literally been stressing about only having 8 weddings booked so far. Stressing about switching gear, stressing about social media. Thank you for opening my eyes brother
Just take it one day at a time and before you know it things will be great and you won’t even remember what you were stressing about. Good luck with everything!
we do not like talking about our bad reviews, I'm sure if we are honest we all have 1, I had one six months after the wedding, even after a thank-you card. the bride realized after looking and looking that she was an ft taller than her groom and looked weird... duhhhh not my fault, she then started to hate her images and I got the blame... kind of funny looking back but !!! ALL your points are valid.
Just like me, I've got 1 star reviews just because i and the groom disagree to make the bride look more skinny, the reason is the bride's dress are beautiful if i edit it it will look unnatural, unfortunately she upset after that, but the photo still looks good
I LOVE the transparency man! We are all human, and have to make mistakes so we can learn to do better. SO MUCH VALUE in this video! Keep 'em coming man!
Exactly! I think there’s the reason why so many photography businesses don’t last very long either. They’re too concerned about the photography side of things rather than the actual business itself. I hope it helped out a bunch of people.
Hi John. I have always liked your videos & learn something each time that I watch your content. Thank you for sharing your buisness acumen & knowledge with the photography community. Best wishes!😊
Chat with them. Get to know them. Basically, make sure they vibe with you and fully trust you. Makes the whole day and editing more fun if you care and click with the couple. :)
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN ! 7.50 - THE DAMN TRUTH ! ! ! Finally somebody to talk, that it is not the car, that it is important - it actually is the DAMN DRIVER of the car ! GG my friend !
haha, your first tip is one I'm dealing the consequences of right now. Vetting your clients and checking to see if there's a vibe there is so important. That isn't saying anything negative about the client if the vibe isn't there or you see red flags. Just means it isn't a right fit for you.
Yes Yes Yes!!! Love all of this advice! I literally uploaded a video yesterday on how to run your photography business. Enough talk about presets and light settings. It's the BUSINESS that matters!!
Team interracial couples! :) but so true most of my work is with Native Americans + music & street fashion. I do love shooting families because I get to see the kids grow throughout my photos. Some of my clients are going 5 years strong .. super grateful. Thank you for the video
I just came across your page and watched your video. It was so helpful and eye opening. Just wanted to say thank you and here in Ireland i will be using many of your ideas and advise.
Hello Master John I’m a wedding , event Quinceañera (sweet sixteen) photographer, I’m learning a lot from you videos , all I can said is that you my mentor !
❤Great video. Wish I had this video to watch 10 years ago. Love when you give us content like this. Made a living for over a decade behind a camera and the skill was never a problem, it was the business side that took the most work and insight. Lost everything and working on getting back to that life and need videos like this to refresh and inspire me. Thanks for taking the time to make it. 👍
Great advice John, everything you said in this video I implemented years ago and it all holds true. Fresh green photographers take note, this man tells no lies.
All tips are very valid and important. The only thing I don't understand is how some photographers like to say that top of the line equipment doesn't make a difference in the quality of the images. Yes they do. Your portfolio also stands out for your vision and creativity. However, the image quality done with a canon prime lens 70-200mm 2.8 will be infinitely superior to that of a 35-55mm lens. And this quality stands out in your portfolio, makes your customer happy and draws the attention of future customers. Of course, the best camera will always be the one you have. But, being able to have better equipment than what you have today makes a lot of difference. Don't fantasize that all you need is your talent.
I was using a D7100 for almost 10 years for wedding and portraits. I only upgraded because because I was starting to have issues with it and there was not servicing available for it.
So true and great tips and I have begun adopting several of these over the last two yrs and even some more recently. Best wishes and thx for these videos!
man if I can keep on clicking that like button and wreck my mouse! This is valuable info , another amazing content about the business side of things and not just about photography! ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I feel like there's so much info on photography that I'm trying to make sure people know how they can make money with it rather than just taking nice photos. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video, I really like #5, I like all of them but #5... Stay with the gear you know. Unfortunately, some RUclipsrs are telling us that our gear isn't good enough and people are jumping ship to "the best gear" because the one we have is lacking somewhere. This is the brand that I can AFFORD and WANT to shoot with because I like it, stop telling me it's not good enough for this reason. I know what it lacks let me deal with that quirk.
Exactly. I hate how often everyone is asking me “what’s the best camera”. THE ONE YOU KNOW. Stop wasting your money always upgrading. I mean I almost didn’t upgrade to the X-T5 and just kept my X-T3s for a LONG LONG time. Glad you liked that point.
Well said bro, well said. One thing I'd ask though, what's the best way to vet your couples??? What criteria do you use??? Please do a vid on that subject. Please
Thank you for the great tips, John. I have watched and learned from your content since I got back into photography in 2020. You have helped me so much. And yes, photography is more than just the photography! You are one of the few that make it a point to cover the business aspect of it. You seem very authentic and genuine in your teaching. I always get a kick out of how many claps you are going to have in the next video to get your point across Hahaha Keep doing what you are doing. You are helping so many in their photography journeys!
Thanks J for your time, might l ask you, when you said l do my post with AI? do you have more info about or video l can check on that regards? 🙏 Have a nice week
Hi John, thank you for your transparency and information sharing. May your territory continue to enlarge. I really appreciate your candidness, & being open to us. You talked in one of your videos, (7 things you need... can't remember) but Can you provide a copy of the questionnaire you use in Honeybook? Thank you in advance.
i would just disagree on the point where letting AI edit your photos will make your photography business better. I actually think that editing my pictures made me a better photographer at every wedding I go to next. Other than that, all valid and great pointers! Always enjoyed your vids
Totally agree, editing your own pictures does make you a better photographer, however only for so long! No body can tell you when that will be . But one day you will know. having said that I still prefer to post produce my own :-)
to piggyback off the interracial aspect, I'd love to see an editing tutorial on that. I did portraits for my boss and his fiance and I had a rough time keeping them both looking right. it might have also been because I was getting some reflection from the orange leaves from where we were but I had a tricky time with it
Yeah totally. There’s a lot to consider when having mixed skin tones. Especially if you’re mainly shooting it with natural light. I’ll totally do a video on this at some point.
Sometimes, bad reviews are simply malicious. I got a Google one-star review from another local photographer, and, quite frankly, I had never interacted with this guy or even heard of him. I complained to Google, but they would not remove the one-star review. All I could do was respond to the review and call it what it really is: BOGUS! Sometimes, you have to fight back against the cyber bullies.
You got any videos on computer specs? My wife and I been running our business (and editing) off of a MacBook Pro 13” since 2020 😂 we ready to upgrade now
Very helpful!!! I want to become a patreon for your channel bro. Concrete content. Extremely relevant for me with you being married with kids, and in the space (weddings) I want to do more work in!@@jbivphotography
Hi John, I love your content your mind and they way you shoot. Already using your presents. I´m now building up again my new website and i was wondering if there is also a code for the discount because i´m already in the way of building up so my free trail is running out in two days! Thanks !
Hey John, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts out of them.
@@jbivphotography At a wedding, I am "all in" and it would be difficult to stay confident in my work after this kind of difficulty. That's why I think it is so important to learn from such situations. I'd rather learn it from others than by myself. I read your answer on TheKnot and it's also a great subject "how to handle criticism". Your answer is respectful and a great way for new couples to be the right match for your photography style. Thank you John for your amazing work.
Good advice on the video about the equipment upgrades. My question to you is do you advertise ? For example google ads, wedding wire, the knot ect. What do you think is a reasonable amount of money to spend on advertising if you are making about 18k a year?
For what it’s worth, I barely spend any money on advertising, mainly website SEO has been majority of my lead gen. Sometimes I boost posts for 10-20 bucks every now and then. Booked between $60-80k in weddings last year. I see your craft and SEO as most important so you’ll want to rank locally. People search “wedding photographer in X city” so make sure you rank by having a good amount of keywords, content and as more people engage with your site/page, you’ll rank higher and higher.
John's right! Of my 38 years in Marketing and Sales, I learned that with good business practices, you can sell painted rocks to people. There's a guy (Gary Dahl ) who sold painted rocks for $22.59 each in today's dollars ($3.95 in 1975). He made around $82,750,000 million in today's dollars ($15 million in 1975). It goes to show you with good marketing skills you can sell painted rocks in a box with straw and call it a Pet Rock. This just proves that top of the line gear isn't important as giving your customers what they want. Even though it's just a painted rock. And if you think that was just a unicorn business, there is a lady selling Cow Chips (💩). Yep! She just collects the poop after it's dried and puts in an air tight bag and boxes it. People send them to friends to prank them or to bosses they don't like. Again, gear doesn't matter. So if you really focus on giving your customers what they want, you don't have to be so concerned about what camera or lens you need. Cameras today are so good, I've seen photographers add grain and shutter drag to their images. Couples love it. Photographer think our clients are insane. But if its what they want, then make the best for them. Personally, I'm going to start adding first and rear curtain sync shots to reception shots. Another local photographer I've seen uses tilt-shift lenses for some of his wedding shot. He's knowed around the world for this kind of work.
Finally a photographer who isn't a try hard and talks about working smart and not hard. Like if you can do so many things automatically then why not do that, if you can use something free that literally has the same results as something paid why not do that, if you can show the work that you want to do in your portfolio, BASICALLY ENJOY YOUR JOB why not do that 💀 I also realised that many photographers are crazy materialistic, they buy studios, the latest gear, fancy clothes, and props, their bills go through the roof because a lot of them live in america where 5000 a month isn't enough and think that we all have to be working the same hours as them, they do 100 risky things just to get more money and end up with less, their photos don't have a soul because they only do this to pay the bills as they say, then they don't have clients and hate their job and after all of that they post stupid things on the internet saying It's a very competitive job. Go figure. The only reason they do these is to appear like professionals. You are a breath of fresh air, thank you
About websites it's not easy to just get one. This is just advice! Hearing How to market is Way better then just what to do. These videos become useless when all we are given is a to do list but not help in breaking down the How to market & ads & promote ourselves well.
while i appreciate all of these tipps, i will admit that i am quite annoyed by photographers making claims such as "there is no best camera for x" or "gear doesnt matter, you can make great photos with any gear". While these are true in essence they also completely miss the point, because while there is no "best" of any gear every gear is either better or worse than some other gear because it depends on what you want to do. This means that gear absolutely matters, because there certain shots that you just CANNOT realistcly do without certain gear. You CAN go out and start doing wildlife photography with a 12 mm manual lense, but is it WISE? probably not. Its probably better to get a 200-600mm lense with active image stabilasation and high quallity glass to do that.
Crazy cause thats exactly how I book multiracial couples. First thing you see when clicking on my website. It actually works. I don't want you to talk about things that stress you out but I'm curious about the 1 star review 😂
Part of the reason that people obsess about gear is because you make a video about how great fuji cameras are, and then a sony user makes a video about how great sony cameras are, and then a canon person makes a Canon video and we watch them all and then we arrive at the question " which camera is best?"
I am not a photographer I do something completely different but I’ve been watching you for a while you give good advice and good info that can be used. I just apply it to my area. And funny love that Ty
Stop charging low rates. It will save your business and the industry as a whole. Your other fellow photographers will thank you. Also for you to stop charging low rates, learn freaking OCF.
PLEASE don’t make a video about a bad experience that you don’t want to talk about just because people want you too as surely you’ll be ignoring your own advice and be “chasing the dollar” (not verbatim).
True. The story really isn’t that bad, but it really wasn’t a good time at all for me. I almost quit photography because of it and don’t ever really like to bring it up or even look at the photos. Maybe I should take my own advice.
literally been stressing about only having 8 weddings booked so far. Stressing about switching gear, stressing about social media. Thank you for opening my eyes brother
Just take it one day at a time and before you know it things will be great and you won’t even remember what you were stressing about. Good luck with everything!
we do not like talking about our bad reviews, I'm sure if we are honest we all have 1, I had one six months after the wedding, even after a thank-you card. the bride realized after looking and looking that she was an ft taller than her groom and looked weird... duhhhh not my fault, she then started to hate her images and I got the blame... kind of funny looking back but !!! ALL your points are valid.
Just like me, I've got 1 star reviews just because i and the groom disagree to make the bride look more skinny, the reason is the bride's dress are beautiful if i edit it it will look unnatural, unfortunately she upset after that, but the photo still looks good
Blaming you for photographing the reality.
That's exactly why I tell my clients, I don't do weddings sorry. I stay true to what I love shooting with my photography.
Same. Wedding stressful.
I LOVE the transparency man! We are all human, and have to make mistakes so we can learn to do better. SO MUCH VALUE in this video! Keep 'em coming man!
That business-side comment is the best advice for any photographer in existence.
Exactly! I think there’s the reason why so many photography businesses don’t last very long either. They’re too concerned about the photography side of things rather than the actual business itself. I hope it helped out a bunch of people.
This was a necessary drag. Thank you John!
Always with the tough love.
I am definitely going to try the advice you said because I have things to do too. Plus the things you're saying I have never heard. Thank you John!
HI John! I just wanted to thank you for your honesty and transparency. It's something people don't see enough of and it was really refreshing :)
You're welcome! Thanks for letting me know. I really hope my transperancy shows in my video.
Hi John. I have always liked your videos & learn something each time that I watch your content. Thank you for sharing your buisness acumen & knowledge with the photography community. Best wishes!😊
You are very welcome
Hi John, can you make a video on how to vet your clients? Like what you should be looking out for and questions to ask? Thanks in advance. 😊
Chat with them. Get to know them. Basically, make sure they vibe with you and fully trust you.
Makes the whole day and editing more fun if you care and click with the couple. :)
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN ! 7.50 - THE DAMN TRUTH ! ! ! Finally somebody to talk, that it is not the car, that it is important - it actually is the DAMN DRIVER of the car ! GG my friend !
@11:43 how? What tool do you use for AI editing?
Man!! You pretty much hit me on every point!! Thanks for these great reminders!
Happy it was helpful! I hope 2023 is an amazing year for you.
haha, your first tip is one I'm dealing the consequences of right now. Vetting your clients and checking to see if there's a vibe there is so important. That isn't saying anything negative about the client if the vibe isn't there or you see red flags. Just means it isn't a right fit for you.
Yes Yes Yes!!! Love all of this advice! I literally uploaded a video yesterday on how to run your photography business. Enough talk about presets and light settings. It's the BUSINESS that matters!!
Team interracial couples! :) but so true most of my work is with Native Americans + music & street fashion.
I do love shooting families because I get to see the kids grow throughout my photos. Some of my clients are going 5 years strong .. super grateful.
Thank you for the video
Hello John. Can you recomnend an A.I. program for me to use for photography editing?
As always very very very enlightening and informative content.... God bless your hustle
You're welcome. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the content.
LOVE all of this sooo true, thanks for your honesty
Always!
I just came across your page and watched your video. It was so helpful and eye opening. Just wanted to say thank you and here in Ireland i will be using many of your ideas and advise.
That’s awesome to hear! I’m glad this video has been helpful for you.
As always, great content John. I do have a question though. What is the best camera for Wedding Photography?
Absolutely brilliant videos. Thank you
Glad you like them!
I would love to hear about how you vet clients
That would be a really good video. Honestly it’s probably one of the most important parts of being a photographer.
This is a great idea
@jbivphotography is it out now? 😃
Hello Master John
I’m a wedding , event Quinceañera (sweet sixteen) photographer, I’m learning a lot from you videos , all I can said is that you my mentor !
thanks for sharing! Good luck with everything!
How do you vet your couples?
Be yourself and the clients will come to you!
Exactly!
❤Great video. Wish I had this video to watch 10 years ago. Love when you give us content like this. Made a living for over a decade behind a camera and the skill was never a problem, it was the business side that took the most work and insight. Lost everything and working on getting back to that life and need videos like this to refresh and inspire me. Thanks for taking the time to make it. 👍
Every point was solid. Thanks for the information.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you love all the tips.
You are so welcome!
Love your honesty!!❤
Thank you!!
I love love the automation thing... All point are valid ✌️. Thank you Boss.
I'm watching from Nigeria
The b&w parts of the video😅😂 love it. Keep clapping 👏🏼
Keep making videos, love them ALL and seriously so many have helped me!
😂😂😂 Happy to hear this was helpful. Thank you for the encouragement as well!
Great advice John, everything you said in this video I implemented years ago and it all holds true. Fresh green photographers take note, this man tells no lies.
Appreciate it
I like your practical approach to a photography business
Thank you so much. I really try my best to be practicle about photography. Especially when trying to run it as a business.
All tips are very valid and important. The only thing I don't understand is how some photographers like to say that top of the line equipment doesn't make a difference in the quality of the images. Yes they do. Your portfolio also stands out for your vision and creativity. However, the image quality done with a canon prime lens 70-200mm 2.8 will be infinitely superior to that of a 35-55mm lens. And this quality stands out in your portfolio, makes your customer happy and draws the attention of future customers. Of course, the best camera will always be the one you have. But, being able to have better equipment than what you have today makes a lot of difference. Don't fantasize that all you need is your talent.
I was using a D7100 for almost 10 years for wedding and portraits. I only upgraded because because I was starting to have issues with it and there was not servicing available for it.
So true and great tips and I have begun adopting several of these over the last two yrs and even some more recently. Best wishes and thx for these videos!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
man if I can keep on clicking that like button and wreck my mouse! This is valuable info , another amazing content about the business side of things and not just about photography! ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I feel like there's so much info on photography that I'm trying to make sure people know how they can make money with it rather than just taking nice photos. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Hello could you write the name of the program you are using to automate your pre editions and the pre selections? Powerful Video, thank you very much!
couldn't agree with all of this more. so good!
thanks for watching!
Great video, I really like #5, I like all of them but #5... Stay with the gear you know. Unfortunately, some RUclipsrs are telling us that our gear isn't good enough and people are jumping ship to "the best gear" because the one we have is lacking somewhere. This is the brand that I can AFFORD and WANT to shoot with because I like it, stop telling me it's not good enough for this reason. I know what it lacks let me deal with that quirk.
Exactly. I hate how often everyone is asking me “what’s the best camera”. THE ONE YOU KNOW. Stop wasting your money always upgrading. I mean I almost didn’t upgrade to the X-T5 and just kept my X-T3s for a LONG LONG time. Glad you liked that point.
Thank you so much! U are awesome!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for this video. Really helpful and insightful.🙏🏽
Glad it was helpful!
Well said bro, well said. One thing I'd ask though, what's the best way to vet your couples??? What criteria do you use??? Please do a vid on that subject. Please
Thank you for the great tips, John. I have watched and learned from your content since I got back into photography in 2020. You have helped me so much. And yes, photography is more than just the photography! You are one of the few that make it a point to cover the business aspect of it. You seem very authentic and genuine in your teaching. I always get a kick out of how many claps you are going to have in the next video to get your point across Hahaha Keep doing what you are doing. You are helping so many in their photography journeys!
John, thanks for video!
Thanks for watching!
I needed this video. Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this.
You’re welcome! Always happy to help.
thank you so much for this video.
You are so welcome!
Some great points and thoughts.
Thank you!
Excellent advice..
Thanks for watching!
Great vid! What's an example of advertising in the wrong way online?
some informative content in 14mins on social media etc.
Thanks. I’m glad you found it informative.
❤ thank you so much for your honesty and to give us so many key of your experience 🙏💫🤘
Always!
Thanks J for your time, might l ask you, when you said l do my post with AI? do you have more info about or video l can check on that regards? 🙏 Have a nice week
Great video! These things cover a vast array of wedding photographers. From beginners to pros. All of us struggle with at least one of these 7 things.
Glad it was helpful!
A crop sensor camera with f1.4 and f1.2 lens on itt is like a fullframe with f2.8 or f4 so is not a problem;)
Hi John, thank you for your transparency and information sharing. May your territory continue to enlarge. I really appreciate your candidness, & being open to us. You talked in one of your videos, (7 things you need... can't remember) but Can you provide a copy of the questionnaire you use in Honeybook? Thank you in advance.
Great video John.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great advice
Thanks a bunch. I’m glad to hear it was helpful.
Needed this 🙏🏻
Glad to hear it was helpful!
Thank you John, excellent video. I made the mistake of chasing the money and taking on everyone. Like you I’ve learnt the hard way. 😢
Yeah. Chasing the money pretty much always ends up pretty bad.
i would just disagree on the point where letting AI edit your photos will make your photography business better. I actually think that editing my pictures made me a better photographer at every wedding I go to next. Other than that, all valid and great pointers! Always enjoyed your vids
Totally agree, editing your own pictures does make you a better photographer, however only for so long! No body can tell you when that will be . But one day you will know. having said that I still prefer to post produce my own :-)
to piggyback off the interracial aspect, I'd love to see an editing tutorial on that. I did portraits for my boss and his fiance and I had a rough time keeping them both looking right. it might have also been because I was getting some reflection from the orange leaves from where we were but I had a tricky time with it
Yeah totally. There’s a lot to consider when having mixed skin tones. Especially if you’re mainly shooting it with natural light. I’ll totally do a video on this at some point.
Well yaoll that was a fantastic video 👌 very valid points 👏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
I wold love to hear about that bad review. It helps me learn from mistakes too.
Sometimes, bad reviews are simply malicious. I got a Google one-star review from another local photographer, and, quite frankly, I had never interacted with this guy or even heard of him.
I complained to Google, but they would not remove the one-star review. All I could do was respond to the review and call it what it really is:
BOGUS!
Sometimes, you have to fight back against the cyber bullies.
Damn that's horrible. In my case it was a customer and not a great experince. But I learned a lot from it.
You got any videos on computer specs? My wife and I been running our business (and editing) off of a MacBook Pro 13” since 2020 😂 we ready to upgrade now
Great advice!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful!!! I want to become a patreon for your channel bro. Concrete content. Extremely relevant for me with you being married with kids, and in the space (weddings) I want to do more work in!@@jbivphotography
Man, such great advice!
Great to hear!!
Hi John, I love your content your mind and they way you shoot. Already using your presents. I´m now building up again my new website and i was wondering if there is also a code for the discount because i´m already in the way of building up so my free trail is running out in two days!
Thanks !
Hey John, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts out of them.
What AI do you use to edit your photos?
Customer service is extremely essential. I have been booking so many weddings because of good customer service.
so true
Do talk about it ! How did you get your one star ? Please
Not a fun story at all. But I'll have to make sure I put it up on the channel
@@jbivphotography At a wedding, I am "all in" and it would be difficult to stay confident in my work after this kind of difficulty. That's why I think it is so important to learn from such situations. I'd rather learn it from others than by myself.
I read your answer on TheKnot and it's also a great subject "how to handle criticism". Your answer is respectful and a great way for new couples to be the right match for your photography style.
Thank you John for your amazing work.
Good advice on the video about the equipment upgrades. My question to you is do you advertise ? For example google ads, wedding wire, the knot ect. What do you think is a reasonable amount of money to spend on advertising if you are making about 18k a year?
For what it’s worth, I barely spend any money on advertising, mainly website SEO has been majority of my lead gen.
Sometimes I boost posts for 10-20 bucks every now and then.
Booked between $60-80k in weddings last year.
I see your craft and SEO as most important so you’ll want to rank locally. People search “wedding photographer in X city” so make sure you rank by having a good amount of keywords, content and as more people engage with your site/page, you’ll rank higher and higher.
BRO YOU SAID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #amen
thank youuuu
John's right!
Of my 38 years in Marketing and Sales, I learned that with good business practices, you can sell painted rocks to people. There's a guy (Gary Dahl ) who sold painted rocks for $22.59 each in today's dollars ($3.95 in 1975). He made around $82,750,000 million in today's dollars ($15 million in 1975). It goes to show you with good marketing skills you can sell painted rocks in a box with straw and call it a Pet Rock. This just proves that top of the line gear isn't important as giving your customers what they want. Even though it's just a painted rock.
And if you think that was just a unicorn business, there is a lady selling Cow Chips (💩). Yep! She just collects the poop after it's dried and puts in an air tight bag and boxes it. People send them to friends to prank them or to bosses they don't like. Again, gear doesn't matter.
So if you really focus on giving your customers what they want, you don't have to be so concerned about what camera or lens you need. Cameras today are so good, I've seen photographers add grain and shutter drag to their images. Couples love it. Photographer think our clients are insane. But if its what they want, then make the best for them. Personally, I'm going to start adding first and rear curtain sync shots to reception shots. Another local photographer I've seen uses tilt-shift lenses for some of his wedding shot. He's knowed around the world for this kind of work.
Thanks Jon, do you use AI, in Adobe, Light Room, Photoshop,or only for edits.
The AI I use is mainly for editing in Lightroom. Speeds up the process.
Finally a photographer who isn't a try hard and talks about working smart and not hard. Like if you can do so many things automatically then why not do that, if you can use something free that literally has the same results as something paid why not do that, if you can show the work that you want to do in your portfolio, BASICALLY ENJOY YOUR JOB why not do that 💀 I also realised that many photographers are crazy materialistic, they buy studios, the latest gear, fancy clothes, and props, their bills go through the roof because a lot of them live in america where 5000 a month isn't enough and think that we all have to be working the same hours as them, they do 100 risky things just to get more money and end up with less, their photos don't have a soul because they only do this to pay the bills as they say, then they don't have clients and hate their job and after all of that they post stupid things on the internet saying It's a very competitive job. Go figure. The only reason they do these is to appear like professionals. You are a breath of fresh air, thank you
Help me please I wanna become a photographer what can I do to start please I really love the airt of photography ❤
Damm you got a 1 star. I still have hope lol great info
haha thanks for watching
About websites it's not easy to just get one. This is just advice! Hearing How to market is Way better then just what to do. These videos become useless when all we are given is a to do list but not help in breaking down the How to market & ads & promote ourselves well.
while i appreciate all of these tipps, i will admit that i am quite annoyed by photographers making claims such as "there is no best camera for x" or "gear doesnt matter, you can make great photos with any gear". While these are true in essence they also completely miss the point, because while there is no "best" of any gear every gear is either better or worse than some other gear because it depends on what you want to do. This means that gear absolutely matters, because there certain shots that you just CANNOT realistcly do without certain gear. You CAN go out and start doing wildlife photography with a 12 mm manual lense, but is it WISE? probably not. Its probably better to get a 200-600mm lense with active image stabilasation and high quallity glass to do that.
Do you share all the RAW files with the customer for selection process? or only the committed number of images?
I do not. Generally I pick out what I consider and the best and most memorable images and send those to my couples.
Crazy cause thats exactly how I book multiracial couples. First thing you see when clicking on my website. It actually works. I don't want you to talk about things that stress you out but I'm curious about the 1 star review 😂
5:46 websites work amazing! KGE photography is doing way better because of that
Exactly! Websites really are very helpful to get your name out there.
Nice vide🎉
Thanks a bunch! Thanks for watching.
Part of the reason that people obsess about gear is because you make a video about how great fuji cameras are, and then a sony user makes a video about how great sony cameras are, and then a canon person makes a Canon video and we watch them all and then we arrive at the question " which camera is best?"
I would like to hear your side of the story John, to keep the rest of us for falling into wrong client hole.
I might have to do it. I’m always scared to tell the story but it’s a helpful one.
I am not a photographer I do something completely different but I’ve been watching you for a while you give good advice and good info that can be used. I just apply it to my area. And funny love that Ty
Hey John love your videos very informative great tips but the clapping thing you really gotta stop the clapping thing it's so annoying.
lol. Sorry. I kinda do it all the time.
@@jbivphotography 🤣
The 8th thing is to stop saying “you all” 😂😂😂
Stop charging low rates. It will save your business and the industry as a whole. Your other fellow photographers will thank you.
Also for you to stop charging low rates, learn freaking OCF.
Stop buying lenses 😅
Unless you really need them 😅
lol. Do you currently have lenses in your shopping cart?
PLEASE don’t make a video about a bad experience that you don’t want to talk about just because people want you too as surely you’ll be ignoring your own advice and be “chasing the dollar” (not verbatim).
True. The story really isn’t that bad, but it really wasn’t a good time at all for me. I almost quit photography because of it and don’t ever really like to bring it up or even look at the photos. Maybe I should take my own advice.