Everything you needed to know about choosing a camera strap
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Everything you needed to know about choosing a camera strap

Hand strap, cross-body strap or harness? Here’s what you need to know before choosing a camera strap! I never really gave much thought to my camera strap.  I left the default yellow and black strap on my Nikon for years.  But after really getting bit by the photography bug, I decided a padded strap was…

7 Photographer E-mail Templates You Need to Save Time and Make Money!
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7 Photographer E-mail Templates You Need to Save Time and Make Money!

Stop being a slave to your inbox! 7 Photographer E-mail Templates You Need in Your Workflow! We’ve all heard the expression work smarter, not harder.  But how can you, as a photographer, do that, exactly?  One practice to start implementing as soon as you hang your shingle as a professional photographer is using photographer e-mail…

Free Photos Requests: Learning to say “No”
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Free Photos Requests: Learning to say “No”

We’ve all seen it before, a close friend or family member asks you for free photos favor:  “When you come over for Chelsea’s birthday party, can you please take a few shots of her? I’m going to be cooking on the BBQ and won’t have time to take any photos”.  Free photos requests are the…

How to Respond to Ghosting! Top 5 Tips for Maintaining Your Self Esteem
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How to Respond to Ghosting! Top 5 Tips for Maintaining Your Self Esteem

What’s worse than a potential client turning you down for another photographer? A potential client telling you that you’re too expensive? A potential client saying they’ll book “possibly in the future”? A ghost. A ghost by definition is a person (in this case a potential or existing client) who inquires and initiates a conversation with…

Best Kids Cameras: Recommendations for Your Fledgling Photographer!
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Best Kids Cameras: Recommendations for Your Fledgling Photographer!

Outfit your favorite shutterbug with one of these best kids cameras! Do you have a budding photographer in your ranks?  It’s never too early for kids to fall in love with photography.  But what are the best kids cameras available right now?  Should you get something simple?  Something a young photographer can grow into?  Something…

Photo Storage Solutions to Prevent Catastrophe
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Photo Storage Solutions to Prevent Catastrophe

Create a photo storage plan and eliminate your worst nightmare of lost images! Losing an image is hard.  Disappointing clients is worse.  But telling a client you’ve lost ALL their images is a freaking nightmare.  It’s a worst-case scenario that scares photographers to death and keeps us up nights.  Would your business survive a photo…

Watermarking Photos: Yes or No?
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Watermarking Photos: Yes or No?

Should you be watermarking photos?  We’ll discuss why and why not so you can make the best decision for YOUR business. Post this question in a photography forum and it’s a bit like setting off a bomb.  Things get hot and then they explode.  Watermarking photos has become one of the polarizing issues in the…

Photography Scams: How to Cover Your Assets
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Photography Scams: How to Cover Your Assets

Don’t be fooled by these common photography scams! Start working as a professional photographer and soon you’ll be hit with some photography scams.  There are lots of different scams occurring featuring photographers.  Some are very simple, others quite complex.  Weddings, family reunions, fashion photo shoots, international photojournalism…scammers will use any excuse to steal from you. …

Monitor calibration: What is it and why do I need it?
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Monitor calibration: What is it and why do I need it?

Use monitor calibration for better client images and prints This is how my first journey down the rabbit hole of monitor calibration began. “Were you going for a really warm portrait stylistically?  Because your images lately have been really yellow.” This was a Facebook message I got from a pro photographer friend about six years…

8 Burning Questions on Photography Copyright Answered
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8 Burning Questions on Photography Copyright Answered

Every photographer’s worst nightmare is to find out someone has stolen your work and called it their own, and worse if they’re making money off of it. So what can you do photography copyright infringement happens to you? You can’t believe your eyes, you see your photo – one you took with your own camera…

Choosing the Best  Pro Photography Lab for My Business (Updated 2021)
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Choosing the Best Pro Photography Lab for My Business (Updated 2021)

Choosing the best pro photography lab for your business means quality prints and happy clients! You have some clients and your sessions went amazing.  Now it’s time to deliver.  Literally.  Your clients ordered prints!  But where should you get your work printed?  How do you choose a pro photography lab? Here we’ll cover: Why to…

How to Install Lightroom CC Mobile Presets
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How to Install Lightroom CC Mobile Presets

Here’s our step by step directions for How to Install Lightroom CC Mobile Presets! Step 1: Make sure you download the Adobe Lightroom CC Mobile App to your phone! This is obviously the essential step before downloading your presets! This means you can actually install them to Lightroom itself! Once downloaded, it will ask you…

How to Choose the Best Canon Camera for You
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How to Choose the Best Canon Camera for You

Canon fans raise your hands! We found the best Canon camera just for you! Either you’ve heard good things about Canon and you don’t know which camera to get, or you love Canon and want to upgrade your camera to something better (and you also don’t know which camera to get). Either way, we’ve got some…