Category: Business
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CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 5: Data Management
7 Cities. 9 Events. Still Photography and Video. Gigs, and gigs, and gigs of data. As I write this, we’re barely over half-way through this run of 9 shoots, and – including the transcoded and rendered video files – we’re already over 1 TB of data. How to manage it all is a big question.…
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CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 3: Planning The Gear
I get lots of questions about my photography. I like answering them. The #1 place people look at my photos are on their phones (websites, social media, etc), and the #1 tool I use to show people my photos (in person) is my phone. The #1 question I get about the photos is “Did you…
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CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 2: Planning The Trip
I’ve said the words many times. I’ve heard many-a-person say the same. “I’m A Planner.” Well, I think everyone is a planner… to different degrees. Sometimes when I talk about my travel and event photography work, I see a lot of gaping mouths and a lot of ‘wow’ comments; the same as when I watch…
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CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 1: Getting the Call
I don’t know how they got my name initially. I wish I did. Octagon is a Sports, Music and Entertainment Marketing company based in Connecticut, with 68 offices spread around the world. Their team in Chicago, among other things, manages their Allstate Insurance business and their sponsorship of soccer events throughout the US. I first…
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Introducing The Perfect 10 Business Package
10 Photos – Countless Options – One Price The Perfect 10 Business Package from AShapiro Studios gives you the professional images you’ve always wanted for your business – at a perfectly affordable price! Think you can’t afford high-quality commercial photography? We created The Perfect 10 Business Package with you in mind. It’s designed specifically for…
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Seattle Real Estate Photographer: Phinney Ridge Craftsman
Today’s real estate market in Seattle is brisk. There’s very little inventory available; houses don’t stay on the market very long. I’ve been working with Cynthia and Mack – a husband and wife team with Nice Seattle Homes – to photograph their real estate listings, and today’s was a treat. Seattle may not have homes…
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Seattle Holiday Portraits: The Watershed Company Holiday Portrait
Each year, companies around the world send out holiday cards to their customers, clients, employees, contacts, vendors… Anyone that they have touched in the previous 12 months. The Watershed Company, an environmental consulting, environmental engineering, environmental planning and landscape architecture firm in the Seattle area, is one of those companies that wanted company holiday portraits…
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New Website in 5 Days (while still working)
I’ve been planning on a rebrand for a while. New logo, new marketing material, new email templates… all important, and a new website was pretty close to the top of the list too, and somehow I got it up in less than 5 days, while still keeping up with everything else. Day 1 – 11:30p…