#25 - Welcome back to ‘9 to 5 photographer’, back after a short break but this is still the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love.

This episode came about after Martin Hobby, a photographer, listened to another episode on this podcast and noticed a few weeks/months had gone by with no recording. He posted a message in a corporate photography Facebook group, asking about future episodes, and instantly (accidentally) set himself up to be the next invited guest.

So today, we’re talking to him. Martin Hobby has been shooting for 30 years but don’t let that make you think he’s someone over the hill, he genuinely started when he was very young. He’s very active today and immerses himself in corporate headshots but has a history of shooting weddings, families music photography and even pets.

This all means he’s someone who’s very relatable, he knows what it’s like to be shooting, running a small business, managing clients, looking after the beans and planning how to still have access to some beans in retirement.

If you know Martin you’ll know he’s a great guy; if you don’t you’ll know it in the next few minutes so come with me as we step into this conversation and speak to Martin Hobby.

Martin Hobby Links:

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/martinhobby

https://www.instagram.com/martinhobby/?hl=en

Corporate Photography Community UK on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/111286209709500

#24 - Welcome back to ‘9 to 5 photographer’, this is the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love. Now unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand there seems to be more and more happening with 360 photography. But is it easy enough for a photographer to step into this world or is there more to it than just getting an Insta360 camera and calling yourself a professional in this sector?

Taralyn and Craig run 360 Marketing Lab and their special skill is running an amazing business shooting, you guessed it, 360 photography. Now some people shoot very creative 360 photography and they produce work from all around the world in some unusual places and their art is mind-blowing. Taralyn and Craig don’t focus so much on this, not to say their work isn’t good, of course. But they focus on a niche market and running it as a business. And that’s what we’re talking about today. After all this is the ‘9 to 5 Photographer’ podcast, not the ‘Shoot funky photos’ podcast.

But the other thing to note is that Craig and Taralyn started this business before the pandemic, not because of the pandemic. Which means their approach to making it work was more about making the idea fly instead of, “Oh pants, I need to pay the mortgage,” something I think we can all appreciate at times in our careers.

Anyway, enough dilly-dally. Instead let’s step into a 360 world and see what’s happening all around as we speak to 360 Marketing Lab’s very own, Taralyn and Craig.

360 Marketing Lab online: https://360marketinglab.co.uk/

#23 - Welcome back to 9 to 5 Photographer. This is the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money, and spend more time doing the things you love. Now, this episode is great because we're talking all about a topic that's very much in the news today, especially it seems with photographers, filmmakers, and other artists.

It's AI, artificial intelligence, and we have an expert in the house with us today. Paul Asquin has worked in AI for some time, first regarding photo editing, and more recently regarding video editing. So naturally we talk about both, but we also touch on podcast editing too, given that it's very similar in some ways to video editing.

Now, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Paul is an algorithm nerd, and he may well be because he's very plugged into what's happening in the world of AI today. But he's also a photographer and looking at his Instagram after this recording, he's a very good photographer. But on this topic of ai, it means he also understands what's important to people behind the camera.

So he's seeing things from both sides. Anyway, it's time for us to find out if AI is really the biggest threat to us all, or whether it's something that can actually serve us Instead, let's not waste any more time, but instead, join me in the middle of Paris as I speak to our expert in France. It's Paul Asquin.

Paul Asquin on Instagram: www.instagram.com/paulasquinphoto

Paul Asquin on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/paulasquin

#022 - Welcome back to ‘9 to 5 photographer’, the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love and if you’re a wedding photographer and if you’d like to book more weddings in 2023 then this is an episode for you. Kate Storey runs ‘Book more Brides’ with her husband, Nick, and today we’re going to hear from her some of the real techniques that you can apply to your website, to your sales process, to how you view the concept of selling your art, and all of this is with a view to book more brides.

Now this isn’t a ‘skirt around the edges’ episode. Instead this is a stack of real take-away actions that you can apply to your business right now.

This episode was recorded a while ago but that doesn’t change any of the content in here. Kate’s amazing and she’s passionate about what her and Nick do. But don’t just take my word for this, instead come with me as we hop across the Atlantic and speak to Kate Storey.

Website:

www.9to5photo.com

Kate and Nick online:

www.bookmorebrides.com

#021 - Welcome back to another episode of ‘9 to 5 photographer’, the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love. Now today is Saturday, it’s mid-September which means I’m about to jump in the car and head to the NEC for The Photography Show.

I love this event, it’s good to speak to photographers, to exhibitors, I know that Sanjay Jogia will be there representing Canon so I’m hoping to catch up with him and generally just catch up with some familiar faces there.

So, in the style of a Blues Brother, I got a full tank of gas, it’s not dark but I will be wearing sunglasses so it’s time to thunder up the A34, the M40, around the M42 and into the NEC for The Photography Show 2022.

Website:

www.9to5photo.com

The Photography Show online:

www.photographyshow.com

#020 - Welcome back to a new season of ‘9 to 5 photographer’, the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love and today we have a special episode for you. Someone who shoots weddings, boudoir, corporate, she’s a Sony ambassador and she’s talking to us today. It’s Kate Kirkman, you may know here as Kate Hopewell-Smith, and she’s here with us today.

Kate’s going to talk about what it’s like working alongside Brent, her life partner, her experience of shooting weddings and what’s important in her life to her and Brent.

But I also ask her a small stack of quick fire questions to find out more about her as a person.

That’s all coming up in this episode so come with me now as we learn all about Kate Kirkman.

Website:

www.9to5photo.com

Kate online:

katehopewellsmith.com

www.bylumiere.co.uk

#019 - Welcome back to 9 to 5 photographer, the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love and this episode, a one off episode, is coming to you from the NEC because I’m at The Photography Show. 

In this episode I’m going talk to some of the exhibitors to find out from them their take on the photography industry right now. How does this show compare to previous shows, that kind of thing. 

Now I’m here on Sunday 19th September, I don’t usually come on a Sunday (Monday is my usual preference) but tomorrow I’m on a shoot in Yorkshire so it makes perfect sense to stop in here on my way up. 

Looking around this place, first impressions is that there are fewer exhibitors, it’s all in a smaller space AND there are fewer visitors too. And I don’t just mean in relation to the whole thing being a smaller event because there’s a lower density in this smaller space so to me that means there must be waaaay fewer people here than normal years. 

But I might be wrong. Maybe lots of people were here yesterday, maybe there’s a whole truckload coming here tomorrow. For the sake of exhibitors here I really hope so. But anyway, we’re not here for me to talk. Let’s get out there and start talking to some exhibitors. 

Episode page:

www.9to5photo.com/019

#018 - A special one-off episode in response to a wedding venue in Worcestershire and their initial plan to charge a fee to suppliers regardless of whether they were on a preferred supplier list with the venue.

The reaction from the wedding supplier community was fast and loud, mainly because of the fear of this becoming the norm in the industry.

While I was speaking to Martin Cheung in the first half of this episode the venue did a 180 on their decision but sadly, not creating the sympathetic response they may have been hoping for.

I invited them onto this podcast episode, they didn't want to do that but they did send me an email that I've shared here.

There's much to learn from this saga, not least the need to respect the industry, how to handle a PR disaster and also the power of the collective voice.

Martin Cheung online

Instagram: martincphotography

www.martincphotography.co.uk

Episode page:

www.9to5photo.com/018