Getting Started with Pinterest
Pinterest can be an incredible tool to help you bring your vision to life ! Odds are, you already have a vision in mind of what images you want to capture in this shoot. But sometimes, that vision can be hard to describe. As a brand, you may have images or a style in mind that you’d like to show your photographer, or as a photographer, you may have an aesthetic in mind that you’d like to show your client – using Pinterest will help you share your visions. By collaborating on Pinterest, you can create a shared moodboard to help encapsulate everything you want to achieve from your shoot day. Creating a vision board on Pinterest could not only help you identify every element and detail in the story that you want to tell, but could also help you discover even more ways to capture and showcase your story than you’d originally envisioned. So… to start…
Create a Pinterest account
Pinterest search
Do you have a clear vision in your mind of what images you want to capture? Do you know what location you want to hold the shoot? If you do, think of key words you could type in to help get images of these places / style together at first. Example – do you want to shoot a flower inspired beauty photoshoot? You could type in ‘floral beauty shoot’, ‘flower photoshoot ’ or ‘floral beauty editorial’. For those that don’t yet know what vision they have for their photoshoot yet, I find it really helpful to jump onto Pinterest just to help ignite that initial spark! You could type in ‘photoshoot inspiration’ and see what images pop up.
Your goal is to work out what vibe you’re hoping to achieve – is it fun, flirty, colourful, bold, moody or dark? Are you using one model or two? Where will the setting be? When you’ve found an image you love – Pin it!
Pinning an image to a board
It’ll now ask you where you want to save it? An example above is to now create your own board. We’ve called it ‘Flower Inspired Beauty Shoot’.
Create Board
Sub folders
For starters, you could just save these to your general aesthetic Pinterest board, however, when you start getting more specific, we recommend saving the detail oriented pins in their own sub-boards within your general aesthetic board. This will help you separate all the different sections of your shoot. For example…
Imagery Inspiration | Hair | Makeup | Model poses | Location inspiration | Fashion and clothing | Accessories | Props
The great thing about Pinterest is that you’re not restricted to just finding images off of Pinterest – if you’ve found an image online or on a web browser, you can use the ‘Pin it button’ on your browser, or copy the URL of the website and upload a pin by ‘Saving it from a website’. On top of that, if there are images you’ve saved on your phone as inspiration, you can upload those by selecting ‘Upload a Pin’.
Uploading your own images and using the ‘Pin it’ button to save images from the web
Suggested Images
Another feature to mention is the ‘More like this’ feature as you scroll down from a selected pin or ‘Find some more ideas like this’ as you scroll down from a board – which will help to recommend similar imagery that may suit the style of your shoot.
Share with team
After a short while, your collaborative Pinterest board will be full of an array of ideas and pictures that offer the exact vision of your future shoot! You can now share this with your client or with your team members. I always recommend inviting them to add images to the boards too, so they can make their own creative input and the shoot vision is a collective one! If you need to add someone else onto your collaborative board, click onto the board, under the board title you’ll see your profile picture and a ‘+’ sign. If you click onto the + you will be able to copy the link to send to people directly, or search for them on Pinterest!
Now you can add images together and if you have questions to send your team, you can add notes – for example ‘where can I find a dress like this’ – and other people who collaborate on the board will see them too!
I really hope you’ve found this helpful. I use Pinterest daily, so I can’t recommend a website enough for helping organise your dream shoot! I’ve written this all up in a Blog incase you need to look back at it in the future, just click the link below.
