If you’re about to present your folio at a review event, you might be wondering how to make the most of a 15-20 minute session with someone you’ve never met before, but you’d desperately like to work with. So much pressure! I’ve been asked this LOTS recently as we approach the CAPIC Portfolio Speed Review in Vancouver
OMG it’s June! Have you paused to take stock yet? This year I’ve run a live webinar about getting a rep, held a workshop about folio building with CAPIC in Vancouver, and met up with about 20 photographers who’ve done my programme in Melbourne. I spent 10 days in Havana, Cuba, with 7 photographers from around the
When an amazing brief lands in your inbox, are you sometimes tempted to say ‘yes’ straight away? Even if you wait until the full briefing meeting, you might feel pressured to have all the answers, and again, to agree to changes and suggestions which may turn out to be unachievable or out of budget. You
Last year I invited the CD of a New York ad agency to answer burning questions from photographers on one of my programmes. He had just been asked where and how a photographer should share his commercial (paid) work. “Commercial work? Why would I want to see commercial work?” The creative director looked genuinely baffled.
You make an amazing image you love. Dammit EVERYBODY loves it. And you proudly add it to your folio/ website. Sure it doesn’t quite fit with your other work but it’s so GOOD! You may even get asked to estimate a job, to be shot just like that image. You’re the favourite for the job,
A few weeks ago I visited Unison Colour, which uses pure pigment, extracted from all over the world, to make soft pastels, a medium my hubby has embraced recently in his art. (Pastels are extremely messy and create copious amounts of pigment dust but bless him he’s creative and he’s very good at it, so what
There’s no doubt that creative decision makers, the people I presume you want to hire you, are visually discerning. And sharing your most stunning work (stills and motion) on your website is vital for that reason. But nice images alone are not enough. Because if they like your work they will then want to figure
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