You’ve heard that saying a million times before, and I’m not here to talk about that in general terms, but I wanna ponder that from my own perspective regarding creating content.
I hold myself to a pretty high standard with the posts I make, disregarding the occasional shitposts. I know how to make great photographic stories with self portraits, but they take a lot, I mean a lot a lot of time, energy and effort. I love to do them but I can’t do them all day every day, it’s too much, I would burn out.
There is a way to maximise the reward for my work, by getting a lot more material from the photoshoot than showing the actual pictures when they are done.
If I were to try and get the most out of one shoot, this is what I would do:
- Make a post about the process of getting ready; hair, makeup, outfit and changing things around to make a set. (This I haven't actually done but will do soon.)
- A behind the scenes video from the shoot.
- Showing the post process for the images.
- Posting the actual images that are ready, if there is a lot, divide into two posts.
- Using the leftover pictures as illustrations for written posts, essentially creating a library of different kinds of moods to be used on various different things.
- Post everything on Whaleshares too.
That is quite a lot more I could get out of one shoot, with pretty minimum extra effort. I don’t want to do this all for every shoot, that would become boring really fast, but I do like to often do at least one thing more than just show the readymade pictures.