hey guys! welcome to our third annual holiday gift guide. this is what to buy a
photographer for Christmas, New Year's their birthday, or whatever! it's the holiday
season so I'm gonna be sharing with you some of my favorite gear books... we have
all kinds of stuff I'm looking over because I have it all in my office to
share with you today so if you're a photographer and you're kind of trying
to figure out what you should put on your wish list or you're trying to shop
for a photographer in your life and you're not sure what they would like
this video is for you so stick around. so the first items I have to share with
you guys are something in kind of the gear category now these are Lume Cubes
and lume cubes are really cool because it's basically super super portable
temperature adjustable lighting for your camera or for your phone and that's
amazing because there are so many opportunities as photographers that we
just want to take good pictures but the lighting is not great so this really
literally gives you a lighting kit that you could light your subject either
video or still on the go and it just opens up a whole world of opportunities
especially those photographers who would like to show lots of behind the scenes
of their brand and just themselves especially on social media I can think
of so many incredible ways that you can use this it has wireless Bluetooth
control you can use it on your cell phone you can adjust the brightness you
can adjust the color I think this would just be a really
great gift and also could fit inside of a stocking so luhn cube offers a couple
of different options and so many more on their website but some of them are more
portable some of them are like all the bells and whistles ways that you can
change and adjust the lighting to exactly what you want and what are your
creative needs are and it works for both photo and video the next item I think
would be an amazing gift for any photographer especially wedding
photographers is a wall calendar so this is the finished calendar this is a 2020
calendar and there are a couple reasons why I love this calendar so one reason I
really like a wall calendar is that I can see in my office exactly when I'm
booked on a schedule so I use honey book which is a client management software
and it's digital and that's wonderful but I also like having
physical in-person real-life calendar that my family can see so I think
everybody needs a wall calendar and another reason why I like this is that
it is dry-erase so I could put something down and then if the client changes
their mind changes their date or something cancels I can erase it and it
doesn't ruin the whole calendar the other really cool thing about this
calendar is that the day's flow as the week's go instead of one month next
month next month so because it changes from July to August midweek or right at
the end of this week you see it that way you see that it's about to become August
but it doesn't take you to an entirely new block and this is really helpful
because sometimes when we're looking at a calendar we're only seeing one month
at a time even though it could be just days away from a whole nother month
where I like this how it just keeps kind of flowing into the next month so
visually I like this I'm excited to use this for my own business it also comes
horizontal and vertical which is super handy so you guys know that I love my
double camera holster from holdfast but I recently got a leash camera leash I
think is what they call it where it's just for your wrist and I like having a
little wrist strap for my camera when I'm only shooting with one camera when I
just want to feel a lot lighter in less tether debt so I love my double holster
I still use it all the time but I have really found myself reaching
for this wrist strap another reason why I love it is because it has to hold
points on your camera so for whatever reason this fails you have a backup
strap and when you're talking about your gear like the idea of this falling on
the ground I can't like I said it's too dramatic to
even think of so I want this backup it just gives me a lot of peace of mind so
I really like this again this is my holdfast and it's called the camera
leash it comes in a bunch of different colors and materials and I really like
it and I think it would make a great gift
we know photographers spend a lot of time looking at the computer whether
that is emailing clients editing images posting to social media or just on their
phones so I recommend blue light blocking
glasses this is going to block those really harsh blue lights that often are
inside of screens even your TV around us even sometimes plugged into our houses
that can be a little bit straining on the eyes it can give you headaches eye
fatigue and also make it kind of hard to fall asleep if we're looking at our
screens for the entire day and then we try to go to sleep the brain is just
like really going and it's helpful to have blue light blocking glasses so got
these off of Amazon I will link them down below so next I have a planner now
this planner I used all of 2019 and I'm going to be using into 2020 and that is
the my next ninety days this is by savor life planner and this is a quarterly
planner so essentially inside of here it has
tabs for the weeks and it gives you 12 weeks I think there's also a bonus week
for planning and it helps you to think about your business and your life in a
quarter instead of the entire year this goes really nicely along with the 90-day
year or the 12-week year I'll link that book as well one of my favorite books
completely life-changing taking that idea from that book and implementing it
into a quarterly calendar would be an amazing gift so the book or the
audiobook along with this planner would just be a really beautiful gift for
someone who wants to plan and wants to set goals but can be a little bit
overwhelmed by the thought of an entire year when so much changes in just a few
months so I personally like to set quarterly goals and think about my my
year in quarterly chunks so that I have room to pivot and change my mind on
things so totally recommend this planner really amazing comes with stickers all
kinds of amazingness I'll link this down below so next I have a beautiful gift
box by souther and grown vintage now this would be great for some
who wants to spruce up their office and relax a little bit so southern grown
vintage named this gift to the gift of joy and it has some really cute little
home decor pieces and also some pieces for relaxing like a bath bomb and a lip
balm and this would be perfect for somebody who has been hustling really
hard all year long and needs to take a little time for themselves
another gift I think would be perfect for a portrait photographer is a
changing tent how many times are you out on a shoot or traveling around and your
clients need to change but they have nowhere to change this can open up a
whole world of possibilities for shoots because you don't have to be limited by
finding a bathroom or finding a car somewhere to get changed so I think a
changing tent is so awesome and helpful and if you know a portrait photographer
they would probably love this another great gift idea is portable speakers for
playing music either at a portrait session just to make it feel a little
less awkward help everybody loosen up or during the getting ready portion of a
wedding day so I think portable speakers would be a perfect gift for a
photographer so one piece of gear I think would make a great gift are
filters for photographers this is by sand Mart and they have filters both for
phones and for DSLR lenses and these can do all kinds of amazing things these are
their ND filters it says that these filters will help to take dynamic
landscapes add motion blur to subjects or water like waterfalls or streams and
then reduce exposure remove glare during daylight shooting so this is gonna be
wonderful for a portrait photographer even if you have just your phone right
now and you're trying to take better cellphone pictures or better camera like
videos on your phone they have filters for both so if the photographer in your
life loves coffee this box may be a really good fit for them it has a little
bit of coffee a super cute spoon some fuzzy socks a mug and a little planner
so it's a little bit of everything and perfect for someone who really enjoys
something warm we're heading into those colder months and the socks would be
perfect to wear during those long editing sessions and stuff like that so
another planner option and some really cute pieces from this gift box company
as well so this particular gift box was designed by
they called murky gold absolutely beautiful items all custom curated so
this would also be great for client gifts as well and last but not least I
love these zippered bags these are amazing for an emergency kit a little
first-aid kit or just holding all those little pieces that would be moving
around inside of a camera bag like lens caps back caps extra batteries and
personal items even cell phones just all the little things that all fits so
beautifully inside of these zippered bag these little bags are handmade by an
Etsy shop called Bella Rica and I absolutely love them I use them
personally and they are really good quality and they last they fit lots of
different things they come in lots of different patterns and sizes but I just
think that they would make a great gift for anybody who has lots of little gear
pieces on-the-go includes everything that I have for you guys today but
before you go leave me a comment let me know what's on your wish list this
Christmas or holiday season let me know if any of these items made it onto your
list or if you have something entirely different I can't wait to hear from you
guys thank you so much for watching and as usual I will see you next week bye
guys