You’ve heard that saying a million times before, and I’m not here to talk about that in general terms, but I wanna ponder that from my own perspective regarding creating content.

I hold myself to a pretty high standard with the posts I make, disregarding the occasional shitposts. I know how to make great photographic stories with self portraits, but they take a lot, I mean a lot a lot of time, energy and effort. I love to do them but I can’t do them all day every day, it’s too much, I would burn out.

There is a way to maximise the reward for my work, by getting a lot more material from the photoshoot than showing the actual pictures when they are done.

If I were to try and get the most out of one shoot, this is what I would do:

1. Make a post about the process of getting ready; hair, makeup, outfit and changing things around to make a set. (This I haven't actually done but will do soon.)
2. A behind the scenes video from the shoot.
3. Showing the post process for the images.
4. Posting the actual images that are ready, if there is a lot, divide into two posts.
5. Using the leftover pictures as illustrations for written posts, essentially creating a library of different kinds of moods to be used on various different things.
6. Post everything on Whaleshares too.
   
   

That is quite a lot more I could get out of one shoot, with pretty minimum extra effort. I don’t want to do this all for every shoot, that would become boring really fast, but I do like to often do at least one thing more than just show the readymade pictures.

Aside from the actual pictures, which part of the process you find the most interesting and would perhaps like to see more of?