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28 Days Review

did 28 challenges Based on what would actually help you create an incredible portrait studio. I'm gonna go through them quickly. Natural light. Okay, Because I shoot natural light. I love it. It's soft, It's beautiful, It's contemporary. It's modern glamour. And I love it Mapping your seats and outfits. So teaching you how to create a shoot in an hour and 1/2 when you met pout your sits your outfits and how to shoot them. One composition five poses Every single time somebody lies down, sits down or stands in front of you. You need to nail five sellable poses before you move on. Okay? And this will be the most significant posing. Listen that you can learn flow posing. You must Lynn. When somebody is standing in front of you and you're holding that camera when you go blank You know that moment when you're like you take a photo you look at the back of the camera. You think Oh, no, you take another one. You think Oh, double no, you take another one. And you I lost. All I do now is to rely ...

on what I know. And what I know is how to move people. So I start with simple things like this to in your shoulders and I act like I'm just looking for the best light, the best shoulder, the big. Really What I'm looking for is that sweet pose where I just see that moment where they're in the perfect position. I'm like, Move your shoulders this way Slow down, slow down, slow down, Look back, Look back, Look back, Lean forward, Lean forward, shoulder around and then I find it. But I see new photographers unable to do this. I see older photographers unable to do this. I photographed a girl that does a lot of modeling and acting last month, and she said to me, In the 12 years I've been photographed, I've never had a photographer direct May She said, You don't rig did may right down to what my hands were doing. I said, Yeah, she said, Why don't other photographers know this flow posing? It will change your photographic career because you've got to Lin Hao toe, take control and direct people. So when you feel that most man of fear when you're stuck when you don't know what to say, this is were your suit iveness will take control of the situation and you will practices. This is something this is probably decision. I want you to practice most the flow posing the moving through the flow of the poses. If you can't get that right pre drawer your poses before you start shooting locked down, at least imposes. And teen scenarios before you start taking the photograph. Trust me on this one. Because once your energy gets going in your shooting, you need to visually have a reminder of what you want to achieve. Other ways you forget. How often do you look at the shoot and go, Damn it! Why didn't I try that? Damn it! Why didn't I look at the hands? Damn it! Why didn't I do that? Looking at the shoulder pose that so always talks about, Damn it! Why didn't it? How often do you do that? All the time. Every time, right. Okay. I could teach posing. Still, I could do posing class after posing class of opposing class. But I'm telling you right now, it's nothing to do with posing. And it's everything to do with confidence. Okay, so look at this. Nikki, Can you come up here now, Nikki, and must wanna here today. And the reason I bought in a came up wanna here is as you know, they're doing their own businesses, and you followed them right from scratch, which I think is really cool. But I've got a mixture of people that have we've been watching and people that are new to my audience. But what's really important is Nikki and map wanna I'm not afraid of being really honest about. Were they struggling with enough? Okay, so if Nikki's my model, go back, Okay. I've got my camera and photographing Nikki. I'm completely blank. I'm like, I've got a couple of choices. Look over and say This is the shoot that I've designed for you. So before I start shooting here, I was like, I love the yellow dress she bought, So I thought something flowing and moving. I really loved the white lingerie, so I thought something lying on the white ottoman. I love the black dress she bought. So look, this is like a silhouette and I draw stick figures. My clients think I've just locked it down. What I've done is given myself teen prompts to shoot here. Okay, that's number one. If you don't do that and you're in this position here, we have got their camera, and all of a sudden I'm like, that looks like crab. Okay? And I get my light, and that looks bad, too. And she's like, Are you getting something? And you're sweating, you know, it's sweeting, and you've lost the ability to speak properly. I don't know how it happens, and it's really weird. It's a different kind of sweet than normal because you admit the smell off fear that is quite pungent, very odd. You don't have it on a normal you don't have it when you running for an hour. It's kind of like, What is that? Where is that coming from? And then you realize that you okay, right? This is all I want you to think about. A K Soucie is flow. Seuss's flow rotate. That's all you have to do is rotate here. Okay, Rotate who shoulders perfect stadia. Moved the shoulder forward chin around this way and just tip this way in this way and down. I'm just gonna put your hearing here. It's beautiful. Nikki, take a shot. Bang. Eyes down. Little smile. Beautiful big smile. Look up at me. Let's have a big laugh. Ha ha! Love that a k four shots already. Bing, bing, bang, flow. Think like this. We flow with our shoulders. Then we flow without hips. Its move them side to side. We move. That helps, like perfect. Let's tuck this hand around to define the way we flow with our shoulders. Let's flow of their hips. That's perfect. Let's move our feet a little bit. Let's go back and forth and just flow with the skirt. Slow down. There it is. Slowed down, Lean back, lean back. Bring that chin around. Think about it like this. You flow with shoulders flow with the hips flow with the feet Let's just start moving them a little bit. And some people have really awkward movers, you know, they're like this. OK, so you're not trying to get them, Teoh, like, do anything. This is not like you can't dance, all right? And you know how many people do you honestly get in front of you that are like this? You know, like I can do all of this? You know you don't. Everybody on is generally kind of like this like, but all you're looking for is movement enough to go. Stop! Push your help Further. Drop the shoulder down. Push your chin towards May. There it is or you're looking for is not movement cause your stills. Photographer, You're just flowing the body to give you the opportunity to see Okay And it makes a difference. So things so that flow is vital posing couples. Because let's face it, we photograph women. But if you can photograph couples, you make more money. Because if the boys involved hes more likely to spend then here on her own. If he doesn't want those images capturing beautiful connection and expression. This segment of 28 days is one of my favorite. Have you watched this one? Okay, this is one of my favorite and I'll tell you why not only is it the magnificently beautiful Kinnock lost two men and we had so much fun doing that this day. But this is the single thing that will sell you photographs, learning this you must saloon connection. You must. If you can't connect to the eyes in a photograph, you don't have a portrait. And if you're gonna take beautiful scenes and the girls not connected. And she said, You must connect to body language. Okay, because so often I'll see a beautiful image of a girl on a rock. And she's doing a beautiful flow pose, and it makes sense that's connecting the body language to the scene. And I understand the image, but I don't understand. You know, a girl out on the rock doing something awkward and weird and just looking like a girl on a rock, doing something awkward and weird. If you're not connected to the eyes, you must be connected to the body language of the image. You're gonna learn my rules. How often do I tell you these roles? Chin showed a hand hourglass asymmetry, body language connection. You should be locking these down now 18 months. And for the people that are about to join us, these the ones I want you to nail down. Um, they will change the way you shoot. It's such a simple methodology, and it pretty much sums up every part of the body. You don't have beautiful images, unleash you coach your clients freestyling wardrobe. So in the pitch today we'll talk about that. We'll talk about how you get the maximum out of your shoot by pitching that they bring in mawr and coaching them. But the truth is, is in your consultation is when you're foods connection is made. And when your first sailors made okay, you're selling is done before the shoot. If you pitch right, you are not selling after the fact you're selling right in that moment, and that will change your income. Shooting gills with kids. All right, Trust May. There was a period of my life for about I e is what I do not own a photograph off myself. I was too big to stand in front of the camera. I'm about to deliver a talk in Vegas court, my invisible life that I could be a portrait photographer and no own a photograph of myself because I wasn't good enough to be photographed. Do you know how many women are walking on this planet that believe that whether the £18 or £100 overweight, they don't think they good enough to be photographed one day? Those photographs will be more important to you than anything you will. Your family and loved ones will own you must exist in photographs. Today I'm going to talk about the pitch. The pitch is why you do what you do. And for May, it is ticket every woman in front of the camera ive free woman in the world, opposing groups of two threes and fours love This video takes you through two girls, three girls, four girls in the core part about it is you make glamour days. That is not one glamour sale. That is four. Okay, women don't go to the toilet on their own. I'm going to the toilet. I'll come with you and then once we get in there, it's like I tell you, we're all chant in torment, lip glass then and all. I love your shoes, so thank you. It's it doesn't happen in the men's journal. Happens a lot in the girl's toward very social. We like to go places together, and we like to chat real active experiences together. You know, I love shooting four girls and a day it's four times my average and one day, and the best part is I get to hang out with four incredible women that it'll friends and they might have a glass of champagne. But wow learned to shoot them together so that you can give them a free shot at the end of the arm folios. Uh, this is being one of the most significant marketing tools for me the before and after. You must learn how to do this properly. You know, we are fascinated by the transformation. People want to see it. It's the one comment I get on my website. Love you before and afters I would never advertise with before. And afters of people didn't advertise them. Posing teens. Another one of my favorite videos. We must post teens age appropriately. We don't want them to look like 25 year old hooches this 16. They should look innocent and beautiful and glamorous, like young princesses that they are. You want them to value these images so that when they grow in tow, women, they look back and remember how much they loved and respected themselves as teenagers and how much they deserve to be loved, beautiful and respected women. Okay. And this is such an incredible genre to photograph marketing and shooting the family first demographic. I've broken down the shooting demographics and two at sorry the selling demographics into four, which I love posing and shooting families, which to me is just a big lamb issue with a family on the end and more income. The corporate hid shot because I feel like this is both a sustainable income, a viable business model, and every single time a boy or girl comes into my studio. Pay three or $400 for corporate headshot, which I give them three images for I potentially and marketing toe a new client and new wife, a new girlfriend and new sister, a new mother or if it's a female and marketing to here and all of her girlfriends to come back and do a limitation and they've meet me, they know me. They trust me. They like me. They've spent money with May. There are given Gramma shooting on location. I really wanted to shoot on location for this video because I felt like so many people didn't have studios here, and you can still take beautiful glamour images outside contouring photo shop in the two minute role. I need you to get faster on photo shop. I could do more segments on this. In fact, I might record something soon on the cloning because so many people are still asking me about it. This incredible demographic 50 and fabulous. I've now got photographers around the world solely shooting 40 plus, and I'm so proud of thes people. These photographers, they choosing toe only photograph 40 plus. How cool is that? These people have all the money in the world and the beautiful shooting that backlight, nailing it. Marketing and shooting the girl power demographic, mother and daughter because the mother and daughter is my favorite favorite relationship. The beauty shot marketing and shooting that independent woman demographic posing mean love, that segment product and price list sales and production and then phone coaching in scripting. Right? That was 28 days. That's what you guys have been working through for those of you who haven't got it, that's what we want you to come and join us, Get it? Start working through it. Joined the study group. Okay. Joined the study groups. Very, very important