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Vacation vs Portrait Photography  •  Directing Your Shoot  •  Photo Style Guide  •  Videos  •  Logos  •  Team Shoot Discount Codes  •  Share the Magic  •  Team Perks & Discounts  •  Passport Magazine  •   Visit Us at HQ!

Vacation Photography vs Portrait

Flytographer specializes in vacation photography. What is the difference between this and your typical portrait session?

Background is key

Make sure you get a variety of long to mid-range shots that showcase the amazing city you live in. There is a reason customers booked you rather than their hometown photographer for a session in a park!

Minimize close-ups

Portrait sessions are all about the people and their relationship to each other, and close-ups work well to illustrate this dynamic. In vacation photography, however, the city is the (non-paying) customer, and it’s important to highlight the relationship of all your customers together, city and people. Close-ups block out the city, and we don’t want the city to feel left out! (Exception: for a proposal, please do get a close-up of the ring)

Fun, colourful, bright storytelling

When you go on holiday, how do you want to remember it? Your vacation is a series of stories, usually happy ones, and definitely colourful! Vacation photos should reflect this feeling in the editing. Posing people in a “smile and stand facing the camera” way should be minimized – try to get people to be natural in posing or movement. (Customers of course want to look good but often don’t know what to do to make that happen, so be sure to guide them. Be on the lookout for bra straps, messy hair, or unslightly sweat stains.)

Please refer to our Photo Style Guide, our blog, and the latest issue of Passport Magazine to see great examples of our brand style.

Videos: Converting Inquiries & Shooting with Natural Light

Krystal’s Top 5 Tips for Converting Inquiries into Bookings – Video Notes

1. Show excitement in your response: “I would love to work with you!”
2. Respond to any and all of their questions to show that you’ve heard them and are interested.
3. Sell them on your favourite location and time. Customers are relying on us to be the local experts. We know our cities and our lighting, so if you have a favourite location or shoot time, respond to the customer with that! For me, I love shooting at the Eiffel Tower in the morning at a specific address, so I give the customer exactly that info. The more clear we are in our response, the more likely the customer will go with exactly what you want and trust us to do our jobs correctly. We both win this way!
4. Respond quickly, whether it’s yes or no. It’s important to respond quickly even if we can’t take the shoot, as it can then be offered to other photographers in a timely way – we can support each other this way! 
5. I have a template saved in my notes that I can easily cut and paste for each customer stating:
   a) how excited I am to work with them
   b) where to shoot
   c) what time of day to shoot
   This way it’s easy to respond quickly and clearly since most clients have no idea what they want, except gorgeous photos with you leading the way! I can easily make small custom tweaks to my response from here.

Sam in NYC’s Tips for Shooting with Natural Light – Video Notes

• When on the shoot, always be focussed on where the light is coming from, the angle, strength of light, whether it’s bouncing off things
• Keep an eye out for shadows, especially as they fall across faces and bodies of your subjects
• Use the natural reflectors around you to advantage, such as the light bouncing off sidewalks, walls and water
• Backlighting creates a romantic mood. Put your subjects straight in the middle of the light and angle yourself 45 degrees
• Expose for your subject’s faces
• At the shoot location, scout around for backgrounds that are easy to integrate into your shot. Keep the subject in focus and make sure the background is recognizable (ie. stop down to get deeper depth of field)

Flytographer Logos

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Ready for your own Flytographer shoot?

Please go to the destinations page, choose your photographer in the city in which you are visiting, and fill out the availability form. We are working on tech to automatically apply your discount, but in the meantime, please email concierge@flytographer.com to get your custom code for the following:

• If this is your first shoot, you receive $100 off
• If this is a subsequent shoot, you receive $50 off
• If you purchase gift cards, you receive 15% off

A few of our Flytographers on their own shoot while travelling to a new city. Recognize anyone?

Four ways to share the magic of travel with Flytographer!

1. Referral code – you get $25 in credit, your friend gets $25 off their first shoot! Find the code in your dashboard under your customer view, under the  “Get $25” tab.
2. Affiliate Program *** – you get 10% commission, your friend gets $25 off their first shoot! Apply for this program using your existing Passport account here. Note: When you apply, please enter your Company or Brand Name as ‘Flytographer Photographer’. You will be notified once your application is approved.
3. Want to give your friends and family a bigger discount without receiving credit or cash for yourself? Email concierge@flytographer.com to get them a $50 off code!
4. Is this your first personal shoot? Receive $100 off by emailing concierge@flytographer.com for your code. (Subsequent personal shoots receive $50 off.)

Team Perks & Discounts

1. Peak Design peakdesign.com

• 30% off all items (except bundles) to a max purchase of $500/year
• exclusive for Flytographer team only – please do not share this discount with anyone!

How to: Go to this page, create a login first, then fill out the program form (answers below).
Answers to form questions:  Q1: No, Q2: C, Q3: Flytographer, Q4: upload a screenshot of your dashboard, including our logo at top left and your name with “-photographer” in top right, Q5: www.flytographer.com, Q6: flytographer@30, Q7: Yes, Q8 video questions: all D

2. Narrative Select narrative.so/select

• 25% off any paid plan
• exclusive for Flytographer team only – please do not share this discount with anyone!

How to: Go to this page to sign up for a new account. Use the code FLY25 to activate your discount.

3. Unsettled beunsettled.co

• $200 off any co-working retreat
• exclusive for Flytographer team only – please do not share this discount with anyone!

How to: Apply for a retreat, receive an interview, and when invited to join, enter code Flytographers<3Unsettled at checkout.

4. Iris Works iris-works.com

• 20% off your first-year subscription (new subscriptions only)
• exclusive for Flytographer team only – please do not share this discount with anyone!

How to: Use coupon code FLY at checkout.

5. Teya Project teyaproject.com

• 15% off your online order
• exclusive for Flytographer team only – please do not share this discount with anyone!

How to: Use coupon code flytographers2019 at checkout.

6. Flytographer Affiliate Program

Share your unique link on your social media, blog or with anyone you like:

• receive 10% commission when your contact books their first shoot
• your customer gets $25 off their shoot using your affiliate link

How to: Apply for this program using your existing Passport account here. When you apply, please enter your Company or Brand Name as ‘Flytographer Photographer’. You will be notified once your application is approved.

***Applying for the Affiliate Program may prompt you to update your Tipalti payment information – this is not required as we are able to pay your Affiliate and Photographer commissions to the same account.

7. Flytographer Referral Program

Whether you post your Flytographer photos on social media or have wedding customers going on honeymoon, share your custom referral link:

• your customer gets $25 off their shoot using your referral link
• you earn $25 in accrued credits towards your own future shoot next time you travel

You are automatically signed up for the referral program (your info is under your “Customer” profile on your dashboard) – click the button below to watch a quick video of a concierge explaining how to use the program.

***Please note that referral code perks and affiliate code perks cannot be combined – you choose which code to share to receive your preferred perk!

If you still need help, please email concierge@flytographer.com.

Passport Magazine

Click on the cover image to go straight to the digital issue, or check out all our issues here.

Visit us at HQ

Planning a trip to our beautiful west coast city of Victoria, BC, Canada? We would love to see you! To help you enjoy our beloved city as much as we do, we’ve created a list of our favourite spots around town — check out our Local Guide to Victoria. Can’t wait to see you here!

Brodie Needham
Marketing Specialist
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Dasi Rae
Concierge
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Jaime Ryan
Concierge
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Liss Wright
Concierge Team Lead
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Nik Swain
Tech Lead
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Vanessa Carson
Concierge
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