**In honor of Cupid, this blog post is the first in our February series on Boudoir photography.  See more posts on Boudoir photography…**
I receive tons of emails from enthusiastic photographers who are catching boudoir fever and would love to know …

Why do clients hire you? Think about it for a minute.
Over the past 13 years as a photographer/entrepreneur, I’ve realized that the reason people hired me was not always what I assumed it was, especially in the beginning years of building my busines…

Destination weddings have taken the photography business to a whole new level. Once reserved only for the elite bride and groom, now many couples are choosing to have destination wedding as an opportunity to spend more time with their families and fri…

The photography industry is filled with amazing creative leaders. There are studios that get their brand identity just right. It is very easy to look at these brands, watch them, and then (accidently) try and replicate them. I know first hand, how enti…

Emotions Are Not Trendy
In this week’s episode of The Photo Life, we speak with Eric Laurits about why music or theater classes might impact your images more than the next photography workshop to pass through town and how to go about breaking free fr…

**MORE FROM JARED: Don’t miss Jared Platt’s next FREE Workflow Q&A Session on the Pictage Forums. Join Jared February 9th at 10:00 AM PST. Also, if you’re headed to WPPI, don’t miss Jared’s special WPPI Lightroom Workflow Workshop on Tues…

You’re invited to delve deeper with The Photo Life Dispatches.
Dispatches are designed to be your guide. They explore topics that are important to you as business owners, while recognizing your desire to create is as vital as your desire to learn. Di…

Emerge from the Ether
This week we speak with New York photographer Parris Whittingham about his mission to create a new kind of love story, why it is vital to trust your client to help tell that story and how the struggles of our education system are …

This film was created by Pictage and debuted at PartnerCon New Orleans, 2010.
What would you do if you found out you had cancer? What if you found out right before your senior year in high school? Life sometimes takes you on a detour that rocks your w…

We’ve all been there before – something runs late on the wedding day, and suddenly that cushy hour of photo time that was on your schedule evaporates into 15 minutes of chaos with a 24 person bridal party and a list of family portraits a mile long….