Hello everyone, welcome to this episode of the photo tips under two minutes podcast. Before we get into todays episode I’d like to take a moment to mention the Corpus Callosum Facebook group I’ve created. The purpose of this group is to bring like minded creatives, such as yourself, together in order to inspire and be inspired by others around the globe. I’d love for you to be a part of the journey as the group builds and have dropped the link in the descriptive script below. Now on to todays episode.

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Since I started my journey within photography, there have been those occasions when people had the audacity to ask whether I would take photos for them, for free.

Whilst I’m not totally against this, as I do think, if you are starting out and trying to build your portfolio, this is a good way to achieve this. You get the experience and catalog, and the other person gets some shots, that may not be the best, but they understand. We all have to start somewhere and there is only so many shots you can take of family members before both you and they get tired.

But what frustrates me most of all, is peoples lack of appreciation for the creativity, time, passion and effort that goes in to producing a quality photo. Now, I do recognise that this is slowly becoming a thing of the past, what with the rise in popularity for the subject, but it is still there.

And I was reminded of this recently when I stumbled upon an ad placed by a photographer in Chicago…