050: Ibarionex Perello - Photography Business Success Without Shooting

Something a little different for episode 50 where I interview Ibarionex Perello, host of the incredibly successful and inspirational podcast; The Candid Frame. Ibarionex is a talented photographer who has built up a varied income stream to find photography business success without shooting. Not shooting directly for paying clients anyway, better than that, he gets to shoot what he wants.

In this interview, Ibarionex talks about getting published, having multiple income streams and the importance of building a way to get your work out there for people to discover. Once you’re known and your network grows, so do your opportunities.

• Generating an income from a love of photography without shooting
• Having and maintaining different streams of income
• Where to get published as a photographer
• How to get started as a writer of photography
• Teaching and mentoring photographers as a business
• Shooting what and how you like to create photography articles you want to write
• The importance of getting your work out there – no matter your focus
• Why you need to be spending more time on marketing than shooting if you want to succeed in generating an income
• Learning from and interviewing the worlds best photographers
• Once you are “known” doors will open but it takes effort and time
• Why you need to have a love of teaching before you think about making an income from workshops
• Is tackling a photography book with in your range?
• Strategies to get started writing your first book or article on photography
• Is starting your own podcast a good marketing idea for you?
• The fear and anxiety that every creative feels at certain times… no matter how successful

If you haven’t listened to The Candid Frame, be sure to check it out. The podcast is interview based and Ibarionex dives deep into the lives, thought processes and philosophies of photographers from all round the world. I guarantee you’ll come away feeling inspired to shoot and comfortable in the knowledge that other creatives go through the same feelings you do in their photography lives.

A great place to start, as Ibarionex mentioned, is episode 200 which you can find by: clicking here.

Some of Ibarionex’s portrait work.

This week for Premium Members, I’m making available my portrait agreement or contract that I use immediately after every shoot. The agreement is as simple as possible and easily understandable by clients but clearly states that the copyright of all photos taken during the shoot are the property of the photographer or studio.

The file is in PSD format and fully customisable to you and your studio if you wish to use some or all of it.

In Australia, as the law currently stands, if a photographer is commissioned to do a shoot, the copyright is automatically assigned to the person who commissioned the shoot – in the case of a portrait session, the clients. Unless you have a signed agreement to the contrary stating that the client is signing copyright over to the photographer.

I have a few more points in my agreement as you can see below, all of which you can modify as you wish.

Head over to the Members area to download the agreement.

Following this interview with Ibarionex, I’d love to know what your biggest takeaway is – what is the one thing that you’d like to implement or learnt from what he had to share? Let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below.

If you have any questions for Ibarionex that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them below.

Each week before recording the podcast I check iTunes for any reviews and each week I’m blown away by the comments and reviews from you. This week was no exception with some incredibly generous comments… thank you:

Sparly Davidson from chilly Canada with the hyperactive hamster wheel in his or her brain

“Looking At A New Me” who is a Photographic educator in Australia who now loves getting stuck in traffic

Levi 427 from the States on his or her way to becoming a successful professional photographer

Boss Rhino from Australia – thanks mate for the review

Shad Haque from the UK who has recently started shooting weddings and believes I favour Nikon shooters on the podcast.

Samanth Ohlsen from Australia who gives a big plug to the premium membership in her review – thanks for both Sam and great to hear you’re getting so much from both parts of the podcast.

Shot By CA Photography from Canada who recently discovered the latest episodes and is going back to the beginning to catch past episodes. Remember, if you have questions or comments on past episodes I and other commenters and often the show guest will see you comments too. If you have a direct question for the guest, I’ll make sure they see it for you.

Justin Brownell from the United States – another brand new listener about to head back to earlier episodes. Happy that you found us Justin, welcome and great to have you listening.

Amanda Schulz of ACS Studios in Canada – I’m happy that you’re happy about finding the podcast.

Sincerely, thanks so much to each and everyone of you that have left a rating and review, I appreciate the time each of you have taken to add them.

It’s these iTunes reviews that make a big difference to the podcast being ranked well and found in the iTunes store. If you have the time and are happy to leave an honest rating and review, head over to iTunes. Don’t feel your comments have to be long, involved or gushy, an honest opinion is all I ask.

Don’t be shy about leaving your business name in the review either – that way I can add a link in the show-notes and show my appreciation with a proper thanks and a Google loving back-link to your website.

If you’d like to get in touch, ask a question or make a suggestion for the show, you can email me andrew@photobizx.com, find me on Twitter https://twitter.com/andrewhellmich or on Facebook at http://photobizx.com/facebook - I’d love to hear from you!

http://thecandidframe.com

http://ibarionex.net

Range Finder Magazine

BetterPhoto.com – where you can find Ibarionex’s photography courses

Dean West Photography

Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light (Voices That Matter)

Canon 5D Mark III: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Dan Winters Photography

That’s it for me this week, hope everything is going well for you in life and business and you’re enjoying the start of 2014.

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Thanks and speak soon

Andrew

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