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#24 Kim Hildebrand : Slow down. Shoot Film.
Kim Hildebran is a Seattle family and Newborn photographer who shoots primarily with film. This conversation was recorded in March 2020 during the Click | Away photography conference.
Moments to listen for:
What is most true to you will make your business stronger - 13:26
If you hone in on what you really, really love, and what you would really like to do and what is most true to you, that it makes your business stronger. I think a lot of photographers get really scared that they're going to lose a bunch of business if they get into a really specific niche, but it's actually the opposite, ironically. And it's scary, it is going to be scary.
Step away from the comparison game - 15:30
Definitely still working on it. And I have stepped away a bit from the comparison game, I think has helped me. Because I was it is about community over competition, but I think it is triggering for everybody to constantly be comparing their work with other people's.
Shoot Film. Slow Down - 21:08
I think just as people are looking for more face to face connection because we've been all about the technology, people are also looking towards slowing down. Getting out of this manic craziness of overshooting and everything else. And you know, maybe there's more burnout involved. But on the flip side, like there's this new film shop close to my house, and they've only been open a year and they already had to expand their they doubled their space. And every single time I go in there, there's a ton of this a whole younger generation Gen X is in there buying up all kinds of films. So it's not just my generation in the business right now. It's, it's like happening all over. And I attribute it to people wanting to you know, it's just like when vinyl started coming back, right? They're looking for something that is creative in a different sense. And something that helps them slow down and think about things a little bit differently.
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Image Salon is a Montreal-based photography & retouching studio. Your high touch creative partner. Outsource without compromise. imagesalon.com
Music and Sound Production by Philip Creamer
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Kim Hildebran is a Seattle family and Newborn photographer who shoots primarily with film. This conversation was recorded in March 2020 during the Click | Away photography conference.
Moments to listen for:
What is most true to you will make your business stronger - 13:26
If you hone in on what you really, really love, and what you would really like to do and what is most true to you, that it makes your business stronger. I think a lot of photographers get really scared that they're going to lose a bunch of business if they get into a really specific niche, but it's actually the opposite, ironically. And it's scary, it is going to be scary.
Step away from the comparison game - 15:30
Definitely still working on it. And I have stepped away a bit from the comparison game, I think has helped me. Because I was it is about community over competition, but I think it is triggering for everybody to constantly be comparing their work with other people's.
Shoot Film. Slow Down - 21:08
I think just as people are looking for more face to face connection because we've been all about the technology, people are also looking towards slowing down. Getting out of this manic craziness of overshooting and everything else. And you know, maybe there's more burnout involved. But on the flip side, like there's this new film shop close to my house, and they've only been open a year and they already had to expand their they doubled their space. And every single time I go in there, there's a ton of this a whole younger generation Gen X is in there buying up all kinds of films. So it's not just my generation in the business right now. It's, it's like happening all over. And I attribute it to people wanting to you know, it's just like when vinyl started coming back, right? They're looking for something that is creative in a different sense. And something that helps them slow down and think about things a little bit differently.
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Image Salon is a Montreal-based photography & retouching studio. Your high touch creative partner. Outsource without compromise. imagesalon.com
Music and Sound Production by Philip Creamer