Janelle Brooke Photography

Last week Janelle Brooke and her partner came to speak with out class about her business and how she got started. Janelle is a wedding photographer who graduated from Suffolk who has succeeded tremendously in her field. She spoke to us and showed us pictures of how she started her business from her parents living room and would meet with clients there. She was very inspiring telling us that we can always figure out a way to make it work and how she put in $5,000 into getting the right equipment when she graduated and how important that was for her. She highlighted the importance of setting a goal for yourself like she had, to get x amount of clients for that year and then when she succeeded in that moving that number up for the next year. It is important to be able set a goal to achieve when moving ahead in your career. The one thing that interested me the most was that janelle has also began moving forward with her clients in taking baby pictures for them when the time came after the wedding. She takes all of her baby pictures without lighting using only a large reflector and sunlight from her sliding glass doors. Seeing the pictures I couldn't believe it and am lucky enough to try this with my girlfriends baby sister who was just born this past Saturday. Moving forward with her clients and doing baby pictures is extremely intelligent because being a wedding photographer means you get to do just their wedding once (hopefully) and thats the end of your business relationship unless you take that next step like Janelle has. Heres an image I took using only a reflector of Kiera and her father Ray.