Hey Snappers!

Look, we want you to get home safe. We know at the end of the wedding you're tired, you're sugar-crashing after eating too much cake and the last thing you want to do is drive a few hours to get home. In episode 79 we chat about things you can do to help get home safely. Red bulls, coffee, podcasts, and... pinching your earlobes. We also talk about how often you should replace your memory cards, what happens when you miss groom's reaction face and incorrectly identifying a groomsman as the groom's Dad (oops).
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
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Hello all you lovely snappers! Today we cover lots and lots - starting with Greg's new Anda Seat office chair and some general chair talk. Then we crack into helicopter shoots - Thom's done three, Greg's got one in a couple of months... actually they're not as scary as they seem. We then touch on couples who are quite happy with basic portraiture and don't want a whole heap of epic creative shots - how do you deal with that? Also we love Orico for their simple yet well made computer accessories.
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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Happy Wednesday, snappers!

You guys know that here at The Snappening we LOVE Studio Ninja. Well, today we dive deep into our Studio Ninja workflows. We talk about how we've crafted our workflows to help streamline the back-end of our businesses. It's a blow-by-blow explanation of how we do things. Hopefully after listening you'll get some ideas as to how you can streamline the way you do things in this wonderful Client Relations Management platform, too.

We also talk about deposits - specifically, how much deposit we take. We then move onto the idea of what happens in the event of a cancellation - does this deposit need refunding?
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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This week we talk about - Subarus... Mavic controllers... and then about how to get around permission for using sweet photo spots that are on private property?!
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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Moshi moshi snappers!

We've all received that email a week or so before the wedding. 'Here's a list of photos we want at the wedding, kthanks!' We open the email, we see a list of 100 photos, and part of us dies inside...

In episode 75 of the world-famous Snappening, we chat about how to navigate these murky shot-list waters. Are they really all that bad? Should you simply reply 'yeah whatevs' and forget the list ever existed, or should you try to educate your client as to why shot lists aren't helpful?

All this and more will be revealed, come along and listen!
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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G'day snappers

Thom's back on home soil in Aus! Our recording schedules finally match up again so prepare for lots more frequent episodes of hot fire 🔥

In episode 74 we chat about our favourite flashes, the silent shutter on the a7iii, and the DJI Mavic 2 Pro. Then we answer a listener question regarding how to handle a situation where your bride (or groom) tells you that they're done with portraits, and that they just want you to shoot candid shots. How do you handle this? Do you tell them this might not be a great idea, or do you go along with their wishes and just say 'no worries'?

Listen along to find the answers to all these questions and more!
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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Hey Snappers! We have a special treat for you this week, our very first interview! Stephen Baugh is the CEO of Queensberry, which is one of the leading photo printing companies  from New Zealand. We have a chat about the history of the company, the state of album and printing these days and also ... we have some amazing specials to offer too!
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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Snappity Snap!

We're back. Greg's in NZ, Thom's in Italy (but he'll be home in 2 weeks). On today's episode we talk about finding your perfect work/life balance, and how important this is to staying mentally and physically healthy as a creative professional. We talk about how we each achieve a good balance. We talk about destination weddings, and how everyone seems to be a 'destination wedding photographer' (but very few of us actually are). We chat about traveling in Italy, helicopter weddings in NZ.  Then we finish up by getting a bit silly and potentially offending lots of people. You'll just have to listen for more details...
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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Lite snap incoming, snappers!

So listen. We all end up shooting at venues that we don't really like. Often when we shoot at these venues, we produce images that we don't really feel are our best work. Let's say you shoot at one such venue, who then end up loving your photos so much that they want to share those images everywhere. They even want to publish your photos from their venue in printed magazines, and your couple is over the moon! But... you don't want that kind of publicity, because you don't like that that venue, and don't want to shoot there again. What do you do? Say 'no way' to make sure you don't get the wrong kind of exposure, or do you say 'why not', as any publicity is good publicity?  Well well well, snappers, you'll just have to listen to find out. Also, sorry for all the 12th man jokes. It's just, well, a really funny topic :P
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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Hi there Snap Snappers.

Earlier in the week we reached out to you guys via our facebook account, asking for any topics that you'd like us to talk about. We received a tonne of awesome questions, and today we are talking about one of those - that of posing, and what you can do to help your clients feel comfortable during their portrait shoot. Most couples have never been photographed before. In fact, most of them might tell you 'we are super awkward in front of the camera.' What can you do to help them with this? And, if you haven't shot many weddings, how can you organise your bridal party / couples portrait session on the wedding day to get the best shots possible, and make your couples feel as comfy as possible?
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Your hosts:
Greg is based in Northland, New Zealand
Thom is based in NSW, Australia
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Sponsors:
Studio Ninja - SNAPPENING50 - 50% off first year
Queensberry - SNAPPENING19 - 40% off Workspace

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