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so much for joining me today we're going to discuss the dunning-kruger effect how to
make blurry backgrounds why your photographs might be blurry take some pictures of pippi
going through your september challenge entries the best lenses for dog photography what to do
with a dog that is not amazingly well trained i do a black studio portrait 10 ways that you
can instantly improve your portrait to prepare files for printing five ways to remove stuff
in photoshop to calibrate our monitors run through your october challenge entries and
pick a winner a real life shoot movable color color cast dogs in action how to mask fur in photoshop
if you'd have told me this time last year or when i was a tiny little child that i would be making
videos on youtube i would have laughed to you the one thing though that i would not have found
surprising is that i would probably be surrounded by animals even as a child i was with animals most
of the time and as i grew up i began photographing them looking back at these memories from my life
it's kind of strange because i didn't realise at the time how much i had to give and
i have a lot more to give to i've given you guys a video a week for nearly a year
and those videos have been filled with ideas and tips and things that i hope that help you
i've put myself out there in terrifying situations i've been trolled and worse but it's not just me
you guys have seen the person behind the camera this person though a few years later of course
and what you guys i think don't realize is that this is a complete team effort
and throughout 2020 there's been more than me i want to just take this little bit of a second
to thank dan my wonderful husband for being endlessly supportive and the patience of a
saint to thank my brother colin who handles a lot of the admin side of things and then
jo i want to thank jo who is always there when i need her and she never ever lets me down this
youtube channel didn't really start to exist until the end of february and at the end of february i
committed myself to a video a week to release on youtube for somebody who is terrified of being in
front of the camera and much prefers to be behind it those early videos were particularly shocking
i think i think it's safe to say that i've got a bit better over the last year and in the process
it's probably been one of the best years of my life in terms of my professional successes
this year we created some absolutely amazing artwork and the pieces are not just in my
home but in clients homes as well we won the international pet photographer of the year
we have also won awards for commercial work for equine work and we also have been creating images
in other niches too pretty convinced that we're going to change for 2021 2021 2021 2021
2021
so i feel like that should be a mic drop
there's a genuinely no way that i can follow that with anything this year has just been insane
and i know that obviously there's been crazy stuff happening in the world but even with me
if you just look at the statistics it's mad it's absolutely mad we released a hundred videos from
right at the end of february up until now this is actually video 101 so that's a bit mad
that's crazy and throughout the period of time we've gained over 7,000 subscribers of which
actually a lot of you watch regularly that's also mad within that period of time
we've also amassed 249,000 views that's next to impossible to comprehend for me but actually if
you break that down it's over 1.4 million minutes of content watching time that is over 900 days
through those 100 videos three workshops and countless one-to-ones we've managed to help over
67,000 people over 72 different countries including regular viewers from argentina
venezuela belarus and bangladesh that's just crazy i just can't genuinely put into words
how incredible this year has been but it's not just been dogs that i've been working with and
over my professional career as a photographer i didn't just photograph dogs i photographed
loads of different things i photographed a lot commercially from restaurants and food to
tractors and cars and photo boxes and all sorts of different things and that's me that's a part of me
and i think if everybody just stepped outside of their genre and pushed themselves a little bit
their photography of their genre their niche would improve
and so that dog spot can't stay it's time for a change so you guys have already seen the change
we're switcherooing over to that photography spot which hopefully will give me a little bit
more freedom to share with you guys some tips and techniques that aren't 100% dog related but it can
help your photography grow of course i've got four dogs there's going to be dogs in shots and
that's normal i still photograph dogs for clients but my heart lies with portrait work and with
creating artwork that that makes people stop and look again and that doesn't just have to be dogs
so you don't have to stick with us if you don't want to but i really hope that you do
i'm going to continue to hopefully make content that helps you grow
and that's kind of all i'm doing here that's what i'm doing and now i said once that this youtube
channel wasn't a job it was a vocation it's not a business for me this is a vocation this is like a
commitment well that vocation has turned into an occupation and actually it's time to maybe take
things a little bit more seriously so over the next year over the next few months really you guys
are going to see some major changes not only are we going to be shooting and editing a variety of
different subjects i.e not just dogs but dogs will be included you guys will also see the addition of
more online one-to-one spaces if you would like them you will see actually the introduction of
in-person one-to-ones right here in yorkshire you guys will see the end of in-person workshops
because after april's of which there are only a couple of spaces remaining there will be no more
in-person workshops in yorkshire that's been a really difficult decision for me to make but
i think genuinely is the right thing to do for my health i don't expect everybody to
agree with me and i don't get things right all of the time god no i do not i really
often make mistakes but i feel in my heart that this is the right thing to do
and i think that if you feel in your gut that something is the right thing
to do you should do it because if you can't trust yourself then who else can you trust
and so i guess i'm coming to you today to try and portray how insane this year has been and that's
pretty much down to you i can't have achieved what we've achieved without you you're awesome there's
been thousands and thousands of comments and i've put down thousands and thousands of replies i know
that because youtube gladly tells me there's been over 14,000 likes on videos and yes there's been
dislikes and yes there's been trolls and yeah i didn't deal with them particularly well at
first and it really really hurt me but this year's been a year of learning not just for
you but for me as well and i think it's safe to say that 2021 is going to be mega i can't tell
you everything that's going to happen because some things are still under wraps with their respective
organisations and the people who are running the shows but a lot more is going to happen
and i really hope you come along for the ride i'll leave you to enjoy your new year celebrations now
but if you ever need me i'm always here and i hope that you will always be there too i'll see
you again really soon i've got to try not to cry i'm looking at my whiteboard with the stats on
67,297 people
i did good