My Restaurant Shoot Gear Restaurant photography has always been the bread and butter of my work. I’ve had to work really hard to get good at food styling and studio food photography, but there's something about restaurant work that I just thrive in. I’ll never forget...
Calculating Value as a Photographer I’m back with part 2 of my series on value in the photography world. This post is a bit shorter ,but hopefully will help you to get some practical application out of the first post in the series, which you can find here if you...
Investing in yourself is scary, especially when you're brand new at creative business and you haven't seen how much investing in yourself can change the trajectory of your career. But what if I told you that an investment of just a few hundred dollars could do just...
Something I get asked frequently is “how should I price myself as a photographer?” And while this is not something that I can answer for you, I thought it might be helpful for me to write a two-part post on what it means to understand your value and some things you...
Last year I became painfully aware of how much my life seemed to revolve around my phone. I was on it all the time during my shoots, I was way too concerned about keeping up Instagram engagement, and I was getting too much inspiration from what was at my fingertips...
One of the biggest pitfalls I see creators get stuck in is building a business that is far too reliant on social media for exposure/income. But what happens one day when Instagram goes down? Or shuts down for good? Or when pay-to-play gets taken to an extreme where it...
2020 gave me a lot of time for creative isolation with my food photography skills. I definitely drove myself a bit crazy, but I also learned and grew so much in a short time, mostly due to the consistent practice I did daily. Here are the biggest takeaways from the...