Belly wear challenge

This past week I posted the Belly wear mini guide for our students, advising them on how to shop for their pregnancy clients. We decided to add a challenge to the mix by asking our students to shop for items under $25.00. The entries are starting to come in. Here’s one by Angela Krol. If you are a student, download the guide and join the challenge.

“Top Wal mart $7.00 (bathing suit cover up I think) worked great!”

Angela Krol

Baby Blooms

OUR BLOOMS are now in our store.

Happy Holidays Guide 2010

New in our store….and free for our online workshop students as this weeks lesson…

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Our all new 37 page guide gives you all you need to create successful Holiday Promotions for your studio. Our Guide discusses pricing, packages, tips, notes and over 150 images for Halloween and Santa promotions and includes a link to the Hectic Holidays webinar. This guide is free for our online workshop students.

Transitional Posing

Transitional posing is shooting in a series of subtle soft movements that create a series of fluid images.

After teaching dozens of workshops using my Transitional Posing method and hearing from my students that posing was the most important thing they wanted to learn, I decided it was time for a guidebook.

Transitional Posing sounds like a complicated concept, but it really an easy method. The idea is to keep your clients moving, and not realizing that they are really posing. No one likes posing. No one likes being posed. Posed portraits carry with them the image of being stiff, reserved, and formal. Also, a little stuffy and out of date.

Everyone wants the casual images that make them look natural, relaxed and beautiful. But our natural, relaxed selves are not photogenic or visually pleasing. When we are relaxed, our shoulders are usually hunched, our chins pull back and we develop bad posture. Bellies bulge and thighs inflate; little flaws become obvious.

So is that what people want when they say they want natural, un-posed images? Of course not. They want to see their amazing sculpted figures, defined chins and toned thighs. So you as the photographer need to do that for them. And I’m not talking about plastic surgery, Botox, or Photoshop. I’m talking about posing.

In this guide I will show you simple posing transitions for pregnancy portraits. You will see how you can start with one pose and then slowly evolve it into a series of poses all through a continual process of movements and adjustments.

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Student Spotlight: Lynette Bradshaw

Name:  Lynette Bradshaw

Business Name:  Lynette Bradshaw Photography

Location:       Cedar Hill, Texas (Dallas Area)

Years in Business:  6 Years

Websites www.LBradshawPhotography.com and www.SilkEleganceBoudoir.com

Favorite Subject to Photograph:   Expectant Moms, couples and Boudoir.  I love photographing little babies, but I don’t get that many opportunities to do so, Not yet anyway.

Where your business is now: My business is in the growing process. I feel it has a way to go to reach where I desire, but I’m learning daily how to make progress business wise.

Where its going or want it to be: I feel my business is moving forward toward success.  I’m getting more visible due to Facebook and clients sharing my work with their friends and family which is bringing in more inquiries, etc.  I want to be more visible in my community and in the areas around my community.  I want to have my work displayed in businesses and to be able to use my gifts to help organizations that are true to my heart such as Domestic Violence Shelters/homes and abused children.

Your biggest challenge right now: Marketing that draws in the clients that desire Art and something different than the everyday photographer…Setting myself apart and creating unique products continually.

A recent good thing that happened to you: This spotlight!  That is a great honor to me & a real encouragement to me.  Someone said that I could leave information in their Women’s Gym about my Boudoir Photography.  That was the first YES!

Why you joined the forum: I joined to learn about newborns especially.  That has always been intimidating to me, even after having 5 children.

What you like about the forum: I like how giving everyone is and how Ana is not afraid to share with others.  I’ve been on many forums free and paid, and the wealth that I have gained in information, shared information, suppor, encouragement is priceless.  It was one of the best business investments I’ve made in 6 years.

Something personal about you: I am a person that loves making others see themselves special.  I love finding something about a person and complimenting them about it such as their eyes, smile, etc…It brightens my day and heart to see them smile.  I’ve been there and I know how much it meant to me for someone to compliment me at my lowest point.

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Lynette Bradshaw Photography

972-293-7262

Studio Website:http://www.LBradshawphotography.com

Boudoir Website:http://www.SilkEleganceBoudoir.com

Remembrance Photography:http://www.Aarronsjourney.com

Blogs:

http://www.LynetteBradshawPhotography.blogspot.com

http://www.SilkElegance-LBradshawphotography.blogspot.com

http://www.aarronsjourney.blogspot.com

21 Days of Marketing

This month we challenged our students once again to 21 Days of Marketing. One by one they are starting to complete their 21 Days and we are so grateful to the vendors listed below for sponsoring this program. Our 21 Days of Marketing program requires that students market their business every single day for the duration. Recently Lynette Bradshaw finished this challenge and she is also a photographer in our student spotlight. Be sure to check out her amazing work. Whether you are a part of our forum or not, challenging yourself to do one thing each day for 21 days will surely boost your business!

Student? Login to see everyone’s 21 Day Marketing journal entries.

Thanks to our Sponsors!

The OB Display Kit

The OB Display Kit
The Only Kit you will ever need if you are interested in OB or related displays.

47 page guide and tons of downloads!

READ these pages before purchasing.

IF YOU ARE A STUDENT of ours in our ONLINE FORUM then the guide is free – visit the forum.

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In this Guide

History and Display Studies
Acquisitions
Preparation
Networking Negotiations
Legal Ease
Cost of Doing Business
Perfect Pictures
Delivery Day
Opportunities
Downloads
Video

Downloads are:
• Link to Video of one of my OB Displays
• Slideshow of display sample book
• Slideshow of my current calendar
• Wall Inspirations
• Ceiling Facts
• 20 STOCK pregnancy images for you to use
• 20 STOCK newborn images for you to use
• Waiting area info cards
• Promo postcards
• Gift bookmarks
• Gift certificates
• Sample price bid document
• Sample agreement document
• Sample model release
• OB letter
• OB CD Folio
• Picture labels
• Client marketing postcard
• Inspiration mug templates

2010 Product Guide

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.

DOWNLOAD here.

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Thredz back in our store

We are happy to say that we have moved our mama gowns and diaper covers to the store within this site and removed our old store.

Click the SHOP tab in this site, then click mamaThredz or babyThredz from the drop down menu.

Gowns generally ship within one week. Please advise if you need it sooner and allow for normal shipping delivery time.

We also have built an Etsy store.

All products in our Etsy store are in stock ready to ship, but quantities are limited.

My Lifes Moments Challenge

This Mothers Day we brought back a campaign that we want to take nationwide. Our photographers are already joining us in this crusade from around the United States, into the U.K and down under in Australia…to ask us all the one question: “Why do we have our images captured?”

To learn all about his movement, visit the website – http://www.mylifesmoments.com

If you would like to join us in this campaign, there are two ways:

1 – if you are a student, login to the forum and download the files and see how others have implemented this program.

2 – if you are not a student, you can purchase the marketing materials in our store and join us. We will be updating the My Life Moments website with the photographers that decided to join us.

In just moments of sending this out once again this recent Mothers Day, responses started flooding in. As we read them and gather them together for a second coffee table book, it shows us that our job is much more than photography – it’s preserving a legacy.

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“My hallway of beautiful family pictures mean the world to me.  A little over five years ago, I sat crying in the middle of our big hallway looking up at the empty walls where I had imagined all our family pictures would grace.  I cried for my miscarraige…the pain so deep that I couldn’t stand it anymore.  When my husband came home and found me helpless, he gently picked me up and held me as the tears of anger and loss flowed out of me.   We realized we needed to build our family in a different way.  We knew in our hearts that our babies were out there and needed us as much as we needed them.  Our journey of adoption began.  Six months later we came home from the hospital with a beautiful baby boy and exactly two years eleven months later, we adopted our precious baby girl.  Talk about a light at the end of the tunnel.  My heart is full and my hallway walls are full of incredible moments captured by our photographer.  Every night when I check on my babies and kiss them and thank God for blessing us with these sweet children…I walk down my hall and trace my finger over their little darling faces and smile and say to myself  “lucky, lucky me.”" JB

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in loving memory of Karla Galeano

www.mylifesmoments.com

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