Branding

This past week has been filled with business workshop's on branding, marketing & advertising & I have to tell you this stuff goes right over my head as soon as someone starts talking about it.

Within the first 30 mins of the first workshop I leant over to the lady next to me that I had only just met & with a sigh said "Oh I need a panadol".

Now what I have learnt this week is that branding, marketing & advertising has so much to do with business, now you will be saying well Daniel obviously.

But when I made the decision to pursue photography as a business my first thoughts where how I can give my clients images that reflect how amazing they are as a person & where they are at this moment in their lives. It never crossed my mind to ensure I was marketing for clients, to me advertising can feel very pushy & that the only reason someone is selling you something is to make a profit & not to influence your life with a positive experience.

Now trying to market my business I am finding quite hard, with the statistics I have heard over the week is that business's have a 3 second window to be able to interest a potential client so the correct branding has to convey the right message to the right client. Wow 3 second's to be able to tell potential clients everything about me, everything I have done to get to this point in my business, all the late nights studying, all the questions asked & what the client will receive from me as a photographer.

Not a small task, though I think there is my answer. As a photographer I aim to give all my energy to my clients, to give them time & to let them know who I am so in return they can feel comfortable to be open with me in front of the camera.

The above image was experienced in Dunsborough, Western Australia. On an early morning shoot.

Christine & Dan

Now I have to confess Christine & Dan are one of the nicest couples I have met, they are both just an absolute joy to be around. They are getting married next October & I can't wait. Here are some of my favourite images from their recent engagement session.

Baby Isabella

This session was so nice to photograph,

Isabella was so alert for a newborn baby & so content to be photographed.

She has so much personality for a young child, it was lovely to see.

Discovering

While out on a night shoot I had some time to look back on the past few months & I realised I had forgotten something that I was taught late last year. What I learnt was when you feel fear in whatever you are doing, feel the fear but do it anyway ! Sometimes unconsciously I hold myself back from doing what I really want to be doing or breaking threw that comfort zone because of fear. 

Fear of being judged or not being accepted can really hold you back if you allow it to have power over you. What if we never had the word mistake, & all experiences we had were just left as they are. Not labelled. I believe more people would follow there dreams & not care so much about those small so called mistakes that we have to make to get us to where ever we are going.

Today I feel grateful for where I am right now.

Angela, Tyler & myself have just moved into our new home & we are expecting a new arrival early next year. Tyler is saying he would like a baby brother but I'm sure he will be happy with whatever we are given. 

For any enquiries please note Angela & I will be away on holiday from the 21st August till 4th September we will still be able to be contacted via email if it's urgent please say so in the email & we will reply as soon as possible if not we will reply as soon as we return. 

Take care,

Daniel.

Rochelle & Michael

I am glad I'm not a writer, 

because every time I start to blog I get so stuck trying to articulate everything that I am feeling. I genuinely get overwhelmed & can't seem to put it into words, frustrating at times, but also a very nice feeling to be experiencing situations & meeting people that impact me in such a positive way.  

I hope that I am giving as much to the people I meet as they are giving to me. 

For an image session I ask my clients to just be themselves, because that is all I want to photograph. I believe at our very being we are incredible & to me nothing could be more artistic than to photograph someone at a moment when they feel completely comfortable to just be themselves.

Rochelle & Michael thank you both for such an amazing day.

Sneak Peek

More to come from Rochelle & Michael's After Day Session soon.

Armand & Daphne

After Day Session.