Welcome to Made for Profit, a podcast where we talk business in the shop and help you monetize as a maker.

Each week we cover business topics to help you grow your full-time business or your side hustle.

We'll also bring you interviews from a variety of people winning in their space to share valuable business insights and life lessons.

I'm Brad Rodriguez, a full-time content creator running Fix This Build That.com.

And my co-host, John Mulecki, runs a full-time furniture company and his content site,

John Mellecki.com.

We've been growing our successful businesses online, and we want to bring you into the conversation

and help you grow along with us.

Welcome to episode 42. And whether you make products or content, having good photos of your work is essential.

And we've already talked about video basics and today we're going to be talking about photography basics.

We're going to cover entry-level gear, how to set up your shots, some things to think about once you're doing that, and how to edit them on the back end. But before we get into it, we want to thank the new members that joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We did have a couple weeks here, so we've had a few more people join in. Caleb Harris from You Can Make This 2. Mike from Modestrial Maker, Johnny Trombuchus, who we had a pleasure to meet in New York

City.

We'll talk about in a minute.

Mark Thomas, Ian Liggett, Tim Mills, and Eric Cochran.

Thank you so much, guys, for joining over there.

If you'd like to be part of the Patreon tribe, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash

made for profit, and you can take advantage of all the

benefits like the after show and some other great things that are going on. So go check that

out if you are interested. John, what is up? My man. Not much, dude. I'm excited to get back to

recording. It's always fun to get back behind the mic after we get to meet some of our patrons and some of our listeners

like we did last week at Home Depot. So I'm super excited. This is a topic that we also get a lot of

questions on too. So it should be a pretty good episode. As far as me, you know, I'm just over here

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