What is your biggest productivity tip related to working as a photographer?
Just to always be creating. Obviously, working with clients is amazing and being paid to do a job I love is a dream, but I think it’s important to remember the fundamentals of why I enjoy creating content so much. Taking some time to shoot your own passion projects is always worth doing to increase productivity. I like to upload my work to my business Instagram page as well, just to showcase the variety of projects I’ve done – it’s always nice to look back over this if I’m struggling for motivation.
What piece of equipment/tool would you miss the most if you woke up tomorrow and it didn’t exist anymore?
This is more of a video-related one, but since discovering the benefits of a gimbal I would be devastated if I found I could no longer use it! It’s been an essential piece of equipment in raising my film-making game.
What is the most time-consuming aspect of post-production that you wish you could speed up?
Sifting through raw photographs and footage – this can be a painful one sometimes!
What do you use/where do you store your images after everything is finished with post-production?
Where I’m usually creating both video and photographic content for businesses, it’s really essential to keep everything well organised. Each client will have a folder on a hard drive. Within each folder there are multiple other folders for various aspects of post-production such as edited photographs, raw footage, exports etc.
If you ever feel in a particularly unproductive mood, what helps you to regain focus?
This is something I struggled with a lot during lock-down in the UK. There were periods where I was unproductive because I literally couldn’t do anything and as someone that likes to be busy, this was really frustrating. What I’ve done to combat this since the easing of lock-down is offer my services to local businesses free of charge. This has instantly got me busy again and helped to get my own business back on track.
What advice have you been given that has stuck with you throughout your career as a photographer?
Something that’s always stuck with me is to not over-complicate things. It can be so easy to get lost in the complexities of photography and film-making that you can lose sight of the really important stuff – which in my view is telling a great story.
If you could give your younger-self one bit of advice about working as a photographer, what would it be?
Use Sony.
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