Failure is the best sauce
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August 27, 2025
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You have to live with being wrong. In my life, there’s a Before and After realizing what being wrong could do for me. It was…
How I make photoshoot booking easy
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August 25, 2025
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Between school photos, the DMV, and passports, we’ve been trained. Picture time sucks. Of COURSE it does: You wait an hour to be immortalized looking—and…
Confidence and vulnerability
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August 22, 2025
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Confidence is not the opposite of vulnerability. You can be both confident and willing to be wrong. In business, that combo is essential to leadership….
Photography is empathy
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August 20, 2025
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When you’re out of your comfort zone and relying on someone else, how good are they at reading your needs? Doctors, mechanics, bartenders, physical therapists,…
Complicating Gendered Lighting
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August 14, 2025
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We don’t think of light as gendered, but boy (see what I did there), do we gender it. Women should have every crease filled. (We…
I’m So Tired of Manufactured Authenticity
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August 12, 2025
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Why do we keep trying to manufacture authenticity? Right now everything’s BTS: “authenticity” that has to keep proving its bona fides. When someone named the…
“I hate having my picture taken”
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August 7, 2025
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If you’ve ever thought, “Ugh, I hate picture time,” that’s because your photographer sucked. Feeling uncomfortable is NATURAL. Humans didn’t exactly coevolve with cameras. None…
Who’s the expert again?
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August 5, 2025
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It’s telling that the headshot generators compete on accuracy. They’re racing to engineer what a camera does naturally. AI averages everything it’s seen, matches patterns,…
Why we review pictures during our session
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July 31, 2025
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< 1 Min Read
Why review images during a shoot? It slows everything down, right? Actually, those 20 minutes save you HOURS. Here’s why both clients and I love…
Vulnerability is your superpower
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July 29, 2025
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To be trustworthy you have to be willing to be wrong. Too much polish is suspicious. Decisiveness alone doesn’t signal strength, it signals inexperience. If…
The wrong statement
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July 23, 2025
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AI headshots might save time… but they’ll cost you trust. We’re living in bonkers times. The job market still feels like holding your breath in space. Fake…