How Former Wedding Photographer Shar Devine Manifested her Portrait Business
The Portrait System Podcast
Sue Bryce Education
4.9 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of wedding photographers in our industry whose businesses have been greatly affected by COVID-19. Therefore, a lot of them feel the need to transition to portrait to survive. Well, today's guest can tell you exactly how to do it! Shar Devine was a successful New-Zealand-based wedding photographer. However, a natural disaster forced her to change her business and manifest her portrait studio. Shar is now the proud owner of a thriving portrait photography studio. If you want to hear the details of her story and learn how you too can make this transition, you'll definitely listen this episode!
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| 0:35.5 | Once the earthquakes and things happened, my work disappeared virtually |
| 0:39.4 | overnight. So it just became a rebuild, really, just like we were rebuilding our city. |
| 0:44.2 | I had to rebuild my business as well. So the last two years, I have been making a gradual |
| 0:49.6 | transition of moving my work into the studio. It will be set up so that if my clients would like to come and |
| 0:56.0 | stay on the night of their shoot, they could have a night away so they could be there nice |
| 1:00.3 | and restful and ready for their photo shoot in the morning, or they could stay after the shoot, |
| 1:05.2 | like a dream shoot away. This is the Portrait System podcast, a show that helps portrait photographers and people hoping to become one, navigate the world of photography, business, money, and so much more. |
| 1:17.9 | We totally keep it real. We share stories about the incredible ups and the very difficult downs when running a photography business. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm your host, Nikki Klosser, and the point of this podcast is for you to learn |
| 1:27.6 | actionable steps that you can take to grow your own business, and also to feel inspired and |
| 1:32.3 | empowered by the stories you hear. Today's guest is Shar Devine, and I chatted with her |
| 1:37.4 | all the way from New Zealand. Char made quite an interesting transition from photographing |
| 1:42.1 | weddings to focusing on portraits because her country experienced a huge natural disaster when they had an earthquake, and this forced her to look at other ways to start running her business. |
| 1:52.0 | It was really interesting, too, to listen to Shar's story because while she was trying to figure out what to do next, it's almost like she manifested this new portrait side of her career without even |
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