lawsonphoto

<p>I am looking for interested photographers who are professionals, take great pictures, and write well but are not interested in the building / maintaining a blog/website. I would like to team up with a few of you (8-10), ideally spread around geographically-- to give some different perspectives on photography. <br>

The goal would be as a small group of photographers to help each other out by contributing and building followers together. I already run my own photography blog and am looking to start a second one that is more group focused with other professionals. <br>

If you would be interested please message me. </p>

<p>I currently rely almost entirely off Adobe Lightroom to manage my website, the only problem is I don't gain a lot of traffic through search engines. Uploading galleries are quick and easy, and so is the option to use PayPal with customers who want individual pictures. Recently I created my blog using WordPress to attract search engines and this makes it easy for announcements, but my concern with Lightroom is you are limited to look like others who also use it. <br>

What is your favorite program, template or design to use for showcasing your photos and generating web traffic? <br>

BTW- my site is: <a href="http://www.premierephoto.us">www.premierephoto.us</a></p>

<p>Recently I have picked up more and more business with baby portraits. I currently offer baby portraits in generally the same package as all of my general portraits: High School Senior Poretraits, Engagement Portraits, Model Portraits, etc. I offer my clients different packages where rates are based upon outfits, desired length of the photoshoot, and desired prints / sizes. I off er your typical wedding packages that can include engagement photos, and what I am thinking of adding is a package containing several photoshoots following the baby for their first year, scheduling photos about every 4 months.<br>

I am wondering if any of you have had much success with a package like this, or if you do better just keeping it to 1 portrait session at a time. </p>

<p>I am doing my first baby portraits next weekend, there will be two babies there both with single parents (brother / sister). They would like to do it in a park, I have not confirmed times yet...looking for suggestions. <br>

My equipment:<br>

Nikon D300<br>

Nikon 50mm f/1.8<br>

SB-900 (with 24" softbox)</p>