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 [...]
Last week I sent an email with a link to a survey asking what you wanted to learn about using Photoshop. Without a doubt the top requested training video was “How to Use Layers in Photoshop” of which there is already a training video on the site. I thought I’d create this short little video [...]
Is your business remarkable? Are your images? Is your service? Is the fact you charge one large up front fee and let your clients have their images printed where ever they want – something that is worth remarking about? Maybe. Food for thought. Yeah it’s 17 minutes long – but it’s Seth Godin – and [...]
Had a question recently from a member who has been asked to photograph a high school prom. She was looking for background ideas and wondered if I could help?;-) Photographing high school proms can be a significant money-maker – especially considering the typically slow time of the year when most proms occur – the early [...]
Had to post this ’cause I’ve been laughing since I came in the back door. As you may have read already, Monique arrived last Friday. When I left for the day on Friday I thought I’d have a little fun with her. (Not that kind – for the cryin’ out loud – mind out of [...]
Ah Minnesota in the winter. Where else would the roof cave in on a professional football stadium – due to snow overload – than here in the frozen wasteland of Minnesota. We just received one of our top five snowfalls in the last two days and Kate and I have been digging out since yesterday. [...]