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Jared Polin Frodo's Photo.com and welcome back to another flying solo where I take three of your questions and I answer them.

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Download it for iOS and Android and let's get into the first question. We have E.J. Ambris

and he says, I want to complete a photo story and there is a unique local business that I want to be my subject.

Could you give me some advice on how

to approach the story and the business with the idea? So this is a great question. And I think

the first thing you need to do is obviously figure out how are you going to go to this business?

The best thing to do is be prepared when you go to them. You're going to want to have a

quick outline, a couple of paragraphs saying, this is what I want to do. You're going to want to have a quick outline, a couple of

paragraphs saying, this is what I want to do. This is my hope. Here's some sample photos

that I've shot in the past in photo stories that I've done with other people or other

businesses. And if you already don't have one that you did with a business, well you can

follow a friend around, follow a parent around, follow somebody

around who has something similar that you can then create that into a story so that you can

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