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Light It Up - Using Your Flash to Make Great Images
Plus Marketing, Sales and Making Money in the Digital Age!

with

Doug Box M.Photog.,Cr 

Sometimes the light outside is good, sometime it is not. So what do you do:

Forget the shot? Do the shot with bad light? Try to add light with a reflector? Many times a reflector won’t work.
I have found that you can easily add flash off camera and save the shot! We will cover how to add flash, both on camera and off camera and make it look NATURAL!

Even the best photographer in the world will go broke without a steady flow of new customers. In today’s economy it’s NOT how much you know about photography - it’s how much you know about marketing. You can fight it and go broke or you can accept it and make lots of money. “It simply amazes me how many photographers feel frustrated, working their butts off, barely making a living instead of a fortune. “  If you’re like most photographers, you spend a lot of time creating great photographs and not enough time creating a great business. Do you think selling is a dirty word? OK, persuade, but what you’re really doing is helping your clients get what they want. So you can get everything you want!
                       
Doug will cover:

• Can’t always shoot during the “sweet light “ time?
• Can’t find “Great Light” outdoors?
• It is overcast and you can't find any direction to the light?
• Hate that "On Camera Flash" look?
• Tired of taking too much equipment on location?
• Want an easy system for twin lighting at weddings?
• Tired of buying the wrong equipment or junk?
• Want to better utilize the flash you already own?
• Frustrated with the White Balance issue?
• Want really distinctive lighting?
• Want to add direction of light to your outdoor portraits?
• Want an easy set up for In-Home sessions?

Plus a fun business section

• Find the hidden wealth in your business - it’s there, get it out and use it
• How to charge more than your competition - and get it!
• Take control of your time by establishing “Prime Time”  appointment times to increase your profit and give you more time to enjoy your life.
• How to turn your studio into a Business-By-Referral  - cut your marketing in half and increase business  if you it right. Learn how to add this powerful, lead generating, strategy.
• Receive marketing ideas that work - no matter what type of business you have

Whether you are new in the business or a 20 year veteran you will enjoy Doug’s fun style of teaching.
You spend a lot of time creating great photographs and not making enouh “PROFIT”!!! In this day of Digital Photography you have to be a better marketer! You are spending more time on each image and you have to write off your equipment even faster!

About Doug Box

Doug has been inspiring photographers of all levels to go beyond the normal studio into a more successful and creative business. Besides being an excellent photographer, he is a dynamic speaker and has appeared in seminars and conventions 47 states in the U.S. plus Canada, Mexico, Scotland, Wales and England. He was chosen to teach at the International Wedding Institute and has taught at 18 different PPA Affiliate week long schools His articles and images have graced the pages of most professional photographic publications. He is the author of The Power of Business marketing  systems and has written several books including Professional Secrets of  Children’s Photography, Professional Secrets of Photographing Weddings  and Natural Light Photography, published by Amhurst Publishing.

  Check out his websites:  www.dougbox.com and www.texasphotographicworkshops.com for more information

Schedule:

Check-in begins at 1:15 p.m.
Tech Talk Open Forum*: 1:30 p.m. to 2:00
Member Challenge images due by 1:45 p.m.
Doug Box - 2 p.m. (starting promptly at 2 p.m.!)
Member Challenge - 4:55 p.m.
Dinner Break - 5 p.m.
Doug Box - 6 p.m.
Adjourn - 8 p.m.

*A new feature of our monthly program will be the Tech Talk Open Forum that we will host beginning one-half hour BEFORE the main program to introduce new technology, provide Photoshop/Lightroom tips & tricks, talk about workflow and (at leat try to) answer any technology questions you have! Join us on February 8th at 1:15 to get checked in and be a part of this educational session.

The Doug Box program is graciously sponsored by American Color Imaging