#25 - Welcome back to ‘9 to 5 photographer’, back after a short break but this is still the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love.

This episode came about after Martin Hobby, a photographer, listened to another episode on this podcast and noticed a few weeks/months had gone by with no recording. He posted a message in a corporate photography Facebook group, asking about future episodes, and instantly (accidentally) set himself up to be the next invited guest.

So today, we’re talking to him. Martin Hobby has been shooting for 30 years but don’t let that make you think he’s someone over the hill, he genuinely started when he was very young. He’s very active today and immerses himself in corporate headshots but has a history of shooting weddings, families music photography and even pets.

This all means he’s someone who’s very relatable, he knows what it’s like to be shooting, running a small business, managing clients, looking after the beans and planning how to still have access to some beans in retirement.

If you know Martin you’ll know he’s a great guy; if you don’t you’ll know it in the next few minutes so come with me as we step into this conversation and speak to Martin Hobby.

Martin Hobby Links:

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/martinhobby

https://www.instagram.com/martinhobby/?hl=en

Corporate Photography Community UK on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/111286209709500

#24 - Welcome back to ‘9 to 5 photographer’, this is the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money and spend more time doing the things you love. Now unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand there seems to be more and more happening with 360 photography. But is it easy enough for a photographer to step into this world or is there more to it than just getting an Insta360 camera and calling yourself a professional in this sector?

Taralyn and Craig run 360 Marketing Lab and their special skill is running an amazing business shooting, you guessed it, 360 photography. Now some people shoot very creative 360 photography and they produce work from all around the world in some unusual places and their art is mind-blowing. Taralyn and Craig don’t focus so much on this, not to say their work isn’t good, of course. But they focus on a niche market and running it as a business. And that’s what we’re talking about today. After all this is the ‘9 to 5 Photographer’ podcast, not the ‘Shoot funky photos’ podcast.

But the other thing to note is that Craig and Taralyn started this business before the pandemic, not because of the pandemic. Which means their approach to making it work was more about making the idea fly instead of, “Oh pants, I need to pay the mortgage,” something I think we can all appreciate at times in our careers.

Anyway, enough dilly-dally. Instead let’s step into a 360 world and see what’s happening all around as we speak to 360 Marketing Lab’s very own, Taralyn and Craig.

360 Marketing Lab online: https://360marketinglab.co.uk/

#23 - Welcome back to 9 to 5 Photographer. This is the podcast to help you get more shoots, make more money, and spend more time doing the things you love. Now, this episode is great because we're talking all about a topic that's very much in the news today, especially it seems with photographers, filmmakers, and other artists.

It's AI, artificial intelligence, and we have an expert in the house with us today. Paul Asquin has worked in AI for some time, first regarding photo editing, and more recently regarding video editing. So naturally we talk about both, but we also touch on podcast editing too, given that it's very similar in some ways to video editing.

Now, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Paul is an algorithm nerd, and he may well be because he's very plugged into what's happening in the world of AI today. But he's also a photographer and looking at his Instagram after this recording, he's a very good photographer. But on this topic of ai, it means he also understands what's important to people behind the camera.

So he's seeing things from both sides. Anyway, it's time for us to find out if AI is really the biggest threat to us all, or whether it's something that can actually serve us Instead, let's not waste any more time, but instead, join me in the middle of Paris as I speak to our expert in France. It's Paul Asquin.

Paul Asquin on Instagram: www.instagram.com/paulasquinphoto

Paul Asquin on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/paulasquin