I don’t know that it keeps anything away but after going to WPPI and hearing all of the photographers scream that blog posting is a great way to connect with clients I have decided to work on one of my worst habits – not posting regularly. So like with every bad habit it takes 21 days of change to truly think that you’ve changed the bad habit. So here and now I am committing, whatever should happen, I will be posting one blog post a day 🙂 For those of you who might have been checking in for the last little while it’s been more like one a month or so – so this will be a challenge for me but if your willing to read 🙂 I am definitely willing to write – after all (yes I know it sounds like sucking up but its true!) I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for all of you 🙂
So ok if I am going to blog it should be about something right? Well how about WPPI? If your a photographer you were either there or wishing you were there but if your a client your probably wondering what that is. WPPI stands for Wedding and Portrait Photographers International – It’s a great organization and every year it’s members are invited to a conference in Las Vegas to learn from other photographers about certain aspects of the business. There is also an amazing tradeshow where you can check out the latest products and see vendors items up close. At most of these booths they have great photographers doing presentations about the products and how they use them and/or how that product would benefit you. This is great because you get to see whats successful but it’s also nice that you get to meet these photographers and perhaps talk to them for a minute. I got to meet quite a few photographers that I admire at WPPI – all of them for different reason. The main one I wanted to meet was David Jay – I really admire his business sense and his ability to get his name out there and invent products photographers really need. I’ve used showitfast for about a year now and I love it – my clients get a slideshow of their images set to music and time and time again they come back to that slideshow to show their friends, each time marketing my work 🙂 and it’s not just me – he’s pretty popular in our studio – My assistant Samantha is a huge fan but unfortunately she is pregnant and has a little boy and could not make it to WPPI this year. So she made me promise that I would take a photo of him for her with his arm outstretched so that we can photoshop her in later. I’m sure this made DJ laugh but I can’t wait to “insert Sam” into the photos. So Sam and I will have a photoshoot in the near future so that we’ll be able to show you those. I ran into DJ just past the Pictage booth and he was talking with Jasmine Star as well as a few other photographers. I asked for the photo and he was very nice about it and then I got a photo with Jasmine – who I have to say is the most bubbly person I have ever met. I only spoke to her for two seconds but she just exuded happiness 🙂 I wanted to tell her that I love how much people smile (natural smiles) in her photos and ask her how she gets them to feel at ease but honestly I could tell without even asking, it’s just something about her. Here are both of the photos – I feel like a dork in them but honestly I’m ok with that 🙂
Not sure what I was looking at but honestly I think I was just having a hard time focusing as I was happy to meet them both at the same time 🙂
This is me with my Nikon bag that I apparently wanted to include in the photo lol
More photos from WPPI to come – got photos with other photographers as well as around Vegas, also got a chance to do a bit of a maternity shoot with my friend and fellow photographer Jayme Morrison 🙂 oh and we also did a shoot featuring JB and DeEtte Sallee’s “I shoot people tour” Tshirts 🙂 Looking forward to posting those as I really made a fool of myself there 🙂
That’s all for today 🙂 but I’ll be back … tomorrow 🙂
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