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Improve Your Client Consultations


DWF Pro Aly Medina wants to know how she can improve her wedding booking format.
 
True to DWF form members have weighed in with input and advice from all sides of the spectrum, and even delve a little further than the original question. There's a load of helpful advice, sprinkled in this great thread in PRO Marketing & Sales.

You Are Here. Appear On Google Maps!


Of course you want your business to show up on Google Maps: It’s another way to market your business!
 
DWF Member Shannon Porter has even created the DWF Google Map which puts you in the google map system with the DWF’s heft helping to hike you up the rankings. Visit the Pro Marketing & Sales Forum for details on how to list yourself:

6 Exclusive Video Tutorials for Adobe Creative Suite 5


We (the DWF) have managed to score 6 exclusive video tutorials for the new Adobe Creative Suite 5 which was officially released into the wilds earlier this morning. In them DWF member and Photoshop expert Ray Prevost shows us practical applications for some of the new and enhanced features for photographers in CS5. It's really great stuff that I'm sure many photographers will enjoy watching. Less fluff more filler than what has hit the CS5 scene so far. Check em' out

The Finao Portrait Faves Contest!


Every week DWF members post their best portrait work in the PRO Portrait Forum. Starting this week, there’s a prize for the best shot. So jump in and post your most delicious recent portrait shot!
 
There’s no entry fee and you could win the biggest little thing ever: The Finao 10x4 Flip Book. A $222 value, and perfect for portraits. Post your Portrait shot and win a 10x4 Flip Book

Seth Godin Spews Forth Words of Wisdom


"If it’s popular with everyone right away, it might not be art, it might just be good marketing. But if it earns attention and respect over time, if it wins over the skeptical, then you’ve really created something." – Seth Godin

Read more Seth wisdom on the DWF Blog 


Average Joe and the Average Photographer


You’ve heard it before: A friend brags “I LOVE my photographer. She’s awesome!” You look at the images and they’re nothing special.

How can you establish that you’re worth thousands of dollars, when clients can’t tell the difference between great photography and ho-hum photography? Visit this discussion in the PRO Art 


Big Beautiful Boudoir


How do you skillfully photograph a plus sized girl in BOUDOIR? And make her look great?
 
Tammy Warnock, one of our resident Boudoir Experts leads the way. You'll be amazed, her technique isn't as reliant on the liquefy tool as you'd suspect.. Read More

600 Person Group Shot


Someday you’ll get the call: “We need a group shot. And the group is 600 people.” So many photographers reflexively say “no problem!” And then try to figure out how to orchestrate the shoot.

How would you light it? How would you pose them? DWF members with experience share their first hand knowledge. Be ready when YOU get the call.

DWF Featured Member Brendan Landy


This week's DWF Featured member hails from Ireland and first became interested in photography at the age of 13.

Since then DWF Pro Brendan Landy has shot the likes of Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, Neil Armstrong, Johnny Cash. Not to mention quite a few brides and grooms. Brendan tells us "Enjoy what you do, and if you don’t change it until you do!". Read our exclusive interview

The Dead Eye Stare


It’s the part of the wedding you dread most: When the minister gives you “the look”, signaling that you’ve overstepped the rules of the church.

Staying out of the way, while still getting the shot—it’s an art! And DWF members are discussing how they do it, in the Pro Art Forum.



 

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