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Pictage Ask & Learn with Sara France

Sara — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:05:35 +0000

Every week I am the host of the Pictage Ask & Learn. This week, the tables were turned on me! Pictage Photographer Steve Depino was the guest host! We had a great time chatting about Apple Products, the amazing Pictage Community and what I do uniquely to run my studio! Be sure to join the Pictage Forums at 4-6pm PST to come hang out and ask a few questions! To listen to the podcast, click here

Post Wedding Shoot ~ Jessica & Anthony

Sara — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:18:52 +0000

I posted a few of these shots on my old blog when I was working on them a while back. Since then we have pulled out a few more of the favorites and I thought I would post some of them here.

I love doing these type of shoots. They are so much fun and so creative. For this shoot we went up to Julianne where Jessica grew up. Jessica and Anthony’s wedding was in San Diego in Heritage Park followed by the reception at the Darlington House. However, the town of Julian, CA (the home of Julian Apple Pies) holds a lot of great memories and is very special to both of them which made for even more meaningful imagery for them. In case you did not see their wedding it is currently featured on Style Me Pretty a few weeks back. Here is a link to their wedding slideshow.

If you would like to do a shoot like this PLEASE give us a call we just love doing these and hope it will become more popular.

Open my email & look what I found!

Sara — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:41:17 +0000

I love opening email with a possible surprise inside of it, excluding spam.

I did some shooting for Apple last year and I actually got the opportunity to go out and shoot the team at Quist twice which was a real treat. They are such and incredible team. Brett Suchor, their CEO is just one of the nicest and most efficient guys I have met. His right hand woman, Patty Benson is the assistant of all assistants.

During the shoot I could definitely see how integrated and organized they were able to stay with their Apple based environment, iPhones and Basecamp project management tools. If you are looking for a way to stay on top of projects you should take a look at all the great tools that the team at Basecamp offer. They are incredible for most businesses. I know Pictage used it internally for a while and it kept everyone on task. It was great.

I looked for a way to integrate it with what we were doing at the studio but instead found that there was an even more specifically targeted offering out there that had the same elements. For photographers specifically you should check out Shoot Q. We are so excited about using a web based software that is allowing us to streamline processes and keep our clients informed of the progress at the same time.

I love the little surprises that just get you excited about what you do. Today, it came from my inbox.