Lisa Edwards

Why stories sell photographs: 6 Steps to Generating a Profit (How I earned 7k From My Own Passion Project)

My stomach was fluttering. My palms were sweaty. Would anybody show to my gallery opening, or would it just be myself, my husband and the gallery curator drinking these two Black Boxes of wine and 3 Quarry Brewery part pigs? 20 minutes later it was standing room only, and an hour later the wine was …

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Stupid crap photographers say like, “That lens is only $997, here’s my credit card!”

Have you ever been DYING to get that Canon or Nikon lens…you know, maybe it’s the 70-200, 2.8 lens, or the 85mm 1.4, or even a sweet 45mm tilt shift lens. And an off-brand just won’t do. The price tag? Roughly $2,200-$2900 (unless there’s some new dream-land website that offers them much cheaper and isn’t …

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5 Minute Trick to Get People to Take Your Photo Business Seriously

Do you roll your eyes when someone says they’re a “writer?”   Well, chances are, people are rolling their eyes when you’re saying you’re a “photographer.”   Then they proceed to tell you about their Aunt Joan who takes nice pictures of flowers and posts them to facebook and oh, just yesterday, one got 343 …

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I Eavesdropped on a Group of Writers Comparing Photographers – and What I Heard Baffled Me

“Which photographer do you think charges more?” The copy-writing instructor asked after showing us screenshots of each of their websites. I kept it hush-hush that I knew the answer. One? Was a big-name speaker at WPPI, PPA, and everything else with douple P’s and A’s. The other? A nobody in the speaking world. The average …

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