Rex Jones
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St. George, UT, United States
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10 Essential Tips for Scaling and Optimizing Your Business: Part 2 of 2
In this rapidly evolving world of photography, it's essential to take a step back and scrutinize how well we're reflecting our business in its current state, including growth in our personal photos, websites, and social media profiles. In the previous article, we discussed five actionable strategies to address commonly overlooked areas, from updating personal images to → Read More
10 Essential Tips for Scaling and Optimizing Your Business (Part 1 of 2)
Stepping into the world of professional photography isn't just about mastering the art of creating stunning images. It's about becoming a dynamic, evolving brand in an industry that never stands still. As photographers, we are visual storytellers, but often, we become so engrossed in narrating other people's stories that we overlook our own. Our brand image, digital presence, → Read More
Boudoir Photography: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Success
The primary objective for boudoir photographers is to empower their subjects, encouraging them to embrace their unique beauty and sensuality. Photographers can highlight the individual's strengths and showcase their personality through careful posing, lighting, and composition, creating a personalized and intimate experience. The resulting images should evoke a sense of → Read More
Are TFP Photo Shoots Really a Trade or Is Someone Simply Working for Free?
Collaborating with models for trade shoots, often referred to as TFP (Time for Print), provides a wealth of benefits to both parties involved. In this type of collaboration, neither party charges for their services, but both receive valuable assets in the form of high-quality images that can be used to build their respective portfolios. Today, we will explore the positives and → Read More
The Growing Popularity and Creative Versatility of Boudoir Photography
In recent years, boudoir photography has experienced quite a surge in popularity, attracting women of all ages and backgrounds who want to capture their beauty in a classy and sensual way. While it's true that the rise in confidence and body positivity among women has played a significant role in this trend, there are several other factors contributing to its growing → Read More
Maximizing Your Potential: A Guide for Building Value and Setting Competitive Prices
As a photographer, understanding your place in the market is essential to the success of your business. Whether you are just starting out or are an established photographer, it's important to have a clear understanding of your competition, your preferred target audience, and demand for the photography services you offer. This will help you identify the best way to build value → Read More
Beyond the Studio: How Shooting Boudoir Outdoors Can Take Your Work to a New Level
The art of boudoir photography, which is playful, imaginative, and private, honors the femininity and beauty of women (though the genre is expanding rapidly to men as well). It's all about capturing personal and stirring moments that highlight your clients' best features. But have you ever thought about holding your boudoir sessions outside? Boudoir photography in the great → Read More
Why It Is Important to Take Your Branding Seriously
As a photographer, it's important for you to understand the significance of branding in your industry. While it may not seem obvious, branding is just as important for small businesses like yours as it is for large corporations. Branding encompasses much more than just a logo. It is the first interaction a potential client will have with your business. Your brand should → Read More
It’s Not About the Camera, It’s About Who’s Pressing the Shutter
I can think of so many times throughout my career where I have drooled over that latest camera release or that most recent lens that my brain convinces me that I simply have to have. Realistically, though, what photographer out there hasn't done that at least once in their career? We all inadvertently seem to have that point where we feel like we are simply dying because we → Read More
5 Things to Avoid With Your Headshot Sessions
Headshots really aren't rocket science, but sub-par images being created, which can break the personal brand for which they are intended. This short video points out five relatively simple things that can be fixed with a little preparation before your next headshot session. The idea of a headshot is to capture someone's face in a manner that best represents them in whichever → Read More
Keep It Simple: Stop Overthinking Your Boudoir Sessions
The art of boudoir photography can get lost in translation and become something other than what it was intended to be. Don't the photographer that fails to hit the mark and misses out on an amazing opportunity. Boudoir photography has less to do with the amount of skin shown and more to do with creating an environment and subsequent series of images that help your subject → Read More
Five Things You Should Know When Planning a Trip to the American Southwest
Whether you are planning your trip to the desert from across a couple state lines or from across the world, here are a few things to take into account before actually spending any money on your travel plans. These tips are coming directly from me to you. I have been a Utah resident for over 15 years and have spent the majority of that time living in Southern Utah and exploring → Read More
Tips for Styling, Posing, and Editing Shoots With Male Models
"But why male models," asks Derek Zoolander, which might just be the very question you are asking yourself right now. Why pointedly distinguish shoot styles between genders? No, I do not recommend adapting your shooting and posing guides from the hilarious movie by Ben Stiller, but Zoolander really does ask a valid question, even if taken out of context. Working with male → Read More
How Photography Helped Me Stay Positive Through Cancer Treatment
I'm not the first photographer that ended up going through the fun life challenge of combating cancer, and I sadly won't be the last. I did, however, find that my passion for photography and sharing with others helped me through some incredibly tough times. → Read More
Opportunities You Might Not Realize Are Available on Viewbug
Have you ever heard of our friends over at Viewbug? You probably should have by now because we've collaborated with them on a couple different photo contests at this point and there's more to the community than just photo contests. → Read More
Time to Say Goodbye to Instagram and Hello to Dayflash
Let's really be honest here, Facebook and Instagram have changed the rules enough times now that it's driven most of the fun out of the social media platforms and it's long been time for a change. Instagram used to be great for photographers but has since become an almost pointless endeavor for anyone that doesn't already have 100,000 followers or more. → Read More
Adding the Human Element to Landscapes
Let's be honest, landscape photography is just fun no matter where in the world you are shooting. I would even venture to say that it is growing with more and more popularity over time and with increased exposure from social media outlets. → Read More
Selectively Dodge and Burn Your Landscape Images in Photoshop
Landscape photography, as an art form, has benefited from techniques such as dodging and burning long before the advent of the digital camera. There are plenty of tutorials out there, both good and bad, about what to do with your images after you snap the shutter but sometimes the simplest methods are often the most rewarding. → Read More
Simple Steps for Planning a Travel Photography Trip
For all us photographers, travel and photography are activities that typically go together. Perhaps there is the random photographer out there that refuses to bring their camera along on vacations, but I think most of us can relate to James Wheeler's latest video. → Read More
Check out the New Texture Slider in Lightroom and Photoshop
That's right, Adobe users, they just added yet another slider into the already fairly extensive bag of tricks. There are probably several schools of thought, as to whether or not the programs needed another slider to control functions similar to sliders already present in the software. → Read More