We have amassed an amazing collection of first birthday photos that have either gone up on our Instagram page or are on their way. We are receiving tons of photography daily and we couldn't be more thrilled. You, too, can get your slice of the Instagram love.
Read MoreI want to give you a couple of tips for when you want to design a car like this. This isn’t a marketing project that is meant to be taken lightly. But when you do it right, it really pays off. Your photography business will not survive without a well-thought-out, well balanced marketing plan. And a professionally wrapped “rolling billboard” is a great marketing piece for your photography business.
Read MoreLet’s face it, when it comes to tossing money down the drain, there is no better way than spending cash to market your photography business. When you finally pony up the dough does the phone ring off the hook? Nope. You get nothing but crickets. Here’s what DID work with our photography studio.
Read MoreToday's blog is all about how I jump-start my creativity. These are the tips and tricks that I have learned over the course of almost 20 years. I still have those days where no matter what I try I just can't get the creative juices flowing. But by following this playbook I can help you ensure that you suffer a lot fewer of those uninspired days.
Read MoreEach of the flashes we go over in this video is a flash that I use in my own studio to create smash cake photos for my clients. I picked each light based on its usefulness and my extreme hatred of needlessly wasting money.So give this video a look and decide for yourself which of there flashes will work best for you.
Read MoreIn this video we’re taking a deep dive into how to build a basic smash cake set using everyone’s favorite and cheap set foundation, seamless paper. Seamless paper is the basis of many smash cake photo sets because it’s so easy to clean up and serves as both the backdrop and the floor of the smash cake set. Anytime you get a twofer like that your business is saving time and money!
Read MoreJack’s premise (which mirrors his parent’s) is that customer service is the MOST IMPORTANT part of your business. Otherwise, you’re just another ‘big box’ store. If you’re a commodity, you’re selling on price.
Read MoreI thought I just wasn’t working hard enough. I defaulted to the mentality that most of us were taught as children, if you’re not successful it’s because you’re not working hard enough. I was in an abusive relationship with my business and to my core I believed everything was all my fault.
Read MoreToday you’re going to learn off camera flash but here's the catch. You're going to do it in 2 minutes. I know that's a bold claim but that's how confident I am in your ability to learn off camera flash. It's simply not as hard as people make it out to be and today we're going to prove that in 120 seconds.
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While doing our homework for this twin shoot we realized that a lot of you were struggling with finding a proper wardrobe for twins. So today's blog is going to highlight some of the tips and tricks that we use when picking out outfits for our twin smash cake photo sessions.
I believe photo editing is a fantastic way to enhance the creative vision you had in you head when you took the image. For that reason I love editing my photos in Adobe Lightroom/ Photoshop and I think editing can be the cherry on top of any well crafted image. But if we’re being completely honest I do have those days where I’d rather gouge my eyes out with a spork than sit behind my monitor for 6 hours straight.
Read MoreFirst things first. I owe you guys a huge thank you. Most everybody else on the planet if you'd caught them watching YouTube smash cake videos in the middle of the day while wearing fuzzy bunny slippers you could accuse them of full-blown laziness. But thanks to you guys I get to call this research and development.
Read MoreTo be a pro you need to learn everything you can about general photography and then you can choose to specialize. This includes how to use off-camera flash in your portraits. If you choose later to only use natural light for ascetic reasons, that’s up to you. But if you don’t use flash because you never learned how, then you run the risk of failing to do the job in a crisis.
Read MoreTo learn photography and build a better business, read You are a Badass at Making Money. This is a great “change your life” book. Most of us won’t change everything.. But pick up this book and adopt just one piece of advice, and be a better business person.
Read MoreCake stands are the ultimate second hand score. The cake stand has the foremost position in your portrait. It will factor into 80% of your images. It has to match your set. We let our clients choose - we bring in several and let the client make the decision.
Read MoreAs we move into the slow season photographers everywhere scramble to find new clients. Most of them are looking for marketing ideas that they haven't tried. But it’s the simplest things are the most important. And often overlooked. Before you work on something more elaborate make sure you’ve covered the basics.
Read MoreI think the first thing to stress, is that a cake stand is a cake stand because you put a cake on it. It doesn’t matter what the store called it. Plant stand, platter, decorative whatever (as long as it’s nontoxic), footstool - doesn’t matter. We don’t supply cakes at our studio, so I’m not certain of cake size until they walk through the door, child and cake in tow. So I usually have 3-5 cake stands at the ready, waiting for Mom to make her decision.
Read MoreNever Split the Difference really hit a nerve with me. Having never been a good negotiator and my need to please has led me to make some poor choices in my life. It’s possible that growing up with siblings (sorry, Amber & Ryan, lol) has led me with a need to be “fair” instead of correct, often at my own expense.
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