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Shoot Planner

Every shoot, planned like your hundredth wedding.

Two lines of brief become a print-ready call sheet: tiered shot list, a timeline built backward from sunset, gear from your actual kit, prompts for people who hate posing, and a rain plan.

Get this skill — $19Type demo after install — watch it do the whole job first.

$19 one-time · instant download · works with Claude & ChatGPT

A Claude & ChatGPT SkillShoot Planner

A shoot doesn't go wrong at the shoot. It goes wrong the night before.

Someone asks for “just a few family photos” and forty minutes evaporate while an aunt is located. The light you planned the whole day around is gone by the time the ceremony overruns. Nobody wrote down that the grandmother matters most, so there's no photograph of her.

Experienced photographers don't shoot better under that pressure. They've simply removed the pressure in advance — a timeline built backward from sunset, a shot list that includes the things everyone forgets, and a family list the client filled in themselves.

That planning is a repeatable process. Two lines of brief in, a print-ready call sheet out.

One skill. Four jobs.

Plan the whole shoot

Tiered shot list, gear from your actual kit, a rain plan with a decision deadline, and safety notes where the location earns them.

› Plan my shoot: [type, date, location, priorities].

Just the timeline

Built backward from sunset with buffers where they belong, so golden hour lands on the couple rather than on the drive between locations.

› Just the timeline — ceremony at 4, sunset at 7:12.

The wedding-day variant

Morning prep through reception, plus a stripped one-page sheet for your second shooter and the family formals list the client fills in themselves.

› Full wedding day. Give me the assistant sheet too.

Pose people who hate posing

Verbal prompts rather than poses — “walk toward me and tell him the worst joke you know.” Movement beats mannequins, every time.

› They're stiff and nervous. Give me prompts.

A call sheet you can print and hold.

It leaves as a file by default, because nobody scrolls a chat log at a wedding:

Why not just ask the chatbot?

The timeline is anchored to real light

It works backward from your sunset time with named buffers, rather than producing a plausible-looking schedule that quietly puts the couple's portraits after dark.

It never invents a sunset time

Sunset, permits and venue rules are things it cannot know. Each one becomes a marked verify-item, because a wrong assumption at golden hour costs you the shot.

It solves the real time-bleed

The family formals list, filled in by the client before the day, is the single biggest fix for the industry's worst schedule killer. That's experience, not generic advice.

Your first five minutes.

Install it, then type any of these. No prompt-writing, no setup screens.

  1. 1Plan my shoot: [type, date, location, priorities].
  2. 2Just the timeline — ceremony at 4, sunset at 7:12.
  3. 3It's a sunrise shoot. Rebuild the timing.
  4. 4Give me the rain plan and the decision deadline.
  5. 5demo — watch it plan a cliffside elopement.

Plug and play

From download to done in three steps.

i.

Buy & download

A skill folder and a one-page install guide. Claude and ChatGPT are both included.

ii.

Drop it in

About a minute, once. Then fill your profile — the same one every skill in the suite reads.

iii.

Just talk

Paste the brand's message. It runs the whole workflow and hands back a finished file.

What it won't do.

Every skill in the store ships with this section. If a tool won't tell you its limits, it's selling you something.

Questions.

How is this different from just asking Claude or ChatGPT?

A chatbot writes a plausible schedule. This builds the timeline backward from your actual sunset time with named buffers, tiers the shot list, pulls gear from the kit in your profile, and refuses to state a sunset time or permit rule it can't verify.

I don't shoot weddings. Is it still useful?

Yes. Portraits, family sessions, elopements, commercial work — the backward-from-light maths and the tiered shot list apply to any shoot. The wedding-day variant is one branch, not the whole skill.

Where does it get my gear list from?

Your profile. You fill it in once — bodies, lenses, lighting, what you actually own — and every plan pulls from that rather than suggesting equipment you'd have to rent.

Can I give it to my second shooter?

That's what the assistant sheet is for: a stripped one-page version with their timings and their shots, without the full call sheet's detail.

Is it a subscription?

No. $19 once, yours to keep, updates included.

Works even better with the rest of the suite.

All 3 share one profile you fill in once. Get The Studio Suite for $39 and save $18.

Every shoot, planned like your hundredth wedding.

One held rate pays for this many times over. $19 once, yours to keep.

Get this skill — $19