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Your Wedding Venue Images are Valuable

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What do you have that a new photographer doesn’t have?

Beautiful Images from your Wedding Venues

You have captured weddings at many different locations, use them to your advantage! Put together a beautiful album for each of the popular banquet facilities.

In these albums you want to include the most romantic photos where the couples look madly in love.

Why? Every couple wants to be the most in love. If they see other couples madly in love at their wedding venue and you captured the emotion, they need you. As they think more in their emotional right brain, they use their analytical “that’s too expensive” left brain less. When your client is thinking in his/her right brain, price is not the issue.

I recommend doing this on your web site also. Start with a new page called Wedding location in your city. Here’s an example:

Leland Country Club,

Located in Leland Michigan

This beautiful location has 150 year old oak and Maple trees so we get some amazing photos in the woods. Because it is also on Lake Leelanau, we get some of the best beach shots available and the couples love leaving the ceremony on a pontoon boat which can be quite romantic. ( I could go on and you should if you have more you can offer)

(Real important to add capacity) will host from 200 inside to any size outside under tents.

Call Michael at 000-000-0000 www.leelanaucountryclub.com

(link to photos taken at that location here) Remember to include the most romantic images. The other shots are less important.

Check out the beautiful at Leelanau Country Club (Link)

With a little work, you will have wonderful albums to show around and leave at different locations: Hair salons, Bridal shows and of course the wedding venues themselves.

Adding the venues page to your website creates a wonderful resource for brides still picking out their venue. Helpful information is much more likely to be shared and used again in the future. This is a huge win win!

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Photographing in a DIY society

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With a little help from Google, there are not many projects that can’t be tackled by yourself with a little time, like powering your skateboard with a cordless drill.

Well, photography isn’t much different for some. Many people are willing to study the basics themselves and and take a simple family shot, and some may be happy with that. That’s fine, because you are willing to do what they are not.

What is the DIY person not willing to do? This is what you have to do. What are you not willing to do? You just might have to push yourself to do that as well.

Natural light is awesome, but you can’t get a photo like this with just natural light:

shot with outside flash
                                                                 Shot with outside flash.                  -Image provided by ShirkPhotography.com

The average Do it Yourselfer won’t carry around portable Lumedyne flashes or put a couch in the back of their truck and haul it to a river to nail the perfect family portrait shot for an adventurous family. They’re not willing to study the nuances of lighting techniques relentlessly and how to compose a shot for a 20×30 vs a 20×10 vs a 5×7. The list goes on and on, but I think you’re getting the point.

Do the easy and fun stuff because it is easy and fun, but also dig into the challenging stuff because it will make you better, more valuable, and more creative. The tough stuff today will be the fun stuff tomorrow, creating more separation between you and the competition.