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We're doing by thousands of photographers listening to this show who are all in the same journey to master their photography.

I'm Jeff Harmon Harmon the host for this

episode and I'm solo I'm sorry I could get anyone else to join me this week

there's a lot going on with the rest of the team. I'm going to share my top five things that I think

should be on every photographer's pre-shoot checklist. And as I was preparing for this, I was trying to think of my top five things.

I want you to realize this is not me saying I'm perfect at all of these things.

This is something I'm doing because I need to improve. This is something

I fail at all the time even though I have some strategies on most of these things to be able to

like make sure I do a good job with this checklist it's a real

struggle often because I'm most of the time I don't know if this is something full

time for photographers have a challenge with or not. But as a hobbyist, I'm fitting in client shoots wherever I can and it seems like I'm always rushing like a tornado to get out the door on the way to a shoot.

And, you know, I was for a long time severely worried, like anxiety levels like really high,

because I was worried I was going to leave something behind that. like really

needed in the shoot.

And early on it was because I wasn't very used to the things

that I'd need or what I would want as I'm reacting to a shoot.

I was learning enough on the fly and with the clients and you know it was kind of a struggle to figure

it out. Now that I'm more seasoned and I have more experience and I've figured out kind of how I like to approach

various problems in shoots or ways that I'm going to shoot

this has become a little easier for me.

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