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How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Photography Business-With Companion CD-ROM Virtually anyone of any age in any location of the United States can start a highly successful photography business. Today the level of investment to get started is much less, thanks to the digital camera revolution. Armed with the right camera equipment, skills, and the necessary business knowledge, you can be in business, marketing your photography services in no time with the information in this extensive manual. With modern technology in the form of SLR digital cameras, you do not even need a darkroom. You need only a fast computer and a photo-editing program. The best part is that you can start it quickly, earn a high income with a low investment, and even work from home if you prefer. This new book is a comprehensive and detailed study of the business side of establishing and running a photography business. Keep in mind it looks easy, but as with any business, looks can be deceiving. To avoid pitfalls, use this complete manual to arm yourself with everything you need including sample business forms, contracts, worksheets, and checklists for planning, starting, and running day-to-day operations. You will find dozens of other valuable, timesaving tools of the trade that every entrepreneur should have. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding a business name that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan (the Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word ™), and selling and marketing your photographs and photography services on the Internet as well as locally. You will learn about copyrights, sales tax, cost control systems, a Web site, stock photo outlets to sell your work, and pricing issues. You will avoid trial by error when setting up equipment layouts, meeting legal and IRS requirements, and tapping into the best sales and marketing techniques. This book will even help you set up computer systems to save time and money and teach you how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff (if needed). If you enjoy meeting people, this may be the perfect business for you. You will learn how to do your own sales planning, customer service, track your competition, keep your own books, compile monthly profit and loss statements, and prepare taxes. You will become adept at media planning, pricing, and public relations. You will be able to work with models, market for weddings, birthdays, and corporate events; generate high profile public relations and publicity; and learn low cost marketing ideas and low cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. You will learn how to keep bringing customers back and getting referrals - the secret of continued success. This manual delivers literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to operate and streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, you will appreciate the valuable CD-ROM resource in your daily activities as a source of ready-to-use forms, templates, worksheets, business plan, surveys, letters, Web site resources, everything you will need to get up and running. 978-1-60138-018-0 1-60138-018-6 $39.95 9781601380180 PRE-ORDER ONLY - YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL NOT BE CHARGED UNTIL THE PRODUCT SHIPS. RELEASE DATE: SPRING 2008
Outdoor Glamour Photography: The Complete Digital Guide to Taking Successful Outdoor Glamour Photographs In Outdoor Glamour Photography Bill Lemon explains, image by image, how each was created and the equipment used, as well as the time of day that produces the best image and how to use the light to your advantage. Also included is a discussion of scouting for locations that fit one model better than another, backgrounds, depth of field issues, and much more. Reading light and not being afraid of it is the secret to wonderful pictures. In this new book, Lemon teaches you everything you need to know about light as it pertains to outdoor photography. In addition, he introduces the use of fill flash in certain situations and the use of what nature has provided for bounced light. The step-by-step, image-by-image information contained in this book is highly enjoyable, whether you are interested in learning the process or simply want to gaze at breathtaking, tasteful artwork. Item #9781601382689 $39.95 PRE-ORDER ONLY - YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL NOT BE CHARGED UNTIL THE PRODUCT SHIPS. RELEASE DATE: SPRING 2008
Painting the Body Beautiful: A Showcase of Expert Body Painting This book is a magnificent collection illustrating hundreds of images created by photographer Art Ketchum for the purpose of showing off the creative talent of body painting as demonstrated on beautiful women by artist Jim Brando. The book features the body painting artistry of Jim Brando, whose work is absolutely stunning. For over three years, Jim Brando and Art Ketchum have built this amazing collection of images, which showcases both the process of body painting in action along with finished images complete with backgrounds that were designed for each individual body painting. The book is done in the best of taste and is extraordinarily well photographed and painted. Painting the Body Beautiful compels the viewers to want to see all the images illustrated, as each image is very unique and equally breathtaking. Painting the Body Beautiful is destined to be talked about, to be shown to friends, and to become a showcase of some of the best body painting ever created. Item #9781601382696 $34.95 PRE-ORDER ONLY - YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL NOT BE CHARGED UNTIL THE PRODUCT SHIPS. RELEASE DATE: SPRING 2008
Photographic Posing: The Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Exciting Photo Poses Simply and Easily In this exciting new book from photographer Art Ketchum, learn Art's simple formula for building dynamic poses. Find out how he develops great poses with his use of his own diagonal lines and curves methods. You will learn to create extraordinary photos by getting your model into poses that will make for more dramatic results. See from the examples illustrated in Photographic Posing how Art looks at the models he is photographing and decides how to make each person look their best. Photographic Posing will help you learn how to make your models appear thinner, taller, and more attractive all while still enjoying the process of being photographed by you. Included are hundreds of unique new poses and ideas to spark up your photography and make your images look stylized and professional. Item #9781601382719 $29.95 PRE-ORDER ONLY - YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL NOT BE CHARGED UNTIL THE PRODUCT SHIPS. RELEASE DATE: SPRING 2008
The Complete Guide to Creating a High Impact Digital Portfolio: 100 Images Showing Photography Secrets of Lighting, Styling, and Posing For Photographers and Models The Complete Guide to Creating a High Impact Digital Portfolio shows you how to create a dynamic collection of stunning photographs. Photography expert Art Ketchum shows his lighting techniques and provides ideas, as well as creative posing suggestions and tips. This new portfolio guidebook illustrates over 100 images with exact lighting diagrams and instructions on how to pose your models for maximum impact. This book will transform your photography, from mundane, boring photos to high-impact images. It will enable you to create breath-taking images that will impress and astound your models with your creativity. In the new age of digital imaging, Art will show you how to take a regular image and turn it into a work of art by defocusing backgrounds, retouching skin defects, thinning of your subjects, vignetting, masking, and creating borders for more professional results. The Complete Guide to Creating a High Impact Digital Portfolio is a guide to mastering portrait shooting, whether it be for professional models or to use for senior portraits, engagement pictures, or pictures of your family. Art's techniques are easy-to-understand and follow, providing detailed instructions to guide the seasoned and novice photographers alike. This book contains inspiration, tips, and secrets that will help make you the best photographer in the area and keep your customers returning for years to come. Item #9781601382702 $29.95 PRE-ORDER ONLY - YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL NOT BE CHARGED UNTIL THE PRODUCT SHIPS. RELEASE DATE: SPRING 2008