Yes, **free Destination Wedding photo shoot. You got it right. Just take care of travel expenses and lodging and the coverage is on me.

Why am I doing this?

Because I’m my own boss! Doing Destination Wedding photography is one of the best things this job has to offer. You go out there, shoot and have fun and at the end of the day you end up with amazing images to deliver to your clients. That simple.

How to apply?

Just submit the following information to herson@propixelphotography.com :

-         A photo of future hubby and wife along with a short story on how the two of you met.

-         Details about the wedding. (location, date, etc.)

-         And of course, your contact information. (phone number and email address)

That’s all there is to it. After I get all the submissions I will pick the couple I find most interesting based on their story and I will contact you with the good news!

Deadline for submitting your entry is October 31, 2009.

Now go ahead and start typing. There’s nothing to lose!

** Client is responsible for paid expenses such as travel, lodging and food.  Feel free to contact me for more details.

Hampton Roads Wedding Guide

-Herson

I soon found myself going to the photoshop section and found an article about vignetting. You can read it here. Something I’ve seen becoming almost too popular lately. I do it too!

Be sure to check it out and if you ever come back looking for it, you can find it on my blogroll.

-H

Us photographers have a lot going on most of the time. We are out and about shooting, in the studio, processing our images and meeting with clients. As a wedding photographer, one of my main concerns is how and when to communicate with my clients. There’s a lot more besides cameras and money. Trust me.

Although I have my beloved iPhone on me 24/7 and I’m able to check my websites and emails most of the time, sometimes I just don’t have the time to get to everything and everyone.  So I blog about my current and future projects and sometimes what my schedule looks like for the next couple of weeks. This way my clients or whoever is following my work, are able to kind of “catch up” with what I’m doing. This doesn’t mean that this is my favorite way to comunicate with my clients because it’s simply not. It’s just a way of saying “I’m busy and this is why but I haven’t forgotten about you“.

Does it help my precense on the web?

Absolutely! But this is not my main objective with it. Although good marketing for a wedding photographer is always a must.

 Before I started blogging, it was just my flash website. While it’s cool to have a online portfolio, it’s not THAT cool to be just that, a photographer with an online portfolio. Unless you’re a famous photographer and everybody knows you and your work, you can’t go wrong with a blog.

I hated that my website was like one of those websites from big companies. You go there and you’re just shopping but you don’t know who’s behind the website. Who put it together? My blog created a path between my online portfolio and me, the photographer, therefore creating a more solid communication between my clients and myself. The guy who hopefully will be taking your photos.  And clients who haven’t talked to me yet can get a glimpse of who I am before they pick up the phone and call or start writing that email.

All in all, I blog because I like to share with my clients, family and friends what I do.