Thanks to a little help from Doug McFaddin at PhotoOne Software, we’ve got a great blog on SEO. You can’t be in business today without a website, but more important, what good is a great website or creating the greatest images of your life if nobody can find you?
So much has happened in a year’s [...]
At Pictage’s Partner Con last week in New Orleans I talked about photographers using their own images for their holiday cards and put up a few examples. One of them was from an old buddy, David Michael Kennedy. Since DMK is one of the finest Palladium printers in the world, as well as a remarkable artist, I [...]
One of the components of my marketing program is helping photographers think about becoming their own publicity machine. The truth is, you’re the only one who is going to consistently watch out for you and your business. Publicity doesn’t happen by accident. I know you’re all tech-weenies and into the images you get from your [...]
I’m just back from Pictage Partner Con and what an amazing “community”….I’m using the word community because it’s the one word that best describes the feeling in the air. There were close to 500 people who all seemed to have the same goals – find new answers, fine tune their skills and most important of [...]
Two years ago I was walking around Photoshop World and as I came by David Ziser’s booth, I overheard two young photographers, mid twenties at the most, arguing as they looked at a bridal portrait David had in his booth. The battle was over which Photoshop tool David used to drop in the highlights on the bride’s [...]
When I asked Aurora Onorato if she’d do a guest post about her experiences with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, I had no idea the significance of my request. Typical of most photographers, Aurora got busy and it was at least three weeks before she was able to find the time to send me [...]
Our profession is losing studios (in big numbers) everyday. The fact is a lot of point and shoot cameras and even some phone cameras have larger “mega pixels” than my $27,500 Kodak 460 camera I bought in 1996. I have nothing against part timers or MWAC – most of us started out in a similar [...]
There are only a handful of photographers in our industry who have achieved the public recognition of Lisa Jane (aka Lisa New). Her images and licensing agreements extend throughout the greeting card industry and have been spotted in many Carlton Card Shops and when she teaches a program on children’s photography you can count on [...]
Blog Fest 2009, started here two weeks ago with an idea to bring some new content to my blog. There was no deep seated message intended – just a request to a bunch of friends who are great educators to contribute 400 or so words, an image or two and some inspiration. I never anticipated [...]
