Advertising and marketing your equine photography business online course

Posted by Peter on March 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

As a member of the Equine Photographers Network I participate regularly in the forums there. For the past several years I have offered an online course about advertising and marketing your equine photography business.

This year the course will be 6 weeks long starting with Monday April 12th. You do not have to be a member of the Equine Photographers Network to participate in the course and it is not a course that requires you to be at your computer at specific times. Materials are presented in a forum format and then you work through them and respond back to the forum and participate in discussions there.

Here is a description of the course:
http://www.equinephotographers.org/courses/advt4.php

This is my profile page on EPnet:

http://www.equinephotographers.org/members/photog.php?id=1493

This is a small portfolio of images that I have there:

http://www.equinephotographers.org/members/portfolio.php?id=1493

If you are interested in taking pictures of horses there are two areas in the forum. One is for professional equine photographers and the other is for people who just love to take pictures of horses. You can sign up for the FREE email newletter or you can join the forum with a FREE 30 day trial membership.

This post will appear on my web site: http://www.photosbypdemott.com It will also appear on my facebook personal page and my facebook fan page along with a post on twitter. I am a portrait photographer in the Dayton, Ohio area specializing in on-location portraits of seniors, families and children. I also have a specialty in equine (horse) photography and will come to your farm or stable for your session. If you like my style I encourage you to follow me in any or all the above mentioned areas. If you are a photographer, I enjoy networking with other photographers both professional and amateur.

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Sharing talent, putting music together with photography at Fairhaven Church in Dayton Ohio

Posted by Peter on March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m really pleased with some pictures that I took this morning at my church. I have gone to the pastoral staff and volunteered my “talent” in photography for anything church related as one way of giving back. Sometimes if there is something special going on, I take pictures. Children’s choir, Christmas, Easter, Palm Sunday etc. Gradually some of the pictures migrate to the church web site and printed materials.

Fairhaven is a wonderful church. Check out this web site if you don’t have a church home: http://www.fairhavenchurch.org It’s the church you can see the steeple of from I-675 as your go around Dayton and it is located on Whipp Rd. at Marshal Rd.

Here are just a few of the pictures from this morning:

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Kristen’s senior portrait session Animoto Video

Posted by Peter on March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

I just remembered that this embedded video will not show up when this goes over to facebook. Here is the LINK to the YouTube video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA2__fOMahQ

Signature file1 Kristens senior portrait session Animoto Video

Peter DeMott Photography in Dayton, Ohio specializing in on-location environmental portraits

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Always in learning mode to be a better photographer at the PPSO monthly meeting

Posted by Peter on March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Learning together to serve our customers better

Tonight I spent from about 5:30pm to about 9:45pm with a great bunch of professional photographers at the monthly PPSO (Professional Photographers of SW Ohio) meeting. Each first monday we have some time together having diner together, then we have a speaker present something relevant to us as business people and photographers.

Sandra and Shad Reed Present “workflow solutions” from their experience as wedding photographers

Today Sandra and Shad Reed spent the evening sharing their “work flow” which means how they automate and at the same time customize every image from the 35-40 weddings they do each year. Shad has a background in engineering so creating processes was right down his alley. But, not only do they photograph 30-40 weddings each year, but the wedding party gets to see a slide show at the reception of the wedding day pictures AND they deliver a complete album proof to the newlyweds within two weeks of each wedding they do.

What I like with this group is their openness and willingness to share and learn together. This is just a little shot from my point and shoot canon camera at a low shutter speed.

Shad and Sandra played off each other quite well to keep us entertained and learning throughout the entire seminar as you can see from the expressions of the people here. Earlier we had a small print competition which is rather informal offering both comments about what we liked about images shared and what we think would improve the images. My own image was a second place this month (out of 5 entries).

Come visit a PPSO meeting

If you are a professional photographer you are welcome to come visit the group. I think that you will find a great place to learn and grow. For more information visit the PPSO eNewsletter where the topic, location, date and time for each meeting is announced. There is a picnic and a full day seminar planned each year, but most meetings are the first Monday of each month, so plan to have an evening learning and growing. Bring enough to pay for your diner and you are welcome to come for a visit to get an idea of what it’s all about.

February meeting was fun too

Last month we had some lighting demonstrations. Yes, I was one of the “models”, but the other ones were much more pretty for sure. This is the first line from the PPSO eNewsletter regarding the February meeting: “If you missed Monday’s monthly meeting with Lew Everling, you missed one heck of a lighting program.”

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Patty is greeted by our Chihuahua after a long day alone at home

Posted by Peter on February 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I want to ad some videos to my blog so I am going to try doing it a couple different ways. Facebook compresses the videos so the run pretty quickly. I will be trying out Youtube as well. This is what happens in our home when Patty comes home from work and our Chihuahua has had a long day alone at home.

Facebook link

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1361710048613&ref=mf

Youtube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD8IBdiChj8

Youtube embed