Blogging can be a fundamental part of your business. But when it is done haphazardly and infrequently it can actually hurt your business. Here is a blogging strategy that can be done for portrait clients (wedding clients are similar, and I’ll repeat this blog post with more specifics next month for weddings). Blogging serves many…
Want to connect with your subjects better? Need a hand on balancing life/work? Are you ready for a workshop of a lifetime? We are beyond excited to be sponsoring a scholarship for a three-day workshop in Australia taught by the excellent Tamara Lackey. Tamara is a photographer, educator, speaker, author and an amazingly nice person…
I first saw this album on the Digital Wedding Forum when Jerry Ghionis posted it in the forum. I immediately fell in love with the album. It’s no secret that I favor simplicity and elegance in design over busy designs with a lot of graphic elements. This is, possibly, one of the most simple albums…
One of my favorite jokes is: “What’s French for ‘unemployable’?” Answer: “Entrepreneur.” As with many people, I’m marking my goodbye to all the things Steve Jobs brought us in our world. His stubbornness brought us the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone and a line of computers that ‘fit’ the creative. As with anyone, he had…
We are thrilled to have added RedTree Albums to our company presets page. RedTree was started by Josh Perkins, based in Louisville, KY, when he began to invest in album binding tools for hand-made books. This passion and vision from Josh has turned RedTree into a great album maker for professional photographers nationwide. Choose between…
Going forward in the business of professional wedding and portrait photography, it is going to be harder and harder to set ourselves apart. The day of being able to command high prices with simple JPEGs converted from RAW images are quickly coming to an end. The job of a professional photographer is to create art…
Last week I was lucky enough to make it up to the very cool city of Seattle to visit all my friends at J. Garner Studio. Hung out with Jim & Katarina Garner, Corey Hage and Marla Ni. It was so fun. A big thanks to Corey for picking up two more of my favorite…
We’re very happy to have an album from multi-award-winning photographer Jim Garner. Walking into J. Garner Studios, it feels like you are walking into a WPPI award ceremony. Dozens upon dozens of print awards and dozens of those cool WPPI trophies are there. It’s pretty dang cool. This Seattle Wedding Photographer and International Destination Wedding…
An album reprint can be a costly mistake, going well into the hundreds of dollars. Know what bleed lines and cut lines are, can keep you from making this costly mistake. Album companies have a few different names for them, but mostly they are known as bleed lines, guidelines or cut lines. Why they are…
We are super happy to highlight the work of San Diego wedding photographer Braja Mandala. Her passion for all things visual can be seen in her work as she captures the beautiful colors and rich traditions of the South Asian weddings she shoots. The details from the flowers to the jewelry to the henna are…