Part Time Photography

A week or so ago I was introduced to Dan Eitreim with Part Time Photography. He has a great ebook available for anyone that is trying to use their camera to bring in a part time income. Its a book filled with tips and strategies from a variety of different professional photographers. And that is really what makes this book so valuable.

You’ll find 16 chapters, each by a different photographer, filled with ideas to help you get your business up and running. I finally had a chance to read it cover to cover, and was impressed with the ideas. These ideas go hand in hand with my Six Figure philosophy, and are sure to spark your interests with a few new ideas.

Each chapter brings a distinct idea to you, and provides you with enough detail to put it into action. If you want to make money with portraits, family and children portraiture, this could be a great investment for you. You don’t need to come up with new ideas; take ideas that are already tried and profitable, and incorporate those into your business.

On top of that, the price couldn’t be better. In these trying times, if you’re great with a camera, its time to use your skills to bring in some extra income. And with the upcoming holiday season, and more people sticking close to home, family photographs will make perfect gifts.  Go to Part Time Photography and get your own copy now.

Photoshop Action – Curling Page

Create an action that will add a curled edge to any image.

 

With this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a curled effect to an image in just a few easy steps. This tutorial use the Warp filter added on CS2 and newer Photoshop editions

Let’s open a photo to start with for applying the effect to. For this tutorial, I’ve selected a stock photo

 

To start, we need to rename the background layer. I have renamed mine to “Curled Page”

 

Now we need to use the Marquee tool (Keyboard Shortcut – M) and select a small area

 

Next we need to add a gradient to our selection. Start at the inside corner and drag to the outside corner of the image

 

Now deselect (Select->Deselect) or (Ctr+D)

 

Next go to Edit->Transform->Warp.

 

Drag the bottom right point towards the center. Press enter when you are happy with your results.

 

Add a drop shadow to your image

 

Add an additional layer for a color background

 

Finished Image.
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Destination Photographer – What Does It Really Mean?

So you want to be a destination photographer?

You add the phrase to your website, “weddings anywhere in the U.S.” or “will travel anywhere for weddings and events”.

You sit back and wait for someone to contact you. And the years roll by. Why? Why hasn’t anyone selected you for traveling to their event outside of your home location?

The common misnomer with the phrase “destination photographer” is that by simply adding destination to your website and your brochure, you instantly become a destination photographer. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Let’s say your a photographer from Denver, Colorado, USA. All over your site you talk about weddings and portraits taken in the Denver area. On your contact us page you list your address – in Denver. Your keywords have Denver, Colorado, USA.

Guess what? You’ve just been pegged as a Denver, Colorado, USA photographer.

Being a destination photographer doesn’t mean you will promote your photography for everywhere on planet earth. It means you’re willing to travel. But where to?

We photographed in the Denver area. We also started specializing in weddings in Arizona (Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sedona). So guess what we put on our website? Information about our weddings in those locations!

And when we photographed in San Francisco, yep, we created a whole bunch of information on that too.

You can’t attract clients to your destination photography  unless you know where you want to go.

Choose your destinations, and start turning your dreams into reality. 

Photoshop – Create an Action and Drop Shadow

Creating an action will save you huge amounts of time in your photography updates. We created a simple movie that shows how easy it is to create an action in Adobe Photoshop where we add a drop shadow to an image. The action can be used many times.

View the video