I’ll be honest… When I hear the words “new AI feature,” my first reaction is a massive eye roll. Another tool promising to save me hours?Another robot trying to replace creativity?Another platform that’s going to spit out the same boring content everyone else is creating? Hard pass. So when Flodesk announced Flodesk Studio, I was […]

(AI brand photography vs real photos: honest review from a professional photographer) If you’ve spent more than five minutes online lately, you’ve probably seen them…Ai generated brand photos. Dreamy coffee shop moments. Flawless lighting. Zero scheduling. Zero outfit changes. Zero awkward posing. All created by a machine. And as a photographer and marketing coach, I […]

There was a time in my photography business when I thought being “hands-on” meant doing everything myself. If someone inquired about a session, I typed the email. If they booked, I typed another one. If I needed to follow up, I set a reminder…and sometimes forgot. If I delivered a gallery, I meant to ask […]

If there’s one question photographers ask me more than any other, it’s this: “How much should I charge for my photography sessions?” And not in a casual, curious way, but in a late-night Google spiral, second-guessing-everything kind of way. If that’s you, I want you to know something right off the bat: There is nothing […]

Alright friend, let’s talk about the phrase that makes photographers clutch their camera straps and whisper “not today, Satan”: “We can’t pay you, but It will be great exposure!” Listen…I get it. Exposure has become the Voldemort of photography business terms. But before we ban the word entirely, let’s get brutally honest for a sec: […]