Brian Stanley Photography

Now, over the last 15 years, how has technology impacted your business? Because, you know, I would say 15 years ago, there wasn't drones to do, you know, overhead visuals and things like that.

Now, drones are kind of commonplace, right?

Yeah.

Well, not only drones, but... know 15 years ago they didn't have mirrorless cameras you were they had digital uh but that digital still meant you had to look to see if you got all your settings right where the mirrorless you what you see back of the camera is pretty much what you're getting unless you're using a flash so you have that you have drones uh which i love using drones i have my pilot's license to fly drones and uh There's so much creativity you can do with your drone.

And the different drones that are out there, they have drones that one of them I have that has a fisheye in it.

So you can make something really cool with using the fisheye in the air that you couldn't do before.

And then there's AI.

AI is actually, if you embrace AI, it helps.

It doesn't take my job away.

There's still a personal touch about what I do.

And AI is not going to replace that.

Yes, have some people done their headshots with AI? They never look good, though.

They don't look exactly right.

You can always tell.

It's two-dimensional, right? Like the highlights are too highlighted.

The depth is too depth.

Like you can really see how it looks.

It just looks weird.

It looks cartoony in a way.

And what I say with that is, okay, if you're just starting off and you absolutely can't afford a photographer to come in, fine, put it up there as your business is growing.

But then remember, you should do something that really, the lighting, the shadows, everything looks more you.

Right.

Not something that's, I want to say plastic looking.

Yeah.

It almost looks plastic looking.