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Florida


Fort White

Baby's First Year: Capture, Create & Sell

Course #FL01

Chontelle Brown

A big part of the lucrative baby photography market is creating and selling specific products for each session (as well as a baby's first year album). Join Chontelle to learn how to incorporate everything for a profitable and enjoyable business model that creates loyal clients. During this hands-on learning experience, you will learn how to capture and sell images for a baby’s first year, including purposeful image capture at each stage and product designs to help you reach your sales goals.

Course Date: October 24, 2011

Course Hours:
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Items to Bring: Camera, portrait lens, PocketWizard (optional)

Course Location:
Cotton Blossoms Studio
592 SW Steadman Glen
Fort White, FL 32038

Location Phone:
386-454-4399

Instructor Contact:
chontelle@cottonblossoms.net
386-454-4399

Instructor Website:
www.cottonblossoms.net


Orange Park

SEO for Photographers

Course #FL02

Keely Deuschle, CPP

Are you making the most of one of your best, least expensive marketing tools and methods—your website? Just because you have one doesn’t mean that people will stay and look around, or even come to it! Join Keely for an interactive class that will help you improve your website and business traffic with the following topics:

  • Website do’s and don’ts
  • SEO techniques and how to easily implement them (even if you don't know HTML)
  • How to write website content for clients and search engines
  • How to keep keyword-rich content on your HTML or flash site
  • Site map development
  • Why blogs are important
  • How to analyze data to tell if what you’re doing is working or needs improvement

Register early—the class size is limited to allow real discussions about the students' individual websites and implementations under the guidance of the instructor.

Course Date:
October 24, 2011

Course Hours:
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Items to Bring:
Please contact instructor for course item list.

Course Location:

Mikkean Photography Studio
1473 Wells Road
Orange Park, FL 32073

Location Phone:

904-403-9553

Instructor Contact:
keely@mikkeanphotography.com
904-403-9553

Instructor Website:
www.mikkeanphotography.com

 


Tallahassee

The Ins & Outs of a Successful Digital Workflow

Course #FL03

Linda Long, CPP
Olyn Long, CPP

Are you spending hours behind the computer editing images, designing albums or sorting files? If so, you’re probably not only miserable, but losing money to boot. Here’s your solution: Join Linda and Olyn, and follow their steps to shave hours off your weekly workload!

They will walk you through their own efficient workflow, while pointing out others’ pitfalls. Get ready for an in-depth analysis of workflow, from capture to completion, including streamlining raw editing, Photoshop time, album design and custom slideshows. Specifically, you’ll learn about culling images, how to effectively and efficiently use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop key commands, actions, batches and droplets, slideshow templates, album design shortcuts and a host of other timesavers Linda and Olyn use on an everyday basis. You’ll even learn specific tricks when you shoot that will save you time on the edit! So, come streamline how your work is completed with this class—you could end up freeing time and earning more money.

Course Date:
October 24, 2011

Course Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Items to Bring: Note-taking materials (If possible, try to write out your existing workflow, so the instructors can help identify individual problem areas.)

Course Location:
Long’s Photography
702 W. Tharpe St.
Tallahassee, FL 3303

Location Phone:
850-339-5799

Instructor Contact:

850-339-5799 (Linda or Olyn)
linda@longsphotography.com
olyn@longsphotography.com

Instructor Website:
www.longsphotography.com