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Yes, many professional photographers have seen a major downturn in business as digital enables even rank amateurs to capture some pretty good pictures. Some disenchanted professionals may even feel that it’s all over for the professional photographer. They are wrong! They must not know about our ace in the hole: the simple fact that people want to look their very best in photographs, at least for special situations. People still spend a lot on clothes, they worry about their hair, they spend tons of money on skin creams and makeup, and even expensive cosmetic surgery – all to look better. When it comes to photographs of themselves, while they may not care about snapshots that are going to go into the proverbial shoebox or stay forever as a digital file locked into some hard drive, they do really care about how they look in a serious lasting image of themselves. In fact, a major reason many people don’t go to the professional photographer for a portrait is that they fear how bad they are going to look!
Read this month’s issue of the Backgrounder and find out how you can turn this into a business opportunity.
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I love gadgets. I really like to try out new technology and find out if it really can improve quality, decrease time, or is it just a fine gadget to have. Well Epic Edits has generated a list of Must Have Online Tools for Professional Photographers. That list includes:
- The Library of Congress
- Getty Images
- Sports Shooter
- Photography Blog
- Photojojo
- Digital Photography Review
- About.com
- Smugmug
- Photo.Net
- Digital Photography Magazine
How many of these do you have? If you are wondering why these are important tools for photographers read the complete article here.
Gay Weddings: Growing Opportunity?
Posted on: 24 April 2009
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For wedding photographers, same-sex marriage shows signs of being good for business. Several states now allow gay marriages or civil unions. More states are likely to follow suit sooner or later, giving gay and lesbian couples across the country an impetus to throw weddings large and small.
Of course, they need photographers and other wedding vendors. But given the controversy around same-sex marriage, the gay and lesbian wedding business is somewhat fraught. Couples worry about which vendors are gay friendly. And photographers are apt to wonder whether they might alienate straight clients by shooting gay weddings.
Now a growing cadre of photographers, frequently driven by a strong sense of social justice, is actively marketing to gay clients. The photographers are counting on a growing acceptance of same-sex marriage around the country to help drive demand in the gay wedding industry.
Among them is photographer Charlotte Geary of Manitou Springs, Colorado, who shot her first same-sex wedding for a lesbian couple in 2006. [via PDN]
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Covering breaking news immediately with small or shrinking staffs can be difficult at any organization.
That was, until now.
Matthew Stoff of The (Nacogdoches) Daily Sentinel shared an excellent Twitter breaking news widget tutorial (including the code needed) that he and Lead Developer David Durrett created.
In an e-mail interview, Stoff said they have been using the tool since January, “The reporters were excited because it meant no longer relying on Web staff to publish up-to-the minute headlines, which, for us, is a process that is slower than we’d like. As a result, we’ve been much more flexible about getting intermittent updates published quickly. I’m referring to new facts that don’t warrant an entire rewrite by themselves, but help to flesh out a breaking news incident.” [via Poynter Online]
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