Are you ready for Christmas? Eek! I know Christmas is coming at us again so quickly this year. But have you thought about your Christmas cards? If you send digital-only, you certainly have plenty of time. But, if like me, you still like to send the personal touch greeting card,
Above is a self-painted image of Helen Yancy and her dog Charlie. Helen was only the 17th person to win the Lifetime Achievement Award in the history of Professional Photographers of America (PPA). Helen’s speech in a nutshell “I have just a few words to share with you that I
Take time after the convention to put the ideas you learned about into play. How many times have you gone to the following years’s convention, heard the same idea, and wanted to Gibbs-slap your own head saying that was a great idea but I didn’t do anything with it? You
Happy new year! Before starting to make photographs in January 2019, take a moment and update the copyright year in both the owner section and the IPTC section for each of your cameras. It’s easy to do and even easier to forget to do it. Tethered I use Canon cameras.
Instagram stories are a great way to build your social media brand on Instagram. This can lead to new clients too!
If you really want to up your photography or editing skills, set aside a few hours each week to watch videos or read articles on areas you want to improve on and stick to the schedule.
Learn why a digital model or property release forms can make it easy for photographers to always have a release handy.
Best-selling author Armando J. Pérez-Carreño suggest using a Facebook Page, not your personal profile. He says this is perhaps the biggest mistake he sees with small business owners and their Facebook marketing.
Have you ever wondered if someone—or even a company—is using your images? Here’s how to see Google’s Search by Images to search where your images are appearing on the internet.
A quick tip on why you should give a model access to all images from a TF shoot— Trading your skills for their skills.
You might be tempted to show all of your work to your audience in your portfolio. But try to limit yourself to a certain number of photos, only showing work that you deem to be your “best” and that’s representative of you. Information overload is a real thing — and
While at WPPI, I was reminded how to make client communication even easier. Think about some common times you might send your client an email — after a booking is completed, the day prior to the booking, the day after the booking, etc. Depending on which platforms and services you use,
