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Kids are great – and the photographers who work with them know that they can be among the most frustrating and rewarding subjects to work with.

Their parents also offer a unique set of challenges, most of which come from their wanting photos that show all of what they see in their kids.

Here’s a tip for photographers who work with kids: printed photo books are a great tools for gathering a number of shots together along with other memorabilia and creating a keepsake that those parents are sure to treasure.

With printed photo books, you’ll find that you have a wide variety of options available to you. Here are just a few ideas of how you could use them:

• Capture photos of their kids in different seasons.
• Collect photos of their kids while their dressed for favorite activities and create a montage of all their interests.
• Keep a tape recording running during the shoot and add some of the best lines the kids throw at you.

By looking at a number of different options, you’ll find yourself offering something as unique as each child you photograph.

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As a photographer, chances are good that you understand that there are two different concepts of focus that apply to your business. First, there’s the focus of the camera’s lens on the object of your photographs – whether you’re talking pets, people, nature or whatever it is that you shoot. Then there’s the focus that relates to your business.

Your business focus is all about achieving your goals. Maybe your focus is on becoming the best wedding photographer in your area. Maybe your goals include branching out into stock or travel photography rather than shooting family portraits in your basement studio.

When the time comes to focus in on your goals, printed photo books will give you the chance to show your vision, to focus in on the work that you’ve already done and to show others what you are capable of accomplishing.

Use a printed photo book to showcase your best work if you want to progress within your current field. Show the transition of your work and explore your ideas in a photo book that captures the essence of what you’ve done along with what you want to do.

Go ahead, get creative. The more that you can bring your business goals into focus the sooner you’ll find yourself reaching them.

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When you spend some time on some message boards, you’re likely to find that there are photographers and there are designers. That doesn’t mean there’s not some cross-over: plenty of designers who struggle to find the right photos for their projects start capturing shots themselves.

When your photography work focuses on portraits, or events or weddings, you may be exceptional at framing shots and capturing a moment in time. Maybe you’ve heard about using printed photo books to market your work, and you believe that using them would help you to reach your goals, but you’re worried about your design skills.

Not sure what you can do to design a photo book? Not sure that you’re really up to the challenge of creating the right layout or cropping your photos ? Worried that it means you won’t be able to take advantage of photo books as a result?

Don’t be. Design services are available that will help you create the perfect project: a photo book that captures everything just as you hoped it would.

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When wedding photographers talk about the frustrations of marketing their businesses, two things often come up.

First, many find it a bit challenging to market their work in a way that makes it stand out in a crowd. Second, many are looking for a new service to offer to clients that will help them attract more attention to the business and give them a bit of an edge.

With printed photo books, these photographers are able to address both of those concerns.

Photo book marketing gives you the chance to layout your work your way – cropping, layering, using backgrounds and adding text as you see fit. It’s a great way of showing others what you can do.

Likewise, photo book marketing – when you offer printed photo books as an album options for your clients – can be used to show that you’re as committed to protecting and providing lasting memories as the wedding couple themselves.

Printed photo books create a win-win situation: when you use them, you business and your clients will thank you.

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Traditional photo albums can be so limiting – especially if you buy the ones that only have standard sized sleeves for you to slip your photos into. This has led to some photographers getting creative with scrapbooks and other ways of gathering their work into a portfolio.

The problem, though, is that more often than not displaying your work that way comes off as unprofessional, as ameteur-ish. When you’re trying to showcase your work, particularly when you want to showcase your best work with the attention of attracting new clients, you’re going to want to ensure that your work has a pro feel.

Professional photo books let you work with your photos your way: cropping them to the sizes that you want to display. More importantly, pro photo books don’t limit the way that you set up your portfolio: if you want to include text and backgrounds, if you want to tell a story or if you want to market a specialized service, you’ll be able to do just that.

There’s an added benefit too – when you design printed photo books you won’t have to painfully re-create the finished product if you want more than one copy; just order one, five, twenty or however many you need and they’ll be finished up for you.

Displaying your work with fewer limits: how appealing does that sound?

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Every year, professional photographers look for something new to add to their services. In some cases, photography and design skills are put to work and lines of holiday cards are created.

Now, that’s not saying that holiday photography hasn’t moved beyond printing out a family photo with everyone – or just the kids – dressed up in their holiday finest with a quick message. It has. With digital imaging, far more can be added to your holiday shots. With advances in design software, creating more traditional greeting cards is easier than you probably thought that it would be.

What if you had a better way of advertising your holiday photo work? What if there were a way that you could capture not only the great portraits and photos, designs and verses for the cards themselves?

Many photographers turn to printed photo books for just that purpose. With printed photo books, you’ll find that you’re able to display all of your best work – whether it’s related to holiday cards, family portraits or other design work – to help you attract the clients that you’re looking for.

If you haven’t done much holiday work in the past, why not take this suggestion and keep it in mind for next year? Do the work now, design a photo book, and be ready for the marketing blitz next year.

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Behind every successful business lies a successful marketing plan. As a professional photographer, your marketing plan needs to be:

• creative
• focused on your work and skills
• capable of setting your business apart

In order to get the most out of your marketing plan, you’ll need to find a tool that allows you to do it all: one such tool is a printed photo book.

As a marketing tool, printed photo books let you showcase your best work in a professional way. Photo books allow you to organize your photos – by genre, by theme, by time of year or by style. Mostly however, marketing with photo books enables you to have a unique presentation for your work – and provide a new product that you can offer to your clients – and that allows you to set your business apart.

As a photographer, you want to call attention to your work. You want to show your current and prospective clients what you’re capable of doing. Mostly, however, you want to know that you’re featuring your own work in the best possible light. Printed photo books let you do all of that and more.

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As a photographer, you have plenty of control behind the camera: you’re able to stage the shot, you’re able to control the lighting and work with what you have. During after processing, you’re able to tweak the way colors come out, the way that a shot is cropped.

Unfortunately, when it comes to displaying your work, some photographers find themselves limited. There’s been a sense that, sure, you can put your shot in a frame and hang it on the wall. You can be creative in the way you print out digital work. You can choose where you display your work (at least when it’s in your home or in your studio), but often photographers don’t really feel in control of showing their work.

Printed photo books offer different ways of displaying your work. The way that you layout your photo book gives you control over the way that you show your work.

You’ll be able to choose to use a full page shot, to add layers, to crop or not to crop. You’ll be able to add text to some pages and not to others. Your photo book layout is something that you alone control: you’ll be able to look at your photos, listen to the way that they “speak” and display them in the way that they want to be displayed.

With a photo book, you’ll be able to use your photos to tell a story: each shot will be more than just one shot, it will show itself as part of a whole.

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Photo book marketing is still a relatively new way for photographers to get the word out about their services. Maybe that’s why a number of us are having trouble getting started with setting up our printed photo books.

If you’ve been struggling, here are 10 ideas – 10 potential themes – for your printed photo books:

1. Babies and Children: If your photography involves portraits of kids, you’ll find that it’s easy to capture them in a wide variety of settings – birthday parties, family functions, playing in the yard. Create a photo book that captures your best work to market your services of provide your customers with a new type of keepsake to treasure.
2. Travel: If your photographic pursuits take you around the world, why not capture your travels in a printed photo book?
3. Weddings:Wedding photographers are always looking for new ways of marketing their services. Every bride wants a fairy tale wedding; why not capture that fairy tale in a customized photo book?
4. Family Heritage: Many people enjoy researching their family trees. Photographers who are willing to create memorabilia that transcends generations and gather family heritage have a unique service to offer their clients.
5. Graduation: Every year, senior portraits are big business for many photographers, but why not offer something more? Include photos from other years, capture special moments from throughout the year and help to create a keepsake far more personal than a senior yearbook.
6. Birthdays and anniversaries: what better way to honor someone’s life history than capturing key moments – birthdays and anniversaries that they have celebrated throughout the years?
7. Holiday centric: Photographers capture beautiful moments – both within the work that they do and while they are celebrating with their families. A printed photo book is a great way of collecting those memories.
8. Sports: Most photographers with kids capture a taste of sports photography; why not use a photo book to highlight great moments for the team and individuals on it?
9. Seasons: Many photographers capture moments throughout the year, or they have a favorite season. By capturing the changes in the seasons, you’ll find great inspiration for creating a photo book.
10. Events: Great concerts, outdoor festivals and even family reunions provide great content for a printed photo book – and make you feel better about taking your camera with you everywhere you go.

Of course, these are only a few ways that you can use photo books; once you’ve created one or two, it won’t be hard to come up with countless ideas for more.

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When you made the decision to become a photographer, you knew that you had both the technical skills and the artistic eye to set yourself apart. What starts getting interesting though, is that once you’ve broken into the field of photography, there’s a lot more competition: a lot of other folks who started in the field for the same reasons that you did.

What that means is that you need a way of setting yourself apart: marketing with printed photo books will let you do just that.

With a printed photo book, you’ll be able to better display your work – making it more accessible to family members and friends as well as for your clients before they sit down for the shoot. You’ll also be able to use the photo books that you create to showcase your best work, allow others to view different layouts, print options, backgrounds and more.

Printed photo books enable you to get creative, to show your design skills, add text to your photos and to really take your marketing efforts to the next level.

You have the technical skills – make sure that you’re showing your prospective clients that. You also have a great artistic view, why not make sure that you use that to your advantage?

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