The ten most essential
Tools For Photographers
THE BEST TOOLS, PROGRAMS AND GEAR FOR Wedding & Elopement PHOTOGRAPHERS IN 2024
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Honeybook
for client management
A good client management system is crucial to running your photography business. You need a system to keep track of everything within your business and most importantly- NEVER double book a date or worse, miss a wedding because you forgot to put it in your calendar!
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Imagen AI
for AI photo editing
How does editing an entire wedding in less than 15 minutes sound? Imagen AI makes this possible.ย It’s the ultimate editing time saver!ย Either upload previously edited Lightroom Catalogs to teach the artificial intelligence your unique editing style, or purchase an Editing Profile to start editing instantly.
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Presets
for photo editing
We use the presets we’ve created, ACE Presets, to edit all of our photos. From engagement sessions to every different part of a wedding day, these are our go-to.ย ACE Presets are warm and nostalgic while staying natural and true to life to ensure your photos are timeless. Apply these as your base preset for all your photos and make minor tweaks to perfect them. We also have our main preset as an Imagen AI Editing Profile.
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Semrush
for search engine optimization
Semrush is our favorite program for optimizing our SEO. You can easily find keywords, see what’s driving the most traffic to your website, track your progress and so much more. There are endless tools within Semrush that have helped our website rank and generate organic traffic and leads.
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ManyChat
for social media
Truth is, nobody wants to navigate to your profile, click the link in your bio and find the blog you’re talking about. Instead, prompt viewers to comment a keyword and have ManyChat automatically send them the link directly to your content. This is HUGE for using social media to get more traffic to your website.
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Later
for social media
Later is a website where you can preview your IG grid before posting to make your feed beautiful. It also has auto-publishing features to make it easy to schedule your posts in advance. In addition to Instagram it offers multiple other social media platform management such as Pinterest, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and more.
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Photo Mechanic
for photo culling
We use Photo Mechanic to sort through all of the photos from weddings and sessions to choose which to edit. It loads previews of thousands of photos in seconds, making it much faster than going through photos in Lightroom. A feature of photo mechanic that we love is the ability to rate photos. We use this rating system to mark photos that we will edit, which photos we will blog and which photos we will post.
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Narrative
for creating blog galleries
Effortlessly create and publish blogs in minutes with Narrative Publish. We love Narrative because you can choose to have it auto-create your blog or you can create a custom blog layout. You can easily utilize SEO tactics within Narrative and seamlessly publish to your website. We use Narrative to publish all of our blogs!
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Pic-Time
for gallery delivery
We’ve relied on Pic-Time for years to deliver and host our photo galleries. They have modern designs and provide a seamless viewing experience for your clients. Additionally, they have a built in print shop which enables you to effortlessly make sales. We’ve already passively sold over $16k of prints (not even including albums).
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Kiss Albums
for photo albums
KISS is our go to company for ordering high quality heirloom albums. They have many customizations for your covers such as Japanese silks and fine linens, distressed leather and more. They have a built-in album design tool you can use, upload your own spreads, or have one of their in-house designers take care of the design process for you.
CAMERAS, LENSES & MORE
Best Camera Equipment
for photographers
Photography Gear
Our favorite equipment for photography:
– Nikon Z6II
– Nikon 50mm f/1.2
– Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8
– Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8
Videography Gear
Our favorite equipment for videography:
– Nikon Z8
– Nikon 28-75mm f/2.8
– PolarPro PM Variable ND
– RODE Wireless Pro
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5 Strategies To Get More Bookings
Struggling to get consistent leads and bookings in your business? Start with these 5 essential strategies.
