$500 Photography Portraits to $8,000 Portraits with Pye Jirsa from SLRLounge.com

Pye Jirsa and his 2 partners run a photography studio in Los Angeles, California. LinandJirsaPhotography.com and SLRLounge.com.    1:00 - how Pye & his partners started their photography studio. They weren’t originally photographers, but fell into it accidentally when a client needed some photos.    5:00 - Pye talks about how he built up his photography skills, the shoots he does just to build skills, and how many photographers don’t do this.    8:30 - the team booked gigs off of Craigslist for free or $50 just to build their skills. Pye talks about how they grew their skills by doing these free gigs.    10:30 - SLR Lounge & Lin & Jirsa photography have about 20 people working for them. They shot 300+ weddings and portrait sessions in 2014. Pye charges $8,000 minimum for a wedding day shoot, and he talks about how he got to that number. How beginning artists undermine their own credibility by trying to charge too much.    18:30 - how Pye & the team created additional income streams from their art, and how SLR Lounge came into being.    25:00 - a lot of artists try to run more than one business at a time. This is very difficult to do, and needs to be handled strategically. Unless you have some sort of specific advantage, you can’t build more than one business at a time.    Thanks to ArtStoreFronts.com for sponsoring this episode