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One of the hardest transitions is moving from your full-time corporate job, to full-time photographer. You’ve been half-timing it for a while and getting supplementary income, but the corporate job is killing you and you want out—to make a living doing what you love. How do you do it and still make the same income […]
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Being In Business, General Photography, News & Info There are moments in your life that are so defining, you remember every little detail about them. Good or bad, these life nuggets come at you like a ton of bricks — overwhelming and emotional. It was just two months ago, I got that call. A call from Nikon […]
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M. A. R. K. E. T. I. N. G. I know to some of you that sounds like a four letter word. Or at least a word that makes you want to run and hide. Really, I know! Truly I don’t blame you. It used to make me want to bury myself under my covers […]
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As a visual artist and creative in business, one of the best ways we kill time is by checking out other people’s art, right? I’m an Instagram junkie. What an amazing place to get visual stimuli! With so many people logging in and signing up to be an insta-famous fauxtographer, how do you find accounts […]
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One of the most common questions I get about compositing storytelling imagery is: HOW DO I GET MY SUBJECT TO BLEND INTO THE BACKGROUND? Shooting a subject in studio, cutting them out and placing them into a different scene is one of the holy grails of Photoshop skill and expertise. Students of the digital age […]
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The phone rings. It’s a number you don’t recognize. Your heart skips a beat as you realize it’s either a telemarketer or a potential client who’s curious about what you offer. Which one is it? Mustering up all the courage in the world, you answer. It’s a new client. The booking phone call is one […]
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I don’t know about you, but every year at this time I get completely, utterly and hopelessly UNMOTIVATED to do ANYTHING. Honestly, it’s a pain in the ass. I want to do things. I want to make progress. I want to set goals, but my brain and body do NOT sync. All I want to […]
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I get asked almost on a weekly basis what kind of lighting should I buy? Continuous or strobe? ACK!!! The issue isn’t what you should buy, but WHY you should invest in either strobes or continuous. They both are amazing lighting systems, but accomplish entirely different tasks. I have used both systems ranging from lower […]
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Just recently a student of mine emailed me in a frenzy: “I’m totally freaking out and need some advice!! I was shooting a newborn this morning without my assistant because the parents wanted dad in the images and found out last minute that he couldn’t come on their original date. Baby was on the bean […]
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Why you need an Area of Innovation Being In Business, General Photography, News & Info, Tutorials, Workshop News Available online course: Studio Systems: A Photography Business BootCamp I like to call it the triad of competition that really gets us as businesses to dominate or flop in a market. In Mike Michalowicz’s book “The Pumpkin Plan,” he calls it an Area […]
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Competition is fierce. Women are notoriously mean to one another. And in a female targeted industry like portrait photography, it’s no wonder we all get our feathers ruffled when the competition “steals” our idea, copies our work or seems to be killing it with clients while your phone is as silent as a death march. […]
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When you found out you were going to have a little baby girl, your eyes might have lit up and all of these ideas popped into your head about shopping trips, spa days and matching holiday nighties. Don’t worry, the odds are those will still happen! However, there is ‘the good, the bad and the […]
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