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What’s your biggest dream as an artists‍ I ask this question a lot in my interviews, but recently I realized that I didn’t know how to answer this question myself! So I gave it a minute or actually a bit more and here’s what I’ve arrived at: my dream is to continue doing what I do now for as long as I can. Meeting more creative people and getting involved into more collaboration projects along the way. Understanding more about myself, about others and about the world through my art. And it’s ok, if I don’t win any awards (though that would definitely help) or won’t have exhibitions in @guggenheim. Cause the journey is the point of it all. For me. What’s your biggest dream as an artist? Muse @annemiekevanhethof

Why should you try to tell stories in your personal work, and not just shoot something beautiful? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Because, when you learn to tell great visual stories in your personal projects, it very practically helps you work with clients. Brands, companies, and even individuals will have some story that want to communicate through the images that you’ll be shooting for them. Of course, in some cases, they won’t be aware of those stories. Yet, your job would be to pull them out and to translate into photography that produces the impact the your client wants. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Very plainly: brands want to sell their products in a particular way to a particular category of people. A couple, that’s getting married, wants to remember their special day in all the details and also demonstrate how magical it was to their friends and family who was not present at the event. A family taking portraits together wants the pictures to tell the story of their family happiness o, in some cases, of their wealth and social positions (happens in some cultures, right?). But in most often, private clients won’t be able to explain what they actually want from pictures. It will be your job to understand them and tell that story. That’s why I believe that every photographer should be a storyteller today. And that’s the reason why I’ve created the Storytelling with Photography course. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Cause, let’s face it, without stories, photography is just a commodity. If you take photos of just facts, without adding the storytelling element to them, you can be easily replaced by someone who does the job faster, cheaper or better. Do you agree? P.S. the course starts on September, 8. You can still grab a spot by clicking the link in bio!

So here is the part2 of my yesterday’s post on 7 mistakes I made when shooting composits. Read the first three in the previous post. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ didn’t switch to manual: and the parts of my future composite were of different tone, depth of field, etc. Always switch to manual! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ didn’t focus on the right thing: when you shoot a composite, you choose one point to focus on and you don’t change it under any conditions. For a composite to be believable your pasted objects have to stay blurry. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ didn’t make enough shots: and then was lacking some parts, as a result the final photo didn’t look realistic. it’s not a big problem though, if you can easily reproduce the situation with the same light and make additional images. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ didn’t get help: I know that many photographers do everything on their own (modeling, shooting, throwing stuff in the air to imitate levitation), I find it much easier and less stressful to get assistants who can do that for me and I will concentrate on how the parts of my composite look (cause I might not be able to go back there and reshoot something with the same light). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Do these mistakes look familiar? What was your experience when shooting composite images? Please share in the comments, I’m really curious! Model @sophiesimonezurich

I often talk about collabs with other creatives, like stylists, muah pros, decorators. Now, I’ve decided to try out something radically new for me. I want to collaborate with another photographer! His name is Phillip - @rabachevphoto and he’s like my creative brother. I adore his work, if you haven’t please check his profile now! We’re already planning to work on something really cool together, which I can’t give you details about yet, but I’m sure it’s going to be mind-blowing! Have you ever tried collaborating with someone who’s doing the same thing as you? Like photographer-photographer, makeup artists-makeup artist? Please let me know how it went and how was your experience. I’m really curious!

How to start selling photos for book-covers? Or sell licenses in general Many of you sent me those questions after the Monday post about making a living from fine art photography. Let me share my experience below, and if you have something to add please do it in the comments. What is “selling licenses” for using your photos? Very plainly it’s when you sell a right to use your photo to a third party (brand, company, publisher, musician, etc.) for a particular period of time (say one year) and particular medium (say a brochure, or a book-cover). You can sell those licenses either personally or through photo-agencies. When you sell your license personally you get 100% of the profit. Which is amazing! However, if you don’t have a client base or amazing sales skills that help you get the clients this way is a bit complicated. But still 100% valid of course. You can also sign a contract with a photo agency, who in many cases already has established connections with clients and can simply offer your work to them, so you don’t have to do it. Sounds incredible, right? But of course it’s not for free and the agency will take from 75% to 50% from a license sale profit, depending on your contract. There’re numerous photo-agencies out there and all of them have different clientele and specialization, conditions and submissions processes. I personally work with @trevillionimages, @arcangelimages and @plainpicture_photography. I personally prefer to work with smaller agencies, because there’s no big system you have to go through to submit and you get responses right away. To be continued in the next post Meanwhile, share your experience!

Caption or no caption? I rarely make posts about “instagramming”, but after our discussions in stories over the weekend, I really wanted to say a few words on the importance of writing a caption. Below, I’m addressing 3 reasons (excuses) why people don’t write anything (or simply post credits to the team) under their photos. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’ll be talking about photographers mainly, but it would also be interesting for other creatives. And yes, I used to say them to myself too! ‍♀️I never was a natural-born instagrammer and had to learn the game. So, believe me, I know what I’m talking about. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I post just for myself: it’s not true and don’t lie to yourself (sorry, if it sounds too harsh). If you wanted to keep it all to yourself, you would leave all the photos on your phone. You’re on IG to CONNECT. Just admit it and be fine with that. Caption opens you up from a whole different perspective and people are more likely to respond to your content. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m afraid that I will look dumb: and you will, to some people. To others you’ll look more than intelligent. You can never please everybody, that’s the universal truth of life. As long as you speak from your❤️and keep getting better at it, you’ll be fine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I don’t have anything to say: might be true, but! It’s only because you don’t think about the reason that made you take your image! If you take a minute, or even 10 to actually think why this person, building, flower was worth of shooting and sharing with the world, it will all make sense! For yourself first of all. And don’t get discouraged, if it seems hard in the beginning. If you do it consistently, you’ll become much more conscious about your art and your writing will evolve as well. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the next post, I’ll summarize my thoughts on what else you can talk about in your captions. Meanwhile, what are the other reasons you might not be saying anything about your work? Post them below and let’s dig deeper in those together! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Model, my beautiful Dutch muse - @em_its_em. From my shooting day in Amsterdam, organized by @artphotoproject.

5 mistakes I made in collaborating with people ▶️ Another highly requested topic was about collaborations. I don’t mean influencer-brand collabs here, I mean how you can get team members who will create some incredibly awesome work with you. ⚡️ I want to give it a little twist and tell you about my screw-ups, so that you could avoid making same mistakes as me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I didn’t communicate the goals of my shoot clearly: as a result collaborators had different expectations and when those are not met, no one is happy about it. I assumed that everyone was on the same page with the idea I had in mind: I didn’t provide enough visual references or wasn’t explicit when explaining my idea. As a result the idea I was going to shoot was very different from what why stylist was getting ready to, this came as a big surprise for both of us on location. I didn’t do a test shoot with the model: and had to deal with all sort of surprises on location (from very-very bad skin or rainbow-colored nails to inability to pull a certain emotion or simply fit into the clothes that I had! I didn’t supervise the work of my muah pro: while I was all busy with prepping the location and arranging the props my muah came up with a look that was the opposite to what I needed to have in my photo. Very unfortunate situation, cause the makeup artist was also very happy with her work! I didn’t check with everyone just before the shoot: so, everything seems to be ready, and everyone seem to be on the same page, but then, one of the team members absent-mindedly goes to a party the night before the shoot, drinks a little too much and looses her phone. Me and the rest of the team find out about it ONLY 30min later she was supposed to be with us on location. Not a very pleasant experience, take my word for it. IG caption, no matter how valuable it can be, doesn’t provide the space for speaking on all of those in detail and with examples. Should I write a blog post or do a live on those? Let me know in the comments! AND if you have your personal collaborations mistakes stories to share, I’d be really happy to know that I’m not the only one who screws up big time! Style @jenni.juurinen

10 years ago a good photographer was someone, who could shoot a technically perfect image. Today, this is not enough, since everyone with a decent phone can do that. Yeah, I might be exaggerating a bit here, but anyway. What does it take to be a great photographer today? You have to be different. ⚡️Not technically perfect, but different. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yet, not too different. Cause if your work is completely out there it won’t resonate with people. People won’t feel anything, when looking at it. Happens quite a lot in modern art galleries and museums, doesn’t it? The challenge is to tell UNIVERSAL stories in fresh and authentic ways. Using new mediums, new plots, new perspectives. What’s you take on this? Would love to hear your two cents. Models @ritabehm and @annikahelenw Clothes by @lumoanstories. Special thanks to @picfeli and @rastilankartano.

⚡️PRINT GIVEAWAY!⚡️Cause I love you so much and want to give back for all of your support! The high-quality 19.5x19.5 inch (50x50cm) print of this image signed by me and ready to be hung on your wall will be delivered to your home address, and 2 smaller prints of my other images will be send to your two friends, if you’re the lucky winner! How to enter: ⚡️ share any of my posts in your stories and tag me ⚡️ invite two of your insta-friends to enter the giveaway with you by tagging them in the comments to this post (this is how I know who to send the other two prints to✌️) ⚡️ wait until Wednesday, July, 10 to find out who the lucky winner is! You can invite as many friends as you like, 2 fiends per comment, so that your chances to win go higher. If you like the idea of a print giveaway (let me know in the comments), I’ll do them more often.