Photographic Collective Podcast || with Miles Witt Boyer

Imagine a world where you spend your life flying from amazing destination to amazing destination with only couples in love and your cameras. The adventure elopement industry has exploded in the last few years and from Iceland to Italy, Thailand to New Zealand, the Utah Salt Flats to Yellowstone one photographer has seen them all. Tyler Rye is your favorite elopement photographer's favorite elopeme...

Welcome to the Photographic Collective Podcast, where we explore the diverse and ever-evolving world of photography. In this special episode, we sit down with the extraordinary Jonas Peterson, a name synonymous with excellence in wedding photography. But Jonas's journey doesn't stop there – he's taken a fascinating leap into the realm of AI art, turning heads and grossing over $1 million in his fi...

Momtogs you're doing a good job! I'm not just talking to the hobby shooters (though you're doing a great job too) but to the huge population of wildly talented, super busy, keep all the balls in the air kids to school lunches prepped laundry folded while also shooting editing and absolutely slaying the photography world women out there. This episode was supposed to be for you - and then, April sta...

She is a force. Vanessa Joy is everywhere. Canon Explorer of Light. The founder of The Photo Insiders. Prolific speaker, personality, educator. Sought after wedding photographer. Vanessa Joy is a pretty remarkable brand but behind all of that she is this really approachable, humble, beautiful human finding her way through success and failure in the most relatable way. We set off in this conversati...

This is the come back tour. The episode where we talk through what Jared and I have been up to over the last few months as we've taken a short break from this podcast and tackled a project we've been dreaming up for years. It's a cool look into the world of color science, what quality editing looks like for photographers in 2023 and how we partnered with one of the coolest brands to design what we...

Don't call him a street photographer. Derek Fahsbender is a legend in the Bronx and a familiar smile on the other side of the street in neighborhoods all over New York City. His bold approach to shooting the faces and the spaces of the city he calls home has shaped not only his own portfolio but the work of countless other shooters who call the streets of New York home. Close friends with icons of...

"I never thought I would live to see 42" Alison's story is one of ultimate perspective. In her first episode on this podcast we dived into a story filled with creative perspective and intentional, thought provoking heart. Before Alison found her wedding photography on the covers of major magazines like Martha Stewart Weddings chalking up awards and international attention from a few of the largest...

Let's get down to it. Hustle is not appreciated nearly enough. Sitting down in this interview with Chris from LVL13 Wedding Films based in New Jersey to simply appreciate what hard work turns into. Chris' story is really interesting and his work is some of my favorite I've ever seen in the wedding video industry but it's his humility, his work ethic, and his character that show up in this conversa...

She’s like the wizard of oz of the wedding industry. The founder of Junebug Weddings and the Worlds Best Wedding Photographers. She has helped shape and curate some of the most iconic portfolios in our industry. She is Meryl Streep from the Devil Wears Prada, a bold mind that has shaped the look and feel of wedding photography for over a decade and yet somehow she is still so approachable, kind, h...

We hear you guys loud and clear. This entire episode is a totally unplugged, totally unplanned chat between Miles + Jared about some of the really interesting and really rad questions that you guys, the listeners and members of the PhotoCo community, Small Groups, and Triad Trainings send in. We're going over everything from juggling gender stereotypes in wedding photography, how to communicate we...

Curate. It's that word that people don't want to hear, but need to. The challenge here is simple : are you showing work that communicates your value to the right people, in the right ways, at the right times? Are you leaving your best work on the editing floor or including too much? Are your processes for editing and post production stuck in the early 2000's? Are you actually getting any better or...

Photographers : how are you telling your stories? Are you letting Meta decide for you what images get seen and hoping for some quirky caption that adds value to your hard work or are you building a home for your stories to be told? There once was a time where every photographer had a blog and then the dark ages of social media took over. This conversation with Jared and Aga from Pic-Time about blo...

Your wedding photography marketing is supposed to stand out right? And yet somehow 90% of the industry is doing the exact same tactics hoping to somehow rise above the noise. If you're stuck drowning in the vacum of instagram analytics and worn out blog posts this episode may really hit home. We sit down today with Ron from Ron + Jess Marketing to chat about all of the things he gets to see going...

From documentary photography on the other side of the world to high fives with President Obama, mountain biking adventures to working with the press Garrett has chased down the stories of humans all over the world. His eye for photography shaped early on influenced by a love for culture and an education from one of the world's most prestigious photography schools Garrett's story comes alive as he...

What comes next for photographers, videographers, and creatives? Community. It's the simple solution to almost every problem that arrises. How do you become more successful? Community. How can you refine technique? Community. How can you work on your craft, your creativity, avoid burn out, fight impostor syndrome, achieve a more consistent workflow, and enjoy your work more? Community. This episod...

Most of the way through January 2023 and spending a lot of time with creatives who's resolve is already starting to struggle. The temptation to fall back into bad habits, let new business opportunities slip through the cracks, or just be isolated from the industry and the world around you may be creeping in. This episode is all about the business reboot :  Refreshing your vendor relationships Revi...

Everybody has heard of GPresets. Like everybody. These Lightroom presets are stylistic and edgy and as if the signature packs aren't rad enough they've somebody partnered with a few of the coolest photographers in the world to match and sell their color science as well. This episode isn't about G though, at least not directly. It's about Greg. The guy behind GPresets. Greg is this brilliant musici...

It was a year filled with absolute growth. The photo industry boomed coming out of the Covid hole and somehow riding that wave Jared convinced me to start this little podcast that would end up growing into a bit of a movement. Here we are so many seasons in with the who's who of guests behind us and we couldn't think of a better way to kick off 2023 than to rehash last year. Our favorite guests, p...

Ben Hartley you guys. The most dynamic, most interesting, most energy packed educator in the photography space shows up in a real way in this episode. I asked Ben to have this chat with me to talk about how he has shifted his social media focus to a much more community minded approach over the last several years but what I got instead was, true to form, an intense purpose filled conversation with...

A very special 50th episode featuring special guest Joe Torres. Joe is a wedding photographer and videographer based in New York City who has taken a straight forward, simple approach to selling his services to couples all over the tri state area and has an impressive rate of conversions.  His intentional approach to building relationships and establishing trust with clients before discussing cost...

An in depth conversation with UK commercial photographer and videographer TOM WRIGHT about the newest generation of cameras and how we're being marketed to by the big companies. Whether you're a film maker, portrait photographer, wedding photographer, or hobbiest this conversation is for you. An in depth look at the new Fujifilm XH2 and XH2s (as well as the differences), a chat about some of the f...

Photographer. Bike Mechanic. Real Estate Agent. Scuba Instructor? Aaron Anderson has lived ten lives not stumbling into photography until he had chased a few other rabbits in his life. The one thing that hit me the hardest in this episode though was his intentionality. Over the last three years Aaron and his wife Joy have sold almost everything they owned, including their home and moved into an RV...

So you have a million Tik-Tok followers, you're releasing 6 instagram Reels a week, your facebook groups are scaling, your snap chat story is always up to date and... you're broke? Welcome to the world of vanity metrics where building followers doesn't equal profit. This episode is all about the practical : what metrics matter? How can you create data for yourself around the analytics that will ac...

She directed, shot, and edited a feature length documentary in 9 countries, in 9 languages all about coffee. If I don't have you hooked there I don't know what will. Today's guest is Brooke Bierhaus. She's done documentary film and photo work in 18 countries with an extreme and somehow gentle passion towards telling the stories of the humans in the places she travels. She's bold, assertive, strong...

Tell better stories. That's a mantra every photographer and film maker should strive to repeat. The live a life filled with the curiosity of the human experience is a special thing and to be a full time story teller is a job title reserved for a pretty select few creatives. Today's episode is with my friend Varina Shaughnessy. Let me start by saying Varina is brilliant. Her ability to understand,...