We recently sat down with Summer Grace on her podcast, Summer School, to talk all about our journey from wedding photography to full-time set design.
We actually first met Summer at a conference in Tennessee, and a few months later, she invited us onto the show to pull back the curtain on how we build our sets and run our business.
The transition to set design
If you’ve followed us for a while, you might know that we spent nearly a decade shooting weddings. But during 2020, when the world slowed down and our studio went quiet, we started experimenting with lighting, posing, and building physical sets out of plywood and paint.
On the episode, we went deep into how we dealt with burnout, how we used a massive personal project to completely rebuild our portfolio from scratch, and what it really takes to transition your career into doing the exact art you want to make.
We also talked about what it looks like when we collaborate on a series, how we handle crazy tight timelines, and how our experience shooting weddings actually shaped the way we direct people on our sets today.
It was a really fun, honest conversation about the realities of making mixed-media art, managing time constraints, and learning to treat your personal projects like your highest-paying client
If the episode inspires you to start planning your own conceptual shoots, we have a Creative Photoshoot Guide available on our site. It features over a hundred pages of breakdowns, thought processes, and journaling prompts to help you tap into your own narrative style.
