Though boudoir photography has become increasingly popular in the last few years, this style has been around for a very long time. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, actresses were often photographed in glamorous li...

  We are so excited to be included in this months issue of Professional Photographer Magazine!  Check out your digital copy or your hard copy to read more.  The review of our products is on page 71-72.  You can find m...

Chances are, by now, you have heard of Pinterest, but chances are even greater that you are already pinning away. Pinterest has been around since 2010, but in the past several months, their traffic has grown exponen...

Enjoy our free Client Tracker Download!  I hope this makes it easy to keep up with each client and stay organized.  Thanks for being a friend of Pretty Presets!  We are so happy you are here.  You can also download ...

One of the many great questions posed on the Pretty Presets Facebook page the other day was, “who do you compare yourself to?” as a photographer. Originally, I wasn’t going to answer this question, because I have lea...

When I first took up photography, I would go anywhere I could to find a great location to shoot. Now, this also meant that I did a fair amount of trespassing, which I no longer do. Never. Ever. Under any circumsta...

It’s time to get your business books in order because TAX SEASON is just around the corner. If you’re one of those people that vowed you would not wait until the last minute AGAIN, but somehow let the year slip awa...

With the Holidays quickly approaching, many of us are making our lists for gift-giving. A really sentimental and unique gift for your family members is restoring and printing old family photos! Whether you give them t...

As a photographer, my business mostly centers around portraits, engagements and weddings. I photograph children when I have the opportunity because I absolutely love doing photo shoots with kids, but until recently, ...

Hi this is Elizabeth from elizabethhalford.com on behalf of Pretty Presets for Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW and today we're going to talk about the difference between vibrance and saturation. So again as usual I’m ...

Now that you have an idea of what sort of daily work schedule you would like to create for yourself, let’s look at a few areas that will help you stay organized, focused and stick to your daily schedule. Of course, y...

Do you remember when you were a kid or a teenager, often feeling a sense of dread at the thought of going to a photo session? You knew you would have to get all dressed up, and then have to sit, awkwardly posed, in f...

Mastering the Lightroom Brush Tool Lightroom has so many great features that its hard to pick which one is “the best” or “my favorite” feature.  But today I want to share with you 5 reasons the brush tool is at the T...

Building a client base and having repeat clients are two of the most important aspects of having a photography business, especially if you are primarily a portrait photographer. Whether your specialty is weddings, c...

If there is something I love about working in this industry, it is the generous and beautiful people in it.  Elena is one of those who people who loves to help others and is so generous.  I came to her and asked if sh...