Portland, Oregon wedding photographer Jessica Hill began shooting weddings while still an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and has spent the last 10 years capturing memories from New York to Belize to Alaska! She loves the exhilarating challenge of documenting weddings and we love her album design that she was kind enough to share…
Multiple revenue streams are key for a successful business. Even if you are a photographer that only specializes in weddings, for example, multiple revenue streams around weddings is key. There are the usual suspects of albums, canvas prints, thank you cards, holiday cards, etc. But, spending some time asking past clients or friends for what…
Our good friend Sean McLellan over at McLellan Style has come up with something pretty cool – Kudize (the act of giving kudos). It’s basically like creating your own circle of friends that can easily refer each other with just one click. The Quick and Dirty Potential Client email comes in. Kudize snags the info automatically…
PCL West Imaging’s website just got a makeover! Along with that comes easier navigation, a brand new blog and live customer service chat. Plus, they have new product photos online and two new sizes for their Metal and Acrylic albums (12×12 and 10×14). Check it all out here! And take a look at these album samples…
Zofia and Mark Crosby of Zofia & Co. in Cape Cod, Mass., shoot modern Nantucket weddings and portraits. They focus on documenting weddings naturally and making couples look amazing, with that eye for quality and creativity. For more inspirational shots, check out their website or see this awesome post from last year. But first, check out…
We’re happy to post our interview with Detroit, Michigan photographer Prem Mukherjee of Arising Images to our blog this week. Their studio had the honor of being the most profitable in-house studio by the PPA Benchmark survey. We chat about topics from understanding pricing to figuring costs of everything to discussing what products to sell….
In this quick tutorial, we show you how to use the new content aware move tool in Photoshop CS6. It’s a pretty useful little tool that, literally, lets you move people around in the photo. The Before Photo The After Photo The How To Video We definitely recommend using the trial of CS6 to check…
Want to learn better business processes? Need a hand on balancing your studio workflow? Are you ready for a workshop of a lifetime? We are beyond excited to be sponsoring a scholarship for a two-day workshop in Ottawa and a scholarship for a two-day workshop in Toronto taught by the amazing Tamara Lackey. Tamara is a…
Lensbaby was kind enough to send over a Composer Pro along with the Sweet 35 and Edge 80 for testing. It’s a pretty dang fun set up for both photography and video. For those who don’t know, the Lensbaby is kind of like a funky tilt shift lens with more possibilities in the tilting and…
We have very strong opinions about website platforms. Our opinion is that WordPress blog sites are the best platform out there bar none! SEO Monster One of the main reasons we personally love WordPress is that it is an SEO monster. Google and other search engines love WordPress. It loves the blog post titles in…