Award winning professional photographer based in Maldon Essex, specialising In boudoir, fashion and portraits
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Due to covid-19 Its been a super hard year at Adrian Day Photography
as of Thursday 5th November due to gov restrictions we have to sadly stop working again, for another month.
This isnt going to be an easy time for photographers and many other businesses
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Your contribution is very much appreciated.
EVERY single penny goes into creating content
and buying equipment. nothing goes into my personal piggy bank
Your contribution is very much appreciated.
EVERY single penny goes into creating content
and buying equipment. nothing goes into my personal piggy bank
During this lockdown we have all had a hard time, be that as it may, many of us have had some free time, more than we would like and less money coming in.
I thought it a good idea to help out with ‘five tips’ I’ve been using the last few months to make a little extra income while not being able to shoot like I normally would! and to take up some of that free time I suddenly now have.
Tip 1 look at your back stock and edit to use for promotional material on social media. This keeps people seeing your work and keeps your pages active even though your restricted from shooting.
Tip 2 contact magazines to see if there is interest in your work! Send in submission using your back stock or new edits from tip 1
Tip 3 if you shoot landscapes, automotive or nature sign up to stock sites and upload them, this can create a great source of income.
Tip 4 maybe it’s time for you to put your money where your mouth is ! This part is speculate to accumulate, pick some of your best works and get some prints done. To frame and sell! This is a way you can make some extra money while not being able to actually shoot !
There are also some great sites that you can upload images to sell but remember they take commission
Tip 5 we all have that extra gear laying around that we no longer use. Maybe it’s time that you traded in! Maybe for cash to help with day to day earning or even to trade up on the lens or product you’re after!
Having a little time on your hands gives you plenty of opportunities to go through everything you no longer use.
Below is a list of a couple of helpful places you can go to online
Shutter stock image stock website
12 best magazines that take image submissions
Sell your unused gear with wex
I am not affiliated with any of the above links it’s just a couple of companies I have used and been happy with the service. There are many others out there!
I’ve been using Instagram for years… pretty much from day one…
It’s was great watching all the people posting amazing images and showing of what they was doing in a way that no other site had been doing.
Images got likes and each person had its real following in its own style, niche..
Everyone had a voice, everyone could be just who they wanted to be. okay there was a few restrictions and Instagram kept an eye on the naughty side.
As the years have gone on it’s become restrictive in ways that we don’t realise. We only don’t realise this because Instagram has taken it up-on it’s self to use it’s algorithm to put pay to getting seen in any way shape or form unless instagram feels you deserve it. or that you tick ever box it want you to.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking into where and what’s best to get yourself and images seen and noticed. Paid or free.
It’s looking like social media is now making it more like antisocial media! It’s killing its self off by doing all it can to so called be the best! Why if a site calls its self social would you stop people for doing exactly that.
I’ve tried everything to get a following used a number of different pages even posted images that have on other sites got tens of thousands of views and like yet on social media got just under 100 views and maybe 30 likes.
This to me isn’t worth my investment at all. I’ve paid for and done free posts and got nothing in return.
To me it’s seems that a number of people are coming away from the platforms and putting the money into their own websites and posting the work right to the bourses mouth! And getting so much more ! For way less.
A few weeks back I posted to Pinterest! From my website now my website is a free WordPress and my Pinterest is free.
In one seven day period I had over 60k of views and a large number of saves and like. And my views and comments to my website went from 10 to 100 per day!
It’s honestly a no brainier when you’re getting something for free and the numbers are showing for them self what’s happening . It’s only time before everyone goes it alone and walks away from so called social media !
This is just my opinion but try it your self and if you don’t see a difference let me know.
I’m sure in a day of media being a sales point that we need to find our best format or medium to get ourselves out there! It’s only smart business that we look out for ourself and our really followers and clients
Question is do you think it’s dead? What have you found that works for you? I’m always open to suggestions !
A few images from the shoot with Alana, we got some fun and friendly images with this client
It was such a great shoot to do! And definitely one I had to edit and show while I had the chance!
If you like what you see please feel free to show some love!
These images are from the covid-19 back stock love these mini sets setting images out like this I find works for showing images to clients as a first impression set!
If this is something that stands out to you please show these images and posts some love.
Day six of covid-19 lockdown and been creating some image sets for social media posts
These are pretty simple to do and something I like to issue to send image sets to clients of the three best images from each outfit I shoot!
Sometimes it takes a little time to get things right but these are simple and show just what’s needed
If you like what you see please show the post and the images on our social media pages some love 💓
This was a set I took with my Nikon camera system and some test shots using some neewer flash heads
Model sarah was the perfect subject and we got some beautiful images together below are just Three new edits from this shoot!
This is a set of images from a shoot with stunning model Alice. She looked so amazing in these images only a little basic editing was needed ! To make these really pop out!
If you like them please head over to out social pages and give my page a follow to see more from these shoots
Give all our links some love 💓 we like to know our followers like what we are doing !
And this is possibly one of my favourite shoots that I’ve done. I’ve worked with this model on a number of occasions and always created something I class as special!
Let me know what you think of this set of images with model Jade
Please like share comment it’s always welcomed keep watching for more posts coming this week
This was one of a number of outfits for a fashion shoot with model and client Jade.
Really liked the way these images have come out and the way jade pops out the backdrop!
What do you all think of these images
This month I thought I would try something different ! I wanted to step away from social media a little and see what’s happening elsewhere.
Well I’m always looking for inspiration on Pinterest and everyone’s always posting did you see this? did you see that? on Pinterest! So ! I started posting my work to my Pinterest account ! https://pin.it/LA2I4vz
I created a folder and named it simply my photography, and then started adding the work I had stored on my mobile device! Now it’s all pretty simple to do when you have the Pinterest app! Just click the + sign and add the image and any details such as title, info and a weblink if you have one!
Now if you’re used to facebook or Instagram the algorithm it kicking our butts with low views and paid content advertising. So I’ve been used to 100 ish impressions on an image. Now With this I’ve not paid to promote any image! Everything has been organic. The first few images didn’t do to much 20 impressions and as I was saying thought okay this is about normal.
So I posted a few more images and they started going up 160 – 200
Then come the first big impression jump and to me I was happy organic views of an image more than I’ve had on social media in years ! 556 impressions in the image below!
Some of you may be thinking this is normal now I’ve only seen big number showing up on image of nudes or news posts other get a good number due to following! Now my following is low! Pinterest 40 followers Instagram 1450 not big at all!
Well I was a little addicted by this stage I started adding images to build up my portfolio and possibly gain the same kind of impressions a few of them didn’t get many view but then others started growing! 600+ 800+
And then there it was I hit my first 1200 views on and image! I was bouncing off the walls ! Me, my work, a Photographer on a lonely mission to get known!
Now this was in my first week ! I’m only on week two now and my numbers on certain images are still low but then others are getting over the 1k but yesterday one image went ballistic! I posted an image just before leaving the house to go run some errands!
When I got back I was thinking about my image was it good enough it wasn’t someone I had posted shooting on there in that style before! Well it got the better of me and I picked up my phone and clicked the app! And there it was ! 6500 impressions! Over 6.5 k Of views this was shocking ! Happy understatement of the day! Mind blown head shock! Here is that image!
Well I’m definitely blown away with that now with Pinterest you can see the monthly stats on posting just to my photography pin board this month has so far racked me up 26K of impressions and 18K audience 18000 people seen my page that’s more than see my Instagram last year in just two weeks ! Let alone a month!
Below is my stats
So honestly if you’re trying to get your work seen by the masses the maybe social media like facebook or Instagram are not the way forward ! They’re a great medium and in fairness you could help the views by posting links to social pages too! Just to gain a little extra viewing! But my new best friend is definitely Pinterest!
It’s helped my website to grow, it’s helped my social pages grow as the links are there on the images and it’s boosted my interest from people want to have work done by me! All in all I think it’s a great place to grow and watch this space for the what the rest of this month brings if this is the start I look forward to seeing what can come from stepping away from the norm!
Give it a try yourself and let me know how you get on! Any free advertising is worth the two minutes it takes to set up and the 30 seconds to post!
Feel free to follow my Twitter Pinterest Instagram pages all can be found below or on our main page! Click the pictures to go to our pins page
Until next time ! One life one shot capture it!
Adrian Day Photography 