Good buddy, Scott Bourne, ran this a little while back on his blog, but it makes such a good point about storytelling and that in turn ties into print competition. Storytelling is more important today than ever, especially with so many of you starting to shoot video and mixed-media. Photographers have always been the ultimate storytellers, but like everything in the [...]

We set the stage with yesterday’s post for some great background on how David Ziser has built his pricing platform and worked on one of the biggest challenges for photographers. Even the seasoned pros often forget how much needs to go into their pricing philosophy.
You should be following David’s posts at Digital Pro Talk. I [...]

It’s one of David Ziser’s best posts and also a very long read. I’ve broken it up into two parts, because it’s such an important topic, establishing your pricing.  
It’s that time of year when two key events start to happen. First, you’re going to be doing your taxes and for most of you it’ll be the first time you [...]

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, one of America’s leading portrait photographers put together a pretty terrific little book called Don Blair’s Guide to Lighting and Posing Body Parts. I wrote the book, but it was exclusively Don Blair’s words and images. 
Tony Corbell, now at Nik Software and Terry Deglau, now retired, [...]

I rarely get into topics about equipment, but this post from good buddy, David Ziser, really hits the topic of which Canon model is best suited for weddings. It might have been written a little while ago, but the points will get you thinking about your own choices. Taking it one step further, it hits on issues [...]

I want to kick this Tuesday off talking about lighting. It’s the number one skill-set challenge, especially for new photographers. It’s also the number two request for workshop topics, right after business/marketing help. How you see the light, control it, even interpret it is one of the greatest ways to put some distance between you and [...]

I’ve been a big fan of David Ziser’s for a lot of years. In fact, most newer photographers aren’t aware that going back to the early 90’s David and Denis Reggie did the Engaged in Excellence Tour, which to this day remains the largest attended workshop series ever presented in wedding photography. It wasn’t unusual [...]

This post might be almost two years old, but great ideas never age! The challenge is how to make yourself stand out, but don’t forget the basics first. If you don’t know what you’re doing with a camera in your hands, then all the marketing in the world can’t fix bad images! Concentrate on the [...]

The other day on Skip’s Summer School on Facebook, Tabi Gibbs, asked what other photographers do to be more effective at Bridal Fairs. We’re not exactly in the season right now, but in a few months we will be. So, I dug this post out of the archives. It’s a really good list of things [...]

One of the fun pre-program aspects of Summer School is looking at the demographic data to understand more about who’s coming to this year’s program and why. Here’s this year’s profile.
We’ve got about 300 people coming as of this morning and to start it’s a 45/55 split between men and women. There are more women [...]