When: Monday 09-14-09 @ 12:00 PM
Where: Abbey Chamberlin's studio @ 12:00 PM 1850 Pentas Ct., La Costa, CA 92009
Kevin Connor's Studio @ 3:00 PM 415 S. Cedros Ave Ste. 120 Solana Beach, Ca. 92075
Beach Family Portrait Session with Kevin @ 5:00 PM
Lunch: Is included at Abbey's studio at 2:00 PM
Price: $23
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Abbey Chamberlain has been a professional photographers since 1977, starting first in the commercial realm then switching to wedding photography, a specialty she maintained for 22 years. Now exclusively a portraitist, she teaches free seminars to professional; photographers at her studio in La Costa. She is a CPP and has created a business model that includes an exclusive, carriage trade clientele, and an enviable sales average. Her infectious enthusiasm, combined with her pragmatism and artistry, bring the left and right hemispheres of the brain into balance. Abbey has twin teenage boys and is married to her High School sweetheart. Cats...did I mention there are two in her home studio?
Creating a Profitable Studio
Welcome to my studio share!
Learn from Abbey Chamberlain's 32 years of experience.
She has had both a commercial studio and home studio.
You are great at snapping the shutter.
Are you confident in you business practices?
Learn more about pricing, selling the sizzle,
and making more money.
Please arrive at noon.
Lunch will be served at 2 PM.
Can't wait to see you!
Are you confident in you business practices?
Award winning photographer Kevin M. Connors has been creating images for more than 25 years. From his days as a teenager in his basement working in a traditional darkroom, to today using the best in digital technology to create fine art prints 60 inches and larger, Kevin has always believed in the concept of realizing artistic vision and furthering craft by being the only one involved in the entire process. Rather than relegate certain steps in the artistic process to others for retouching, artwork, and printing, all of his images are personally hand crafted from beginning to end using time-honored traditions and the latest technologies, and hand printed by Kevin himself on only the finest papers that last for centuries. To see more of his work, please visit his gallery and studio on Cedros Avenue in beautiful Solana Beach, California, or visit his web site at www.coasthighwayphoto.com.
Back To The Future: The Digital Studio from Art to Zen
With the advent of new technology for the capturing, processing, enhancing, and printing of photographic images has come a Back To The Future effect for those studios who are embracing the idea of “printing their own.” Seventy-five years ago, there were no labs or other professional services as there are today, so photographers had to do everything in-house, from shooting, to developing, to selling, to ultimately printing images for their clients. Thanks to the constantly evolving world of digital, photographers, as artists realizing their vision from beginning to end, are able to create beautiful works of art that will last for centuries and provide opportunities for growth, profitability, and the pure pleasure derived from “sustainable” creativity. Oh, and it’s profitable too!
This workshop will provide the information you need to create a high end wedding and portrait business specializing in in-house printing on fine art papers that command much higher prices and are seen by clients through a more artistic prism. With detailed discussions of the art, craft, and business of such a business, along with a dash of zen, you’ll have a solid foundation from which to create your own Back To The Future experience. We’ll also discuss how to position and price fine art prints to increase studio profitability.
After the class we will meet down at the beach for a family portrait session with Kevin.
