This Week We talk to Candice Zugich. The Blissful Maven. With her raw images full of emotion they might leave you feeling longing, feeling romance, or feeling connected. Her following is massive and extremely dedicated. With over 16,000 followers on Facebook, Candice has done something unheard of for a photographer who hates to travel. Trading in the plane tickets to that beautiful Icelandic wedding to spend more time at home with her husband and children. She is not following the trends, but listening to just 5 mins on todays podcast you'll quickly learn that the last thing Candice is concerned about is pleasing everyone else. Candice shares how she got started in photography and even how she grew into the photographer she is today after a terrible portrait session.
In This Episode You'll learn
How Candice is able to Love with all of her heart and still not take any shit from anyone
How she creates every photo as if it were a stand alone piece of art
Why Candice is more focused on anticipation rather than an emotion
Why posing is so much more important than you think it is
How Candice controls every detail of a shot. Even down to the angle of the wind
How The Blissful Maven is able to get couples so comfortable in front of the camera
What she tells her clients before she starts to pose them
How Important it is to manage expectations before you get people in front of the camera
How you can use your website to help manage client expectations with your work
How Candice has adapted her shooting style to be able to work close to home without having to go to "Epic Spots" like Iceland
Candice talks about how long she was doing shoots for free before she was comfortable with herself enough to start charging
How The Blissful Maven got her start in photography just like most moms and how she turned it into a profession
How Candice made the switch from Child photographer to Wedding and portrait photographer
How she got great images to build up a portfolio for her new shooting style
What Books Inspire The Blissful Maven to create her work
How Candice wants you to feel when looking at her photos
Candice talks about her morning rituals and how much she thrives on Chaos
How important it is to be able to just go with the flow
Why music and books are so important to Candice and how deeply she lets them affect her work
What Candice does to create such important work
How photography started out as a competition from Candice's husband
The only time Candice had a bad customer experience and what she learned from it
What sort of photographer Candice thought she had to be when first starting off and why it was wrong for her.
What is next for The Blissful Maven
