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05/11/2026

Just finished editing 18 talking heads from one session, and I have a few thoughts that might help you 🙂

Brief everyone first, get more than one reel out of each person, keep a little light in the car, and give yourself more editing time than you think.
If you are adding subtitles, they do need checking. Turns out w**e names are a nightmare🤪

Talking heads is often one of the go-to for photographers who are adding video to their offerings.

Have you got any questions about recording talking heads? Do you love it or hate it?

02/11/2026

The Filming Table is tomorrow at 2pm? 🙂

If you’ve are in my delegate world, you’re welcome to come along for free. Bring a video you’re working on, a question, a frustration, or just come and meet the others 🙂
Nobody’s expecting you to have it all figured out. It’s a very relaxed catch-up.

I’ll also share a bit about why I bought the DJI Pocket 4P, if we have time and you are interested 🤷‍♀️

The signup link isn’t easy to find, so just DM me and I’ll send it over ❤️

PS: If you have my Film Making Course courses you are in my world (you might have come through a 1-2-1 or Video - In Your Style.)

30/10/2026

No hook, nothing to learn/save/do/think/forward… just a pointless little calm vibe 😊

In case anyone was missing the cows 😉

Have a beautiful weekend x

06/10/2026

I’m editing video from a commercial session today and was using this trick of overlaying the footage with a still image. I showed my delegates how to do this last week when we did video editing so thought I’d do a little post about this.

So many photographers shy away from video because they can’t match the footage perfectly to their stills. Honestly, I’m super loose on this, lots of mine don’t match perfectly either. If you are shooting flash images your video probably just won’t match perfectly because video/natural light hasn’t got the same look 🤷‍♀️

Yes, of course these are times where it’s important to get the colour right, but there are tons of situations where the emotion and story matters more – especially across newborn, babies, family, personal branding 🙂

Be honest, are you refusing to dip your toe into video on your camera because of the editing side?

21/09/2026

😬 Yikes, someone kindly made me aware that I’ve been inconsistent with the timings I’ve posted for the Essentials Video Kickstart on Wednesday. The website and email confirmations says 1pm but then I was posting 2pm on social and in DMs 🙈
(yep I even had an add running with the wrong time!)

I’m so sorry! Definitely starting at 1pm. The main training will take just under an hour but I’ll always stay for questions as long as needed 🙏

Yes, this is genuinely a live session!

Learn exactly what gear you need (use what you have) and the settings you need to record lovely video at your next session.

These are lovely small groups, quite a unique opportunity to get access to a real person with all your video questions at a super low price of £49 😉

18/09/2026

Shutter speed is the one setting that does translate straight over from photography into video. Most photographers make the mistake of recording on higher shutter speeds because that feels “right” from photography... but I promise, you really only have two options, leave the shutter speed alone... trust the process 😉

Video settings aren’t difficuelt at all, but of course they make a difference to how your footage comes out.
No matter what kind of training you do with me, I’ll explain settings in the super easy ways, relating everything back to photography.

💛 My mini essentials training for photographers will run for the last time this year on Wed Sep. 23rd. One hour on zoom.

14/09/2026

😬 Posting with clenched teeth… because I hear you say all the time that your footage isn’t good enough!

Ten-ish years ago I filmed this for a brand and it was rough. Shaky, missed focus, jerky movements, wrong settings...

But the brand still used it! And they kept coming back to me 🤷‍♀️

I can see what I was reaching for, I see my style in there - I just didn’t have the skills or experience to quite get there.

Don’t be scared to try it. You’ll be surprised what might be usable 🤷‍♀️

I’d love to help fast track your learnings, so you can skip 10 years of doing it badly and slowly 😉

Let’s set you up properly before you go to the session, with the right settings and a little plan for a few pieces to record. No stress, keeping focus on the photography.

Video – In Your Style starts on Wednesday and I’ll be helping them introduce paid video into their photography business, third time it runs and a full house again 😊

11/09/2026

Sometimes those dark orange rooms can feel awful for video 😩 (and photography).
But as we edge towords the darker season I thought I’d share this example.

Nope, the video doesn’t perfectly colour match the images and that’s not really important for that brand! She’s not a photographer obsessiong about kelvin colour, she’s busy running her business and what she needs is content to convey a message of “yeah, this is medical but I’m going to make it feel like a spa treatment and really look after you”.

So, when you hit a dark room for video consider if there’s an option to run with the darkness, use the limited ligth to still get the message across?
Without adding actual video light, you will be playing a loosing game trying to make it look light & bright, so do the best with what the situation gives you?

And yes, I dread the dark winter season too... I WANT the lovely bright light 🤪

10/09/2026

🤷‍♀️ I’ve bought some of those courses too, we all do it! It’s simply because we don’t recognise the subtle difference between keeping focus on the photography and flowing video in vs. being the person who’s only worrying about video.

Of course a videography or cinematography course is going to teach you exactly that! Of course, those courses aren’t talking about how you fit video into a photography workflow, why would they?!

But remember, you already know so much from photography! So when we take that and layer video in as an extension rather than a wildly different skill it’s going to feel more achievable 😊

💛 Video – In Your Style is all about this, but also all about stepping into getting paid for that video inside your photography business. There’s 1 spot left for next week, I’d love you to join if you’re finally ready to get going with video 😊

09/09/2026

Being “only” a photographer who also does video is not a small thing to be. It’s a real, well-paid extra, without the four days, the assistant, or the three-month turnaround 😉

Video – In Your Style is built around exactly that: adding video into the sessions you’re already doing, not becoming a videographer. Ohhh, and it’s especially perfect for photographers working with brands/commercial clients, so much opportunity in those genres for adding video.

We start on Wednesday the 16th of September 😉

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