Senior Solutions Guide

A chance to win a FREE NB SENIOR POSING BOOK!

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:28:37 +0000

If you want a chance to win a FREE book then head on over to ColorInc’s Blog after 5pm and all weekend long!

*** The comments on why you need to win the book are supposed to go on the colorinc blog

Senior Season Upon Us

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:04:21 +0000

Senior season is beginning again and with it is the need for tools to be successful! We have been selling a lot of the posing books this spring, so don’t wait to get yours!

Check out the previous post for pictures and information!

http://seniorsolutionsguide.com/2009/04/nb-seniors-guide-to-posing/

Designs by Jenn & NB Posing Guide Updates

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:52:50 +0000

What a great response to the NB Posing Guide!! If you are currently waiting for a copy they should be arriving this week!!

Also wanted to note that we now have another wonderful addition to the already jam packed Senior Solutions Guide!! Miss jenn of Designs by Jenn has created an exclusive set of cards for us! So if you are a new purchaser you will get these and if you purchase sometime between now and last year you can download these in the flickr group only. Please do not email me asking for links, if you want them they are in the members only group.

be sure to check out Jenn’s fabulous designs!!!

NB SENIORS GUIDE TO POSING!

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:10:03 +0000

ok it is here finally after a year of having little birdies whisper in my ear about making a posing guide I have it finished! ( thanks for the push ladies)
I myself will have one with me for those moments when I get brain freeze! yes, even me I get caught up and forget what to do next!

I have compiled around 70 different poses ( girls and guys) and put them into 4×5 size pages. I have included several pages that explain and show the correct way to position a girl and guy, talk about lighting, hands, hips, etc. There are a total of 67 pages.
Each picture tells how to place your subject and gives you my camera settings for those who like to know. Let me say though if you find a picture with no settings, it is the 85 1.2L that I use all the time.

You may purchase the jpeg files to print with your own lab in a 4×5 size for 50.00 or you can purchase a printed copy and have it mailed to you for 80.00

FOR A LIMITED TIME YOU CAN PURCHASE THE JPEG POSING GUIDE & THE SENIOR SOLUTIONS GUIDE AS A PACKAGE FOR 100.00!!!!

FOR A LIMITED TIME YOU CAN PURCHASE THE PRINTED POSING GUIDE & SENIOR SOLUTIONS GUIDE AS A PACKAGE FOR 125.00!!!!

Click on the paynow button to choose your item!!

Examples of printed book:

Carmen Chan {Simply Couture Designs}

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:23:47 +0000

Thank you Carmen for your wonderful interview and giveaway! All you have to do to enter is comment on her interview! There will be a random drawing next Friday!! The prize is this awesome 12×12 collage template.

Check out her designs, they ROCK for seniors!!!

Name: Website(s)
Carmen Chan
http://www.simplycouturedesigns.com
http://www.babysproutsphoto.com

http://www.carmenchanphotography.com

1. How long have you been in business? Tell us about yourself.
I am a photographer, template designer and a mommi of a 5 years old girl and 5 months old baby boy. I started my photography business in March 2006, specializing in weddings. In 2007, I opened my home studio and started doing more baby and family portraits. In 2008, I photographed primarily babies as I was pregnant with my second child. Newborns and small babies are my favorite subjects to photograph. I enjoy capturing the precious tender moments of their first year.

After the birth of my second baby in October 2008, I decided to venture into Photoshop template design and hence added graphic design to my line of business. It is so fulfilling seeing other photographers using my designs and hearing compliments they receive from their customers. I feel very blessed with my design skill and I enjoy the time I spend on creating templates and logos for other photographers.

2. Where do you find inspiration?
I find inspiration from everywhere I go. I love windows shopping and whenever I see something that inspires me, I will take a picture and add it to my scrapbook of inspiration. For my photography, I am inspired by viewing other photographers’ work and participating in forums. I also learnt a lot the business side of photography by reading PPA magazines and attending their annual conference.

3.If you had one thing that you would have done differently when you started
out what would it be?
My workflow. When I first started, I spent a lot of time in front of the computer to process hundreds and hundreds of photos, especially from the weddings that I photographed. I later learnt to capture right on the camera, so I can spend less time re-touching and fixing the photos in post-processing.

4.What is the BEST thing you have done for your business?
Joining PPA is the best thing I have done for my business. There I have really learnt the business side of photography through their conferences, webminars and monthly periodicals. Their malpractice insurance included in the member benefits is a definite must-have for all professional photographers.

5.Can you tell us what your favorite products/vendors are?
My favorite products are coffee table books and gallery wrapped canvas. I have many favorite vendors. To name a few: WHCC, Zookbinders, Graphistudio, Asukabook, Bella Grafica, Simply Canvas. Recently, photo bag is another favorite product of mine and I love Snaptotes!

6.One thing you cannot live without ( for your biz).
My camera Canon 5D and my Power Mac.

7.What other photographers do you admire?
For wedding photographers, I love seeing work from Bebb Studios, Chris+Lynn, and The Image is Found. For baby and child photographers, I admire Lori Nordstrom for her simplicity; Carrie Sandoval for her amazing newborn work; Brianna Graham for her awesome urban style and VGallery for their boutique studio work.

8. Tell us about Simply Couture Designs-
Simply Couture Designs is a small design shop with the photographers in mind. We create hip and chic, boutique style, Photoshop templates for the professional photographers. Our goal is to help photographers create eye-catching, customizable photo cards and books for their clients while spending little time in front of the computer.

9. What is your typical day like?

I don’t have a typical day! Every day is unique where I have to juggle the duties of being a mom of two, and the work for both the home studio and templates design. Sometimes I can easily get carried away with the designing work but I enjoy every minute I spend with my family, even just some break time in between work.

10.How do you stay current with trends?
Whenever possible, I attend photography seminars and conferences to learn the latest trend of the industry and hear tips from well established professionals. These opportunities give me lots of great ideas on photographing, marketing, packaging and sale.

New Template for 2009~ Simply Couture Designs

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:13:14 +0000

I am so excited to announce we have a new addition to the Senior Solutions Guide templates! Carmen from www.simplycouturedesigns.com has made an Exclusive Guy & Girl Grad announcement and matching 411 card~

Her designs are so hip and sure to be favorites for your seniors!! Make sure to check back her this week for an interview with her and a giveaway!

If you have purchased Senior Solutions previously from today you can find the download for the new templates in the Senior Solutions Flickr group.

Now is the time!

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:03:35 +0000

Since I currently cannot figure out how to have this information at the top of my site I thought I would post the direct link again for you!

You can read more about the information here http://seniorsolutionsguide.com/information/

Right now is the time to be looking for your senior reps!! If you are thinking about breaking into the senior market now is the time.

I also have a great flickr group of over 240 members, such a great resource when you are starting out!!

Natalie

Interview with Alicia Caine; Easy as Pie

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:29:36 +0000

I have just recently had the privilege of meeting Alicia online! Wow does she know her stuff!! I immediately knew that I wanted to share her with all of you! An accomplished photographer, mother of 4 kids under age 7 and the main bread winner in her home!

I finished reading her PDF “Easy as Pie” today and I am convinced that raising my prices will work! I love how she has it all laid out, the pros, the cons, the formulas and how to keep it positive. You will definitely want to check it out, her release is this Friday Jan 23th!!

Here is a little about her;

Name: Alicia Caine
Website(s)
www.aliciacainephotography.com
www.served-up-fresh.com (Easy As Pie!)
www.escentualframe.blogspot.com (custom framing)

1. How long have you been in business? Tell us about yourself.

I am the mommy to 4 kiddos- ages 7, 5, 2.5 and 8 months- who I don’t
photograph enough of!!

I started my business in May of 2007. My husband left the air force to go to
college and I decided to pursue this business full time so that he didn’t
have to work on top of his workload as our family time was very important to
us. My business became 100% of our source of income in May of 2007 and my
business did not start producing until August of 2007.

I specialize in babies and children (newborns being my favorite!) I opened a
little natural light studio in October of 2008 which I use only for newborns
and babies.

2. Where do you find inspiration?
When I first stared- EVERYONE was an inspiration to me because I was so bad!
Lol I found myself reproducing other’s styles and struggled to find my own.
I still don’t think I have found my own style…but that’s a whole other
topic! Lol

3.If you had one thing that you would have done differently when you started

out what would it be?

Obviously, it would be my pricing. Would I go back and change it- probably
not- I learned a ton from the experience….but I wish I would have known
then what I know now.

4.What is the BEST thing you have done for your business?
Raised my prices. (do I sound like a broken record yet). My business would
not be a business if it wasn’t for my prices. I would have died a long time
ago without them.

5.Can you tell us what your favorite products/vendors are?

Jill-e camera bag!
I love to rent lenses from Paul at www.lensprotogo.com
Design Aglow— but have you heard of anyone who doesn’t like this site???
LOVE my finao albums
I can’t do without my paper-source packaging- luvs it!
I love LilyBlue actions and recently played around with the Totally Rad set
that I am loving!

6.One thing you cannot live without ( for your biz).

My 5D- I adore it. I look back at the quality of my work when I was shooting
with the 20D and cringe.

7.What other photographers do you admire?

Right now, I probably drool over Carrie Sandavols work the most as I am
spending a lot of time shooting newborns- I love to see what she comes up
with- it’s never dull!

I have a huge list of photographers that I always admire for different
reasons— I really have no favorite because there are so many amazing ones
out there.

8. Tell us about “Easy as Pie”
I had the huge privilege of mentoring over 40 photographers last year using
my pricing information that I had accumulated since the start of my business
and I developed a program where it could work for any photographer no matter
where they were in their business and where they wanted to go with it. I
call it common sense pricing because once you learn it- it just clicks— it
makes so much sense! Some people are natural with this kind of things while
others dread this part of their business. It was my desire to remove the
trial and error and give something that would take the pain out of the
process. The best part of all- I LOVE hearing the success of other
photographers when they take this information and apply it to their
business. I’ve had a couple achieve over $4K in sales immediately after the
changes took place and it makes me giddy knowing that the potential was
there the whole time- they just needed a little direction and they blossomed
on their own. It’s an amazing thing to be a part of!!!

9.What’s one thing you thought would never go over well that has been a huge

hit?

Hhmm….that’s hard to say! I usually don’t do anything unless I am
convinced that it will be successful. This is also my downfall because I am
hesitant to try new things because I hate going through the process of
failure and try to stay as far away from it as possible.

10.How do you stay current with trends?
Selling digital files. I never thought I would do this and now it is my
biggest sales maximizer. You won’t seeing me turn down a digital file sale!

Client Service Sites

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:37:26 +0000

Hey guys! I wanted to tell you what I did~ I have wanted to have all of my information about proofing, policies, pricing, contracts etc all in one place to have clients go to. I just get so busy I have a hard time remembering what I sent and what I did not lol.
So a friend of mine had a site she was working on and I asked my favorite web designer to work on one for me!
Last yr I bought an html client site and never finished it ( I am so not good at html)
So I had kim make me a blog to use as a client site. I plan on sending clients there when they book, they can pay their session fee online with paypal etc.
I also bought machforms ( which kim does too) so I could make the forms for policies, model release etc and have them right on there to fill out and they get emailed right to me.

Anyway I am super excited to have everything in one place! Kim is now offering custom client service sites for 350.00 totally worth it.
http://kimtown.com/2009/01/introducingclient-information-sites/

She has just a screen shot of mine on there, after what happened with the stolen images I am not sharing my private information but you guys have pricing and such anways from the guide.

If you decide to have her make your life easier and want one tell her I sent you please!

Kim said she would do a group buy! 10 people and you can get the custom site for 200.00!! Contact her and let her know who sent ya!

Natalie

2 more Days!

admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:10:29 +0000

Only two more days for this amazing sale!!! I cannot say when or if it will ever be this low again!

Send 40.00 to natalie@photographybynatalieb.com

If you need to know more about what is included check out the information link on the sidebar towards the bottom.

Also check out all the amazing photographers links that offer products to make our jobs easier!

The newest one is Digital Expressions ~ Jeffrey has awesome actions, action albums and even makes custom proofing actions!