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Before you even start to hate, if you have never seen the documentary on Justin Bieber Never Say Never, then we don’t want to hear one negative peep out of your mouth 
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Don’t be jealous y’all, but Justin Beiber came through Nashville on his BELIEVE tour and we got tickets and went!
The concert was pretty impressive and that little dude can sing really well live.
As the wedding season is ending and as all of our years are winding down, it’s important to take some time and focus back on our business!!
Today’s tips and tricks blog is about one of our favorite topics… business!! It’s important to be skilled at your craft but we like to say, 95% percent of running a successful photography business is not about photography… it’s about business!
So, can anyone guess what the top two emerging technologies in the world are today? The answer is……
…cell phones (4 billion sold in 2009. Yes, BILLION!) and digital cameras (which includes the DSLR pro cameras).
So, guess how many brand new photographers are out there shooting weddings, families, babies and so on? TONS!! With a sea of new photographers flooding the market, launching their new websites and starting businesses left and right, how in the world do YOU stand out from the crowd and what can you do that makes you different? If you think that you can simply create a great product (like really nice images) and offer them at a competitive price, and do a really good job for you clients, then your business will probably be over before it begins.
So what can we do to stand out and be different? Let’s read a few quotes from best-selling author Seth Godin: [click to continue…]
We just finished up Nashville’s final IN-CAMERA workshops here at our home and we had an absolute blast with our attendees! Many pics were taken, lots of laughs were had and some great friends were made. We have loved doing this particular series of workshops and always enjoy opening our home to photographers. So now that this series of workshops is coming to an end, you may be asking, “what’s next?” We have a few things up our sleeves that are sure to be way different and really exciting! Stay tuned!
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Today’s Tuesday Photography Tips & Tricks is about business. Business is 80% of what we do day in and day out to become successful and we spend about 20% of our time doing our art (shooting, editing etc). So this week, and a few time a month our tips and tricks are dedicated to this all important area of our photog biz!
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Hello tips and tricks peeps! We hope that everyone is having an amazing day and that all your photography dreams are coming true as we type! 
Today we are going to do a simple post on a cool little topic – FOCUS!
Have you ever been shooting your client and they start moving or running and all of a sudden all your images start coming out blurry? Or, on the other hand, have you ever been shooting your client and you press the shutter half-way to focus on their face, and when you recompose the shot the camera then changes focus on something else? Well, there are tons of little factors that play into how your camera focuses, but one thing we need to understand is the focus MODE that our camera is set to and how that effects the way it handles focusing.
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