Oh yeah – here’s a cuss word you haven’t seen before….the simple truth of why this article warrants such language is because your fearless leader of Wootness!™, the woman who sticks you in a corner with a dunce hat on and isn’t afraid to rub your nose in your mistakes is a total freaking idiot! …
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DRUMROLL… and the Wootness!™ Fan Club President is…
Oh, did you think I’d make it THAT easy??? First I had to see how many entries we had. So I looked and saw that we had 252 entries:
Forget the insurance agent, get thee to the PPA!
The other day, I wrote THIS article about business insurance, liability, indemnity and equipment coverage and gave you some information about that. Later that day, I began to hear rumors that the PPA was going to offer insurance options to their members. I am absolutely ecstatic to be able to tell you that EFFECTIVE TODAY, …
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Don’t Do This, Seriously!
A photographer friend shared this message that she received from a local newbie and requested help in formulating an answer:
Do NOT design your own logo!
We constantly harp on people to not try and do their own photos, to pay a professional photographer to do them, and then we turn around and design our own logo. Seriously? This does not get to be a “do as I say, not as I do” activity. Pay a professional logo designer to do …
Do I have to buy Adobe Photoshop? and other post-processing quandries…
The short answer is “no.” Most pro photographers are using some version of Adobe Photoshop for their post-processing. I personally use CS5. I understand that looking at the pricetag on the latest version makes you want to throw up a little, so I’m going to suggest an affordable alternative. It’s called Adobe Photoshop Elements and …
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Props do not a portrait make…
I cannot count the number of times that I’ve had a high school senior and parents come into the studio for their appointment and one of the parents has requested the big number 10 (or 11 or 12). Seriously? Did you even LOOK at my website? Where in the world did you get the impression …
Is it okay to offer CDs?
Greta asks: In your opinion, do you think its ok to offer CD’s? I can’t decide whether or not to offer them or not. I don’t want some of the problems that come along with it (i.e. re-editing/posting) I personally do not want a CD from any photog OR studio (back in the day) when …
Go to Sears. NOW.
What I am about to say will probably tick a lot of people off. But I’m going to say it. Go get your family portrait taken NOW. Grab the kids and run down to Sears. How much money is in your purse that you can spend? $72? Find someone who can give you something for …
Our clients DO value photography!
I’ve been in the middle of a LOT of conversations with other photographers that boil down to someone exclaiming “Our clients just don’t value photography!” and then there are lots of nods of agreements from others listening and perhaps several others launch into their own woe-is-me-I-lost-another-client-to-a-newbie story. For a long time, I agreed with this. …