{"id":247,"date":"2007-06-06T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog2\/2007\/06\/06\/how-to-keep-the-passion\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:05:07","slug":"how-to-keep-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/how-to-keep-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"How to keep the passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On reading the title you may have thought I changed my career and went into doing wedding counselling, well I haven’t, but since I’m here the best advice I may give you about this is : Don’t get married!!! and if you do, please hire me \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways, what I would like to entertain you here is of course about wedding photography, and how can we keep the passion going after the years.<\/span>
Not easy I agree as we may be doing weddings day in day out, or rather Saturday in Saturday out…<\/span>
One can quickly become tired of it, especially at the lower end of the market. I have a few suggestions:<\/p>\n

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First:<\/b> you don’t charge enough!!! If you undercut your price just to get the deal, then you get a client who doesn’t specially care about your photos but rather about the price, in clear someone who does not appreciate your work, and you’re in for a tough job.<\/span>
As your price goes up, so does the level of your clientele, customers who appreciate quality and are ready to pay the right price for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second<\/b>: Be creative, try something different, what about cross-processing? what about traditional black&white hand print, what about using medium format (say an old rolleiflex for instance)? what about trying a fish eye (the lens not the animal…)? what about a Lomo camera? etc. Don’t go into a routine, keep innovating.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third:<\/b> Do personal project, if you only pick up your gear to go to work then you become just like Pavlov’s dog: camera=work !!! you must get out of this, work on your own project, it will help make sure that taking pictures remains a pleasure and not just a duty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good luck, hey I never said it was going to be easy…<\/p>\n

Nico
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On reading the title you may have thought I changed my career and went into doing wedding counselling, well I haven’t, but since I’m here the best advice I may give you about this is : Don’t get married!!! and if you do, please hire me \ud83d\ude42 Anyways, what I would like to entertain you...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-way-i-see-it-","tag-the-way-i-see-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}