Hello! My name is Irina Butko. I am a professional commercial photographer, retoucher and teacher. Before this summer, I spent 5 years filming a Children’s Portfolio under my maiden name, Yakunina, and many people know me by it. But now I’m back in adult filming, with a new last name. This memo is compiled from my notes to myself over 7 years of working as a photographer. I want to share them with you, because I went from an office worker to a successful children’s photographer and I know how sometimes it’s not easy and you want to give up everything. And, as a rule, this happens due to ignorance of some seemingly insignificant moments, but it is precisely from the right approaches to them that our creativity is built. And if I had learned about them at the beginning of the journey, now I would have achieved much greater results. So...