The Youngrens | San Diego Photographers

Confession: I’ve been avoiding this question… We’re totally digging on our Uservoice page and stoked on all the thoughtful questions people have been asking and voting on, and this is one that has slowly risen to the top, and now I simply can’t ignore it. The truth is that the answer to this question is super simple for me to state with a quick do this, this, and this, but I don’t think that’s necessarily the most helpful way of explaining this. So, I’m going to do my best to give you some solid tips & tricks to get the skin tones in…

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One of the coolest new features that we just introduced to our blog is the ability for people to interact with our blog by voting for their favorite images. Earlier this week, Erin and I quietly released this feature and our Inbox has officially been bombarded with requests for information about how we did it! And, of course we’re all about sharing! A few months back, Erin and I approached Brian Crouch of Flaunt Books about helping us design a customized plugin for WordPress to allow people to be able to vote on their favorite images. There’s a handful of…

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No matter how much formal education you’ve had in your life, your true education begins when your business begins. There’s nothing like learning on the job to bring you up to speed on your profession, and every education needs a school book, right? It’s so important to continually educate yourself when it comes to your business, so Erin and I keep constant reading lists of books, both fiction and nonfiction, to keep our minds sharp when it comes to marketing, finances, business, and entrepreneurship. In fact, our goal is to read at least one business book or audiobook every two…

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One of the topics that we get asked most about (and I mean most by a long shot) relates to how folks should price themselves in their photography business. It’s hard to give solid advice in a one-size-fits-all sort of way because everybody is so different and every photographer operates a different business – different goals, different struggles, different dreams. So instead of spending time today talking about percentages, costs, and markups, I thought it would be helpful to instead talk about the “whys” behind pricing, and then leave you with some links to some of the “hows” as far…

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