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2010 Product Guide
June 21, 2010 by admin
Filed under Downloads, Recent Posts, Recent Updates
New to the downloads is Ana’s product guide. A layered PSD students can download Ana’s entire guide and make it their own. With pages for print images, digital, books and more, it’s a great starting place.
Call Log
June 21, 2010 by admin
Filed under Downloads, Recent Posts
We love our call log. We use it for all new clients that call our studio to book a session – students can download the log here.
Child Silhouettes
Our Mothers Day Child Silhouettes special has been well received by our clients. Those little profiles grow up way too fast! We are discussing silhouette sessions in our forum. Below we show our Mothers Day Promo and two diagrams of our light setup with a mini explanation. If you are an online student of ours you can login and download our new Childhood Silhouettes samples for your phone and instructions for free in the lessons downloads section. Any time of year, these are a great add on!
ONLINE STUDENTS FOLLOW HERE to continue on to the lesson and for more detail.
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In our previous studio we had our lights mounted to a tracking system. We just moved so our tracking is not yet complete. However based on the diagram below we would have lights on each end of our track and actually point them both inward and down towards the subject. We found another great example online here -
You could also place the lights on each side on the floor as drawn below. In either case the ideas is that the lights will cross each other and cover the backdrop with the light. subject is after the lights. Meaning subject is between the lights and the camera. You are metering for the light on the drop. In most cases we shoot at F16 or F22 and all of our samples are shot at either aperture.
In this example below, our light (Alien Bee 800) is sitting on a super low tripod. They are on the floor and the subject is between the light and the camera. This is great for 3/4 or headshots for silhouettes. If doing full body then you need to have the subject standing on something to hide the light. More samples and details can be found in our online forum. (for paid students only)
MOMS Club
Recently I spoke to a MOPS group and had a really great time with it. In interest to the students and those who were at the MOPS group I posted my document.
I wrote a 17 page document as a handout for my MOPs group. My students can download this in Word or PDF. It contains the following information:
Top tips to shoot like a Pro.
ISO-Shutter-Aperture overview
Focusing overview
Fun things to do with photos
My favorite photos – the good, the bad, the memorable
Easter 2010
Easter is around the corner. For five years we have created special sets for our Easter specials. In our downloads area on the site I have uploaded the psds and related files for our packages, and easter confirm.
Valentines Bookmarks
All this week I will be posting fun downloads for your promos – be sure to read Lesson 2 – marketing circles!
Login to get your two free bookmarks and some Love words to use.
Click here to join us as a student.
Tutorial: eMail Marketing
Creating newsletters and keeping in touch with your clients is a vital part of your business. It is how they learn of my exclusive specials, recent happenings and all that is going on. We think it is so important to have this as part of your ongoing marketing campaigns. Stefanie broke it down in a very simple tutorial for everyone. There is no excuse after reading this to not have implemented a newsletter in your studio offerings.
Tutorial: How to FTP
In this Tutorial Stefanie very simply explains the FTP process. FTP means File Transfer Protocol. It is how we pass images back and forth from our machines to our servers. If you are struggling with FTP and how to do it, check out this tutorial.
Storyboards Tutorial
Finally we created a simply tutorial for creating storyboards! They can be printed on paper and framed, canvas for easy hanging, masonite for table top – the ideas are endless!
If you are a student, login to read.
Moms Club Doc – Photo tips
This week we are all about networking with Moms groups. Check out the Resources and Downloads for a document I wrote on photo tips. I used this document when speaking to a Moms group. Our new challenge is also targeted to Moms groups…and we have lots of great prizes coming. Like an Album Viewer from Flash Palette and other goodies.
