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The Best Decision You Could Ever Make for Your Photography Business

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Aug 27Categories: Lightroom & Photoshop Tips, ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

FEATURING GARRETT DELPH, CEO and CoFounder of ShootDotEdit

Maybe it was just a few years ago that you realized your calling in wedding photography. Or maybe you’ve been in it longer than that. You decided to make your passion your business and grow with it both personally and professionally.

You’ve spent years making a place for yourself in the wedding photography industry and now you’re flooded with work from all corners. You’re happy, but also dealing with the chaos of running a business.

And we get it! Running a business can be super difficult — and making a photography business decisions like handling the shoots, post-production, client communications, networking, branding, advertising, logistics, and whatnot, can be overwhelming! At the end of the day, you’re just trying to keep your head above water…

If this all sounds familiar, DON’T PANIC! You’re not alone.

20 years ago, this was the life of Garrett Delph, the co-founder and CEO of ShootDotEdit.

He was the owner of a thriving wedding photography business — but it was a struggle. After years of stress and anguish, Garrett finally found his solution…

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The Rave July 2020 | A Monthly Customer Celebration

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Aug 12Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

We celebrate the customer, and inspire the photographer. You know it. You love it. You’re HERE FOR IT! That’s right, we’re back with The Rave — our way of celebrating our customers and their incredible images!

This week, we’re taking a look back on July. We featured some amazing shots on the ShootDotEdit Instagram last month and we’re so excited to show you our audience favorites — Right here. Right now!

Here we go!

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Learn, Grow, Pass It On | Featuring Brandi Allyse Photography

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jul 30Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

We asked Brandi of Brandi Allyse Photography, when did you realize you loved photography? Back then, did you ever think you’d take it up professionally? Or was it just a hobby?

People latch onto photography at different points in their lives. Some spend years in an uninspiring career before getting their true calling. Others know they want the professional life of a photographer early on and work hard to achieve their dream. 

In this special ShootDotEdit Feature, you’ll read about one such person who knew what she wanted from the beginning and made it happen — Brandi Salerno of Brandi Allyse Photography.

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The Rave June 2020 | A Monthly Customer Celebration of Instagram Likes

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jul 08Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

Instagram likes! That’s how the Rave works. Yes, that’s right! We tally the Instagram likes on our featured customer images every month and we present you with the top 8! So read on for the June Monthly Customer Celebration of Most Instagram Likes on the ShootDotEdit IG page. This IS The Rave for June 2020!

We’re so excited to feature these images from June with you. These are the 8 most-loved images you voted for last month.

How do you vote, you ask? Just head over to the ShootDotEdit Instagram and follow us. Then, when you see an image you absolutely LOVE, simply double-tap to like the image. At the end of the month, we’ll total up all the Instagram likes and narrow it down to 8 photos to feature on next month’s Rave.

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How I Got the Shot with Salt & Pine Photography

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 25Categories: How to Take Wedding Photos, ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

Salt & Pine photography is made up of Darryl Ann and Joe and they are a Seattle-based husband and wife team of wedding photographers that make up Salt & Pine.

These two talented photographers LOVE adventure, and find magical ways to capture it in their images. So when they agreed to tell us how they got some of our favorite shots they’ve taken, we were thrilled to share with you what they had to say!

Read on to learn how Salt & Pine got the shot!

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How I Got the Shot with Diane Nicole Photography

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 18Categories: How to Take Wedding Photos, ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer, Wedding Poses No Comments

Hey! You made it to the first How I Got the Shot with ShootDotEdit.  This week, we welcomed northern California-based wedding photographer Diane Clifford of Diane Nicole Photography.  

We love Diane’s work and are proud to call her a valued ShootDotEdit customer. So much so that we picked out a few of our favorite images she captured and asked her to explain a bit how she got such incredible shots!

So without further ado — Diane Nicole Photography!

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The Rave May 2020 | Celebrate Customer Images

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 10Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

It’s the beginning of June, so you know what that means… it’s time to celebrate customer images in The Rave — ShootDotEdit’s monthly customer celebration!

This month, we’re looking back on the 8 most loved photos from our customers featured on the ShootDotEdit Instagram in May. Want to see other months? Here is one of our favorites!

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Ingredients for a Successful Photography Business

Author: ShootDotEditOn: May 28Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

Featuring Dana & Nate of
Lovers of Love Photography

Lovers of Love has a story that might resonate with many of us. We know the good fortune that comes from welcoming children into our families. They’re playful, they’re fun — but the house is always a mess with them throwing things in every corner and we’re always exhausted chasing after them as they run helter-skelter. The stories we most often hear are from parents hoping for more time and more energy to focus on themselves and their careers post-children. So when we meet a husband and wife team that say their lives have become more disciplined and organized after the birth of their babies, it can be inspiring to the rest of us.

“Our business really took off once we became parents,” say Dana and Nate, wedding photographers and the owners of Lovers of Love Photography. Read on to find out more about how they succeed as parents and entrepreneurs.

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Wedding Photographers — Kick Pain & Stress Out of Your Life with Yoga

Author: ShootDotEditOn: May 26Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

Yoga for photographers is one way to take care of stress while pursuing your passion as a wedding photographer.

Being a wedding photographer satiates your creative soul. It gives you a different perspective on life. You get to hear so many beautiful love stories and capture them forever. You meet in-love couples, families, friends, and capture emotions in their most intimate and raw forms. Taking a moment out of time and making it last forever is second nature. To do all this, you spend all day with your heavy gear on your back, with lots of stress on your shoulders, and maybe hunched over computers for long hours before you get time to sleep.

Yoga is the way out. With yoga, you can meditate, relax, stretch your body, and relieve pain. Yoga can help you get your energy back and return to work with a calm mind and a healthy body each day.

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Marketing Tips For Right Now

Author: ShootDotEditOn: May 21Categories: ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

Guest Post By Bradley Zisow of Bradley Images

According to Bradley Zisow’s marketing tips, now is the perfect time to develop or continue working on a strong marketing game for your photography business.

One of the biggest mistakes wedding photographers make (or any business owners for that matter) is neglecting their marketing efforts.  And we get it! Marketing can be easy to let fall by the wayside.

But it takes more than knowing how to capture incredible imagery to get noticed by your peers and potential clients. 

Our advice: Don’t make that mistake — especially now and even when things are slow (because we have all been stuck inside)!

We teamed up with Baltimore’s own Bradley Zisow of Bradley Images. Bradley is an award-winning wedding photographer and knows how to keep a business afloat even through the most trying times.  He wanted to share a few of his marketing tips with us here today on the ShootDotEdit blog!

Check it out!

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