When you first picked up a camera and began taking pictures, do you remember how you felt? As you snapped photos of your surroundings or your friends and family, you may have thought about how getting into photography would be your dream job (and may have thought about starting a photography business).
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Wedding parties, just like family formals, can be challenging to shoot, especially depending on how many people are involved, the scene where you are shooting, and the lighting conditions. Lighting, as many other parts of the wedding day, can be unpredictable on every shoot. In her third post of her Wedding Lighting Masterclass, ShootDotEdit Pro, Leeann Marie, Wedding Photographers will share her photography lighting techniques to help you shoot dynamic images quickly for the wedding party.
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Our Online Training with Scott Robert Lim is now over, but great news – we have published a recap of it on our blog for you to access. Throughout the blog post, we share Scott’s personal tips to staying inspired as a photographer you can use for motivation in your photography and business. Read through the post and learn his insights here!
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Did you know that consistent blogging can…
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In our Off-Camera Flash Techniques for Wedding Photographers Guide, created with SLR Lounge, we discuss a few scenarios that may occur during the getting ready part of the day. Throughout the first and second post of this series, Pye Jirsa from SLR Lounge shared his suggestions to set up the lighting for the getting ready scene and indoor portraits to help you develop unique and dramatic images. For the third post, he will share off camera flash setup wedding reception tips that can help you create memorable and dramatic wedding reception images.
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As a wedding photography business owner, dialing in your pricing is one of the most important things you can do. If your pricing is confusing or complicated, you risk working for less than you are worth or even losing out on bookings altogether. How can you set up pricing for your photography business that is clear and concise for clients, and that fairly compensates you for your products and services? Should you focus on building wedding photography packages, or would it be better if you offered your services a la carte?
We interviewed Luxury Wedding Photographer and industry expert, Vanessa Joy, to help unveil which wedding photography pricing model is best for your business! Created in conjunction with Adorama, we believe this guide will help any pro wedding photographer increase their bookings and profits.
The Keys to Pricing for Wedding Photographers
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Here at ShootDotEdit, not only do we provide photo editing services, we also connect with industry pros to bring you valuable information that can benefit your photography business. Since marketing for photographers is an essential part of finding and booking clients, we reached out to wedding photographer, Mark Condon of Shotkit, to find out his suggestions for the best marketing ideas for photographers you can use for your wedding photography business to attract and book new clients. Keep reading to learn more.
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Lead magnets are an online marketing photography tool to attract leads, i.e. to incentivize a website visitor to provide their email address. Whilst lead magnets can be a somewhat aggressive technique to quickly grow email lists, they can be used in a more delicate way to attract your next wedding photography client.
Image by Mark Condon of Gold Hat Photography
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As a photographer, one of your main goals is to attract ideal clients to your wedding photography website. Since there are many platforms you can use to attract new photography leads, we reached out to Scott Wyden Kivowitz from Imagely, a leading provider of WordPress products and services for professional photographers, to learn more about his suggestions for top WordPress lead generation plugins that can help you generate more potential clients.
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As a wedding photography business owner, understanding Search Engine Optimization is a crucial part of your success. When it is done correctly, the right audience will see your content and access your website and blog. If it is done incorrectly, you risk missing out on the clients who matter. Because the rules constantly change and are often complicated, how can you implement SEO techniques that go beyond the basics, without spending all your time on it? We have partnered with one of the top SEO pros in the industry, who has done extensive research for you!
RSVP: Get Discovered – SEO Techniques for Growing your Business
Wednesday, July 12th
10am – 11am PDT
Image Compliments of Ablaze Photography
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