If you were in Tennessee at my workshop.

Then you know we covered a lot of ground! We talked about finding and keeping inspiration, techniques for capturing images that sell, processing those images quickly and efficiently with Lightroom, enhancing them with Photoshop, and making the final presentation. We also talked about marketing and branding and finding your true voice as a photographic artist. We covered sales and my S.E.T.S.A.S.S.Y. system for selling without selling. We also had more dancing due to phone calls than any program I can remember in a long time! 

Thanks for a great time and the hospitality. I really appreciate it and hope you'll all stay in touch. There was a great little side story during the program. Earlier in the day we talked about doing out and asking for the work you want. I also recommended a great restaurant in the area that I had dined at the night before (Wild Ginger). One of the attendees, who is specializing in food photography decided to go there on our lunch break and ended up showing the manager her iPad portfolio of food photography. He was so impressed he offered to have her shoot their next menu photos! Way to make things happen :-)

To download the program notes, click here. Don't forget, you'll need the password I gave you during the program to download and open the file. You can also download my folder templates, with the lightroom catalog template in it here as well.

Update on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 11:20AM by Kevin Kubota

I forgot to mention, when we were at the convention I learned about Ernie, the past president of the TNPPA, who is undergoing quite a hardship now due to flood damage to his home/studio. We wanted to help and donated 10% of all our on-site product sales to Ernie. If you were at the convention, or not, and want to help out too, just type HELP ERNIE in your order notes (now until 8/25/10) when you buy anything from the KubotaImageTools store and we'll donate 10% of our profits to help him out. Thanks for pulling together everyone!

Comments

[Donna Butler]

Thank YOU, Kevin...your presentation was AWESOME today!!!

[Peggy Weatherington]

Your presentation was FABULOUS! I learned so much! And, thank you for sharing your presentation with us in electronic format. I am, however, having issues downloading the Lightroom link. The zip file is small and when unzipped there is nothing in it.

Also, it was truly a heart-warming gesture for you to donate a portion of sales to Ernie.

[Kevin Kubota]

Hey Peggy, thanks for the kind words :-) I double-checked the links and they seem to be working fine when I download them. The Lightroom templates link IS a small file, but it contains the template folders and a blank Lightroom 3 catalog - which is very compact. I'm not sure why yours would be coming up empty.