I love art and creativity, and I am a very formulating person. I like to lay everything out in order because it is just how my brain works. A well planned workflow is extremely important to me more than anything else because it helps me to ensure the quality of my work.
Since I started to focus more on my photography business, I have been experimenting different ways to operate which can help define my style and to build my own branch. I still continue to learn along the way to refine my workflow and to make it fit with different stage of the business.
Here is my workflow version 2011...
- Client request
- Consultation: discuss on event details (time, location, and schedule of the event), explain my style and workflow to clients, discuss on outfits, decorations and details, agree on packet of services (delivery time line and method, number of images, and price).
- Planning: team meeting to plan for the shoot (angles, positions, what gears that each person is going to use, type of shoots or objects that each person will primarily focus on, etc)
- Confirmation: I usually contact my clients one or two days before the shoot to make sure everything still as planned or if anything has been changed since our last conversation.
- The big day: arrive at event location at least 30 minutes early to get familiar with the location, scout for good spots, find light sources, and sometime do some clean up to make sure the background is not clustered.
- Post-production: transfer all images to computer, back them up, load them into Lightroom for processing, sort and cull all images, edit images, export them into different formats for blog, online gallery, and export to DVD for clients.
- Album and Prints: select the images and design album or further retouch the images for printing per request from clients.
Surely the process can be different a bit based upon size of the event and type of the shoot. But this is my ideal workflow or at least what I am trying to accomplish. Of course, there are a lot more things to talk about for behind-the-scene works, and I will share more in the next post...
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