Popular Posts
The Non-Procrastinating Guide To Taking Productive Breaks
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You decide that once and for all, you’re going to finish that thing you’ve been putting off. And darnit, you’re not going to leave that chair until it’s done. You open Photoshop/Lightroom/Word/Email, and after staring blankly at the screen for a moment, you start. For about twenty minutes, everything…
Read MoreCompetition, Pricing, and The Sony “Mistake”
Can we, as an industry, pause a moment and take a deep breath? Ahhhhh. Okay. Straight talk coming your way today, fair warning. I submit that as a profession, we: 1) Spend far too much time thinking about how our competition is pricing their work, 2) Misunderstand who our competition actually is, and 3) Waste…
Read MoreHow To Request Something From a Busy Person (And Get a Reply)
This is one of the most important pieces of business + life advice I’ll ever post on this blog. I hope you’ll read and remember accordingly. As photographers, we can’t always go it alone. There’s too much to do, too much to know. Sometimes we have to ask for help, and that’s totally…
Read More3 Tips For a Body-Image-Friendly Photography Blog
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…
Read MoreHow to Get Over Your Fears and Raise Your Prices
“At all levels of income, the typical response is that one needs 20% more to be happy.” -Richard Easterlin The photographer’s equivalent to this statement is: “Whatever you charge for your work, the typical response is that you’re 20% too expensive.” Like clockwork, I’ve been told my photography is too expensive at $75, $100, $300,…
Read More