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Posted By: Steve Shulenski <Steve@MoneyMakingPhotography.com> In Response To: Re: Mr. Shulenski and adorable pet photos (Natalie)
Friday, 15 September 2006, at 2:53 a.m.
Hi Natalie, Producing saleable pet portraits is very easy. Most people think that it takes years of practice to make it as a portrait photographer. But Sears, Owen Mills, JC Penneny’s, Wal-mart and other National Portrait Studios routinely hire non photographers and train them in just 1 – 3 weeks.
With today’s digital cameras and easy to use photo editing software it’s really a snap. Taking cute saleable pictures just takes a little practice and if the National Studios can train people in 1 – 3 weeks time you can learn it yourself by simply following a few simple rules and taking action.
I can’t guarantee you’ll become an Ace Photographer because that takes lots of shooting but the more you shoot the better you’ll get. What I can guarantee you is a Marketing System that will get you business and lots of it . . . . plus my personal ongoing help.
I have a $5,000 cash reward for the first person who can show me a faster, easier, more effective, lower cost way for any new photographer to get paying clients within 30 days of starting.
There are others selling information on this for ten times more than what I charge but they all teach the same old worn out things. Some even advertise that you just have to sit back and wait for the phone to ring. You pay them $1,000 only to be told to get your imagines displayed in banks, restaurants, doctors and dentist offices and shopping malls, learn how to write good copy and design better yellow page ads. Then spend a ton of money on these traditional advertising methods and go home, sit back and wait, wait, wait.
My system is pretty much turn key. Just substitute my name and contact details with yours and you are ready to go. No trying to figure out what to write, what to say, what to print, or what to do and how to do it. If you ever get stuck I’m only a phone call or email away.
My wife and I photograph people and pets almost everyday and most of the time we shoot with just a handful of props and one main light. Most of our props we found in thrift shops or in the bottom of dumpster bins so once you have these you use them over and over again. Once you know how to set up and take any particular saleable pose you can easily duplicate it over and over again.
For example. . . take a look at the picnic basket in the photo below. I found this on the curb during spring cleanup and just added $5 worth of artificial flowers to it. Shot it on one light on a black background. After you know how to set up and take that shot once you can do it over and over and over again and people absolutely love it. I have 6 – 12 poses that I duplicate with every almost every dog. How hard is that?
The hard part is not in knowing what to do (I can teach you that) the hard part is getting yourself to just do it (that’s the part I can’t do for you – it’ up to you) but if you enjoy taking pictures and like working with people and pets this can really pay off for you. Why work a job you hate or if you want to do photography – for a National Studio for $500 - $1,000 per week when you can earn that much from a single one hour shoot “Shooting Antique Glamour Portraits” or “In an afternoon of taking pet portraits”?
Cheers,
Steve Shulenski
www.MoneyMakingPhotography.com
http://www.PetPhotographyBusiness.com
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