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You’ve heard that saying a million times before, and I’m not here to talk about that in general terms, but I wanna ponder that from my own perspective regarding creating content. 

I hold myself to a pretty high standard with the posts I make, disregarding the occasional shitposts. I know how to make great photographic stories with self portraits, but they take a lot, I mean a lot a lot of time, energy and effort. I love to do them but I can’t do them all day every day, it’s too much, I would burn out. 

There is a way to maximise the reward for my work, by getting a lot more material from the photoshoot than showing the actual pictures when they are done. 

## If I were to try and get the most out of one shoot, this is what I would do: 
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1. Make a post about the process of getting ready; hair, makeup, outfit and changing things around to make a set. (This I haven't actually done but will do soon.)
2. A behind the scenes video from the shoot. 
3. Showing the post process for the images. 
4. Posting the actual images that are ready, if there is a lot, divide into two posts. 
5. Using the leftover pictures as illustrations for written posts, essentially creating a library of different kinds of moods to be used on various different things. 
6. Post everything on Whaleshares too. 
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That is quite a lot more I could get out of one shoot, with pretty minimum extra effort. I don’t want to do this all for every shoot, that would become boring really fast, but I do like to often do at least one thing more than just show the readymade pictures. 

# Aside from the actual pictures, which part of the process you find the most interesting and would perhaps like to see more of?