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How I'm Funding My Own Wedding with a Photography Sprint
To help pay for my wedding, I built a hidden landing page, a video ad, and a full Stripe funnel in two weeks using AI \u2014 then texted the link to twenty people and closed four.
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Documentary Portrait Photography: I Shoot Your Story, Not Just Your Face
Why I shoot documentary portraits: I'd rather follow you through a real day, at work or at home, and capture your story as it happens than pose you in a studio.
Filming a Laser Treatment I Knew Nothing About
Back at SlimFit Studios in Newport to film a laser skin treatment, shot in two formats, vertical and cinematic, with a focus on angles, detail, and just enough added light.
What a Barbershop Taught Me About Systematizing a Business
A barbershop in Irvine photographs your head after every cut so any stylist can reproduce it. Here's what that system taught me about scaling a one-person video company.
Building a Green Screen Studio in a Living Room
The gear and lighting setup behind twelve educational videos a month, two Amaran lights, a collapsible green screen, a teleprompter, and a client's living room.
Fifteen Years Without a Break
For fifteen years I spent thousands on memory cards and tools and nothing on a vacation. The systems I'd needed that whole time only got built when I finally had a reason to leave the desk.
Every Company Needs a Media Arm
I partnered with a founder to launch a podcast from scratch, brand, website, photography, and studio, in two weeks. Here's the build, and the bigger argument: every company, large or small, should be running its own media arm.
Filming Demo Content for SlimFit Studio: Round One
A pitch deck, two friends, and one dimly lit studio: notes from the first round of demo and social content for SlimFit Studio, and what I learned testing fast.
Documenting Spontaneity During a Luxury Yacht Shoot
Creative filming on a yacht turns into a celebration of spontaneous moments and documentation despite a lack of technical facts about the vessel.