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Contrasts Photography Workshop

 In the United States, there are 11,000 photography studios, 152,000 full time photographers and 8 MILLION people identify themselves as a photographer. PPA reports that 95% of all photography businesses will fail in the first 5 years.

What separates you from the pack? Will you be in that 5% who succeed?

The Contrasts Photography Workshop can help you get there.

This will not be your typical photography workshop with instructors selling overpriced textures and Photoshop actions. We're going to teach you the nuts and bolts of how to be a better photographer and run a successful photography studio.

Over the course of an intensive weekend we will be addressing the 2 key components of taking your business to the next level:

* improving and streamlining your business and workflow

* improving the quality of your photogrpahy by creating compelling and professional images for your clients.

Inside the life of a SUCESFUUL commercial photographer

Admittedly this will only be funny to some of the hard-core photogs on this site. I think it's funny as hell. Give it a go and let me know what you think. Zack Arias is one of my favorite photographers. You should definitely give his work a look. Enjoy!

Better organization with FollowUpThen

Here's something I wish I would have known about a looong time ago. I ran across this cool site that allows you to forward emails you need to follow up with at a later date. You can choose any time-interval you like and when the time comes it sends you a gentle reminder that contains all of the original email. If you're anything like me then your entire inbox is full of stuff that doesn't need or can't be done right now. Then I have 30 emails and things can get lost in the shuffle. I even email myself things to remember to do later to add to the mess! I've stared using it this week and I'm falling in love all over again. It's free and doesn't even require a login or anything. Check it out and see what you think!

Check out FollowUpThen

FX iPhone App Is Here!

 It's officially available! The FX Studios iPhone, iPod, and iPad app is here and ready to download in the iTunes Store. Download it and let us know what you think. We're adding new content daily, so check it out!

Sarah Rhoads Photographers

I'm going to start sharing some of my favorite photographers for you to check out. These are the kind of artists that inspire us everyday, and the blogs we stalk in our free time.

The first one I'm going to share is Sarah Rhoads - she's got a completely different way of looking at the world than I do and her work blows me away. She does the kind of portraits that have a real 'feeling' to them. She's also got the coolest looking blog I've ever seen. Oh, and she's a much better writer than I am. Check her out. She's worth it!