Where can you find us this winter?

posted in Conferences,Education,Inspiration,News,Partners,Photog Industry

Monday, October 29, 2012

As we wrap up our 24 city workshop tour, we wanted to let you know about the educational events we’ll be participating in over the next few months!  We believe in the leaders who have organized these events and we’ll be there in full force at each of them!  Take a peak, see if any work for you, and make sure to stop by our booth and say hi!

Mystic Seminars – January 8-11, 2013

“To me, Mystic is special because it is not just about the seminars, it also puts photographers together as equals.  At many conferences that I attended, there is a division between the teachers and students, unlike Mystic, were we all sit together.  At Mystic, I have not only learned tools to make me a stronger photographer, but I have also made connection that have resulted in being mentored by some of the top photographers in the industry.”

Kristi O. (Past Multi Mystic Seminars Attendee)

Inspire Seminars – February 11-13, 2013

Inspire is a 2 ½ day retreat-style conference for professional wedding and portrait photographers. The event is designed to create an inviting learning experience where education, community and networking are the main focus. The conference is comprised of sessions on a variety of subjects, from business practices to shooting techniques, led by professional photographers from all over the United States with the majority residing in New England and the surrounding areas. Attendees have the opportunity to participate in mentoring round tables, small conference sessions, and one shooting workshop each. All meals are included with conference registration.

WPPI Conference - March 7-14, 2013

WPPI Conference+Expo is the premiere industry event for photographers and image-makers specializing in the creative and business aspects of wedding and portrait photography. Each year, nearly 16,000 professional and aspiring photographers attend WPPI to learn new techniques from industry leaders, build new relationships to grow their business, experience new products and solutions from major manufacturers to improve their productivity, and enjoy the many attractions in Las Vegas. WPPI is a week-long event combining educational seminars with a major industry trade show and networking events, all designed around learning the latest techniques, building new relationships and growing a businesses in a friendly, fun environment – all at one time, in one place.

If you have the time, you won’t regret visting any and/or all of these educational events!  And, well, then there is all the fun that comes along with ;)

Cheers to no more editing,

SDE

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50% OFF our CULL service! One month ONLY!

posted in Education,Inspiration,News,Partners,Photog Industry

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

This post will be short and sweet :)

It’s busy season and we know things are crazy for our Wedding Pros.  So, we thought we would extend some extra love and provide you with 50% OFF our CULL service.

WHAT:  HALF-OFF* of our CULL service   >>  CLICK HERE to read more!
WHEN:  09/11 thru 10/9

All of this to really say, thank you for making us the first choice for post production.

Cheers to no more editing,

P.S. If you haven’t already, be sure and check out our Price-Process-Profit workshop tour – we’re visiting  24 US cities this year!   It’s FREE and you can get your RSVP in before the rest of the world at http://priceprocessprofit.com

PSS *(here’s the fine print) Job minimums for this deal are 1500 images for culling and 500 images for color correction.

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June Integrated Partnerships Announcement – for Zenfolio users

posted in New Features and Improvements,News,Partners

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Its been 18 months since we teamed up with Zenfolio! And, in light of our integrated relationship with Zenfolio, we’re sending  Zenfolio pros some L.O.V.E.

Our goal is to provide professional wedding photographers with the ultimate post-shoot / post-production solutions.   Shoot the wedding, get it to ShootDotEdit.  And, in as fast as 48 HOURS, we’ll drop your new images straight into your client’s Zenfolio gallery, ready for showing and ordering.

So, what are the DETAILS?

Well, during the month of JUNE, we’re offering ALL of these add-on service benefits at no extra cost to all of our Zenfolio users:

  • 10% OFF all ShootDotEdit jobs
  • FREE delivery to Zenfolio
  • 25% OFF ShootDotEdit Album Design!
  • FREE RAW-to-JPG conversion

If you’re not already one of the tens of thousands of Zenfolio users, you can sign up at a discounted 20% with the code SDE20 until JUNE 30, 2012.

To take advantage of this promotion, click here!  Enjoy all of the benefits for the entire month of JUNE!

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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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It’s Photography, not Real Estate

posted in News,Partners

Monday, October 3, 2011

Hi Everyone,

Beginning today, we are offering a 20% discount on ALL album design orders (minimum 30 pages)! When submitting your design order, use the discount code:   2011albumexposure

  • OFFER EXPIRES OCTOBER 9, 2011 at MIDNIGHT.

That being said, today we’re hosting a guest blog from our friends at AlbumExposure.  They’ve got some good insight about the important role presentation plays in your business.

It’s Photography, not Real Estate
By Gary Sikes

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In real estate, it’s all about those three famous words: location, location, location!

But in the photography world, I’d suggest it’s all about presentation, presentation, presentation!!

Seems that many professional photographers these days are ‘destination’ photographers and the industry is filled with talented individuals who are mobile, agile, and able to leverage their surroundings for great results. As a result, location just isn’t what it used to be for your business to thrive.

However, this creates a significant challenge for you to develop two different sets of processes and procedures. One for physical interaction with clients and another for destination clients who require more digital contact. This requires a tremendous amount of preparation and attention to detail if you want to maximize your abilities to capture new clients, create a winning experience, and foster a referral network.

In order to make this a little easier, let me suggest that you concentrate on presentation. And I’m not just talking about presentation of images, rather presentation at each marker in the road. Have you ever noticed the markers on the side of an old county road? Often a mile marker, but always a designation of a key point in a distance spanning two locations. The markers identify the progression to your destination and offer tangible signs for what can be expected next. In a similar way, the method by which you present your brand at markers along the way will give your clients and potential clients an indication of what is to come. You’re both building trust and creating expectations at the same time. So, don’t get overwhelmed by the idea of systems and processes up front, rather let those come naturally from the ways you decide to present yourself and focus more on defining those presentation ‘markers’, if you will. This will shape the positioning of your brand.

Consider each step from introduction (first look on your website, an email, or phone call) through to the final goal (happy customer with completed project). Make sure to define the key markers, as your clients will be looking at these clues to determine what their experience will be like. Similarly, the ways you successfully provide to the level that you present at each marker, will dictate the amount of happy clients you have and how easily they desire to sing your praises as fans. So, be mindful of each step in the process, define how you want to be perceived, then present yourself honestly and with integrity at the markers along the road.

Share some key ways you or your staff present to clients or prospects below and let’s keep the discussion rolling.

[written by Gary Sikes of AlbumExposure]

Feel free to check out the blog Album Exposure has posted about SDE today for ideas… (blog.albumexposure.com)
This week, Album Exposure is offering $30 off their yearly subscription this week: “AESDEWT103“!

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ShootDotEdit & Pictage integrate and transform workflow for good

posted in Company,New Features and Improvements,News,Our Customers,Partners

Friday, September 9, 2011

IT IS OFFICIAL!  Today we are announcing our high powered integration alliance with Pictage:  nation’s leading provider of software and services to professional photographers.

The integration forged between ShootDotEdit and Pictage intends to set a new standard for professional wedding photography workflow. Garrett Delph, COO and Co-Founder explains, “We believe this integration will dramatically improve the way professional wedding photographers manage and run their businesses as it relates to post processing workflow. It was designed to create less stress, more free time, and more profit.  And, we are very excited about that!”

What is ShootDotEdit?

Post-processing for wedding pros and everything they shoot:  Weddings, Boudoir, Engagement Sessions, Portraits, and Events.  ShootDotEdit (SDE) provides custom color processing of RAW and JPG files and a host of other professional post-processing services. SDE makes your images look consistently great!

How do ShootDotEdit and Pictage 
work together?

Pictage alligned with SDE because they are the number one post-processing partner for professional wedding photographers. Our new high powered integration allows you to shoot your event, send your un-edited images to SDE for custom color editing, and receive beautiful images in 6 business days or less!

Do Pictage members get special benefits?
YES!

SUPER-FAST Turnaround Time (6 business days or less)
Pictage exclusive! Standard turnaround time is 8 business days.

FREE upload to Pictage (savings of 5¢ per image)


Where do I go from here???

Before you submit your next job to us, simply verify your Pictage membership in the DotTracker’s Billing Information tab.
 Everything else will fall in place.  Keep on shooting and loving what you do.  Start putting your precious focus, time and resources towards areas of your life and business that make sense.  We’re here for you. CLICK HERE to GET STARTED!

About ShootDotEdit
More information on ShootDotEdit and its post processing solutions designed especially for the wedding pro can be found at www.shootdotedit.com or by contacting the team via email on mylifeback@shootdotedit.com.

About Pictage
Founded in 2000, Pictage is the leading business management and marketing solution for professional photographers. Pictage empowers professional photographers to manage their workflow, promote their brand, connect with community, and sell their work.

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  • Ashley Munn: So excited about the SDE & Pictage partnership! Just another additional perk to what you guys already have going on! How do we verify our Pictage membership with you to allow for the upload on our next job? (09.09.2011 10:30am)
  • SDE Team: Hey Ashley! It's real easy, just navigate to the "Billing Information" tab inside of your DoTracker. Or, when submitting a job, create a NEW upload location and choose Pictage front the drop down menu, then verify your Pictage Membership with Pictage Credentials. Let us know if you need anything!! (09.09.2011 10:49am)
  • Anna Kim: You guys ROCK!!!!!! (09.11.2011 10:45am)
  • Jeff Cleveland: This sounds great. And since I've taken then time to dial in what I ask for you I'm really loving what you're sending back. One things that I end up doing to a small number of images after I get them back is cropping. Is there a way that I can do any cropping before I upload so that my images are ready to be uploaded to Pictage? (09.11.2011 02:10pm)
  • Kim Heiser: Hey Jeff! If you are a Lightroom User, you can do your own crops within the Lightroom Catalog and we will preserve the metadata and your crop will stay as we process the images to JPG and upload to Pictage. :) (09.12.2011 12:36pm)
  • Jeff Cleveland: Kim, that's fantastic. I didn't know that. It's almost like you want to give us our life back! ;) (09.13.2011 05:02am)
  • I’m Not an Editor! A Case for Outsourcing.: [...] Meet Leeann and the Shoot Dot Edit team in person at PartnerCon in just a few weeks! Shoot Dot Edit has been working with Pictage to make your workflow even simpler than before- check out what they have to offer. [...] (10.26.2011 10:49am)

Zenfolio partnership makes it easier to go from shooting to selling!

posted in Partners

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

ShootDotEdit and Zenfolio
Post production and image hosting go hand in hand, so it is no surprise that ShootDotEdit and Zenfolio have partnered to bring photographers the best tools. For those of you who are not familiar, Zenfolio is an all-in-one portfolio site, photo hosting and shopping cart service for professional and aspiring photographers. With Zenfolio and Shootdotedit you can go from shooting to selling quickly and seamlessly.

Upload
Whether you are switching from a different service or it is your first time setting up a website, Zenfolio makes the process effortless. Upload directly from your photo management application, with integrated upload tools, or easily transfer photos from another service. Rest assured knowing that your photos are safe with our impressive amount of back-up online storage. Backing up your image library can really be a money saver, time saver, and in some cases, a lifesaver.

Impress
Your website is often the first thing a prospective client will see and with Zenfolio you can make that first impression noteworthy. From the homepage to checkout pages we make it easy to customize and control the look and feel of your site. You can easily brand your portfolio and shopping cart so that everything is seamlessly integrated under one roof.

Sell
Features like contact lists, email invitations, and social media integration help you market your photos and drive traffic. And with coupons, expiring galleries and gift certificates photographers can encourage clients to buy and boost sales. Through
Zenfolio photographers can sell over 500 products and orders can be fulfilled by the Zenfolio partner labs and drop-shipped directly to clients or sent to you to be self-fulfilled.

How it Works
With new features and enhancements made on a regular basis Zenfolio is one of a photographers lower business expenses. And now that we are partnered up with ShootDotEdit you can have an integrated post-production service upload your editing JPEGs directly to your Zenfolio account – saving you time and money. You send your RAW or JPEG files to Shootdotedit, they edit your files based on your chosen profile and upload the edited photos to the gallery you specify.  The edited photos will take on the price list assigned to that gallery, so your photos are up for sale right away. Whether you are using ShootDotEdit for color correction, image renaming/renumbering, custom categorization, artistic editing, retouching or clinical Photoshop work they can quickly upload completed files to your Zenfolio account.

Once you have a Zenfolio account you can add the ShootDotEdit add-on service for $50 per year and receive:
- 10% off discount on all orders placed with ShootDotEdit
- Free RAW to JPG file conversion (normally $0.04/image)
- Free direct uploads of processed files to your Zenfolio account (normally
$0.05/image)

With ShootDotEdit and Zenfolio you have more time to focus on what you do best – photography.

Written by Zenfolio

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ShootDotEdit & Zenfolio Integrate!!!

posted in Partners

Friday, October 22, 2010

Announcing the FIRST EVER integration of its kind!!!!

At ShootDotEdit, our goal is to cure the pain of post production for professional photographers. And, many of you have told us that eliminating steps along the way in your workflow would be a huge help. With that in mind, we have integrated our system with the image hosting site Zenfolio! (insert Zenfolio description here).

With this integration comes some great benefits for YOU!
Zenfolio photographers can now add the SHOOTDOTEDIT package to their yearly plan. For $50/year, Zenfolio photographers will receive the following:
– ALL images submitted for color processing will receive FREE processing to JPG (normally $0.04/image)!
– ANY order (image processing or album design) will receive 10% off!

2. ShootDotEdit will gain the ability to securely store your Zenfolio credentials, which makes for an easy and quick upload of your completed job.

If you’d like more information on Zenfolio, click here.
And, to sign up for Zenfolio, or the SHOOTDOTEDIT package, click here.

Jared

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  • David Pringle: I've signed up for the service through Zenfolio. How to I begin using your services? I haven't found any information on either their site or yours. Help? (10.27.2010 09:38am)

Jared Platt Workshops & Partner Con 2010

posted in Partners,Photog Industry

Monday, October 4, 2010

As many of you know, we have partnered with Jared Platt, a leading thought leader for the Adobe Lightroom application. Chosen by Adobe to Alpha test their Lightroom product and all future updates they are considering, Jared is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to work flow and understanding this application.

For those of you who use Lightroom and are struggling to understand better ways to use, manage, organize, and/or apply the work the ShootDotEdit returns to your studio, we highly recommend getting into one of Jared’s workshops.

For starters, why not catch him at this years Partner Con in New Orleans, November 8 – 10, 2010!!! Jared has been chosen as one of the Keynote speakers. Or, you can always catch him at one of his more than 25 U.S. City Tour workshops taking place this year and early 2011!

Here is more information for you:

partnercon

partnercon

Jared’s Schedule at Pictage Partner Conference in New Orleans, so far…

Catch Jared at the following events in New Orleans this year:

The Lightroom Workflow Workshop

Monday November 8th
9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel
FREE (with PartnerCon registration)

Lecture: The Photographer’s Eye

Tuesday November 9th
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel
Part of Partner Conference

Photo Workshop: Shooting with Socrates

Tuesday November 9th
8:00 am to 10:00 am.
Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel
A nominal additional fee (still Part of Partner Conference)

Partner Conference is a great opportunity for learning and making life long relationships with your peers. Weather or not you are a Pictage Member, you should not miss Partner Conference!

SIGN UP FOR PICTAGE PARTNER CONFERENCE HERE.

THEN

Register for THE LIGHTROOM WORKFLOW WORKSHOP. Seating is limited in the workshop, so sign up now.

The Lightroom Workflow Workshop Tour 2010 from Jared Platt on Vimeo.

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  • Tim King: Hey guys! Enjoyed meeting you at PartnerCon. I wonder how things are going with implementing the LR workflow? We're eager to try out your services once it arrives! (12.09.2010 05:32am)
  • admin: Hey Tim!!! Wow, somehow this comment slipped through our admin and was not approved until just recently. So glad we can get back to you here. Well, here is the good news. We are currently in BETA testing with a select group of our customers. We anticipate launching our NEW Lightroom workflow on 03/1/11. So, please stay tuned. It's going to be really, really cool! In the meanwhile, should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call or email. Thanks Tim! (01.10.2011 08:28pm)

Our newest partnership….Album Exposure!

posted in Partners

Friday, August 20, 2010

ate last year, we realized that we needed to be providing Album Design to all of our photographers.  The natural progression of post production takes you straight from image editing to album design.  And, we wanted to continue to remove the pain caused by post production!  So, in March we launched our Album Design service.

BUT …. How do we showcase your album designs?  Sure, we send you the .pdf files.  Or, we could create some preview software that would get the job done.  But all of this seemed ridiculous …. We wanted to just partner with the best.  And we’ve done it.

Announcing our partnership and integration with Album Exposure!  Known for their simple and elegant album proofing system, our partnership allows you to not only get a great album design, but elegant proofing straight to your client.  With Album Exposure, you can take a ShootDotEdit album design, and preview it straight to your client.  Any and all changes they request are seen in real time by both you and ShootDotEdit, and changes are quick and easy!  Because of this partnership, you’ll have the opportunity to proof 2 Designs with Album Exposure for absolutely FREE!

So how about giving it a try?  Through the end of the week, we’re offering 30% OFF album design services!  Just use code: AEandSDE

To learn more about the partnership and the details behind how this partnership will powerfully effect your business and workflow, CLICK HERE.

To learn more about Album Exposure, CLICK HERE

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