Where can you find Jules (and her faithful sidekick Joy) at WPPI?

We’d love to say hi, so come and find us!!  WPPI is a great time to get to know other photographers and get some inspiration for what you are doing.

We really believe in the power of networking, and would love to meet you.

Monday, March 8

2pm Pictage Booth 433:  Jules will be talking about how she uses Pictage in a powerful way to make her business a productive machine.

Tuesday, March 9:

3m  Jules will be talking about “Ten Tips for 2010″ as well as how she processes her images using Kubota Image Tools to make every image stand out! She’ll be at the Kubota Image Tools Booth 1719

10pm Becker’s B School party

11pm Pictage’s Studio 54 make sure to get your tickets at the Pictage booth before they run out.

Wedensday, March 10:

12pm Livebooks Booth 217  Jules will be hanging out at the Livebooks lounge

2pm Women’s Panel at the Pictage Booth 433

Thursday, March 11:

9am Photo Ignite Presention! Crazy fast presentations on a variety of subjects!  20 amazing photographers have only FIVE minutes to tell you something inspirational, educational, funny, or whatever they want… but you won’t want to miss this!

Win something fantastic!! Choose your own prize. What will it be? We’ve got a BUNCH of fantastic stuff in our studio to give away— a Shootsac from Jessica Claire, A Kubota Pro-Pak and Dashboard of Actions from Kevin Kubota, a Lensbaby Composer from Craig Strong, Evolution Collection from V-Gallery

One of the reasons why Jules Café hosts a contest every month is to encourage readers to come back and visit the site. Jules Café has fresh, new content all the time, and it is built to help you, the photographer learn, grow, and share!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section.

So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe. Leave a comment below with the prize you’d want to win and maybe you will.

Light, Location, & Love Workshop with Jules Bianchi and Kerry Garrison

Learn to Love Lighting no matter what the situation. From formal lighting in a controlled setting to on-the-fly lighting at a wedding or on location, after this workshop you’ll know how to get the shot!

Go to http://julesbianchiworkshops.com/ for more info on our latest workshops.

Orange County photographer Kerry Garrison knows his way around a camera and offers a unique perspective about learning the craft of photography and making the most out of the tools and equipment you have at your disposal. Kerry can take complicated topics and explain them in a way that makes it simple for anyone to follow!  You might know Kerry from his well known website and podcasts on Camera Dojo.com
Part 1: Love Lighting Lecture
Kerry will show you the most common portrait lighting methods to achieve classic portraiture styles. You’ll learn broad lighting, short lighting, loop lighting, butterfly lighting, as well as techniques for dealing with various lighting difficulties.

Jules Bianchi has been shooting weddings for over 10 years and knows about getting the shot in any situation. In an fun and informative style, Jules will show you how to keep your cool, grab your camera, and get the shot no matter what the lighting situation. She’ll show you how to work with your clients, put them at ease, and get those natural, unposed shots she is famous for.
Part 2: Love Location & Lighting
Jules will show you how she works her magic with an entire group to get fantastic images. Follow along as Jules addresses the technical issues of lighting, but also how to help her subjects loosen up, look natural and have fun in the process! …

Branding, Business, and Building Relationships: Everything’s better in Texas!

On April 1, 2010 Jules will be heading to Austin Texas to teach a workshop that will give your business the shot in the arm that it needs!

Creating the Perfect Business for Yourself:
Most of us know where we want our business to be, the hard part is figuring out how to get there. Jules can help you break down your goals into manageable chunks so that obtaining them is realistic and no longer overwhelming. We will talk about outsourcing as well as working with employees. The real goal is to have a happy life, and this is the perfect topic for you if you love photography but you just can’t stand the business part.

Branding: Stand out from the Crowd:
How can you get your name noticed and recognized among the sea of new and seasoned professionals out there? Jules can help you understand the basics of branding as well as learn how to brand yourself to achieve the type of business you really want. She can help you by doing a constructive critique and teach you how to find the perfect client who will rave about you to their friends. Included in the branding discussion are the benefits of networking, and who to advertise without spending money in the wrong places.

Building Relationships and Closing with Clients:
You’ve got the portfolio and you’re ready to work… now how do you close the deal? If you are nervous about client consultations or you’re just not sure how to set your pricing, this is the topic for you. We …

Sponsored by Kubota Image Tools. Win $100 Kubotabucks! One of the reasons why Jules Café hosts a contest every month is to encourage readers to come back and visit the site.

Jules Café has fresh, new content all the time, and it is built to help you, the photographer learn, grow, and share!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section.

So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe. In honor of our latest Coffee Break with Kevin Kubota, our November prize will be $100 Kubota Bucks for anything you want at the Kubota Image Tools shop! It’s like a kid in a candy store, the plethora of amazing-ness that they offer there. Think of all the things you could have… action paks, DVDs about lightroom, the amazing DASHBOARD… oh the possibilities are endless….

What we want from you for our comment section is your favorite Kubota Action. Leave a comment in the comment section and let us know how Kubota Image Tools has changed your life and you could be the lucky winner of $100 Kubotabucks to spend on anything you like. Kevin’s treat. Thanks Kev!

Thanks to all who attend our first Photog Meet up in our new studio space… we had so much fun with everyone! Thanks to Christine Nguyen for this cute shot of me giving the intro at our event… we played a fun “Jules Bianchi Bingo” get-to-know-ya game where participants found out information about who is the man behind the Lensbaby (Craig Strong) and what a Drobo is (Data Robotics storage units).

The idea behind our Photograher’s networking meetings is to encourage friendship and support among colleagues.  Often it can be a lonely road, editing and post-processing images alone in your studio (whether a home studio or a retail space) and knowing that others like you are out there is encouraging.

Our motto of Learn Grow and Share here on Jules Cafe is extended to our real time studio, and we want to help others to succeed in their businesses.  One way to do this is by learning from each other.  If you live in the East Bay of California, we’d love for you to be part of our group.  Please join us on Meet Up… the address is http://www.meetup.com/Jules-CAFE/ or just click here.

Through Meet Up we’ll be able to let you know when the next meetings are, and you can interact with each other as well.  We were thrilled to have a representation of all kinds of photographers.  We are also grateful to our sponsors at Pictage for supporting this group as one of their East Bay Pictage User Groups (PUG).

I want to thank Frederick Van Johnson for taking the time to visit our studio and meet wit…

Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30pm come to our brand new studio, the home of Jules Cafe for fun, networking, support, education, treats, and prizes!

Hosted by Pictage.

Our headliner for this event is the fabulous Frederick Van Johnson, host of “This Week in Photography,” one of the world’s most popular photo-related podcasts. As well as being an amazing fashion, portrait, and wedding photographer, he regularly conducts training classes on topics ranging from business to photographic technique.

**Please rsvp to joy at joy@julesbianchi.com. Click here for directions.

Hope to see you there!

One of the reasons why Jules Café  hosts a contest every month is to encourage readers to come back and visit the site. Jules Café has fresh, new content all the time, and it is built to help you, the photographer learn, grow, and share!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section. So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe.

Along with championing the quest to figure out SEO, Lawrence Chan of www.tofurious.com and our featured photographer on Coffee Break this month offers some digital solutions for photographers such as pre-designed album templates and blogs. Lawrence is donating one of his super cool album templates to a lucky winner on Jules Cafe! Check it out here

So for this month’s contest we want to know your favorite webtips. In honor of Tofurious and his SEO workshop, what is your favorite website? Where do you find yourself going every day? Is it facebook? A favorite blog? Where do you go for inspiration? Leave a comment below, and we’ll choose a winner at the end of the month! Thanks!

Hey people! First a big thank you to Jules and Joy for inviting me to be guest blogger on their awesome Jules Café. I’m really excited about having the opportunity to share with you all. In the coming months I’ll be contributing an exclusive monthly column for Jules Café readers.

I’ll be focusing on workflow tips, cool software, marketing ideas, business brainstorming, branding, shooting styles, keeping it fresh and basically all things photo! For those of you that have seen my weekly workflow tutorials at corsentinoblog.com, writing for Jules Café will give me a chance to talk about the business and marketing side of things as well as giving you more killer tips.

Stay tuned, this is going to be fun!! I’m looking forward to connecting with you.

- Michael

Well, we are recovering from a fantastic time with lots of friends at the official launch of the Jules Bianchi Photography Bay Area Studio…. also, known as our real Jules Cafe!

Make sure you come back to the studio on Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30pm for our very first Jules Cafe in real time, our networking meeting for Photographers, sponsored by Pictage! The address is: 5772 Thornhill Drive, Oakland, CA 94611.

The party was a huge success, and so much fun. We want to thank our sponsors again for their generous donations and prizes. We gave away so much fun stuff my head is spinning. If you won a prize, we’d love to hear about it on twitter or Facebook, so give us a shout out and thank our sponsors.

In fact, to thank you all for coming, or just for checking out this post, here is another prize right now! Mark Adams of ShootQ has given the Promo Code JULESPARTY to give you a FREE MONTH of ShootQ when you book your first job via ShootQ’s Online Booking Engine. (This is in addition to the 30-day trial you automatically get when you sign up).

THANK YOU to our fabulous sponsors and prize donators:

Adam Fried of Simply Canvas flew in to personally give away several large canvas wraps.

Simon Anderson of Pictage flew in to personally give away a registration to PartnerCon in November — if you are not going, you need to reconsider!

Castine Rees of Tamrac flew in to give away a ton of great stuff like:
SpeedRollerâ„¢ 1, Model 5551
Velocity 8x, Model 5768
Express 6, Model 3536
Superlights® Laptop Sleeve 15, Model 1705
Safari Case …