About this Bristol Brand Photography Project
“OMG Claire, I love, love LOVE them ALL!
I love every photo and I loved the day . You helped me feel confident and relaxed, made it so easy and so much fun!
Thank you!”
This is what Mindset Coach, Jo Sayers, said after her indoor and outdoor brand photo shoot in Bristol.
Read on to hear how she went from hating having her photo taken to this, through my Focus, Frame and Flourish process.
Do you hate having your photo taken?
Yes? Then you are not alone, as that’s what the majority of my clients say when I speak to them. This includes Jo Sayers from Mastering Mums Mind, a Mindset and Transformation Coach, who started our initial call by telling me how she HATES having her photo taken and doesn’t even display any of her wedding photos.
But she went from this, to feeling happy and confident throughout her brand shoot in Bristol, to loving it so much, she didn’t want it to end!
Mindset Coach Jo, from @masteringmumsmind, knew she needed her new website and social media channel to reflect her and her business values and how she supports others with their journey. Having started her Mindset Coaching Business the previous year, Jo had reached the stage where she needed updated, professional photos to enable her reach and connect with more people and grow her business. Despite not liking having her photo taken, Jo was ready to step out of her comfort zone and arrange a brand photo shoot.
“I cannot put into words how helpful Claire has been throughout this process.
I have a long old back story with my dislike for having my photo taken, and worries that I wouldn’t like the end result. However, I didn’t need to be concerned, as the photos Claire got were better than I could ever have imagined! I am so proud to be putting them on my new website.”
Getting prepared with my Focus, Frame and Flourish process…
Jo was busy mapping out a brand new website and together with her Facebook support work, she needed varied storytelling photos to bring her brand and business to life.
I helped Jo to feel comfortable through my Focus, Frame and Flourish process, and really encouraged her to think about the range of photos she could get, how she could use them and the difference they could make to her visibility and business.
“Spending time working through the Focus, Frame and Flourish framework with Claire enabled me to choose branding colour schemes and hone down on my values and how I wanted these reflected through my images. I was able to consider props and locations for the images and this provided me with more clarity on my branding.”
During the Creativity Call for Jo’s brand shoot, her eyes came alight with all the ideas, and realisation of what photos she could get and how she could use them in her Facebook and Membership groups, to help create connection with her audience!
“From the outset, Claire was so interested in knowing about me and my business and really wanted to help me capture my business values and passion, and how I wanted my website to look.”
“Claire had so many amazing ideas that we covered during the Creativity Call, that really helped me achieve what I wanted from the photo shoot. I felt I had so much clarity on the day, which helped massively with my confidence. We kept in contact during the planning phase with ideas flowing back and forth, so by the time the shoot day came, we had all the themes, shots and locations mapped out.”
We packed a lot into shoot day…
Mindset Coach, Jo’s, brand shoot took place at her friends amazing house near Nailsea in Bristol, which allowed us to have photos in different rooms as well as outside at a nearby woods, to create a wonderfully varied gallery.
With all the plans in place, we eeked out every last drop of the 3-hour shoot, and Jo (who remember, hates having her photo taken) was laughing, smiling and literally jumping for joy throughout the morning!
And she messaged the next day to say,
“I loved it so much, can we do it all again!”
We covered several themes including showing Jo’s interaction with a client, Jo holding out a blank frame to then use to overlay text in Canva, profile photos and headshots and story telling photos to show a range of emotions which Jo could use to connect with her audience.
Following the brand shoot, Jo was then able to move onto the Flourish stage with her bumper gallery of on-brand, creative, storytelling brand photos , which included profile photos, cover/banner photos, website hero shots, social media story-telling photos, Facebook and Instagram profile photos, and prop shots which give her flexibility for creating social media content.
