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FEATURES
FEATURES
Branca Ilic used to study a language and literature back at her university
times. And she never thought that she would fall in love in photography for the rest
of her life.
When she finished the university, she comes to England to start a new life.
After trying different type of works, she find it suit with her life. And the photography
things happened after she delivered her first child when she started to take a lot of
picture of her baby and fall in love with photography. That’s how the journey begins.
HOW IT WAS STARTED
She never plans to be a photographer. It’s started 10 years ago
when she get her first camera. She never attended proper education
like university or college for photography. All she does is leaning
from Internet, online, books, Magazine and anywhere that she can
get knowledge about photography. After 7 years of self-thought, she
finally decided to start-up a photography business.
THE CUSTOMERS
“To build up the names is not easy” said Branca. When she started
the business 4 years ago, she do gave free services photo shoot for
about 6 months before she slowly established herself. She asked
anyone that willing to be a model, to comes to her studio and get a free
photoshoot session. After she gained the confident with the result, she
starts to accept the customer. Basically she never advertises her promotion
or job at any advert channel like magazines or internet. But she gets
new customer by the recommendations from previous customer that
satisfied with her job she feel lucky that all customers just comes to her.
MY STYLE
“My style is modern and contemporary” said Branca. She do a lot of fashion
photography and when she on assignment, she will dress-up her model eithers
they are kids or adults with full of style. Beside photoshoot a model in the studio,
she also does product photography as well. She said she has a constant customer
that asked her to do a product photoshoot. Beside small items to be shoots in the
studio, she did photoshoot big product that required her to do it outside. She did
photoshoot product such like a car and interior design things. But she more focuses
on the studio photography.
COMPETITION
When asked about competition, she did not like to
compare with others because she does what she likes for.
For her it is all right if someone didn’t like her style or photography
because they can go to other photographer that
they prefer. She said that nowadays a lot photographer that
doing same things with her and quite challenging. But she
said everyone has their own style of photography. How they
control or used the lighting or how they edit the photos etc.
But she believed it is a healthy competition actually
THE PROCESS
Basically she did everything from a beginning. She
will plan what style should she do for the job. Then after
do a photoshoot, she will do the editing and processing.
After she gets the confirmation from client, which photos
has been choose, she will send it printing.