From the course: Become a Portrait Pro: Family and Kids

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Plan a styled shoot

Plan a styled shoot

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Plan a styled shoot

- Welcome to chapter number three, I'm super excited about this one because this chapter is all about stepping up your game. Now regardless of the type of photography that you want to become a pro in, one of the things that you have to do is you have to create and show the work that you want to get hired to do. In other words, let's think of it this way. Let's step out of family photography for a second. Let's say that you want to be a professional fashion photographer. Well if you only have maybe family portraits and some journalistic work, no one's going to hire you to do fashion photography. What you have to do is create a stylized fashion photo shoot, you have to show it to clients, and when they see you can do that, they will hire you to do something which is similar. And the same thing is true in family and kid photography as well. So what I want you to do is to begin to think about the ideal family photo shoot. What's the location, what are they wearing, what's the light. Then…

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