Commercial Photographer: Your Guide to Marketing, Creativity and Growth is the essential podcast if you're a professional headshot photographer or brand photographer. Ready to achieve sustainable business growth? Each week, we share practical advice and actionable strategies to help you master your marketing, ignite your creativity, and build a profitable commercial photography business. Learn how to attract ideal clients, stand out in the marketplace, and build the business you've always wanted. Stop guessing and start growing with business help and guidance from industry experts.
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Sam Hollis and Marcus Ahmad, Experts in Commercial Photography and Marketing
Event Photographer Tips: How to Shoot Red Carpet and Step and Repeat Awards
Corporate award nights look effortless in the finished photos. Behind the board, though, you've got seconds per group, a queue forming and nobody to tell you whether your shot worked. Marcus has shot red carpets and award events everywhere from Cannes to Miami this year, and he records this one the day before heading off to one of the most unusual jobs of his career.
If you're an event photographer, you'll hear how he keeps groups relaxed in front of the board, the small habit that stops a good photo being spoiled before the shutter even fires, and what changes when the organiser wants your pictures on a big screen while the party is still going. If events are a way into more brand photographer work this season, start here.
If you'd like more on photographing events, Don't Start Your Next Shoot Until You Master Event Photography Storytelling (https://pod.link/1678700823/episode/NjhiZTk2Y2YtYjIwZC00OTI2LWEyNzktOWFkM2NhNDkxMmFk) is the one to line up next.
Is your website delivering the quality leads your business needs? If not, then join our Website Challenge for Brand Photographers (https://commercial-photographer-podcast.com/website/)
29 Sept 2026
Why Visitors Leave a Brand Photographer's Website Without Enquiring
Your website can look fantastic and still send visitors away without a single enquiry. Sam has a simple way of checking why, and it starts with three questions every brand photographer should be able to answer about their own site. Some of the fixes will feel almost too obvious once you hear them, and a few are probably sitting on your website right now. Have it open while you listen.
This episode is also the warm-up for Sam's Brand Photographer's Website Challenge, which starts in November with weekly group support and one-to-one sessions to help your site bring in better leads. Spaces are limited, and you can book yours at commercial-photographer-podcast.com/website.
If the design side has you curious, What Website Designers Wish Photographers Knew (https://pod.link/1678700823/episode/MjE1NDA1MWYtYjM3Zi00NDczLWI0MDctMzMzZmQxMmY3YjUw#) is the one to press play on next.
22 Sept 2026
The Colour Conversation Every Brand Photographer Should Have Before a Shoot
For a brand photographer, colour is quietly doing the selling on every logo, every website and every brand client, and most of us never chose it on purpose. Our guest works with colour for a living, and what she reveals about how people react to it will change how you look at your own branding.
If you've ever watched a brand client arrive on shoot day in something that just doesn't work, there's a simple step that prevents it, and it happens long before anyone picks up a camera. You'll also hear about the cheap piece of kit that saves a commercial photographer hours in the edit, and what you should be wearing yourself.
If how you present yourself matters to you, we went further on it back in Styling Yourself as Part of Your Brand (https://pod.link/1678700823/episode/YjgwOTEyOTktN2QyNi00ZDNjLWJkM2YtYjFiZjAwNzJlMDcw).
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Phillip Noth Coombes
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