In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Family Photographers & Filmmakers, Kylie Purtell sits down for a chat with Boston Family Filmmaker & Photographer, Amy Murgatroyd about her experience as a speaker at Unfiltered Retreat this year as well as her thoughts about the concept of an "ideal client" and why maybe we should re-think the way we define this. It's a great listen!

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Family Photographers & Filmmakers, Kylie sits down for a chat with Tog Hub Founder Stacey Rolfe about the value of outsourcing and pricing your time in business as a photographer + filmmaker.

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers, your hosts, Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell sit down for a chat with Melbourne based in-home newborn & young-family photographer MICHELLE MCKAY.

Michelle McKay is a master storyteller. From her background as a high school English teacher to her work as an in-home newborn photographer, story is at the heart of everything Michelle does. She’s also one of the speakers at the upcoming UNFILTERED RETREAT in the Blue Mountains from August 8th to 11th and we are so excited to have her on the podcast today, sharing her thoughts and expertise about creating compelling storytelling images for yourself & your clients.

We chat about:

• How the practice of documenting life, what it looks and feels like, has become Michelle’s life’s work and acts to ground and anchor her to real life.

• Michelle’s struggles with time management and how changing her perspective on time has made a difference not only to her life but to how she documents it as well

• Michelle’s background in English, poetry and teaching, and how that fuels her obsession with storytelling

• How Michelle approaches a session and prepares her clients in order to tease out their own unique story

• The strategies & visual devices Michelle uses to shape individual stories within larger, more universal ones

• What Michelle wishes she’d known when she first started as a photographer

• And how finding your voice is not something that happens overnight

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers, your hosts, Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell sit down for a chat with Sydney newborn & family portrait photographer Sophie Partyka from SOPHIE LEA PHOTOGRAPHY.

Sophie Partyka has been in the photography biz for more than 18 years, and been running her own portrait business for 10 years. She’s also one of the speakers at the upcoming UNFILTERED RETREAT in the Blue Mountains from August 8th to 11th and we are so excited to have her on the podcast today, sharing her thoughts and expertise about building a brand and a business that you love.

We chat about:

• How nostalgia and desperation to hang on to moments in time fuels the passion to capture images for ourselves & others

• How experience & maturity impacts our work and how we relate to clients

• Sophie explains how being patient and allowing your business to grow rather than rushing through that growth leads to long-term sustainability

• How the best way to grow is to just get in and do the work, don’t wait for everything to be “right”

• How cultivating genuine relationships is the real secret to building a successful business

• What Sophie believes is one of the big misconceptions about building a successful brand, and

• How outsourcing can be the catalyst for exponential growth