Senior Portrait Show

Our first Senior Portrait Group Show is now up at Boulder Pro Photo. We invited clients to submit their best senior portraits for the show then we printed, mounted and hung the images in the front of the shop. We also posted the images and photographer information on our facebook page and invited Boulder Valley high school students to come in and get a coupon for free wallet prints.

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?

Photo: Bree Bailey

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!

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

Skin Retouching Using Smart Filters

I found this video on Mark Johnson's website. He has many valuable resources on his site but I thought this one would be of particular interest to portrait shooters.

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

Wedding Inspiration

Calumet Photographic's latest issue of Timeframes is dedicated to photographers' best wedding shots.

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

July Special!

Got vacation pictures?

This July bring in or send in your digital camera media and get $.15 4 x 6 glossy prints. You can walk in with media cards, cds, dvds or usb drives. Or mail us your cd and we will mail back your prints.

The Details:

1. jpg or tiff files, sRGB/8 bit color
2. Minimum order of 40 prints
3. 4 x 6 prints on glossy paper only for this offer. No mixed sizes or paper surfaces.

Our address: Boulder Pro Photo, 1644 Conestoga St Ste 3, Boulder CO 80301

You can call us at 303-318-4155 with any questions.