What makes portrait and wedding photography profitable? The service or the products? Or a combination of the two? Is it the time we spend photographing which is most profitable, or the goods that we sell to our clients? Where is the profit?
I was lucky enough to spend some time with Scott Rice of Rice Studio Supply the other day. He’s a great person who literally started his business out of his garage and has grown it into one of the top premium photography packaging businesses out there. Not only is it a great business, it’s run…
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…
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…
Mike Larson is a fantastic wedding photographer who understands niches, specifically estates and vineyards. One glance at his blog and it’s easy to see; he shoots what he says he shoots. Aside from the subject matter, Mike’s work has a look and feel all to its own. It’s clean, classy and has the type of…
Is anyone using your imagery? Want to know who that is? There is a really cool new Firefox extension that will do a deep search of any image and find out where the images are being used. Here is a quick video of how it works: It’s as easy as visiting the Firefox extension page…
Named One of the Top Ten Wedding Photographers in the World, Gene Higa has got mojo. He has shot weddings all over the world from Spain to Greece to Peru. We love his style, his artistic eye, his composition and the dynamic photos he captures from exotic locales. Take a look below…they speak for themselves….
Our latest featured photographer is Lynn Michelle based out of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. We love her eye for larger-than-life wedding shots in that documentary style. Lynn also has a talent for beautiful boudoir imagery–great style all around, producing always-consistent shots for her clients. Take a look at some of her featured work below or see…
San Francisco-based photographer Rhee Bevere is a fantastic artist who knows how to tell a good story through her medium. Not only is she super friendly but she’s got great work ethic and focuses on taking the time to get to know the people she’s shooting. Her style captures the iconic moments that happen during…