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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Getting outside of the market you're stuck in? | |
The grass isn't always greener. I'm in Vegas where there are hardly any church weddings. It's not because there aren't any churches...it's because people use ballrooms and other venues out here. You don't know what I'd give to be able to shoot in a church every once in a while. I have a church wedding next year, and I'm stoked. Out of the 2 church weddings that I shot in the past 6 years, one was in Vegas and the other on the East coast for a destination wedding I did.
I shoot pretty high-end weddings. Very modern couples who are pretty damn artistic. I try to capitalize on that by doing day-after shoots which allow me to take them somewhere off the beaten path and just relax. I do the day-afters because even though I'm shooting more affluent couples, weddings are still the same. Drunk people at receptions, people with iPads getting in my way, the music, the format, etc. I'm like you...I see the same shoes, the same dresses, the same lighting, the same locations....and people would kill to shoot the weddings that I book.
I'm willing to bet that if you got the hippy couples or really elegant couples, you'd get tired of them too. I've also found that the people who are more into the bohemian stuff are more into Pinterest and aren't really that creative at all. They just want what they see on other blogs and in magazines, just like what you're experiencing now. I think that you'd have less creative freedom with couple that are so Pinterest-involved.
Take your clients and set the expectation that you're an artist and need to be artistic with them. You have the opportunities to do unique stuff with the couples you book, you're just not capitalizing on that.
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