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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Ariane Sherine

"I tried to give away free photography sessions. It was harder than getting paying clients"

Couple looking into each other's eyes.

During my first year as a professional portrait photographer, I got engaged to this wonderful photography expert, who proposed extremely memorably. With our wedding date less than a year away, I started planning the big day – and not only did I book a wedding photographer, I decided to move into wedding photography myself.

Naturally, no brides or grooms would hire me without an impressive portfolio of wedding photos – so I decided (in this area) to work for free to get experience.

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