There are so many reasons why, as a website designer, I love Showit as a design platform. From its flexibility to its ease in showing clients how to manage, it is a great tool for building a beautiful website. There is a great group of designers that work with Showit, with more joining the forces […]

If you’re like me, your heart gets all aflutter when you start thinking about off-camera flash gear. I love the array of images that you can create using off-camera flash. From moody to vibrant, harsh to soft, using OCF opens up a whole new world of possibility for photographers. One of the products I haven’t […]

Newborn photographer Cortney Talbott of Scottsdale, Arizona makes newborn photography look easy. Sweet, sleeping babies, gently cradled in crates, baskets and vintage prams, grace the walls of her studio and the homes of her clients. But it’s not as easy as it looks. Newborn photography can be a messy business and it requires lots of […]

Hours and hours of culling getting you down? It could be the way you are culling your images. Let me introduce you to my favorite tool in Lightroom, the Quick Collection. Most know me as a Showit Designer with Earl & Layne, but I also own and operate my own photography business out of Gilbert, […]

As wedding photographers we all know that things don’t always go according to plan. In fact, they rarely do. While some things aren’t easily solved, some are and I’ve spent quite a while compiling a collection of things that have proven themselves indispensible. I like to call it the ‘uh-oh kit.’ I keep everything separated […]

Your logo is finished. You have re-done your website, blog, business cards, thank you cards, etc. All of your packaging matches and fits your branding ideals. You are ready to rock, my friend, now what? In my last branding post, I spoke about being consistent, and this is the key to launching your brand so […]

Do you want that perfect sparkly Ring Shot in 60 seconds? Okay, it will probably take about 2 minutes, but it’s super speedy and worth the effort! As a bonus, you never have to leave Lightroom! Go from this… To this? And it will only take a minute or two of your time! Stick with […]

Working with my clients to build the timeline for their wedding day has been a game changer. When I first started shooting weddings, I would show up on the wedding day with a “go with the flow” mentality. A better phrase would be, “stay within eye and ear shot of at least one person important […]

  Time Management is a hard thing- true struggle for most small business owners. While at photography conferences these past two years, I have had the privilege of listening to some of the greats in the industry explain how they learned to manage their time, how they failed at managing their time, and what improvements […]

Today is our first full brand makeover review! I hope to feature these weekly, so if you have a brand makeover that you want all to see make sure to email me at branding@showiteer.com or erica@ericavelasco.com. I am dying to feature you so please email me! I will send you a link to the questionnaire […]