After months of almost no enquiries, can a little paid Instagram promotion turn things around?
For Liam and Bee it did. After a long quiet spell that had them doubting their style, a modest paid boost on Instagram and a price rise brought daily enquiries back, with a big lean towards destination weddings next year. (Bee wonders whether the algorithm had been showing their work to other photographers instead of couples.) Liam also apologises for last week's rant about the moody editorial style: plenty of photographers we respect do it brilliantly, and we should never knock anyone's style. Then Liam's invitation to speak at a small workshop in Poland, with talks in an old wooden church near the Belarusian border, and the idea of a Camp Commune of our own.
Plus fake Christmas, now about sixteen years running, a farm wedding where Liam was served a sharing platter for one, filming a bride's mum who kept stepping out of shot, an elopement booked in an underground WWII oil tank, and Bee's forearm stand after eight years of yoga.
Our Creative Commune is four wedding photographers and filmmakers chatting about photography, videography and the wedding industry, just like we do over coffee most mornings.
Timestamps:
00:00 New Year's Eve plans
02:00 Fake Christmas
05:07 No presents this year
08:41 A farm wedding and a sharing platter for one
11:18 A Scottish castle wedding
13:19 Telling people they don't need to move
16:57 Half of next year's weddings are overseas
21:31 An elopement in a WWII oil tank
23:02 Liam's apology
25:05 How paid Instagram turned things around
30:10 A videographer summit in Glasgow
32:43 Speaking at a workshop in Poland
36:20 Camp Commune?
38:53 Highs and lows of the week
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