LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Senior Portrait Photographer Shawn Wright. Shawn is the social-creative type who does all the photography, graphic design and marketing for his studio while his wife Betsy does all the bookkeeping, retouching and ordering for the business.
Shawn specializes in creating artistic portraits for High School Seniors and Children. He is also well known for creating automated processes for cropping, logo placement, vignetting and 80% of his retouching needs, as well as automated chroma-key techniques.
In this episode, Shawn talks about how he comes up with his ideas for senior portraits, how he works with the clients, how he charges for things, standing out from the pack, using social media to attract new clients and much more. We created a special video of Shawn’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.
Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast:Photoshop, Digital Juice, Alien Skin, Larson 4×6 Softbox, Canon 70-200 lens, Dynamic Designs, Seth Godin, Animoto, Who Moved My Cheese, Image Fire, View Finder Masks, Portraiture, Digital Anarchy. Buy Shawn’s Automation Kit – Special Limited Time Pricing for LensFlare35 listeners: $49.00 + $5.00 shipping between now and midnight 04/27/2010.
Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., Photo Book Press, and Tafota.com. Podcast network commercials from Rosh Sillars New Media Photographer, Jim Goldstein EXIF and beyond and Martin Bailey Photography.
To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a pop up window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. You can download a List of Questions (PDF format) that I ask in the interview.
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