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Hey guys, hope you guys are, I always
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feel like a broken record kind of hope
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you guys are doing well and staying safe
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and you know the verbiage that we all
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use it's been it's been chaos it's what
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we on when did this all start march
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or february march felt like a year so
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let's go march april may june going into
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july yeah it's been uh it's been wild
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it's been wild i'm sure for everyone it's
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been more wild for some than others uh
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if any of you have kids it's extra
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crazy uh thank god school's done you know
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it's it's funny i never thought as a
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parent i would be like oh i can't
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wait till school's finished you know it's it's
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been nuts but you know what it is
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what it is it's we've had a lot
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of fun here i'm sure everyone's kind of
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the same you have a lot of chaos
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it's a shit show it's great it's bad
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it's whatever it is what it is it's
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normal it's new normal um but anyway again
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i hope you guys are doing well i
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hope you guys are staying safe i hope
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you know you guys are making the most
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of it uh some people are probably back
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to work in a different way than what
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your summer was probably expected to be um
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you know either less weddings uh no work
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some work uh more than likely smaller weddings
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more allotments which isn't a bad thing uh
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i think a lot of us love allotments
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so this is kind of like now it's
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almost forcing people to shoot allotments or to
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have allotments um but yeah wherever you guys
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are in the world whatever's happening um i
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hope it's going well as best it can
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and you know this isn't a forever thing
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which i think is hard to think about
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sometimes or to realize or to remember but
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you know in the grand scheme of things
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i hope we look back in five years
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and i'll be like hey you remember that
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year that was an absolute gong show holy
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shit um but we just got to get
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through it and do the best we can
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and stay safe and be kind and yeah
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so anyway let's move on i'm going to
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touch base today on curation it's you know
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the connection that i talked about um the
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editing all that stuff but i find curation
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is probably the number one thing of getting
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your clients to connect and getting them to
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you know allow you to shoot where you
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want to shoot or what you want to
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shoot um it has such a dramatic impact
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on the type of clients you guys will
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be booking but it also will have a
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huge impact on how your clients act during
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the shoot so it's i just i start
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right let's just jump right in one of
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the things that i talk about at workshops
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all the time and conferences and you know
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if i do mentoring is this idea of
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show what you want to shoot it's such
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a simple it's so simple it really is
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guys but i feel like one of the
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common things that i see over and over
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during portfolio reviews and you know talking with
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other photographers all around the world is you
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know we go through their your portfolio your
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blog post and i often hear is oh
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i haven't got around to it um oh
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don't look at that i know i gotta
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update it but then one of the following
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complaints later on the conversation is i'm just
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not getting the type of clients that i
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want to work with and this idea of
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show what you want to shoot is again
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such a simple term but i feel like
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we all neglect it at times so it's
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so simple really all it means is if
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you guys want to shoot outdoor weddings you
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need to shoot outdoor weddings you want to
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shoot indoor weddings you need to shoot indoor
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weddings maybe you love shooting party pics you
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need to show party photos it's again going
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through your site looking at it as is
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this the type of work i want to
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shoot again so whatever it is you want
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to shoot your images have to be in
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line with that genre so you're attracting the
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type of clients you want to work with
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okay um one of the things that i
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think for me when i start curating my
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work and my social media feed and my
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website is i always think about it as
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your client your ideal client needs to be
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able to put herself because usually it's the
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bride's booking us needs to be able to
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put herself in your photo okay so that
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means she needs to be able to flip
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to your gallery and imagine herself in that
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moment in that environment in that location in
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that chaos um and when they do that
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when they can picture themselves or when they
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can put themselves in your images that's when
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they connect with your images okay we want
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i think we all want we can all
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agree that we want clients whose desire to
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create is in line with your desire to
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create whose sense of adventure whose you know
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willingness to do something that you think could
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result in an incredible photo matches up with
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their sense of adventure okay we don't want
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i know i've had it i'm sure we've
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all had it who we ask clients to
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say hey look at this incredible steam coming
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out of the ground and i said hey
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can you just walk across this muddy field
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you know jump across these rocks and then
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stand and essentially what smells like rotten eggs
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well you're completely getting blasted with moist hot
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stinky air because the photos are gonna be
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incredible and if they're like no i don't
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think so then they're really not quote unquote
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your ideal client right you want clients who
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are already there they're already like yeah shit
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let's do this you know i trust what
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you do they trust the process then they
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trust the work that you're going to create
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so they don't really think twice when you
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ask them to go and okay so i
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think one of the years and years ago
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i was talking like probably 13 years ago
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i was having coffee with a photographer here
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in calgary and you know one of the
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i was kind of chasing a lot of
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fads and editing techniques and all this stuff
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and one of the things that he said
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i'll never forget he said the images they're
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hiring me for today need to be the
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images you want to make tomorrow okay so
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what that means is if you're constantly chasing
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editing techniques you know tilt shift lenses aren't
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such a big thing anymore i don't think
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they're but if you're constantly chasing like what's
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cool and the fad and that type of
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thing that's really cool right now but in
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12 months is it still going to be
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cool are you still going to want to
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be shooting those images so we have to
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think about it client emails you tomorrow hey
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i love your work you know i love
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the way you edit all this stuff you
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know they're super hyped they're super pumped on
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the way your work looks but that's right
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now if you're chasing the fad so next
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year next july you go to shoot it
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and that's not your style anymore then what
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do you have to do you have to
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shoot images in that style from 12 months
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ago and again now what's happening is you're
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creating work that isn't really you and you're
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attracting clients that you really don't want to
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attract okay um it's one thing you know
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hearing that and then being in this industry
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now for almost two decades it's something that
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i've really started to notice in photographers we
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all look up to or who inspire us
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is that their work is a very accurate
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representation of who they are as people so
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think about it i'm sure you guys all
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know lanny and erica from two men their
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photos convey a really sense of like energy
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and passion party and if you've met them
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personally they're just that they're super they have
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a lot of energy they're very passionate about
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what they do and their work is a
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very clear indication of who they are you
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know narav patel out of california amazing portraits
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very calm very quiet very soft images and
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narav himself is very calm very quiet very
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soft uh fair haristi you know i think
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i'm sure we've all seen fair seen him
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at conferences met him personally um fair is
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his work fair is you know his work
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is unique it's creative it's bold and fair
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is unique creative and bold fair is his
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work and so i think we have to
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remember to be true to who you are
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and your work will become a very honest
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representation of yourself and by doing so you
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guys are going to start to attract clients
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who get it clients who just connect with
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your work not only on a creative level
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but on a personal level okay and those
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are the best clients we've all been to
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weddings where you know one saturday you go
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to a wedding and your clients are kind
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of fighting you and kind of like humming
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and hawing on different ideas that you have
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or you potentially may be offering to them
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like hey go stand over here this will
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be really cool and they're kind of like
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we just want to go party or we
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just want to get back we don't really
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want to take time and then you kind
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of get home and you're like what the
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shit just happened there and then next weekend
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you're shooting a wedding and you're like hey
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i think it'd be amazing if you guys
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went up on those rocks because the sky
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is gorgeous and the light's popping through and
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they're already heading in that direction and when
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you guys get clients like that or when
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we get clients like that we come home
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from those weddings and we're like shit if
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i could just take 20 of those couples
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and do that every weekend that's incredible so
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those are couples that connect with you guys
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connect with us as photographers on a creative
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level and a personal level okay so while
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you guys are curating your work to share
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online we have to ask ourselves these three
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questions this is what i ask myself so
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would i like to shoot something like this
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again would being in a similar location inspire
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me or make me happy and will this
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image attract the type of client i want
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to work with again okay so would i
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like to shoot something like this again would
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being in a similar location inspire me or
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make me happy and will this image attract
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the type of client i want to work
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with again okay so if you guys ask
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yourself these questions and the answer is no.
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The answer is no to any of them
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then why share that particular image?
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Why would we want to shoot something again
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if we knew the first time it didn't
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inspire us?
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Okay why would we want to shoot something
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in another location that you didn't enjoy shooting
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the first time?
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You know if you love shooting outdoors on
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cliffs at sunset and but we're sharing work
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in ballrooms in the middle of downtown well
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those two ideas you know what you're wanting
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to shoot and what you're showing you shoot
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aren't lining up.
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And then again why share an image that
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doesn't attract the type of client you want
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to work with?
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Okay like I said just a few minutes
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ago our clients need to be able to
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put themselves within your images as they look
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through.
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We want a bride or I'd like a
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bride that can put herself in her shoes
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here on this cliff at sunset and if
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a bride comes to my website and she's
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like well I'm getting married in a ballroom
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you know I'm gonna have a huge dress
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want everything to be perfect I don't really
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want my hair to blow and she looks
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at this she's probably gonna flip right past
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it because she doesn't connect with what this
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image is.
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Okay and that's totally fine.
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Alright so let's look at our website.
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So if we let's say we have 50
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images okay we post 50 photos to our
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website that's our gallery okay if only half
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of those images are a true and accurate
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representation of who you are as a photographer
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so 25 are you know these incredible photos
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that you see on the left and the
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other 25 images are photos of who you
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are and who you want it in the
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type of client the type of environments you
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want to shoot what's gonna happen is you're
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gonna attract half your clients are gonna be
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connected to Photoshop sitting on the back of
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swans or groom riding broom or yeah groom
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riding broom groom riding bride and that's what
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they're gonna attract they're gonna be able to
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put themselves in those images and the other
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half of your clients are gonna be the
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put themselves in the other half of those
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which is those are the good Saturdays and
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then the swan photos are the bad Saturdays
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okay so I think a lot of times
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when we start to post work on our
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website or our blog or social media at
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times we start to post images that we
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feel that maybe other people want to see
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okay that we feel like maybe our client
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that we just shot they want to see
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it okay or the florist or the wedding
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venue or the hair and makeup artist the
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wedding planner all this stuff but I always
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to me it's like what do I want
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to see on my feet what do you
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guys want to see on your feet and
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we have to look at our feeds as
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it's our business and it's a representation of
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who we are okay if your couple asks
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you to do this groom riding the I
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don't even know what the hell's going on
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that photo but if they asked you to
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it doesn't mean you have to show it
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you can shoot it deliver it and be
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done with it you don't have to show
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it okay we have to remember what is
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it that you guys want to see on
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your website so I challenge you guys I
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think you know as we have time at
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home and maybe not shooting as much is
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to go through your website okay so go
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through your website or go through that folder
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of images that you have that you post
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to your website or your social media okay
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and scroll through them quickly and I want
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to the reason why I say quickly is
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we can't take a lot of time on
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each individual photo because we as photographers will
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quickly look at the emotion of the photo
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but then we will quickly go to the
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technical side of the phone okay what was
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it shot at what preset they use was
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it shot at one two one four I
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wonder you know what camera gear he was
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using or she was using okay we need
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to understand that clients most clients don't really
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give a shit about any of that stuff
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they book photographers on feeling they book or
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they inquire through photographers because their photos made
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them feel something so we have to choose
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photos that make you feel something okay so
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if it makes you feel something it will
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make your ideal client feel something okay so
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we have you know one of the things
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I remember hearing years ago is if a
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clients going through your website and all of
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a sudden the internet crashed and one photo
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was stuck up on their screen is there
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an image on your website that wouldn't represent
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you or you wouldn't want to represent you
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as a photographer okay and if there is
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if your answer is yes to that but
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those photos need to go okay so for
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me when I go through my website every
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photo if it was just one photo stuck
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on the screen to me would be a
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indication and a good representation of who I
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am as a photographer and what I want
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to create going forward okay again if there's
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a photo on there that doesn't represent you
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as a photographer or in a location that
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you want to shoot again or you know
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the type of client that you want to
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shoot with or whatever that is and it's
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not really and it's one of those photos
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where you're like I don't know why that's
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on there it has to go okay so
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in addition the website another platform we use
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online is blogs okay a lot of us
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blog a lot of us sometimes don't a
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lot of us are lazy like myself at
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it but one thing that I see over
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and over again when I do portfolio reviews
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at workshops is the amount of images we
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as photographers are blogging okay what I feel
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is if we're putting let's say we blog
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a hundred photos let's say you're blogging a
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hundred photos and say thirty of those photos
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are unreal like they're incredible which is what
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I see a lot I see a lot
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of people's blogs so there's a ton of
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images but there's like these I call them
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like the diamond in the rough okay it's
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these amazing pieces of work that are kind
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of getting diluted from everything else that's so
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-so okay so what happens is as couples
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are scrolling through your blog they're kind of
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missing those like really important key photos that
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represent you because they're kind of getting lost
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in the mix okay so diluting work amazing
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work with so-so work kind of takes
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everything to be so-so okay it's kind
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of like that expression you're only it's only
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as strong as your weakest link if everything
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is getting if everything's diluting those incredible images
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we need to kind of start to curate
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it down just to show incredible work so
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these numbers I don't know if you've had
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a chance to read them but you know
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Chi Chi and Harsh almost 8,000 photos
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I shot I delivered 539 blog 27 you
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can go through 6,700 deliver 458 23
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62 delivered 271 blog 24 you know 1
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,500 on an engagement session delivered 59 blog
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7 so I shoot a ton I don't
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stop shooting I bring a huge amount of
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memory cards to a wedding and I shoot
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a lot but what I do is I
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shoot and then when I curate and when
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I go to call those images I just
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kind of deliver the you know three or
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four the best I take out everything else
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okay and when then I blog it's even
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a smaller amount so it's like one incredible
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photo and I see it in people's blogs
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and I'm sure if you guys go through
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your blog and you're honest with yourself you'll
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see blog posts where it's like you know
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she's like this you know she's hold he's
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holding her and then she's like this and
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then he's like this and then like this
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and then down and arms here it's like
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the same photo just boom boom boom boom
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boom instead of the boom just give them
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one boom like take out everything else just
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one photo okay so by effectively curating our
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online presence we're gonna create probably the most
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important thing that allows us to create the
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work we want to create and that is
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trust okay trust from our clients you know
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our clients having a firm belief in our
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abilities is key we have to understand that
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real connections come from a sense of comfort
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which is directly related to trust and trust
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comes from familiarity and familiarity is result of
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consistency okay so I'm just gonna say it
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again understand that real connections come from a
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sense of comfort which is directly related to
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trust trust comes from familiarity familiarity is a
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result of consistency so if we think about
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this if we think about who are the
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people that we feel most comfortable with okay
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my guess is your answer is going to
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be those who you're most familiar with okay
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ones that have been there consistently for you
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so for example your family mom dad siblings
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your partner your best friend the reason why
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we feel the most comfortable of these people
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is because they're the people you trust the
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most right your trust allows you guys to
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be your true and honest self with those
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people okay so again if you have your
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clients trust they're gonna feel comfortable they're gonna
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open up and they're gonna genuinely connect with
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each other okay and because of having that
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strong curation in your work okay and a
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sense of consistency in showing your work right
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what your couple see is a consistent feeling
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or toning or posing or lighting okay it
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gives them a good indication of what it
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is you do and what it is you're
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after in your work so for me when
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those incredible storm clouds come in and the
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wind picks up and it's threatening to pour
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I want my couples to have such a
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high level and trust in me and what
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I'm gonna create for them in the midst
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of that chaos that they don't run okay
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that they trust when I say hey guys
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this is gonna be amazing we might get
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a bit wet but trust me it's worth
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it for the photos okay they don't ask
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to go inside they wait it out and
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we just create work okay I have spent
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years trying to create work to showcase how
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incredible these chaotic environments can be how beauty
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can come from such chaos okay I find
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in these type of situations they hold each
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other just a little tighter they touch each
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other with just a little more passion and
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they genuinely connect with each other because they
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trust what it is I'm gonna create okay
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and that's gonna go for you guys if
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you guys are consistently showing showcasing work they're
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going to trust the process okay another benefit
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which is kind of like an what's the
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word like a side benefit I guess okay
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is they're gonna trust you but curating your
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work down to specific look is definitely gonna
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affect how they act with each other during
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portrait time okay you know I use the
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example of two men and landing there because
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their work is some of the works party
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like I I don't get I don't shoot
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parties like they shoot parties okay I don't
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even I've never been to a wedding that
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parties like their weddings okay but I feel
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it's because their work attracts the party client
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right my work doesn't attract that because I'm
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not showing it okay so if your couple
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see the high energy the piggyback rides of
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running jumping in your work they're more than
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likely gonna act this way during your portrait
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time okay on a side note on the
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other side of the scale is if they
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see for me if I'm showing connection quietness
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calmness they come to the session you know
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with their energy and expectations in line with
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that okay so just like the idea of
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mirroring you guys don't mirroring is during sales
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processes couples will tend to mirror what they're
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seeing in your work now it's not always
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perfect it's not always like 100% of
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the time but curating your work in a
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way that reflects what it is you'd like
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to capture definitely influences your couples behavior either
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consciously or subconsciously during your shoot so remember
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guys as you curate your work effectively you're
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not only gonna start to attract and book
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the type of clients that connect with your
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work on a creative level on a personal
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level but it's gonna help you build trust
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from your clients that you need so that
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they give you that freedom they give you
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that freedom to create the work you want
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to create and aside to that is it's
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gonna have a very direct influence on how
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your couples react and behave during your shoot
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so that's a quick you know curation again
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it's there's a ton but to do with
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curation but I feel like again the number
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you know as you guys start and maybe
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watch this video again show what you want
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to shoot I think that is probably the
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best place to start and then you can
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start to weed or you know create and
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curate work down to a specific look you
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know outdoors indoors whatever like somber happy playtime
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whatever that is but show the type of
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work you guys want to shoot when you're
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blogging you don't have to blog everything okay
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look at your blog not as like a
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pick time gallery or pixie set gallery but
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look at it as like the best of
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the best the best okay deliver all those
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five six seven hundred photos but it doesn't
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mean we have to blog five or six
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or seven okay so again guys thank you
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so much for being a part of this
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thank you for being here every month I
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do these as I can you know it's
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like everyone it's just it's mayhem you know
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for me with four kids homeschool that's over
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thank God but again I do truly appreciate
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you guys being here as always leave any
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questions comments in the comment section and I
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always do my best to get around to
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it and reply as best I can ask
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me anything you want let me know what
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you guys want to see and again I
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hope you guys are all staying safe and
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healthy and we're starting to kind of get
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back to work I guess depending where you
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are some parts of the states are exploding
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which is crazy but again I hope you
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guys are all staying safe and I hope
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you're doing well again alright thank you so
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much guys for being here and yeah I'll
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talk to you guys soon okay bye
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