Category Archives: Photography Business

Equipment, Photography Business, Photography Resources

BACK UP your work !!!

BACK UP  your work in at least 3 places. I can’t tell you enough how important it is. I can’t stress it enough.

A great reason to have an Apple computer is the time machine. The time machine is where you buy an external hard drive such as Western Digital for a Mac 2Tb, 3TB or 4TB now. You set your system preferences up on your Mac so that every hour your entire machine will back up automatically. So if anything on your computer breaks the entire computer is backed up.

Let me tell you a couple stories 1 I just bought a brand new Mac from Apple it was $1200 just came out. It was my first Apple I was super excited and everyone told me to get the apple care which I didn’t at the time because I didn’t have the money but you have up to a year to buy it. Anyways within maybe 2 weeks my motherboard fired or I think it was the harddrive and I took it back to Apple. They said did you back it up and luckily because I had since I bought it set up the time machine from day 1 they told me to. I was able to get a brand new Apple Mac computer took it home plugged it into my external hard drive and the time machine synched the entire computer back up as if it was never even a different computer. It was awesome.

2. I second shot for someone and accidentally erased a folder. For me when I take my pictures off my camera I back my pictures up 1 on my computer 2. on my external hard drives and 3 I have my time machine. I know I have it in 3 places. Somehow a folder got erased no clue how it happened but it did. I am a very cautious person I NEVER erase pictures I still have pictures seriously from 6 years ago when I first started my business. I even kept the raw files from 5 years ago. I am crazy cautious and always take extra steps but things happen it’s called and accident. That’s why I LOVE the time machine. I was able to go back a few dates back to the date I shot the wedding an sure enough every single image and folder was there. That is why the time machine is extremely important. Did I make a mistake yes was it is bad yes will you make mistake yes because we are huge and make mistakes every single day all the time. Get a external hard drive even if you have a PC you can have it back up the same to automatically back up every hour.

 

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Looking for guest speaker Professsional Photographers to post on here.

I am looking for guest speaker Professional Photographers for posts you can add to this site to help teach photographers. If you would like your company on here. Email me at info@5ee.a0d.myftpupload.com. I will link your company to here and post a tutorial or an article. If you have a post on Photographytoolbox you will gain more traffic to your site for free. I would love to here for you. If you have something you think newbie photographers would enjoy learning email me I would love to help you and them!!!

Newborn, Photography Business

Best age to photograph a newborn

Here is how the newborn baby will act for the days old they are
3-4 day old was a little fussy, but sometimes I think that fussiness comes from the anxiety of the parents. The more relaxed you are the faster the baby will sleep. Please know I will get pictures even if it takes an hour for your baby to sleep.
7-8 days are best because they sleeping and feeding schedule is more established.

9/10 -cluster feeding much harder because they want to keep eating every hour

Photography Business

Sending photo sessions over the internet.

If your client need their photos asap and you want to send them their photos from their photo session this site is great you can send up to 2 GBs over the net. It’s great for when your if something goes wrong and the mailman doesn’t get their photos on time or loses it. I have you used it a couple times and love it. Just tell your client in the email that then need to click download and they have their files instantly. It’s fast but slow to upload. I use it to send family pictures as well. I LOVE it and it’s 100% free no charges.

https://www.wetransfer.com/

Editing, Equipment, Photography Business, Photography Resources

Free photography classes | free photography workshops

This site is a great photography site to help you watch and learn free online photography classes or photography workshops. I have learned a ton on this site. I watch the workshops while I am editing without even leaving my home. I don’t have to travel or take away from my life I can watch them over and over which it the beauty of it. I have bought a bunch of the workshops and learned a ton. From editing, poses, lighting, Photoshop, lenses, camera’s, business, composting, weddings, and portaits.

You have to purchase them if you want to watch them after the few free days then run live.

https://www.creativelive.com/

Money, Photography Business

What to charge for photo sessions at beginning of starting a photography business

I have two friends that are just starting out that want to have some questions answered.

I have family members that want me to take their pics and they want to know how much and I just don’t know what is reasonable for an amateur just starting out. I want to be compensated for my time obviously but am not to sure on what is a reasonable fee.   I was thinking around $100-$150.  Does that sound reasonable to you for shoot and pics on CD?

First ask yourself this question as your first starting out

1. What am I trying to achieve by taking pictures of a few friends families?

2. What is the most important purpose when I first start offering the photo sessions to them? Is your main concern to make an extra $100 or is your main concern to generate clients?

 

If your main concern is to generate lots of clients and you want to get your business up and running with tons of clients then start your prices at a low price such as $50-75. I know what your thinking it’s very low, you aren’t trying to make money at the moment you have either a 2nd job while you get this business going. The point the price being low is you will get your name out there very fast if you follow a few steps that are in my book.

If you want to make a little extra money on the side $100 each time is a great little extra pocket money to play around with till you get your confidence up as you build your portfolio.  As you work your skills will improve slowing over time.

If you would like my secret how I was able to make more money you have to buy my Professional Photography Business Toolbox book. It will be coming out in a few months, I just need to get a professional proofreader and it’s going out to be sold online as an ebook and hopefully then a hard copy to follow. The ebook you will be able to download!!!

Photography Business

Online Photo Galleries

A great place to post your pictures if Flickr.com you can use it either as a gallery, people make comments on your work.

Better Photo – an excellent site for online classes, inspiration, and learning

Photo.net – another internet community for amateur and advanced photographers

Flickr – an huge international community of photographers and a  of inspiration

Photography Business

Photography Education

Where are the best places to learn photography classes?

There are many places either books, workshops, webnars, online, classes in colleges. There are tons and tons of books out there to teach you photography. Here is one really great site:

Creativelive.com has tons of online workshops that I LOVE to watch because 1st they show them free, this way you can decide if you want to buy them or not. If you do choose to buy them you can go back at any time and rewatch them and take notes.