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SIMPLY CANVAS WEBINAR: CANVAS CRITIQUE & LOCHIE JAMS

Alllison and I are hosting a free webinar for Simply Canvas today at 1pm central. 30 studios have submitted work to be critiqued anonymously. The studio with the best image will win a 2 hour phone consult from Allison and myself. It is too late to submit images for the critique but not too late to listen in. 

You will need to email directly before Noon central in order for me to get you an invite.

studio@allisonrodgers.com

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On a totally separate note I wanted to post this pic of Lochie. He is the son of a photographer friend in Australia, Lanne of Painted With Light.

Lochie is jamming out in the back seat imitating how Nick was playing the air guitar in this post. I thought this was very funny.

J

WOW, NEBRASKA HAS A LOT OF CORN...

There is a lot to post about the Nebraska excursion or as it has come to be called "The Tour of Corn". There will be some entertaining video and some cool pics from the inner belly of the Marathon Press machine.

Shannon, we want to thank you and the entire crew at Marathon for the gracious welcome and delicious steaks. We are very excited about the "stuff".

What an awesome little camera the Canon 870 is. Here is my first stab at using the timer.

J

CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS : SPEAKING

Over the past few months, Jeff and I have been asked to speak at several upcoming events. Some have been for Simply Canvas, PPA and Marathon Press - and we've been so excited to be a part of some wonderful discussions with other photographers. 

We truly feel that education like this is the best way to build your business - from the very beginning. Maybe your studio has been around for awhile and you're looking for a way to finesse what you already have in place. It's always great to stay on top of what the market needs. A need that we feel very strongly about is image design and placement. We will be flying out to Marathon Press this weekend to meet the crew and present a Webinar for them on Monday October 13th. Our Webinar will be about designing for spaces in your client's homes and how that can really help get your client from the Ordering Appointment to successfully hanging images on their walls.

We would love it if you guys could join us!!! If you would like to sign up, just click the link below to register.

http://www.marathonpress.com/education/webinars

We will be posting about other upcoming webinars and speaking engagements so please subscribe to our blog so you don't miss anything!!!

We have several things scheduled for IMAGING USA 09 in Phoenix!!!

Allison :)

LOOK AT OUR JEFFREY!!!

Ever since we were on the cover and featured in the Professional Photographer magazine back in April, several things have been building up in the speaking area for ARP...

Lots to tell you guys about and here's the first of MANY big big announcements!!!!

Our very own Jeff Rodgers will be featured in a PPA Webinar about BLOGGING!

So, if you are a photographer and want to hear what our super techy guy has to say about how our blog has helped ARP - then sign up!!!! 

He will be speaking with Carrie Viohl and they will be going over the social benefits and technical aspects of blogging. We are so proud that he was selected by the peeps at PPA - and we know he's going to do an awesome job!

Go Jeffy Jeff!!!

:) A

If you would like to sign up - just click HERE

ARP : PHOTO SCHOOL

A few months ago I mentioned that we might offer a class or two on how to shoot better images of your kids. Well, everytime a holiday passes I think about really offering this.

When our family gets together there are cameras everywhere - nice cameras, and its soooo hard for me not to jump in when the chaos starts and take over. You know what I'm talking about... all the kids lined up with plastered grins on their faces. Mulitple parents standing fighting for their moment to snap the shutter. And usually everyone thinks louder is better. The poor kids don't know where to look and when they do, they look as if they're in pain. You've seen it. You've done it :) We've all done it. BUT those are not the images we want of our children. Don't get me wrong - those images are adorable, but we want the moment to speak to us. I DO have a lot of good shooters in my family (and they read this BLOG) - so guys just remember that everyone struggles shooting their own kids - ME included.

Maybe you want to know how to work your camera, maybe you want to know the best way to get great prints, maybe you're ready to learn how to shoot on "M" (the manual setting - where YOU tell the camera what to do.)

Whatever your skill-level, if you have a need, we'd like to know what that is.
Jeff and I would like you guys to start posting questions about what you want to learn. We will read all of them and then decide how we should structure the class. The faster the questions come in, the faster we'll set a class date.

So start asking!
And we'll plan a time to start teaching.

We look forward to making life with a camera much more enjoyable :)

A + J