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Do you want to tap into the lucrative ‘Lifestyle Portrait’ Photography market?
Are you someone who is interested in making money from digital portrait photography without the added & expensive costs of running a studio?

A no-non sense behind the scenes look [...]

Our friends at Triple Scoop Music have kindly arranged a super 10% Discount Code for you guys. They have a huge collection of Royal-free Music and I use them for my own work all the time.
Triple Scoop Music is the music licensing service loved by the world’s top photographers. Unlike traditional “royalty-free” music [...]

From 27th August 2010 – 31st October 2010 (inclusive) customers in the UK and Republic of Ireland are able to claim £200 / €230 cashback on purchases of the D300S and a NIKKOR lens worth over £400 / €460 made in a single transaction. Simon Iddon, Enthusiast Product Manager at Nikon UK says: [...]

Celebrate 10 years with Vistaprint!
Vistaprint is #1 in the online print industry! Delivering high-quality products in low volume for a great price. Products range from business cards to postcards to invitations and T-Shirts.
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, they are giving away 10 FREE products!  Offer expires Septmeber 30, 2010.
Design your own [...]

There is a huge market and demand for headshot photography for business cards, passports, advertising, website, brochures, press kits, model & actor / actresses portfolio, etc. Every business needs this for their staff. This is a simple head & shoulder shot of a person against a plain or coloured background or backdrop. This is called [...]

Nikon UK announces ViewNX 2, a comprehensive new version of its popular bundled software package that enables users to easily import, browse, edit and share images and D-movies.
Building upon the successful ViewNX software, ViewNX 2 is a feature-packed, user-friendly suite supplied with Nikon digital cameras and available for download. The software now offers a range [...]

Here is a little gift for all our loyal visitors & customers. Our friends at Host Gator have arranged this fabulous discount of $9.94 off any hosting packing when you use the code:
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Host Gator has a fantastic Control Panel for configuring a Wordpress blog which is very very easy to understand and install.

Why They are [...]

Your photography business probably gets enquiries from potential clients  via email and your contact us page on your web site and you try to send information, quotations, pdf brochures to each hot prospect as quickly as you can. You know that you can drastically increase the likelihood of making a booking by [...]

I’ve had quite a few emails regarding the Nikon D300s. Here is a little bit about the camera and also a video from our friends at B&H, New York. 8 years ago when my wife & I started SF Digital, our first purchase for the business was the Nikon D100. We had two bodies and [...]

Following on from last week’s post on Press Release, here are some tips to help you write an effective press release and increase your chance of having your story published. You need to make the editors’. freelancers, reporters or journalists job easier by presenting the release in a format and style that appeals to them.
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Here is a video tutorial on how to organise and import images in Apple Aperture 3. This is the software I use for all my wedding & portrait workflow.

Aperture 3 is £139.00 and to upgrade to Aperture 3 will cost £64.99 from Warehouse Express
Feel free to comment and if you have any request for [...]

I got a call from our local BBC Three Counties Radio the next day the newspaper was released and they wanted to interview me live on air regarding the Trash the Dress story. As I was busy that morning, the journalist & presenter visited the place where I was shooting and interviewed me on-location.
Here is [...]

A press release, press statement, news release or media release is a written or recorded communication sent to the members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as news value. These days email is the best way to send them to the editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations or [...]