As promised, I will attempt to blog all of my 2013 sessions. Although this one was actually in the last days of '12, I want to get that head start. Just like my Monday mornings. Coming in strong.
Happy Monday, World.
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Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Monday, January 14, 2013
Happy Monday, World.
It's Monday morning. This is usually everyone's blah day. Every once in a while it's a rough start for me, but usually it's my day of rejuvenation. I feel refreshed and clean. I purged all of the laziness over the weekend and I am coming in strong. So strong today that, before 8:30am, my dishes were finished, the laundry was folded (and started again), everyone was fed and presentable, and we had time for extra Monday morning hugs before school. And now? Now it's 9:15am and I'm sitting at my computer, coffee in hand, working on a blog post. HELLO Monday morning. You're not really all that bad.
As promised, I will attempt to blog all of my 2013 sessions. Although this one was actually in the last days of '12, I want to get that head start. Just like my Monday mornings. Coming in strong.
This Momma said there was no way she was going to be in a picture. She hadn't planned on it ahead of time, so all she could do was refuse. Well, that's just not acceptable ;) Be ready. Makeup or not. Clean clothes or not. You will be appearing in one way or another. And I'm SO glad that she did!
Happy Monday, World.
As promised, I will attempt to blog all of my 2013 sessions. Although this one was actually in the last days of '12, I want to get that head start. Just like my Monday mornings. Coming in strong.
Happy Monday, World.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Don't follow the herd
I was never really a fan of resolutions for the new year. Really. It's almost like setting yourself up for a disastrous failure. Every. Single. Year. Come mid-March (or February), 9 out of 10 resolutions are forfeited and forgotten. Take this blog, for example. I do great in the beginning and then I hit my busy seasons and all is lost in blog land (not this year though, right?!). So, while I do enjoy making a new task list for the year, these resolutions are for the birds.
I have been doing this photography thing for a while now (actually, since like middle school, but we won't count those years). My first paid session was in 2010. And for that session, I earned $20. Guys, I was THRILLED. Seriously. I just scored $20 for having a BLAST with a family who I already adored. And I look back at those now and, in all honesty, I didn't do a terrible job. Obviously, there are PLENTY of things I would do differently now (I won't make a list). But we all have to start somewhere.
After a few years, I have raised my prices a couple of times (Sorry. No more $20 sessions). In 2012, I made a huge decision to not just give over your digital images with your session fee. MANY of you stuck with me through the changes, and I also met several new clients. And for this, YOU ROCK. I always give credit where credit is deserved, and that goes to my 2012 bunch.
While thinking over the changes I'd like to make for the business this year, and making my 2013 task list, I had some serious doubts about the way my pricing works. I know lots of photographers are offering packages. Many do a print credit. Some even do a point system. This, my friends, is all WAY too confusing for me to keep up with. There is enough swirling in this brain already. I have no room for counting, adding, documenting your "points" (Cheers to those of you who can handle this!). So my best answer to keep things simple for myself, and you, is to not change. Why do I have to change things? Just because everyone else is? Well, I've never been one to follow the herd.
So there you have it. NO PORTRAIT PRICE CHANGE IN 2013!!!
It's official. CHEERS ;)
I have been doing this photography thing for a while now (actually, since like middle school, but we won't count those years). My first paid session was in 2010. And for that session, I earned $20. Guys, I was THRILLED. Seriously. I just scored $20 for having a BLAST with a family who I already adored. And I look back at those now and, in all honesty, I didn't do a terrible job. Obviously, there are PLENTY of things I would do differently now (I won't make a list). But we all have to start somewhere.
After a few years, I have raised my prices a couple of times (Sorry. No more $20 sessions). In 2012, I made a huge decision to not just give over your digital images with your session fee. MANY of you stuck with me through the changes, and I also met several new clients. And for this, YOU ROCK. I always give credit where credit is deserved, and that goes to my 2012 bunch.
While thinking over the changes I'd like to make for the business this year, and making my 2013 task list, I had some serious doubts about the way my pricing works. I know lots of photographers are offering packages. Many do a print credit. Some even do a point system. This, my friends, is all WAY too confusing for me to keep up with. There is enough swirling in this brain already. I have no room for counting, adding, documenting your "points" (Cheers to those of you who can handle this!). So my best answer to keep things simple for myself, and you, is to not change. Why do I have to change things? Just because everyone else is? Well, I've never been one to follow the herd.
So there you have it. NO PORTRAIT PRICE CHANGE IN 2013!!!
It's official. CHEERS ;)
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
TWELVE in review
This is it, guys. It's the end of the year. The very last day. Do you have any idea what this means? This means that, once again, I was a HORRIBLE blogger. Just terrible. Pitiful, really. But would you like to hear my excuse for this? I promise it's a good one this time. It's actually the best excuse I've ever had for not completing something I've set out to do. I was busy. Just plain busy. Busy like never before. Well, maybe just in a different way. I did once have a 14 month old and a newborn. That time I was really busy too. But really, really, really busy.
And WHY was I so super busy? Because of all of my insanely fabulous clients. These people were AWESOME. Amazing, really. And I can't forget beautiful. I don't understand how every single client of mine is so unbelievably gorgeous. When I pull up to a shoot, most of the time I've never physically set eyes on my clients. Yes, we have many email exchanges, phone calls, and maybe texts, but I usually have no real idea of what you are going to look like. And EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I am in awe. 95% of you tell me that you just aren't photogenic, or you look weird when you smile with that side of your face. But you don't. Never, really. And I would tell you if what you were doing looked weird. But it doesn't. It's always just...perfect.
So enough rambling already. I promise to try harder with this blogging thing. If you know me well, you know that I do LOVE to write. It's just a matter of finding the time. CREATING the time. Making it work. And I have been known to make the impossible happen a couple of times, so surely I can master this in the new year. The blog. It's on the top of the list. I promise ;)
I leave you, on this last day of the year, with the last 364 days of my life. And I am so very thankful, and grateful, that you have carried me through one of the BEST years of my life. I am often told that I am lucky for being able to make a career out of my passion. Yes. Yes I am. One of the luckiest alive. Thank you.
And WHY was I so super busy? Because of all of my insanely fabulous clients. These people were AWESOME. Amazing, really. And I can't forget beautiful. I don't understand how every single client of mine is so unbelievably gorgeous. When I pull up to a shoot, most of the time I've never physically set eyes on my clients. Yes, we have many email exchanges, phone calls, and maybe texts, but I usually have no real idea of what you are going to look like. And EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I am in awe. 95% of you tell me that you just aren't photogenic, or you look weird when you smile with that side of your face. But you don't. Never, really. And I would tell you if what you were doing looked weird. But it doesn't. It's always just...perfect.
So enough rambling already. I promise to try harder with this blogging thing. If you know me well, you know that I do LOVE to write. It's just a matter of finding the time. CREATING the time. Making it work. And I have been known to make the impossible happen a couple of times, so surely I can master this in the new year. The blog. It's on the top of the list. I promise ;)
I leave you, on this last day of the year, with the last 364 days of my life. And I am so very thankful, and grateful, that you have carried me through one of the BEST years of my life. I am often told that I am lucky for being able to make a career out of my passion. Yes. Yes I am. One of the luckiest alive. Thank you.
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