Improve Photography

This guest post was written by Lara White, whose photography studio has been published in over 70 magazines in the last five years.  Lara is a wedding photographer and has shared her experience specific to her trade, but almost all of the advice in this article is useful for photographers of all kinds.  I personally [...]

You saw this article’s headline somewhere and clicked on it because you want to improve your portrait photography business, right?  Well, this article will do NOTHING for you if you only read it.  Make today a DO day.  Take at least one of these ideas and ACT ON IT if you really want to make [...]

On a daily basis, I work with amateur photographers who are considering the jump to becoming a professional photographer as either a part-time “side job” or as a full-fledged career photographer.  Almost without exception, they ask three questions, (1) Can you help me with my lighting, (2) How can I get more clients, and (3) [...]

Adding a blog to your photography website is good for business, and it’s great for improving your search engine ranking in Google.  It seems that every portrait photographer on planet Earth has a blog these days, and I have personally visited hundreds of them.  I read almost every comment on this site and follow the [...]

Starting out as a pro photographer is very exciting.  It’s fun to realize that a photography hobby can also be a great way to earn a little extra money on the side.  Unfortunately, I have seen dozens and dozens of photographers start out with all the excitement in the world, but eventually fail as a [...]

A couple months ago, I tried to upload about 8 stock photos to all the different stock photo agencies: istockphoto, fotolia, shutterstock, bigstock, canstock, etc.  I was going to write a blogpost explaining which stock photo agency was best to sell with, but my experience changed the nature of the article. The real question is [...]

I received a phone call a few months ago from a photographer who had moved out of town and wanted to pass a reference to me.  FANTASTIC!  The client was a business who wanted a photographer to shoot their black tie event.  The photographer who called me had shot the event for many years.  I [...]

I’m starting to dabble in stock photography.  I’m not any good at it yet, but it sounds challenging and fun.  I’ll be writing a series of articles on stock photography on this section of the website as I learn more about the world of stock. Stock photography is where photographers sell their images to people [...]