Shoot Edit Chat Repeat

Welcome to episode 84 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This week we chat to US wedding photographer, educator and Sony Artistan of Light, Kesha Lambert. We have a lovely chat with Kesha about lots of different topics including: - how Kesha followed her creative dreams after training as a lawyer - top tips to avoid plateauing in your creativity - how being an introvert and empath can help you to be a better photographer - how to keep your creativity fresh and keep pushing the boundaries  - diversity & inclusivity in the photography community - what Kesha struggles with in her business  Also in the patron only part of the episode, we talk about up-selling to wedding clients via galleries and the equipment Kesha uses at a wedding to create her stunning work. If you join us as a patron, for just $5 a month, you'll get instant access to this and you'll also get your hands on all of the li

Welcome to episode 83 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This week we chat to talented US wedding photographer and Fujifilm ambassador Miles Witt Boyer. Miles runs a thriving wedding photography business with a team of associates, shooting weddings around the world. Here are some of the topics we chat about... - Why creatives are constantly going through an identity crisis - Why creatives are often scattered and easily distracted and how to manage this - How being sensitive affects our work and can lead the way for more connection with our subjects - Why Miles doesn't believe photography is telling other peoples' stories - How to change the starving artist mentality and be successful as a creative - How Miles creates powerful connection in his images and his advice to help you do the same It's a fascinating chat - Miles makes so many brilliant points that really got us thinking. We know you

Welcome to episode 82 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This week we're excited to chat with the talented Australian family photographer, Sophie Lea.   Sophie has been a photographer for over 15 years and has built a thriving newborn and family photography business in Sydney as well as a global following of her gorgeous work. We wanted to chat to her about how she balances her busy studio whilst also being a mum of 3 young children.   Here are some of the topics we talk through.... - Why Sophie moved from shooting in clients' homes to renting a natural light studio in 2020 - How her client wardrobe works and how clients select what they're going to wear - Sophie's best marketing strategies to book her diary solid for months ahead - What equipment Sophie uses at both her studio and location shoots - How Sophie prepares a client for a shoot in her studio and for golden hour shoots - How S

Welcome to a brand new series (yay!) of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This week we chat to wedding photographer & educator Ellie McKinney about all things Enneagram. Ellie uses Enneagram in her mentoring and her business, and we wanted to find out from her what it can add to our own businesses.   Do you know your Enneagram type? It's a great tool to use not only in your business, but in your life.   Knowing your Enneagram doesn't put you in a rigid box. It helps you to become more self-aware and have a better understanding of those around you and how your clients perceive you.   Here is the most accurate free Enneagram test that Ellie recommends.   But she does recommend investing the $12 to get the official Enneagram test done here.   You can check out Ellie's work and education here.    We'd love to hear what Enneagram type you are and if you felt it sounds like you! If you join us as a pat

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This is us being interviewed by the wonderful Sarah Krieg on her podcast The Shared Shutter. We answer questions from her lovely listeners and talk about community, photography (of course!), our favourite photos, our embarrassing stories and lots more. It’s a fun listen that we hope will put a smile on your face.         We also chat in the intro about what we’ve been up to since our last episode in Dec, and don’t miss our Repeat Recs at the end - you’ll get to hear our thoughts on the new social media app Clubhouse.       Thank you so much to Sarah for asking us to be on her fab podcast. Enjoy the giggles!     And exciting news! We've launched our brand new course this week; The Art & Business of Personal Brand Photography. You can get 25% off until 1/4/21.    Repeat Recs for this week Vicki - A Toolkit for Modern Li

Welcome to episode 79 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This is our final episode of 2020! And what a great one we have to end a difficult year. We're talking about disaster-proofing your business for the future.....something we're all a lot more aware of after this year!    In this episode, we're chatting to Ike & Tash, They are an amazing husband wife photography duo based near Seattle, US. They photograph families, seniors & weddings and have purposely chosen not to specialise. Tash is a renowned mummy influencer and Ike is a successful YouTuber. They love training and helping other photographers to achieve their dreams and have done keynote talks at conferences around the globe.   Here are some of the topics we talk through.... - how to balance a family with running a successful business   - how to tragedy proof your business    - their reasons for not niching and the drawbacks it may

Welcome to episode 78 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This week we're chatting to SEO expert and wedding photographer, Karen Julia. Obviously with the usual waffle from Vicki & Eddie at the start and end of the episode.   Are you a little confused by all things SEO? (you're not alone!) Would you love to get more enquiries via Google but you just can't seem to get your website onto page 1? We're here with our SEO friend Karen to help you out! Here are some of the topics we chat about.... - The most common mistakes that photographers make that negatively affect their SEO - Do we need to be completing SEO tasks on our website every week/month? What are some tasks we can be doing during this quieter period? - Should we be blogging regularly? (a different answer to what you probably expect) And what should we be blogging about? - If we photograph more than one genre, from an SEO perspective is

Welcome to episode 77 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This week we're chatting to international wedding photographer Ross Harvey. Ross has racked up a number of impressive awards from 'UK Best Wedding Photographer of the Year' to being named by Harper's Bazaar as one of the 'best in the world' and becoming a Nikon Ambassador. Ross now judges industry awards and shoots luxury weddings all over the world. Ross also has a wealth of knowledge about mindset and spirituality and we were keen to talk to him about this too. Here are some of the topics we talk through: - Ross's thoughts on entering awards - How to deal with nerves before shooting - How to create a more positive mindset, especially during this challenging time - What practises we can include in our lives to create a good work/life balance - How to avoid comparing ourselves to other photographers Thank you so much for your time Ross,

Welcome to episode 76 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This week we are chatting to US family photographer & educator, Annemie Tonken about how to grow your business through online galleries. If you have always done in-person sales, and are now struggling to sell via online galleries since Covid hit, this is the episode you need to listen to! Or perhaps you've done online galleries for some time, but you're struggling to get sales that you're happy with. This is going to be just what you need to hear! Here are some of the topics we talk through with Annemie.... - How to respond to enquiries - Why it's so important to educate your clients before they book, and the best ways to do this - How to send a client their images for the most effective result - Why collections are an important part of the sales process - Why we should sell products to our clients and not only digital images.

Welcome to episode 75 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.      We felt like we all needed a bit of cheering up at the moment, so in this episode we're chatting to the hilarious Sarah Krieg and we promise you some LOL's! Sarah is a talented film-maker and photographer based in sunny California, who's colourful work never fails to put a smile on our faces.      We talk to Sarah about how she suggests we can all infuse a little bit more joy into our work, how she gets to work with some impressive brands, oh and a few chats about nudist colonies, fannies (the US version!) and satan....you probably need to listen to understand!      Just a little warning, there is some rather fruity language in this episode right from the start of the interview, so perhaps put your headphones in if you have little ears around.      We know you're all going to love Sarah as much as we do!     Watch some

Welcome to episode 74 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. This week we chat to Miami based wedding photographer and Pinterest expert, Caroilna Guzik.   This is a very actionable episode, so make sure you have your notebook and pen at the ready!   Just a quick warning, there is a bit of bad language (fairly mild!) in the intro (naughty Eddie!). And also Eddie sounds like she is calling in from the top of a mountain during the interview, as she hadn't plugged her mic in correctly (naughty Eddie again!) But we promise it won't ruin your enjoyment of the chat....Carolina sounds perfect! Carolina talks to us all about: - how to plan our boards on Pinterest to attract clients - what type of pins perform best on Pinterest - whether we should be pinning other photographers work or not - how to only spend an hour or two every 3 months and still attract lots of new potential clients to your website via Pi

Welcome to series 8 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   We're back with a bang as this week we're chatting to renowned portrait photographer Audrey Woulard, who specialises in photographing teens with her brand Kids and the City.   Audrey is a NIkon Ambassador, a Profoto Legend of Light and she has taught hundreds of photographers from around the world.   During the 18 years that Audrey has been in business, she's built a tribe of fiercely loyal customers, and we wanted to find out how she keeps her clients coming back to her year after year.   We also find out how she manages to get tweens feeling comfortable in front of her lens and all about her Virtual Photography Conference that she set up during the lockdown. It's a great chat, we know you're going to love Audrey!   Check out Audrey's work here  Follow Audrey on Instagram here  If you join us as a patron, for just $5 a month, you'll get acce

Welcome to episode 72 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.    This is our last episode of series 7, and we have a great chat to end the series on. Thank you to all of our listeners for your support this series, we'll be back with a bang in September!    This week we're chatting to Matt Barnett, founder of video messaging company Bonjoro. Matt used to be a wedding photographer, so he understands our marketing needs as photographers and how video messaging can help us to get more clients.    Matt talks to us all about how video messaging can help us to convert more enquiries, build trust with our clients, and gain loyalty.    Bonjoro are kindly offering our listeners a discount off their plans until 30/09/20. Use the code 'shootedit15' to get 15% off monthly subscriptions and 'shootedit30' to get 30% off their annual plans. Here is the link to get their free trial.   If you join us as a patron, for just

Welcome to episode 71 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This week we chat to Polly Alexandre, a certified Master Coach &  intuitive healer, all about how to improve your money mindset.   Polly was a successful international wedding photographer for many years, before pivoting to be a success coach.  She now helps entrepreneurs around the world to use their gifts to change the world.   We talk about the following topics. -the key money blocks that photographers have and how you can re-frame these in your mind - how Polly went from charging £500 to £5000 for photographing a wedding - why gratitude is so important when it comes to money - how your childhood can affect your money mindset - how to break through the fear and raise your prices   And lots more! Polly gives so many useful ideas and strategies to help you with your mindset towards money     Polly is the creator of Money Beautifully™

Welcome to episode 70 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.       We've created a new, fun and free quiz for you, so you can find out your photographer personality type. Click here to take the quiz and please post your results on social media and tag us in, we'd love to see.    We have an episode that we think will put a smile on your face this week.        We are chatting to wedding photographer and co-founder of Nine Dots, the wedding photographer community. Adam has twice been named Wedding Photographer of the Year at the Wedding Industry awards.    It's a brilliant chat and we talk to Adam all about how he makes his work unique by trusting his own creative instincts.      He tells us how being told his work was 'safe' early in his career, spurred him on to be the creative photographer he is today.      You can see Adam's work here    Follow Adam on Instagram     

Welcome to episode 69 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd. We have a cracking episode for you this week. A perfect bit of light entertainment to take your mind off the crazy world we are living in at the moment. We are chatting with photographer, NY Times best-selling author & US photographer, Kate T Parker. Kate's 'Strong is the New Pretty' photo series reached global acclaim and has led to her authoring 3 best-selling books, appearing on TV shows such as CNN, and being shared by celebrities such as David Beckham and Emma Watson. But this didn't come easily...in this interview Kate talks us through the numerous rejections she received, and her 'sliding doors' moment when she could have just thrown the towel in, just before her photo series went viral.  We talk about the power of personal projects, and how embracing your own creativity can take you through these uncertain times. And we talk a

Welcome to episode 68 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This week we are chatting to US family photographer Brooke Schultz. We talk to Brooke all about how to be creative when you're under pressure on a shoot. Here are some of the things we chat about:   - what photographers get wrong when they try to get creative in a shoot - what's the best way for photographers to tap into their creativity on a shoot - tips to help people relax when you're photographing them - practical things you can do when you get that deer-in-the-headlight moment when directing people   And lots more!   Get Brooke's free resources for photographers here  And follow Brooke on Instagram here    If you join us as a patron, for just $5 a month, and you'll get to hear Brooke's best marketing advice and her most embarrassing shoot story. And also get your hands on all of the links to our Repeat Recs from the past 2 years. C

Welcome to episode 67 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This week we have some light relief for you, something we all need in these uncertain times.    We're talking to UK celebrity photographer Andy Gotts. Andy is celebrating his 30th year of an incredible career. He has been widely published internationally, received an MBE from the queen for his services to photography and charity and has photographed a mind-blowing amount of A-list celebrities including Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Kate Moss, Al Pacino, Kate Winslet, Robin Williams, Elton John, Dolly Parton, George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins and so many more.   He tells us some incredible stories from his 30 years of photographing celebrities and also offers brilliant advice for those looking to get into this field of work.    Thank you so much Andy for your time, we loved talking to you.  See Andy Gotts' website here   Follow Andy o

This is a special bonus episode as we felt we need to talk about what is happening in the world at the moment with the Coronavirus pandemic. The news is changing constantly and we know lots of you are feeling anxious and worried.  We invited friend of the show, (and our resident agony auntie!), Emily Hodge, to get her thoughts on the situation and what she thinks we should be doing in our businesses.  In this episode we talk about how the pandemic is affecting the photography industry, and what you can do in these uncertain times.   Here are some links we mention in the episode:   Our lifestyle photographers Facebook group The wedding industry coronavirus action Facebook group   See Emily Hodge's website here   We'd love to know what you think of this episode. Please leave us a review if you've found it useful, it helps other people to find the podcast. Email:  hello@shooteditchatrepeat.com Instagram Facebook   If you join us as a patron, for just $5 a month, you'll get longer episodes and also get yo

Welcome to episode 65 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   This week, we chat to Florida based family photographer and educator, Twyla Jones about all things family photography. Find out why Twyla has buy a new camera every single year and how she gets that lovely cinematic feel to her images.   If you join us as a patron, for just $5 a month, you'll get access to a longer version of this episode with some extra probing questions that we put to Twyla. And also get your hands on all of the links to our Repeat Recs from the past 2 years. Click here for all of the details and to get instant access to the longer version of this episode, on your favourite podcast app.  See Twyla's gorgeous work here on her website  Follow Twyla on Instagram @somethingrad ​​ ​​Thank you to Folio Albums for sponsoring this episode. Use the code ‘shootedit’ to get 40% off a studio sample album. Thank you to Workshops.Glo