June 2019 Inspirations: Best Children Images
June 2019 Inspirations: Best Children Images Inspiration can come when you least expect it. As photographers, we are visual artists. We express ourselves through our
06/01/2019
Post Production
10 Tips to Revitalize Your Workflow in Lightroom Classic
If you aren’t already feeling the heat of wedding season, it’s time to wake up and get ready! Before you know it, you’ll be up all night editing in October, wondering why all the issues you had last year are now hitting you in the face. There’s no better time than now to revitalize your workflow and prepare for the worst, because it’s coming.
05/01/2019
Posing
10 Great Pose Ideas for a Bride & Groom
We’ve all seen that one pose from wedding photography: the typical bride and groom looking at each other with some natural or architectural backdrop. There’s nothing wrong with that photograph—honestly, it is usually super popular with the couple themselves—but it gets kinda boring for you and your clients. Show off your abilities as a photographer and get the best shots possible—here are some options for how to offer something more, something different to your customers, switching it up.
05/01/2019
In-Person Sales
Dominating Your Wedding Sales
Jumping into an in-person sales model is difficult for so many people who have built their business on handing over digital files to their clients. It takes a lot of money, perseverance, and time upfront to build a solid in-person sales business. We have spent the past four years perfecting our sales strategies to be in line with ever-changing wedding trends, and have come up with a model that serves our clients from beginning to end while still bringing in high-dollar sales.
05/01/2019
In-Person Sales
Implementing Your Sales System With In-Person Sales
This month in the Business Corner represents the culmination of all the work we’ve been doing for the past several months—selling profitable products to your client at an in-person sales appointment after the shoot. It’s time to cash in.
05/01/2019
Lighting
The Do’s and Don’ts of Off-Camera Flash
Off-camera flash can be an intimidating thing to try to master. Where do you put the flash? What power should it be on? When do you need more than a simple Speedlite? What about modifiers? Where do you even start? Here are five tips to help you out!
05/01/2019
May 2019 Inspirations: Best Wedding Images
May 2019 Inspirations: Best Wedding Images Inspiration can come when you least expect it. As photographers, we are visual artists. We express ourselves through our
05/01/2019
Lighting
Perfect Reception Lighting
It’s a photographer’s house of horrors—a dark reception hall. Let me simplify everything for you. Below, I’ll lay out the easy system we at The Blumes use to create crisp, color-balanced, commercial-quality reception images every time. You’ll just need your camera, three cheap flashes, and a few rubber bands. Sound good?
05/01/2019
Shutter Magazine
5 Tips for Getting It Right in Camera
Photographers seem to obsess over editing. They treat it like it’s the special sauce that, once mastered, will bring you in new clientele. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I will let you guys in on a little secret. Our clients come to us for cinematic, dramatic environmental portraiture, yet the images that they love, and the ones that we choose for our portfolio, are typically the ones for which we diverge the least from the original file.
05/01/2019
Business
Stop Being Average with Sal Cincotta
Look, I’m sorry you needed to stop by this article to have the news broken to you, but if you want success, it is 100 percent out there for you to go and grab by the balls. You have to want it. It will not be handed to you. It is not owed to you. Every day, consumers vote with their dollars. They have a choice. You, we, as business owners, have to give them a reason to spend those dollars with us. And average? That just ain’t gonna cut it.
05/01/2019
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