High Key Portraits Minus the Studio I have to admit I struggled a little with high key portrait lighting in my Garage Portraits business model this year. Part of it was in my own head – thinking I was taking too long getting it set up correctly. But the thing is – once you have [...]
A Major Tip for Developing Your Photography Marketing Voice If you’ve been around the Portrait Expert for any length of time I think you’d agree, most everything I write here is in my particular – often sarcastic – voice. To get the most from your social media and traditional marketing efforts it’s important your potential [...]
Build Your Photography Business by Telling Your Clients What You Want Them to Do Including a call to action in every piece of your photography marketing is vital to improving your marketing results. In this short – just over four minute – video, we discuss the reasoning behind using a call to action in all [...]
Charitable Photography – The Perfect Marketing Opportunity Had a question recently from a member who’s been asked to provide a photo booth for a local celebratory event. They have some ideas on what they’d like to provide but needed help with how to make it profitable for themselves. ALWAYS the key – charitable or not. [...]
Had a question recently from a member who needed some help with cropping their images. While it may be second nature to many of you there are numerous options to consider so I created a short video. If you have questions by all means let me know. We’ll also add this to the Photoshop Lessons [...]
Valentine Photo Contest – Win an Amazon Kindle I am really pumped about this! It is going to be awesome fun. Starting at noon CST, Thursday, February 9th, 2012 on the The Portrait Expert Facebook page; THE PORTRAIT EXPERT we’re hosting our first photo contest. It has a Valentine’s Day theme. Create an image that [...]
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. Don’t make the same mistake Alice made. In this [...]