John Bunn | From Video to Five-Figure Photo Packages | Shoot the Veil #40

Tell me, what were some principles

you took from your video business that kind of also migrated into your photo business when starting that?

Yeah, and it took me about 10 years of running my own business to just be confident in who John is as a person and the kind of curiosity that gets me excited on a wedding day.

Ooh, that texture gets me excited or that...

That little moment over there between the grandma and the flower girl or whatever it was, it's like took me forever to be like, it's okay for me to have a unique style and it's okay for me to put myself out there as a creative.

I always felt like I wasn't a real creative or I wasn't like, you know, the self-talk you tell yourself.

It's just like, I'm not foster.

Nobody really.

And I just kind of like what I took into the photo world of what I was doing is very honest with people.

Hey, I'm adding photo.

I've done this many weddings.

I've worked with more photo people than probably anyone on the planet.

I've worked with 400 or 500 photographers at this point, and I'm gonna go for it.

And what I'm doing is I'm gonna give away these free sessions, and if you want some, I'm gonna be building my portfolio.

And I just took the advice that I'd been giving people that were, It's like if you just start out and you know who you are, you have a brand that's clear, you have a brand voice that's clear, and you lean into showing what you really want to shoot and don't let anybody tell you that you can't show what you want to show, you will attract people that are interested in you being the one.

And you mix that with an online presence where you need people to know who you are before they reach out.

And there's never been a better time in the world The history of the world, Instagram, TikTok, whatever the thing is to put yourself out there in a way that you can kind of shine the smoke in the mirrors to be the brand that you want to be.

So I just decided a little over a year ago now, we're on 13 months, that I was going to post three to four times a week.

And I was going to show up in my stories as a daily journal every day.

And I have not missed a single day.

I've preplanned things when I was going to be going on vacation and different things like that.

But I just really started to take me as the brand really seriously because there's too many good photographers.

There's too many good videographers now that back in the day, you could really separate yourself if you knew how to use a high definition camera.

Now you can buy a camera this weekend that shoots 4K, 60, 10 bit, this log, whatever.

And you're in.