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From Hobbyist to Professional: Step 6. Believe in YOU
Believing in yourself might very well need to be your very first step. If it is, re-read the letter I wrote to myself. If you have the courage to take that first step you will never regret it. For the rest of you who find yourself in the same place I found myself not too…
From Hobbyist to Professional: Step 5. Build Your “Storefront”
It’s your business, it’s your storefront and it’s you. Building your identity for the web and in print is so important and it must be done well. It’s a non-negotiable. I thought today I’d share with you all the things I’ve done wrong so that you don’t have to do them, too. When I first…
From Hobbyist to Professional: Step 4. Building Your Portfolio
Ahhhh … building your portfolio. It doesn’t have to be difficult, you know? You’ve just got to know how to walk the line. Do not be arrogant. Do not be a pushover. There’s the fine line. A fine line that can also be confusing. When to say yes, when to say no??? Here’s my best…
From Hobbyist to Professional: Step 3. The Business Stuff
The (terribly boring, bound to make you second guess running your own business) business stuff … (enter giant, sigh here) … As artists this part can be the hardest. I’ll say though that if you’re willing to get the basics taken care of and the pertinent stuff organized (i.e. taxes) it won’t be as painful…
From Hobbyist to Professional: Step 2. Gear You Actually Need
Welcome back! Today I’m gonna talk about gear (the gear you actually need) to really get started. I think investing money into education is money well spent. I think investing money on a dozen different photography gadgets is money well wasted. Mottos I live by: #1: Buy quality, need less. #2: Don’t buy something until…
From Hobbyist to Professional: Step 1. Get Educated
Dear Jessica, It’s understandable that you’re terrified, doubtful and insecure about where you are. You desire something you think you want so much, but what if … what if it doesn’t work? You’ll look like a fool, you know? So, your only other option is to play it safe. Don’t pursue the dream that’s…
From Hobbyist to Professional Photographer: 2 Weeks of Education + Contests
Running a photography business takes a ton of work. A ton. Ask any photographer that makes money (particularly the ones that make it look easy) and they’ll tell you that they got there by pouring blood, sweat and tears into every ounce of what they do. Yes, there are times – really amazing and fulfilling…
Why Linking is the Most Important Part of Your SEO
Allow myself to introduce… myself. I’m Zach Prez, Google rank sherpa for ya’ll photographers and author of the Photographer’s SEO Blog and Book. This post covers the Everest of SEO which is link building. It’s the most difficult and time consuming of SEO tasks, but has the biggest payoff for getting you ranked at the…
What to Wear: How to Dress Newborns & Infants for a Portrait Session
What to Wear {Part 1: Infant and Newborns} As a photographer, it can help your customers when you direct them on what to wear. The next number of weeks, guest writer Kelsey Anderson will be providing information to help you coach your customers on what to wear. When booking a portrait session I think…
Wildlife Photography: 9 Tips for Photographing Animals in Nature
Wildlife photography is exciting and fun. And once summer hits, or if you live in a warm climate, photographers of all specialties may want to give it a try. Thank you to Patricia Downey for this great article. Living in southwest Florida with its abundance of wildlife is bliss for me. While photographing wildlife can…
Photographing Subjects in White Clothing: From Disaster to Joy
Do you dread when customers show up for their photo session wearing white clothing? Do you wonder how wedding photographers deal with brides in white dresses? Irene Jones has some tips to help you deal with your fears. Some photographers wince and mutter something impolite under their breath when they see a client show up…
White Balance: Tools to Help Set Custom White Balance ~ Part 3
White Balance: What Tools to Use and How to Set a Custom White Balance by Rich Reierson This post is the third in a short series on how photographers can use white balance to improve color in their photographs. Make sure to read part 1 and part 2. Here is the sample image prior to…
White Balance: Get Accurate Color Using a Gray Card ~ Part 2
White Balance: Get Better Color Using a Gray Card by Rich Reierson This post is the second in a short series on how photographers can use white balance to improve color in their photographs. Make sure to read part 1. Excellent white balance is crucial for professional photographers. As mentioned in Part 1, there are…
White Balance: Get Accurate Color in Your Photographs ~ Part 1
White Balance: What is it and why it is important to Photographers by Rich Reierson This post is the first in a short series on how photographers can use white balance to improve color in their photographs. White balance is one of the most important and fundamental skills when shooting pictures. Think of your photo…
How To Use Twitter To Promote Your Photography Business
How To Use Twitter To Promote Your Photography Business By Seshu Let me at the outset say that I was an early adopter of Twitter. That also makes me an one of the early skeptics. I recall signing up for the free social media networking service and then walking away for months. I didn’t know…
Facebook for Photographers: How to Use Facebook to Help Your Business
Facebook for Photographers by Tracy Genovese Robinson Facebook can be a photographer’s BEST forms of free advertising. I can’t tell you the number of clients I have gotten as a result of the magic of Facebook. Here are some tips on using it to its full advantage (and if you have more tips, please add…
5 Keys to Searchability and SEO for Photographers
5 Keys to Searchable Images: SEO for Photographers By Zach Prez, author of the Photographer’s SEO Book Helping Google read your images can not only help your pages and galleries rank, but images can rank on their own. Ranking an image can be extremely beneficial as users search sites like Google images for wedding venue…
How to Capture Kissing Photos Without Awkwardness
Kissing images are fun in many types of photography. Kissing photos make for great emotional photographs in newborn photography, children’s portraiture, senior photography, family portraits, sibling photos, engagements and wedding photographs, and of course pet photography. Get inspired by these kissing photos. Tomorrow, I will share my twins’ favorite kissing shots sent in from Facebook’s…
Pet Photography: 8 Tips for Taking Pictures of Your Dogs & Cats
How to Photograph Pets: Dogs and Cats by Tatyana Vergel Pet photography: Our pets…They’re handsome. They’re beautiful. They’re scruffy. They’re comical and so much fun to watch when they don’t realize we’re looking. Our pets add both joy and frustration to our lives on a regular basis, and we can’t live without them. But how…
Defining Your Style of Photography ~ 8 Tips by Angie Monson
Photography Style: How to Define Your Look by Angie Monson of Simplicity Photography I a so happy to have Angela Monson back on the MCP Blog. You can check out my Interview with Angela Monson and the Q&A with Angie from last fall. I think the key point to defining your style is to give…
Journey To Becoming A Professional Photographer
By Gail Bunning of Gail Anne Photography Becoming a professional photographer has been one of the most difficult, most challenging and most rewarding paths in my life. I always knew that I wanted to take photos. Even as a child I had this fascination with how film and that little box worked. How it saw…
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