LensProToGo joins the ShootDotEdit family circle!

posted in News,Partners,Photog Industry

Thursday, March 29, 2012

We first met LensProToGo (LPTG) at Partner Con here in San Diego at the end of 2011.  And, then, we spent another 4 days with a few of their team mates at the Mystic Seminars in Connecticut in January of this year.  However, it wasn’t until this past month at WPPI that we got to spend some time with their entire team.  We had the opportunity to really understand the value their company brings the pro wedding photographer.  And, it also became crystal clear that both of our companies are of the same mind when it comes to providing our customers with a trusted and valuable experience.  Each member of the LPTG team has a fire in their eyes for what they do.  It was obvious that there is a fire that exists in that company, and each of them love the service they provide.  Partnering with LensProToGo (LPTG) made all the sense in the world.

So… whats the back story on LPTG?  In August of 2006, Paul Friedman decided to launch LensProToGo, carrying just Canon lenses, out of a spare room in his house. In November he added Nikon lenses and then, in April of 2007, he started carrying camera bodies and super telephotos. From here Paul moved the business into his finished basement and hired his first employee. The rest, as they say, is history!

LPTG provides professional rental gear for photographers and videographers including Canon and Nikon DSLR camera bodies, almost every lens under the sun, and large variety of video gear, lighting and audio systems, stabilization and many accessories. Even more important is what each LPTG employee brings to the table.  Each employee owns  photo/video businesses outside of LensProToGo, and they all use the gear…. making them experts on the equipment they rent.  They aren’t just people who answer phones and sit behind desks taking orders. Bring on the questions!

So why did we choose LensProToGo to partner with?  Well, there are several distinct reasons:

-  we share the same vision and goal:  to serve the professional photographer with excellence, and with a smile :)

-  everyone at LPTG is a pro shooter.  They don’t just rent the gear…. they know it inside and out.

-  wide selection of gear, all professionally cleaned and maintained in between every rental.

-  all shipments are done in Pelican cases, and round trip shipping is paid for .

-  fun, down to earth people (probably our favorite part :)

Welcome to the team!

PSS! Our new friends at LPTG have been kind enough to extend a 10% discount on all rentals right now!   When placing your rental order, simply enter the promo code SDEPAL.  This promo expires June 30, 2012!

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Phase One and Phase Two Artistic Editing.

posted in Education,Inspiration,News,Reviews

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Whew! The bulk of the year’s weddings are done! Once you have some quality R&R over the holiday’s and new year, it will be time to review and renew your business for 2012! Winter time is historically the best time to do that!

There are many, many, many ways a professional photographer can make new strides towards improving their business. But, for the sake of this Blog post, we will focus one area of marketing that might make a big difference: updating your website, pre-plan your BLOG images, and/or collateral material to match all NEW and AWESOME images you photographed this year!

As a marketing solution, our Phase 1 and/or Phase 2 Artistic Editing services might be the perfect fit! And, so, “What’s the difference”, you ask? “What can I order, and what do I need to submit/do in order to get these services?”

Let us take a quick moment to explain the differences:

Phase One Artistic Edits – $3.00 Per image

A Phase 1 Artistic Edit elevates an image’s vibe and appearance far above the rest. This service is perfect for “Best Of,” Slideshows, and BLOG posts. We will take an accurately color processed image and apply professional creative saturation and contrast maneuvers, add vignetting, perform basic dodging & burning appropriations, and add other basic special effects and actions – in the effort to support your brand and signature. We can choose the images, or you can!

Check out the detailed example below!

Quick Steps to placing an order for Phase 1 Artistic Editing:

1. Ensure you have chosen your preferred Artistic Edit profile setting
2. Select that you want your “Images processed to JPG”
3. Choose Phase 1 Artistic Editing.
4. Make any custom image # choices/requests

Phase Two Artistic Edits – $60.00 for first hour

Phase 2 Artistic Edits encompass all other clinical image manipulations and enhancements. If you would like professional press print sharpening, cropping, straightening, facial retouching, swapping or opening eyes, hair retouching or removal, blemish removal, skin smoothing, replacement or removal of objects (i.e., signs, straps, cars, distracting elements, etc.), resizing, detailed color & saturation channel adjustments, or clinical burning & dodging, etc…then this is the service for you!

If you are thinking about using our Phase 2 Artistic Edit Service, we recommend taking advantage of our “Phase 2 Cost Survey”. This allows you to share with us exactly what you want and we can provide you a cost quote before you ever submit your job! CLICK HERE to get a quote!!

Of course, if you ever are uncertain if your request falls under Phase 1 or Phase 2 edits, please do not hesitate to reach out to us – a fast phone call, email, or LiveChat request can answer that question quickly for you. :)

Cheers to no more editing!

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NEW standard turnaround, as fast as 48 HOURS!!!

posted in Company,New Features and Improvements,News,Photog Industry

Thursday, March 8, 2012

When we first opened the ShootDotEdit doors in 2007 (5 years ago), we were on the cutting edge of the post production industry by completing and returning every event within 8-10 business days.  Our professional wedding photographers were jumping up and down, knowing that they would be getting an entire wedding edit returned in that amount of time.  Yep, you read that correctly!  Under 2 weeks, and happy, happy, happy!

Boy-oh-boy, things have changed!  Photography technology has changed.  Wedding pro demands have changed.  Especially when it relates to turnaround times for their brides.  Wedding pros are now experiencing the pressure and expectation of returning images to their couples FAST! And that brings us to today’s long awaited announcement.

Introducing the arrival of our new standard turnaroundas fast as 48 HOURS!!! Now, our “eyes-on-hands-on” custom color correction is returned fast, fast, fast!!!  Faster turnaround makes for happier clients.  Happier clients spend more money.  And faster turnaround equals more profit.  FAST is BEST, and nobody is faster than ShootDotEdit.

ShootDotEdit is the first choice post processing partner for over 5,000 professional wedding photographers, spanning 40 countries.  With determination to best serve the wedding pro, we are inventing proprietary products like the interactive Color Wizard and DotPreview.  And now, with the addition of our as fast as 48 HOUR turnaround, you can be sure that as the demands of your photography business speed up, we’ll be fast enough to support you.

ShootDotEdit is the new standard.  Turnaround as fast as 48 HOURS.  FAST is BEST, and nobody is faster.

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