business of photography
Help! How do I Budget for a Photoshoot? (a guide for clients)
A frequent and normal question I often get from my first-time direct clients (non-agency) is; “What is your rate?” (I never work on a per…
How I Wasted $10,000 Plus What I Learned and How It Applies to Business
You can’t learn anything in life unless you make mistakes. Some mistakes are obvious. Some mistakes are a lot more subtle. In this article I…
Tips and tricks for choosing domain name and web hosting as a photographer
With all the social networks and plenty of ways to share your images online, the question is – do you really need a website? And…
Should we let our photographic failures rule us?
This week I wanted to touch on the subject of failure. Mistakes and times when everything just seems to go wrong. Is it possible to…
Five Photography Business Goals for The New Year
I love the beginning of a new year – its a perfect time to reflect on what you did well last year and what you’d…
Top three photography business housekeeping tasks to get done the first month of 2017
There’s nothing like the new year to start things off on the right foot. Unlike making a New Year’s resolution to go to the gym…
How to Get Better at Photography – and stick with it forever
I think you can look around at a lot of the content based around photography on the internet and extract a theme: People want to…
The biggest mistakes made by new and aspiring models
While geared more toward those on the other side of the camera, I thought this video I ran across over the weekend was worth sharing….
Top advice from Joel Grimes: follow your own path
[editor’s note: Joel Grimes just released a new portrait photography tutorial. We took the opportunity to ask Joel for his best advice and it is outlined…






































