually invite them into your world? —————— If you want the template I used to create these visuals, comment VOICE and I’ll send you the link.
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