by William Petruzzo | Jun 19, 2017 | Advice, Business, photography, Portraits, Weddings
In a sense, all photographers-of-people are necessary collaborators. I’m stretching the meaning of that word a little bit. What I mean is that the artwork they create always hinges on some uncertainty from the people they photograph. They have to bend and adapt their...
by William Petruzzo | Jun 12, 2017 | Advice, Business, Portraits, Weddings
You know, a lot of us were raised in what were still the relatively early days of consumer photography. A time when fancy cameras were accessible enough to have a large base of hobbyists. Point and click cameras were easy enough to use that everyone wanted to, but a...
by William Petruzzo | Jun 5, 2017 | Advice, Weddings
When you throw a wedding and a hundred or more people show up, the fact of the matter is, some of those people are going to grumble about something, and in all likelihood, you’re going to hear about some of it. That sucks, because you’d think those people could be...
by William Petruzzo | May 29, 2017 | Advice, Business, Family, photography, Portraits
If you ask just about any portrait photographer what kind of person they like to work with, the vast majority of their answers will include something along the lines of “a person who wants to be there”. There are a lot of good reasons for this response. Perhaps most...
by William Petruzzo | May 22, 2017 | Advice, Business, Family, Portraits, Weddings
You know, in all of the years we’ve been in business, I can honestly say I have personally liked probably 99% of our clients, and maybe more. Of course, I haven’t done any actual math here. But given how difficult it is to list people I haven’t liked, I’m confident in...
by William Petruzzo | May 15, 2017 | Business, information, Portraits, Weddings
This is a question we get very regularly. Strange that I have not written about this until now. The question is not easily answered. While it’s true that we generally create between 20 and 60 finished images per hour, per photographer, you’ll see that we don’t make...
