For the longest time when photographing weddings in the Denver area and all over Colorado I’ve had to deal with multiple bags just to get all my gear there. My backpack camera case would hold the bodies and lenses, but no lighting gear so it was a second back for that and then of...
One thing many flash template photography websites have taken some heat for is their lack of built in blogs. So you have this pretty flash site, but your blog is on another site instead of just in it’s own blog sub-directory. Well Bludomain, one of the photo industries leading flash based template hosts, has recently...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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SEO is the current big buzzword in the photography industry. For those who have no idea what I just said, SEO stand for Search Engine Optimization and pretty much it’s how Google and the other major search engines determines what results you’ll see first when you type in a search. And in the service industry...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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One of the biggest challenges wedding photographers face is the lighting at the venues chosen by the couples and as photographers we need to make sure we communicate these challenges with our clients. While any venue can be worked around the results may not be what the client had hoped for. Mixed Lighting Tungsten...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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The digital world is all around us and over the last few years it’s had an immense impact on how we live our lives and how we manage our business. The world or wedding photography has virtually been torn apart and put back together, sometimes haphazardly over these last few years. Ten years ago...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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David Jay has taken his marketing plan for his Show It sites in an entirely new direction, FREE. Recently he’s been reading and talking about the power of Free in todays economy and he certainly is practicing what he preaches. A free trial size of the show it sites. Hosting for 5 pages, vanity url,...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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I mentioned on twitter (@hayesphoto) something about my pre-wedding checklist not long ago and another photographer commented on that. So figuring that someone found it interesting I’d post since other’s out there might benefit from it, or comment back with their own additions. So for me the day before the wedding is gear check...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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Last year I wrote a post, Too good to be true, in which much of the post was devoted to bait and switch camera dealers online and in certain photography magazines (many of which are far more paid ads for dealers than they are magazines with articles for consumers). A recent event made me...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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One aspect of a career in photography that I really like is the chance to continue your education and network with your peers. I had just such a chance this week when I took part if a day of education and networking hosted by one of my favorite wedding photographers, Becker. Some of my...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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For a while now I’ve been looking for something different to deliver CD’s and DVD’s in to my clients who order the fully edited versions of the disk and/or get it with an album. I recently came across a new product that is a wonderful match for the MHP studio in style – and will...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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