Field notes
Notes from picture days, media days, event floors, and client builds—written for the people who have to run them.
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Most senior portrait packages are priced by the number of files. That is the wrong unit. What decides whether the family frames one is the location, the hour, and the number of looks.
Every day a property sits unphotographed is a day it is not on the market. Speed is a deliverable, and it is mostly decided by how the shoot is scheduled rather than how fast the editing is.
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A general contractor comparing three subcontractors is answering one question: has this firm handled work at my scale? Most contractor websites never answer it.
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Outdoor evening events start in flattering light and finish in the dark. The second half is where coverage is usually lost — and where the decisions have to be made in advance.
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The hard part of a corporate headshot programme is not the photography. It is making the two hundredth frame match the twelfth — including the person photographed six months later.
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Media day runs on information the league already has. Handing it over a week early is the difference between an evening that finishes on time and one that runs on guesswork.
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Picture day does not slip because photography is slow. It slips because the rotation was never sized against the roster. Here is how to build one that survives contact with a real campus.
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A practical guide to annual report photography—built for teams that need enterprise-grade consistency without enterprise-level complexity.
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A practical guide to medical office photography marketing—built for teams that need enterprise-grade consistency without enterprise-level complexity.
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