Friday, September 7, 2012

Photography Brand Makeover

Join this free online event:  
Photography Brand Makeover with Sarah Petty and Erin Verbeck.
Creative Live is presenting this live workshop October 3-5. 
They will be offering strategies for branding, sales, marketing, graphic design and much more. 
Don't miss it!

Elizabeth Halford's "Starting Your Business" Vlog Series

Elizabeth Halford is an amazing photographer and teacher. She is an inspiration and has a wealth of knowledge that she's willing to share. This is the first of a ten part vlog series that she did that covers many aspects of starting a photography business. She covers defining what "professional" means, branding, pricing, insurance,  your website, building your portfolio, opening for business and so much more. This series also includes an interview with Zach Perez and is sponsored by Pretty Presets. 
Watch part one here:

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Correcting Perspective in Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom posted this video tutorial on You Tube showing how to correct perspective in Lightroom. Any time we shoot tall buildings, no matter how beautiful, they tend to come out looking a little distorted. This is a 4 minute video showing how to correct it.
This not only saves time, but helps rescue some photos that might not have been usable otherwise...

Simple and Cost Effective Ways to Advertise Your Business

Anna Gay at Pretty Presets wrote this article on 6 cost effective ways to advertise your business. She also gives some good points on why they could boost your services, your skills, or your clientele.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"About Me"

Since starting this blog, I've been researching and posting everyday. When I pulled back, I noticed I hadn't even written an "About Me" page! So I finally took the time to do it. I've set up a standing page for it, here: http://bit.ly/Tihdmt

but if you want to give it a quick glance, here it is!


I am a photographer. From the moment I picked up my camera, I wanted to learn more about composition, editing, marketing, SEO, equipment, lighting, creativity, and even bookkeeping. I wanted to learn more about studio photography, landscape, portrait photography, boudoir, and stock photography.
Basically, I just wanted to take more professional pictures.
I ended up with my bookmarks full, a million tabs open at once, and photoshop tutorials running all day. I also had both adobe photoshop and Lightroom open at all times. I was exasperated! It was impossible to spend that much time at my computer and still be able to shoot!
Other photographers asked me where I was getting all of my information. I started gathering up a list of the websites I follow, then I noticed it was constantly growing. It occurred to me that I could just start a blog and share with everyone from one place. I also thought it would be nice to send people to the sites of all the wonderful photographers and artists that have helped me along the way; win/win!
Some of my fellow photographers send me links to posts as they find them, so when I say "we" at Photography Resources, it includes all of of us. I check out each and every article before I post it. My goal is to search through all the information out there, and then offer it here, in one place.
I post something new at least once a day, so please bookmark me, or subscribe to this blog. It will save you lots of time! Good luck in all that you do!


Setting Custom White Balance on Your DSLR

Ed Verosky did a video tutorial on setting your custom white balance. It's so much more fun to learn by watching rather than reading a bunch of technical text. He keeps it interesting!

Posing Tips

No matter how experienced of a photographer we are, we all experience a "posing block" from time to time. This post from Digital Photography School has 21 samples for posing women. This article gives simple illustrations rather than just words. I found it much easier to store them to memory this way. At the bottom of the post there are links to previous articles in their guide series of more samples for posing women, men, children, couples, groups and weddings! The information here is just invaluable!