Real Success Story Whenever I get a chance to share a success story on the blog I sit down and start writing a blog post. The other day I received an email from one of our Digital Creation Members explaining how he’s booking portrait parties using our Digital Creations. Instead of me explaining what he said…I’ll just post the email I received so you get all the details. Read what James Says…. Hey Scott, OK, I am...

Just like any major holiday like Christmas or Easter, we as photographers need to be thinking ahead and planning for the marketing opportunity. As I’m writing this post we are currently in April and Spring is finally here. Well…kinda In the North East it’s still cold and people are hardly looking to get their pictures taken outside. Even if you live in the south, the spring flowers may not be up yet and the surrounding...

I recently posted this picture below on our NPB Facebook page and received a lot of questions and requests to show how I created it. We actually created this picture for our Digital Creation’s club and named it “Back On The Dock”. The digital background already gives a slight painted look, but I added a few other tricks to make it even better. In the video you will see how I added a texture in Photoshop CS5 and used the...

I wanted to share another portrait that one of our new Digital Creation’s Club members created. She wrote me an email asking if I’d take a look at her first attempt. I was blown away. She did AWESOME! Here’s what she said: ======================== Hi Scott, I Joined about a month ago, after reading and watching all your lessons on the membership page (which took me about 2 1/2 weeks, mostly because I have 3 very young...

Easter portraits are one of the busiest times for photography studios and can be very profitable. The problem that most studios face is keeping things fresh for their past clients or just new creative ideas to draw in new business. This is why every year we add new portraits that our Digital Creation’s Club members can use during the busy Easter season. I wanted to share in this post a few portraits we have created for our club and...

We all know that constantly coming up with new ideas is not always easy. In the photography business it’s always about trying to create something that other photographers are not offering in your area. That’s why I wanted to share this new airplane portrait we created for our Digital Creation’s Club. Some things you can create in the studio, but there are so many other creative things you can do using Digital Backgrounds...

I initially wrote this as an email to all our NPB subscribers and thought that I should post it here on the blog as well. It’s very important to understand that most successful people have struggles and obstacles to overcome. But…the key is to FIND A Way and keep trying and don’t make up excuses. Here’s the email: Let me first say that 2013 is no different than 2012… when it comes to setting goals and being...

In this post I wanted to show you how one of our  Digital Creations Club Members created (3) Studio Portraits with just (1) shot. This is why Digital Backgrounds and Props are so Amazing and so powerful…when using them in your Photography Business. Her name is Colleen Ballard Thomas and she has a Photography Studio named “Memories In A Flash”. She posted this comment on our Digital Creations Facebook Page and shared these...

The Holiday’s are one of the busiest times for portrait studios and can be 75% of their sales for the year. This is why they may work their butts off for 2 or 3 months and then they don’t need as many sales through the rest of the year. In a perfect world…we as photographers would like to have steady sales…but we would also would like to capitalize on the busy season. Watch this video I created that shows how to take...

I received an email the other day from one of our Digital Background Secrets 2.0 students asking a lighting question. The question was “How To Remove The Green Spill On My Subjects When Using Green Screen?”. So…I decided to write this post and create a short video explaining a few tips to help. When using a green background or any color for that...

I recently created a video lesson showing my step by step Digital Creation process using our New Hi-Key Unique Prop Set V2. After I posted the video…I received emails asking if I could post the lighting diagram that was included in the lesson. If you missed the lesson…I’m including it down below.   Simple Lighting Recipe I’ve included the exact set up I used for this lesson. You will find that it’s super...

Over the years I have seen lots of pictures and sometimes they’re great and sometimes…not so great. Usually I get questions from our subscribers asking how to make their portraits better. Most people make it way too complicated and that’s why I wanted to give you a few tips that can instantly improve your images. I’m including some examples so you can see exactly how these can make a HUGE difference in your...