Resources for Photographers

The Photographer’s Problem

Editing. It takes up so. much. time. Part of us likes it, but the bigger part of us wants to be working on bigger and longer term things for our business. As business owners we are the visionary, the planner, the strategist. If we’re spending the majority of our time editing thousands of photos, who’s doing those other things? Nobody.

Outsourcing is an option but most services are impersonal, national (or international), opaque, and hit or miss.

There are some good ones out there (i.e. The Image Salon) where you can work with a personal editor, but the cost is very high and you still don’t actually know the people. The low cost services (ShootDotEdit, Fotofafa, Lavalu, etc…) have inconsistent results because you get assigned to whatever editor they have sitting around and they process insane volumes of photos.

The Photographer’s Solution

Imagine an outsourcing service where you actually know the people? They live 20 minutes away from you and are wedding photographers themselves that totally get your needs. Bonus that they’re familiar with all the venues that your photos are from.

I had a really hard time letting my editing go to somebody else at first. I tried all the aforementioned services and was frustrated with all the time I had to spend going through and checking what they did. When I started letting my own staff edit my weddings that’s when my world got turned upside down in a good way.

They made extra money, I got time back, I was able to directly communicate refinements and everybody was happy – including our clients most importantly.

We have excellent editors on staff already who have capacity to do more than just our own weddings. I’m thinking it’s time we open up that capacity to everyone else. We don’t want to go national like ShootDotEdit, but rather provide editing services for our fellow RI photographers.

Could you benefit from some more time in your life to tackle the longer term strategic tasks? Or maybe just to spend more time with family and friends. Or sleep – remember that?

It’s as simple as filling out a short form, uploading your catalog, and fluffing your pillow. Grab the form here and get started.

Educational Resources

We put together some resources that we hope might help you on your photography journey. Some have been created by us while others are from respected teachers in the industry. If you want to go deeper and are seeking one on one instruction, please get in touch with us and we can arrange that. We love to teach others what we’ve learned!

Photography Fundamental E-Book – We’ve put together this “learn the basics” e-book to help the aspiring photographer get the fundamentals under their belt. This should provide a solid foundation to launch off of into more advanced techniques. Learn your camera!

Learn to Light Blueflash Udemy Video Course – Our very own video course on lighting your photographs and bringing your photography to the next level. This course will take you from zero all the way to taking awesome lit photographs. It will explain step by step what gear you need, how to put it all together, and most importantly how to actually take great photographs with it. Click through to read the full description.

Phlearn – Lots of tutorials on lighting, Photoshop, and more from multiple industry contributors. There are plenty of free ones as well as some premium content that requires payment.

Creative Live – As its name suggests, this resource deals with all things creative – photography, graphic design, cinematography, etc… A constant flow of free live workshops.