Shoot Edit Chat Repeat

Welcome to episode 44 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers & creative entrepreneurs. Hosted by two leading UK photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. We have a bumper episode for you this week! We are chatting to content marketing expert Sam Burgess all about Instagram in this episode. In the intro and outro, we also talk about comparisonitus, procrastination and the Sony kit Vicki has been trying out...we were obviously feeling chatty this week!

The interview with Sam is packed with some brilliant advice including the following:

- how important is it that small businesses are marketing their businesses on Instagram

- is it crucial that we have a beautifully curated Instagram grid

- how hashtags can help us to connect with new people

- should we be showing ourselves on our Instagram feeds? And should be have a professional shoot ourselves? - is it ever ok to buy followers? (it was a strong no from Sam in case you're wondering!) - Sam's top 3 tips to help business owners make the most of their time on Instagram Thanks so much for sharing all of these fantastic tips with us Sam. See Sam Burgess' Small & Mighty website here Follow Sam Burgess on Instagram

Thank you to The Design Space for sponsoring this episode. Click here for lots of free information about how to be the boss of your own website and for 20% off all their products.

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Vicki Knights' 1 day Delight Workshop in London Sept 2019

Eddie Judd's Lightroom workshops

​​Vicki Knights' photography mentoring

Welcome to episode 43 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This is the last of the series of interviews we did at the ClickAway conference in California a few weeks ago. This week we have family lifestyle photographer, Clare Barker Wells, as our guest on the show. Clare is a Brit living and running her business in Singapore.

We chat to Clare about the following: - why Clare shoots only in clients' homes and not outdoors on location or in a studio - how she started her business from scratch in a completely new country

- how she poses her families to create beautifully natural images - what she does if she turns up to a cluttered dark house and/or the family are wearing clothes that don't work well together And lots more! You can see Clare's lovely work here

A huge thank you to our sponsor Studio Ninja for sponsoring this episode. The most user-friendly studio management software on the market. Use the code 'studioninja50' at checkout to get a massive 50% off your first year's subscription.

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Vicki Knights' Delight Retreats & workshops for lifestyle photographers

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Welcome to episode 42 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by 2 leading UK photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.

You're in for a treat this week! We're chatting to Atlanta-based child photographer, Elizabeth Blank, all about changing direction in your photography business.

We first met Elizabeth in 2018 at the ClickAway convention in Florida, and were lucky enough to get to interview her a few weeks ago at ClickAway in California.

In the last couple of years, Elizabeth has transitioned from running a busy lifestyle family photography business, to shooting beautiful underwater photos of children.

We chat to her all about the following: - the reasons she made the transition from family photography to underwater photography - how going under water made her fall in love with photography again

- tips for photographers who are looking to change direction

- why it's important to give back to your community

There are lots of giggles throughout (which may be slightly Prosecco-fuelled!) and we know you're going to fall in love with Elizabeth as much as we have.

See Elizabeth's gorgeous work on Instagram here

Thank you to The Design Space for sponsoring this episode. Click here for lots of free information about how to be the boss of your own website and for 20% off all their products.

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This week we have another interview that we did at the Clickaway conference in California just a couple of weeks ago.

We are chatting to Seattle-based family lifestyle photographer, Elena S Blair. Elena has taught on Creative Live, educates photographers and also runs a thriving family, newborn and school photography business.

So we sat down with her to get some tips for you all about how she does this, including her top 3 tips to new photographers just starting out. It's a fast-paced and interesting chat and we think you're going to get a lot from it. You can see Elena's website here

And follow Elena on Instagram here

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​​Thank you to Folio Albums for sponsoring this episode. Use the code 'shootedit' to get 40% off a studio sample album. ​​

And for Harmony & Blue for their support. Use this link to get 10% already applied to the portrait contracts.

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Vicki's Delight Workshop | London | 19th Sept 2019

During the chat we mention studio management software Studio Ninja. Use the code 'studioninja50' to get a huge 50% off your first 12 months subscription.

We have just spent 3 brilliant days at the ClickAway photography conference in California. We interviewed some amazing guests while we were out there and can't wait to share the interviews with you.

First up, we have the talented wedding & family photographer, Chloe Ramirez. Chloe's photos are just stunning and ooze love and connection, so we made sure we sat down with her to find out how she does it!

We chat about the following:

- do you need to separate family & wedding photography onto 2 separate websites, or can you show it all together

- why Chloe sees herself as a director and her subjects as the actors during a shoot - what kind of prompts Chloe gives to get natural reactions - how she builds trust and rapport in her shoots to end on the intimate photos that she shows in her portfolio

- how Chloe has struggled with consistency in her business, and how she overcame that - her top 3 tips for new photographers just starting out It's a lovely chat and we know you're going to get a lot from it. You can see Chloe's website here And follow Chloe on Instagram here

A huge thank you to Studio Ninja for sponsoring this episode. Use the code 'studioninja50' at checkout to get a massive 50% off your first year's subscription.

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Vicki's Delight Retreat for family & child photographers

Today we are chatting to Janine Esbrand from Lightbox Coaching. Janine empowers and coaches women returning to work after a break.

There are two areas of Janine's expertise that we talk to her about today; how to leverage your strengths as a business owner and how to use LinkedIn to grow your business. We learnt a lot!

Here are the strengths/personalities tests that we talk about during the episode:

The Strengths Profile test (this is the test we did)

16 Personalities test

Find out more about Janine's business Lightbox Coaching

Join Janine's free 5 day balanced working mum challenge

Thank you to The Design Space for sponsoring this episode. Click here for lots of free information about how to be the boss of your own website and for 20% off all their products. ​​

Our Repeat Rec's for this week:

Canva

Empowered Entrepreneur book by Elizabeth Cairns ​​

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Vicki's Delight Retreat for family & child photographers

Eddie Judd's Lightroom workshops

​​Vicki's photography training

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We have a very special episode for you this week. This week's show was recorded live in front of an audience at our 'We Are One' event in London on 19/01/19. We loved celebrating our first birthday with lots of you, and it was fantastic to get everyone together.

We have not one brilliant guest for you this week, but 3!

They have all been guests on the podcast before so we get straight into the juicy stuff and get some hugely helpful tips from them.

First up was Melissa Love from The Design Space. Melissa told us how to make our websites into marketing machines, who doesn't want that!

Melissa mentions this article on her website which explains how to critique your own website.

And here is a link to the Facebook ads course Melissa talks about. Use the code 'SHOOTEDIT20' to get 20% off.

And next up we had wedding & family photographer Hannah MacGregor from Funky Photographers. Hannah gives us lots of tips on posing and capturing connection in your family and wedding photos in her own hilarious way!

Then we had business coach and wedding photographer, Faye Cornhill. We talked to Faye about how to know when it's the right time to raise your prices and the best way to go about it.

Then we opened up questions to our lovely audience. So many gems of advice given from our panel that you must listen to.

We also grabbed Coaching Emily up from the audience to answer a question about being addicted to mobile phones, thank you Emily for letting us put you on the spot!

Thank you to our event sponsors: STUDIO NINJA – the most user friendly studio management software on the market. Just use the code 'studioninja50' to get 50% off your first year's subscription.

FOLIO ALBUMS – who are passionate about handcrafting the highest quality products for professional photographers. Use the code 'SHOOTEDIT' to get 40% off a sample album.

THE DESIGN SPACE – helping you to be the boss of your own website.

You can see all of the discounts here on our website, that all of our lovely supporters have offered to our listeners.

And thank you to Charlie Flounders Photography for doing a fab job as our photographer and videographer.

We have already started planning our 2nd birthday event next year! Make sure you sign up to our mailing list as you don't want to miss out. It's going to be bigger and even better than this years!

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Vicki's Delight Retreat for family & child photographers

​​Vicki's photography training & retreats

We have branding expert Clare Yarwood-White on the show today to talk to us all about the secrets of personal branding.

Clare had a successful career in the world of advertising before founding her high-end wedding jewellery business, and now she runs Opal & Co, a brilliant brand consultancy for creative businesses.

We wanted to talk to Clare all about personal branding as we've had a lot of questions about this area.

We chat about the following:

- what is personal branding photography and how it can elevate your brand - whether it's important for photographers & entrepreneurs to show more of themselves in their branding, and tips on how to do this

- whether Clare has noticed a shift to clients showing more of themselves in their branding

- how Clare advises clients to find the right photographer to work with

- Clare's top tips for writing copy creatively. And we may have digressed a bit here to chat about why Clare is teaching her kids to swear!

All of this and lots more, with a few random tangents about yoga, the Bros documentary and Marie Kondo!

Although this episode has an E rating, it's all very clean until 50 mins in... the air does turn a little blue after this point so you may want to pop your earphones in if you have little ones around!

Here is the link to Vicki's personal branding shoot on the beach with Caz from Making Waves that Clare talks about

You can see Clare's Opal & Co branding consultancy website here

And Clare's copywriting services here

​​Thank you to Folio Albums for sponsoring this episode. Use the code 'shootedit' to get 40% off a studio sample album. ​​

Our Repeat Recs for this episode:

Julia Boggio kickstarter book project

Abigail Fahey photography shop

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Vicki Knights' Delight Retreat for family & child photographers in Sept 2019

Next week we are releasing the live recording from our event last weekend, can't wait to share it with you!

Welcome to the first episode of series 4 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat. We have a brilliant series lined up for you with lots of inspiring guests. We're excited to be back!

To kick things off, we have an episode with just us, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd, chatting away and answering some of the questions you've sent in.

We start by talking through our highlights of 2018 and our aims for 2019.

Here are some of the questions that we answer in this episode:

- What are your tips for breaking into a more niche area of photography like pet photography?

- How do I improve my SEO?

- What environments would you advise shooting branding photos in?

- What are the best props to use in a personal branding shoot? - Can lifestyle photography ever be competitive in the likes of The Guild and SWPP competitions? - I'm struggling to get sharp images, what's your advice?

- How do I transition from working as a news/press photographer to working for myself as a wedding photographer?

Thank you to everyone who sent in questions, we couldn't fit them all in so we'll try and answer them during the rest of the series.

A huge thank you to our new sponsor Studio Ninja for sponsoring this episode. Use the code 'studioninja50' at checkout to get a massive 50% off your first year's subscription.

Here is the link to the camera calibration company we mention during the episode.

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This is our last episode of not just the series, but of the whole year. We want to thank all of our wonderful guests from 2018, we've loved chatted to all of you and hearing all of your stories. And thank you to you, our lovely listeners. We are so grateful for tuning in each week and for all of your messages and kind words.

We are going out of this series with a bang! We have a lovely (and rather long!) chat with UK wedding photographer, James Rouse.

James offers lots of advice about running a successful wedding photography business including...

- how he manages to get over 250 enquiries each year without ever paying for advertising, with no blogging and limited social media

- how he gets connection and emotion in his couple portraits

- why adapting your personality can be important to connect with your clients

- what passive filters are and how they can help you to attract your dream clients

- why every detail of the experience (including grosgrain ribbon!) is important to delight your clients

Plus lots more!

Thank you to The Design Space for sponsoring this episode. Click here for lots of free information about how to be the boss of your own website and for 20% off all their products.

Check out our Shoot Edit Chat Repeat live event in January in London here.

Check out Eddie Judd's 2019 Lightroom workshops here

Bookings now open for Vicki Knights' 2019 Delight Retreat

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