Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Senior Portrait Show
The shop looks great with all the senior portraits. Seven local photographers have their work up along with marketing materials. Make sure you take a look next time you are in town!
Be on the lookout in the next few weeks for an announcement about our first wedding photography show.
Too soon to talk about Christmas?
The weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday are very busy at Lifetime in Focus and Boulder Pro Photo with people ordering holiday photo gifts. The week before Thanksgiving (approximately November 14th, 2009) we will reactivate all events on Lifetime in Focus for free. They will stay on until the beginning of the new year. The holidays are a great time to remind clients to purchase prints to share with their family so be sure to utilize the marketing tools on your dashboard to contact clients.
*However, if you have events on LIF that you do not want reactivated, please spend some time deleting them.
Stay tuned for more holiday marketing ideas in the coming weeks!
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
New Shows up at Boulder Pro Photo
For July, we have 2 new shows up:
Everything is not Enough: Student work from Roddy MacInnes' Intro to Photography class summer 2009.
Colorado Wildflowers Holga images from Rachael Thompson
Both shows will be up until mid August when we take them down to install our first annual senior portrait group show. If you would like to be considered for a show at Boulder Pro Photo, please contact me: rachael@boulderprophoto.com
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Skin Retouching Using Smart Filters
Photoshop Workbench 185: Speedy and Realistic Skin Retouching Using Smart Filters
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Senior Portrait Show Call for Entry
Image by Misha Photography
Senior Portrait Group Show 2009 Call for Entry
Boulder Pro Photo is pleased to announce our first annual Senior Portrait group show. Local photographers are invited to submit 1 to 2 of their best senior portrait shots to Boulder Pro Photo for inclusion in our first annual Senior Portrait group show. Boulder Pro Photo will take care of the printing, mounting, hanging and advertising. You get exposure, potential new clients and coupons for free prints to use or share with your clients.
Important Dates:
Images on display at BPP August 17, 2009 to September 11, 2009
Images due to BPP by August 12 at 11 AM via Lab Prints (or delivery for film customers ONLY)
Photographer Requirements:
12 x 18 image (sized and ready to print, lab color correction will be performed where needed for best possible print)
Must be a senior portrait or single portrait (collages of one senior are certainly welcome)
Must be submitted via Lab Prints. Please write SENIOR SHOW in comments section of order. (Film shooters may bring negative into the lab)
Images will be accepted until Wednesday August 11, 2009 at 11 AM
Each image submission is $25 which covers the cost of printing and mounting.
Photographers are encouraged to provide BPP with promotional materials to be made available to visitors
BPP reserves the right not to show submitted work due to quality or space concerns. Photographers whose work is not shown will not be charged.
Benefits for the photographer:
Photographs and photographer's promotional materials will be shown in Boulder Pro Photo's store for one month
All participating photographers will be given 8 coupons to use or share with their clients that entitle bearer to a free sheet of 8 wallets when they buy one sheet of 8 at BPP
Boulder Pro Photo will advertise the show in local media and online
Photographers will be given their mounted 12 x 18 prints at the conclusion of the show
Please direct your questions to rachael@boulderprophoto.com
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Wedding Inspiration
Do you look at Flickr image pools to get inspiration? Flickr is a great, if at times overwhelming, source to see what other photographers are doing. Just a quick image search on the tag "wedding" will bring up millions of images. Do you use Flickr to seek new clients or check out the competition?
And what about that mistress of taste and style, Martha Stewart? Martha Stewart Weddings is always full of the latest trends and clean, sophisticated images from real weddings. Also interesting to look at is The Bride's Guide: Ideas from the Editors of Martha Stewart Weddings. On this lively blog you'll find the bride's take on trends, planning and memory keeping.
Where do you get new ideas for shooting weddings?
Image by Lulu.Re
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
July Special!
The Details:
- jpg or tiff files, sRGB/8 bit color
- Minimum order of 40 prints
- 4 x 6 prints on glossy paper only for this offer. No mixed sizes or paper surfaces.
You can call us at 303-318-4155 with any questions.
Portraits and Spaces
For the past month, Boulder Pro Photo has been hosting an exhibition of Professor Roddy MacInnes' students' work from a class at the University of Denver. Of the 5 students, only one was majoring in photography. One of the great things about the work is that the students used a variety of mediums from Holga to digital SLR to film and digital capture. We like seeing young people experiementing with and learning photography! And the work is really lovely too. The show is up until the end of today, so stop by and see it in the shop.
In July, we will be hosting another student show from Roddy's students and our own Rachael Thompson will be showing her recent work. If you would like to be considered for a show at Boulder Pro Photo, please email rachael at boulderprophoto.com with a link to your work.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Photoshop Tip: Setting up an action to batch resize
The details:
- Final file size for upload: 4 x 6 inches at 400 dpi
- Color space: sRGB
- File names with only letters and number (NO symbols or spaces)
- No duplicate file names
- Open a file that is typical for your originals. That is, files that come straight from your camera or scans straight from your film that have not already been resized.
- Open the actions palette (Window>Actions)
- Click New Action button (its the little piece of paper next to the trash can at the bottom right of the palette.)
- Name your action "LIF Resize." Leave the Set: Default Actions but you may change the other options if you wish. Then, click record.
- Go to Image>Image Size and set image size.
- Now, click on the square stop button on the bottom left of the actions palette. This stops the action and saves it.
Now, the next step is where we will really get automating!
Batch Automating
- In Photoshop, go to File>Automate>Batch. Choose your LIF Resize action from the menu. Then, select the folder that contains the images you want to resize. Choose a destination folder for the resized images. I suggest making a "resized" folder in the main folder.
- Under file naming options, you can choose to add letters or numbers or both to the resized files. Choose the options that will help you remain organized. I like adding a letter or number because it helps differentiate original files from resized files.
- Click OK and sit back. You should stay with your computer in case there are errors but the entire process will take much less time than manually changing each file.
- Upload your event to LIF, make it public and watch the sales add up!