I won’t beat around the bush – I cringe a little bit every time I see someone post images of thin, beautiful subjects, captioned with a comment like “They were so easy to photograph!!” I cringe because I know that there are potential clients out there who read that and say “Sure, they’re easy to...
When I put out a Q&A call to my email list a few weeks ago, I got some great questions. This one, I think, deserves special attention and at least two posts. Let’s dive in: Q: What is the best way to deal with clients (usually women) who love the picture in general, but then...
Earlier this week I posted about showing your clients your products as often as possible from the very beginning. The goal is to get them as excited about your products as they are about your images. Today I got the following email from a reader, which began by quoting a section from that post: “But if the...
When I started in photography, I frantically hoarded blogs on Google Reader, as if some crucial bit of photography knowledge would slip through my fingers unless I stayed on top of those feeds!! As time passed, I found my mile-high mountain of blogs eroding down to some gems that consistently provide outstandingly useful, educational, and...
More for adventure than education, I once spent a summer in Tunisia studying Arabic. After a brief orientation in Washington DC, I headed with a large group of soon-to-be classmates to the airport. Having traveled extensively before, I fearlessly marched through the airport in search of the right airline desk. Realizing that I had headed...
