December 8, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS #40 Bridal Show Planning, Tips, and Photography Marketing Ideas
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Todays Hosts…
Gavin Seim ~ Seim PhotographySeim Effects
Dennis Zerawis ~ DZ Pics Photography

 

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Show Notes and links…
Today we discuss bridal and trade shows, and ideas for setting up a great booth including marketing materials, photo presentation and the works. Even if you don’t shoot wedding you’ll get some good tips for doing shows.

DXO is getting bad press about using invasive DRM on Optics Pro 5. Gavin has launched his Lightroom Presets Power Workflow Collection.
The The HDRI Handbook is available available and is full of tips on shooting HDR photography

We also talked about getting inexpensive easels to display your work on, and Gavin like the Economy Folding Easel from Dick Blick Art Supply. It’s a touch over the ten bucks Gavin originally though, but still a great deal.

Dennis’s pick of the week was Professional marketing and selling techniques for wedding photographers.
Gavin’s pick was Collages press printed books for proofing and inexpensive albums.

Lastly here a few few photo’s of a few of my past bridal show setups.

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November 11, 2007

Click Button To Listen, Photography Roundtable #4 PPS# 39 Cool Photo Gadgets for 2007
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Todays Panel…
Gavin Seim ~ Seim PhotographySeim Effects
Jarrod Michael ~ The Digital Artistry Blog
Michael Rather ~ The Digital Photography Connection
Dennis Zerawis ~ DZ Pics Photography
Brady Dillsworth ~ Dillsworth.com

 

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Show noteslots n lots of em

Pixelmator, Acorn and other image editors could take the place of Photoshop in the future. John Nack had a blog post about where Photoshop is going.

Favorite Products Shopping Guide.

Jarrod Likes Painter Essentials, & Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3

Brady suggests the Domke Lens Wrap and the Pixel Pocket Rocket Card Holder, the Western Digital Passport. portable USB 2 hard drive. Gavin also like the Lacie portable hard drive because it hs USB 2, and Firewire

Michael likes photo tune 2 and Photo Frame Pro from On One Software, Nik Color Effects Pro 2.0, & Gary Fong Lightspheres which are great flash diffuser’s that all photogs should have. He also like’s Gavin’s Hollywood Effects PhotoShop Actions.

DZ is excited about the Nikon D3 and D300, 14-24 2.8 — 24-70 2.8, the ipod touch &
Site Grinder
is a Photoshop tool that builds websites. Rapid Weaver is also a useful site tool for Mac.

Gavin Loves the Canon Selphy ES1 Portable Printer, and the Rocket Air Squeeze Blower. ” The blower that isn’t lame” He is also picking up cheap frames at Frames USA.

Brady says the bad interface he gets with exposuremanager.com online galleries is making him more money on print sales. Jarrod mentioned the ultra high res last supper image he talked about on his blog.

Until next time…. PPS Roundtable

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PPS is a Seim Productions broadcast. Gavin Seim Photography, Pro Photo Show & Seim Effects Photo Tools

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October 7, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS #38 Image Enhancement Software Tools
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Show Notes… Welcome to the wild episode
Aside from goofing off and having fun on todays show we review Corel Painter X (time index 17:23) DXO Optics Pro (time index 29:33) And compare noise reduction tools Dfine2, Noise Ninja, and Neat Image (time index 40:31)

We also discussed my new Hollywood Effects Actions, and where you can download a free photoshop  action, as well as the PPS article about Adobe Customer Support. The Canon ES2 portable printer was launched, and you can check out a really cool video of a trash the dress shoot.

Pick of the week was PanosFX Photoshop actions. You can enter the contest to win a full version of PainterX (Win or Mac) my sending one entry email to prophotoshow at(@) gmail.com

Lastly you can save 15% on Hollywood Effects actions by using promo code 11504416

Lastly heres a sample of an image made user the Painter X auto paint. Just a quickie, but it shows one example of what you can do.

painter x auto paint

Have a great week, and don’t forget to join the photography forum… Gav

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September 18, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS #37, Gavin’s Workflow & Blurry Photos
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Show Notes…
Todays review was the Together books. which takes regular prints and binds them into a book.

One One Soft has some new releases including photo tools pro, and photo tune 2.o.

Embassy Pro Books are coming out with some neat photo books that compete with Asuka, and Collages.net is not doing their own albums as well.

Here the free presets from Gavin, and also check out the histogram video for some histogram tips.

Show listeners You can win a copy of Corel painter X on the up coming show where we review painter, and it’s use to the photographer. We don’t want to list the email here for spam reasons, but you can find the details at time index 20:55 in this weeks show.

Picks of the week. Are photo watermarking software that run independent of Photoshop.
PC…
Photo Watermark Pro

Mac…
Easy Batch Photo
iWatermark

Lastly here is that the blurry wedding picture that I was talking about in the show when we talked about emotional pictures. To see more of my non blurry pictures visit my website at www.seimphotography.com, or my Flickr page.

gavin’s blurry pic that had emotion

 

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August 25, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS #36, Pro Photography Roundtable #3 Audiocast
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Pro Photo Roundtable #2 Panel Members
Gavin Seim ~ Seim Photography, Washington
Dennis Zerwas JR ~ DZ Photography, Minnesota

Show Notes…

We talked about the Microsoft HD Photo format, and the Jpeg committee.
Pixelmator could compete with Photoshop in the future.
Gavin uses collages.net to put his work online for clients.
I’ll be reviewing a together book soon.
Visit the PPS forums and get all your questions answered.

 

Picks…

DZ. Armed America, a cool book with guns and families.
Gavin. Small Image2, a great resizing program for the mac.

 

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