I have a client that is an antique map trader, and he could not take proper photographs of his maps to sell on line. He hired a dozen...yep...a dozen...photographers to help him take better photographs. Then he called me.
“I have ZERO experience taking photographs of antique maps, but I will give it a go with you,” I explain to him over the phone. He hires me, and I promptly panic. I have no clue about what I am doing. I reach out to photography forums, to my buddies and to the internet for ideas. I want to help my clients, but I don’t have a clue. I don’t know what I am doing.
The day arrives for me to tackle the task. I pack up all my gear...or a lot of it...and I trek to his place way out in the desert.
After seeing his set up, I simply tell him to change one thing at a time. He starts to write everything down. I say, “No. Only write the formula when we get it right.”
After just a few tweaks here and there with his set up, his lighting, his camera settings and his post work...viola!! He was thrilled! And by thrilled, I mean he had tears in his eyes, saying that these were the best photographs he has ever made....(and that was after taking 400 before I got to his place).
We never even unpacked my gear.
Yes.... Confidence is weird.
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