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Jake Dyson

For photographers building commercial careers. Real insights from working sets: creative director relationships, technical breakdowns, production management, portfolio strategy, client systems, and the thinking behind commercial image making. Every Monday

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#35 FIELD NOTES: YOU'RE PITCHING THE WRONG PEOPLE

If you want to shoot commercial campaigns, most people will tell you to build your book and start pitching agencies. Cold email art buyers. Get a rep to make introductions.

I didn’t do any of that. And I think it’s the slowest path to the...

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#34 FIELD NOTES: WORK-FOR-HIRE VS. LICENSING AGREEMENTS

KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SIGNING

In this issue:

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#33 FIELD NOTES: HOW TO FIND YOUR CREATIVE VOICE

Most photographers spend years looking for their voice in other people’s work. Saving references, studying feeds, reverse engineering what makes their favourite photographers special. It’s a natural place to start. But at some point it stop...

14 days ago
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#32 FIELD NOTES: HOW I GRADE A COMMERCIAL IMAGE

INSIDE MY PROCESS

What separates a raw file from a finished image is not one big move in post. It’s a series of smaller decisions, stacked in order, each one shaping how the next one lands.

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#31 FIELD NOTES: DO YOU NEED A REP?

In this article:

  • What a rep actually does and what it costs you

  • Why reps don’t sign photographers who need them

  • What happened when I tried the rep route

  • The direct approach that actually built my career

  • How to get i...

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