San Francisco Wedding Photographer + Photojournalist
Our Love Story
After pulling an all-nighter at a close friend’s party, it was 5 am when we hugged, changing everything. Our relationship has been filled with love and laughter ever since, and we’re always excited for tomorrow to be as wonderful as today.
She said: I’m thrilled to be his ball and chain!
He said: She’s rad!
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San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA
http://www.sfgov.org
Special thanks go to my assistant on this wedding, Bri!
Kate on Scott:
When I first met Scott, I was interviewing him as a potential witness in a case I was litigating. I was in “work mode,” and though he struck me as intelligent and articulate, I was not yet looking at him romantically. When he testified, I was blown away by his honesty, strength, composure, and compassion; he was obviously an amazing person. When he asked me out a few weeks later, I was excited to have the opportunity to get to know him better.
Scott has only continued to impress me. I love that Scott is a strong, forthright person, but also loving and affectionate. He honors his family and parents. I admire how Scott is a dedicated, caring, and hard worker, who knows how to leave work at work. When we travel together, I feel as comfortable as I do at home – because he is with me. I love that Scott is adventurous, yet knows how to relax. He makes me feel safe; protected.
I knew Scott was the person for me when I realized how much I love spending my time with him. I have never been attracted to another person this way. He makes me laugh. He is honest, firm, disciplined, and trustworthy. He has taught me to be a romantic. I can depend on him to tell me what’s what. Scott is a fantastic best friend, partner and husband. I am so grateful we get to share our lives with each other.
Scott on Kate:
My very first interaction with Kate left me impressed with her obvious intelligence, poise, and beauty. However, we initially met under pretty formal circumstances…I was a witness in a court case, and she was the attorney conducting witness interviews. Not exactly a very romantic environment, but she left a strong impression on me. Kate was fairly official and businesslike during our first meeting, as would be expected in that situation. But on the day of the actual hearing, I got to see more of her personality shine through. Specifically, I got to see her smile and laugh during a pretty stressful part of the day. The instant that I saw her smile I went from being impressed by her to being blown away by her.
To this day, making Kate smile is very possibly my favorite thing in the world. I will always remember her exact expressions during that first smile, our first kiss, my proposal, and our wedding. All of my initial positive impressions of her remained true while we started dating, and many more qualities that I love emerged as well. She is classy but tough, fun-loving but driven. She has high expectations of others, but even higher expectations of herself. I admire her character. Traits like honesty, dependability, and selflessness often take a long time to accurately gauge in people. In Kate I could confidently sense those qualities and others very quickly. Whatever positive initial expectations I had of Kate were all constantly exceeded as we grew to know each other. She continues to impress me and makes me want to be the best partner I can be for her. I feel extremely lucky that we met each other, and very proud to be able to call Kate my wife.
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San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA
http://www.sfgov.org
Special thanks go to my assistant Ryan!
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People often ask me what gear I use. Well, my choice of equipment ultimately depends on what I’m photographing. But, for those of you curious to know, here’s what you can find in my camera bag:
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Here are a few tools that I highly recommend purchasing and using to grow your business and create profit faster than your competitors. These are all products that I use and fully endorse. Check them out!
Do you want more clients?
Learn the 5 common mistakes that photographers make that cause them to lose business.
In this eBook, you’ll learn:
Have confidence in your prices and know exactly what you should be charging to run a profitable business.
It works great both for people just starting out and for people who have been in business for several years, as YOU determine how much you want to make, then it takes your expenses into account and how much you expect to do during the year and tells you what you need to charge to make that much.
Because you decide how much you want to make, you can choose to make less your first few years while building your business in order to grow your portfolio, allowing you to grow into the higher prices you’ll eventually need to charge to get to full profitability.
Shoot more than just one type of session? This pricing guide also helps you to price all the different types of services you offer, such as both portraits and weddings.
One of the easiest ways to help your clients feel confident and prepared about their portrait session or wedding photography experience is to use client questionnaires to gather all the information you need from them.
Photography questionnaires do far more than simply giving you basic contact information about your client. They help you get to know your client and their needs so you can give them the best experience possible and help set proper expectations with your clients.
The better their expectations are set, the better experience they have, the more money they will spend, and the more likely they are to tell other people about what an amazing experience they had with you and recommend your business to them.
The questionnaire library comes with questionnaires for Weddings, Family Portraits, Newborn Portraits, and Senior Portraits.
The photography questionnaires come with three different versions:
This e-book talks about the psychology of pricing and creating packages, not how to price your photography, and it is truly fantastic and really works.
After implementing the suggestions he had in his book and changing around my packages, I’d say that 90% of my clients now choose one of the two packages that I’m really wanting them to buy. It’s amazing. Tons of great stuff in here that I’d highly, highly suggest.
He’s got a number of other good resources for photographers as well, such as photo blog templates, album templates, and textures. Head on over to the Tofurious Store now.
Gravity Forms is a WordPress Plugin that allows you to do amazing forms and questionnaires right on your website.
The beauty of this tool is that it lets you do conditional logic. That’s a fancy way of saying that it changes the information it asks for based upon earlier information entered into the form.
For example, I use it as my main contact form on my wedding photography business website. One of the first questions I ask is why they are contacting me. If they select the wedding photography field, the rest of the questions are wedding-specific, such as their wedding date and location. If they select newborn photos, they get questions about their due date. It’s pretty slick, and is super-easy to set up.
Sometimes, you get “those” clients. You know, the ones that who ask you to work for less than you charge and want everything for nothing. The ones who are never satisfied. The ones who require hand holding at every turn. These clients can really stress a photographer out and leave you wondering how to respond while still being polite and professional, rather than defensive or emotional.
The fact is, the majority of difficult client situations can be completely avoided.
This e-book will empower you with specific step-by-step instructions to respond with confidence to even the most difficult of situations and show you exactly what you need to do to avoid them in the first place.
There are over 100 email templates for many specific situations and questions, including:
In addition to having a ready resource of over 100 professional e-mail templates to consult, you’ll learn:
This e-book offers 35 pages of business building recommendations to grow your online presence through search engines, social media, and email newsletters. It shows you how to take that traffic and increase the number of clients who contact you by focusing on simple design updates and conversion tactics. Learn:
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• How to make your blog an integral part of a successful photography business
• How to use your personality to attract ideal clients
• Ideas for posts that lead to new business
• Ways to bring in more traffic and turn visitors into leads
• Suggestions from top bloggers in photography with examples and screenshots
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