u/DFMO

Do you know anyone getting married in SoCal that would be interested in a free wedding video? I’m located in San Diego but could travel as far as LA for the right opportunity.

I’m a professional wedding photographer as my main job / career for the last 20 years.

I’m interested in diversifying and offering video services. I’m working on building a website and a portfolio specifically for this. Since I have historically only shot stills, I don’t have any video portfolio material. I’m hoping to find 2 weddings in the SoCal area as soon as possible and offer video services and will deliver a final video free of charge to jumpstart this process. No strings attached, and I’ll cover my expenses to get to / from.

Ideal wedding or couple I’m looking for would be ASAP, medium to large wedding, stylish, and hopefully have a fun group of friends and guests. The more personality and more celebratory the better.

I’m very professional, fun, and easy to work with. My career has been primarily luxury / destination weddings where ‘how you show up’ matters. Only mention this to say I will not be an annoying or intrusive presence.

The approach I’m taking to coverage is very discreet and would work just fine even if there was already a professional photo / video team planned for the day - I wouldn’t get in their way. This could just be considered a bonus.

If you, or anyone you know might be interested in this please shoot me a DM. Also please no this is not meant to be an ad or a plug in anyway, just a genuine offer hoping I can offer this to the right people and provide some value for helping me jumpstart the portfolio.

Thanks!

Do you know anyone getting married in SoCal that would be interested in a free wedding video? I’m located in San Diego but could travel as far as LA for the right opportunity.

I’m a professional wedding photographer as my main job / career for the last 20 years.

I’m interested in diversifying and offering video services. I’m working on building a website and a portfolio specifically for this. Since I have historically only shot stills, I don’t have any video portfolio material. I’m hoping to find 2 weddings in the SoCal area as soon as possible and offer video services and will deliver a final video free of charge to jumpstart this process. No strings attached, and I’ll cover my expenses to get to / from.

Ideal wedding or couple I’m looking for would be ASAP, medium to large wedding, stylish, and hopefully have a fun group of friends and guests. The more personality and more celebratory the better.

I’m very professional, fun, and easy to work with. My career has been primarily luxury / destination weddings where ‘how you show up’ matters. Only mention this to say I will not be an annoying or intrusive presence.

The approach I’m taking to coverage is very discreet and would work just fine even if there was already a professional photo / video team planned for the day - I wouldn’t get in their way. This could just be considered a bonus.

If you, or anyone you know might be interested in this please shoot me a DM. Also please no this is not meant to be an ad or a plug in anyway, just a genuine offer hoping I can offer this to the right people and provide some value for helping me jumpstart the portfolio.

Thanks!

Would you guys mind pointing me towards a resource where I can read about how bonds form any portfolio and why they help “smooth the ride”?

I think I need to learn a little bit more about asset allocation and understand the actual function of bonds in the portfolio. I know this gets discussed here quite a bit, but I still haven’t been able to wrap my head around it.

It makes sense to me that in a vulnerable stock market or during periods where there is a down turn having more of a fixed portion of your portfolio or something that isn’t exposed to that volatility as much makes sense at the surface level.

I think there is another aspect of this that I do not grasp yet which is why bonds may actually perform better during periods like this or inversely to a downturn or extremely volatile equity market.

If anyone knows a good resource, I can share it with me. That will help explain this better to an idiot like me and what levers are actually getting pulled here. I would really appreciate it to help inform some decisions for down the road.