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GoCast #14 – Don’t Burn Bridges GoCast #14 – Don’t Burn Bridges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79PnD9jyeQo

In this episode I talk about making sure you don’t burn bridges. This includes making sure you treat customers, venues, coordinators, and others even if its not exactly what you want to do every time. …

GoCast #5 – Your Personal Image GoCast #5 – Your Personal Image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q17GAw4FrdE

In this episode Kerry Garrison discusses your personal image and how you portray yourself to your clients. This includes how you dress, your car, your business cards, your website, what you do on social networks, …

GoCast #1 – Dealing With Clients on the Cheap GoCast #1 – Dealing With Clients on the Cheap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nofC1USY-To

This is episode one of a new series called GoCasts where I take some normally useless time spent driving to and from clients and jobs and discuss a particular topic. In this episode I discuss …

Podcast #49 – Conversation with John Mireles – Using Contracts in your photography business Podcast #49 – Conversation with John Mireles – Using Contracts in your photography business

Kerry and David talk to John Mireles from Photographer’s Toolkit fame to discuss using contracts in your photography business. during the talk we cover what elements make up a good contract, how to present a contract to clients, and why you need to have a solid contract.

Podcast #45 – Conversation with Candice Cunningham – LA Wedding Photographer Podcast #45 – Conversation with Candice Cunningham – LA Wedding Photographer

Candice Cunningham is a wedding photographer from Ventura California (near Los Angeles) who has been perfecting her craft for the past seven years and managed to do FIFTY weddings last year. With this much experience under her belt, Candice talks to use about gettnig ready, dealing with clients, thank you cards, and much more.

While this show is pretty “wedding photography” heavy, the contents such as dealing with customers and doing things to make them feel special apply to virtually any aspect of photography.

Podcast #42 – Conversation with Jim Divitale – Using Speciality Lenses in Commercial Photography Podcast #42 – Conversation with Jim Divitale – Using Speciality Lenses in Commercial Photography

Kerry talks to Jim Divitale about using speciality lenses like the Lensbaby Composer in commercial shoots. Jim talks about how to tell clients about the effects, how to prepare for a shoot, and the comparision between the effect of of a Lensbaby versus a Tlt-Shift and 4×5 View camera.

RAW vs. JPEG – Deciding which is best for you RAW vs. JPEG – Deciding which is best for you

Yes, RAW vs. JPEG, the seemingly endless debate, almost as bad as Mac vs. PC or Film vs. Digital and people have been asking me to write up an article on this based on my opinion and experience and I have really put this article off for a long time as I wanted to be as unbiased in how I write this given that this is a very biased topic.

Nikon announces D3X Nikon announces D3X

MELVILLE, N.Y. (Nov. 30, 2008) – Nikon Inc. today announced the D3X, an FX-format digital SLR featuring extreme 24.5-megapixel resolution and superb low-noise capabilities, which provides professional photographers with commercial-quality image performance in a familiar and extraordinarily versatile D-SLR form factor. In conjunction with the groundbreaking Nikon FX-format D3, the D3X tops off a collection of flagship level, rugged, professional caliber digital single lens reflex cameras engineered to excel in all types of professional photographic disciplines from photojournalism and sideline sports, to commercial in-studio applications.

Podcast #21 – Spicing up your images Podcast #21 – Spicing up your images

Kerry and David talk about how to add some spice to your shots, some of the ideas covered include:

* shooting from different angles
* changing your depth of field
* dissect other people’s work
* Look at EXIF data on people’s images

Podcast #6 – The Ins and Outs of Wedding Photography Part 2 Podcast #6 – The Ins and Outs of Wedding Photography Part 2

In this week’s podcast David and I finish the conversation from last week about wedding photography. This week we go into more of the business side of things such as contracts and talk a little about post production.