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Making Your Pet Photography Business Eco-Friendly
Starting and running a pet photography business is a challenging feat in and of itself, often presenting a plethora of unique challenges, from networking to marketing and everything in between.
However, one of the most significant broader factors that you must bear in mind, more so now than ever before, is the issue of making your business as eco-friendly as possible.
Must ask pre-shoot questions for successful pet photoshoots
If you’ve just switched to pet photography from primarily photographing people, you might have realised that a lot of your pre-shoot questions- either for discovery calls or pre-shoot questionnaires- aren’t really appropriate!
Or perhaps you’ve been doing this for a while but every now and again you have quite a challenging shoot and you find yourself thinking “if only I was prepared for that”.
Well, today I’m here to share with you my favourite questions to ask pet parents to ensure your shoots run smoothly!
How to securely and easily back up client photographs in 2023
If you hang out in any Facebook group for long enough, you’ll soon see a desperate post of someone asking how to retrieve lost images from a corrupted drive. But that same person will never ask twice because, we learn the lesson. And I say “we”, because I’ve been there.
This guide looks to give you easy insight into how you can preserve those crucial photos. Whether these are photos of your client’s pets, or your own - the below will help you understand how to properly and easily store your images.
Create more variety for your clients with these three camera bag essentials for pet photography
If you’ve recently started photographing pets, especially coming from another genres, you might be missing one or two things in your camera bag that can make a huge difference in obtaining variety for your clients.
Here are the top three non-camera items in my bag that improved my pet photography shots (and sales).
FIVE ACTIONABLE STEPS FOR STARTING YOUR PET PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS
Wanting to get started as a pet photographer but not sure where to start?
The Pet Photographers Club host Kirstie McConnell has shared five actionable tips to making a business of your passion!
Know your numbers
Know you ideal client & where they hang out
Create a website that actually converts
Drive traffic to your website with a social media account that's more than pretty photos
Create a 12 month marketing plan- and follow it!
Switching from weddings and portraits to full-time pet photography
You’re a professional photographer. Maybe you offer weddings and/or family portraits, but every now and again you have clients request their dog join the shoot.. and those are always your BEST shoots ever?!
So you’ve started thinking.. can I just specialise in pets? But wow, is it even possible to replace your current income with only animal portraits?
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