Photos: An Amazing Gift for Your Family When I was a child I don’t remember asking for a whole lot.  Even for Christmas. There was this one year I wanted a record player, that’s the only gift I can remember ever want...

5 Fun Christmas Activities for Families Every year around this time, I tell myself, “Ashley, you only get a few special Christmas seasons with your kids, slow down and enjoy it".  And every year, even with the best o...

5 Holiday Marketing Ideas for Photographers As a photographer, the holiday season is a great time to market to and attract new clients, as well as reconnect with your existing clients.  Here are 5 great marketing ide...

4 Essential Wedding Photography Tips for Amateurs My husband and I just celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary.  But besides getting a super awesome husband and a shiny new ring out of the deal, my wedding taught ...

How to Photograph Christmas Decorations As photographers, we love the holidays because they provide us with plenty of amazing photo opportunities.  A challenge that we face as photographers in any situation is captur...

Free Christmas Cards from Pretty Presets & Actions Is it that time of year already?  I can't get over how time has flown by!  To celebrate our favorite time of the year, we have put together 3 Free Christmas Card...

Free Christmas Checklists for Gifts & Cards Stay organized and keep track of all your gifts and cards with our handy Christmas checklists. Use our free Christmas gift checklist to keep track of your holiday gift ...

Newborn Photography: How to Get Baby to Sleep It’s every newborn photographer’s dream to have a session where the baby sleeps soundly - OK, OK, we’ll say it, like a baby - for their entire session.  Where does that p...

Editing with Wedding Lightroom Presets Wedding images are some of the most important images captured during a clients lifetime.  They also require careful and beautiful editing in order to ensure that they are heirl...

Wedding Photography Checklist, Timeline and Shot List As a photographer, you will find yourself wearing many hats.  Sometimes you will be a family therapist, a money manager, a baby sitter, a wedding planner, and a ...

First Look Wedding Photos To do a first look or not to do a first look, that is the question!  When I sit down with my couples for our very first wedding consultation, I bring up the subject of a first look.  Some h...

Photographing Wedding Details When you have a DIY bride, you know you will have plenty of detail photos to take.  This was the case with one of my recent weddings.  Lisa, the bride and my client, was meticulous about...

Adding Snow in Lightroom, Creative Cloud and Lightroom Mobile Are you ready for some snowy, Winter fun!!  With the Pretty Presets Winter Wonderland Lightroom Collection, you have the power to unleash as little or as ...

Managing Wedding Photos in Lightroom I don't proclaim to be a professional wedding photographer, however I have personally photographed many weddings and wedding receptions, and I can promise you that those events pr...

How to Be a Perfect Second Shooter at a Wedding Before I photographed a wedding on my own, I worked as a second shooter for a couple of different photographers, just to get a feel for everything that wedding photogra...

Snow Photography For some of you, photographing in the snow may be easier because you are used to being around all that white stuff during the Winter months.  I live in Georgia, and we rarely get more than a couple o...

How to Photograph a Bride Getting Ready Photos of the couple getting ready are often part of what the bride wants on the day of the wedding.  Notice I said what the bride wants! Generally the groom doesn’t care!  Whe...

How to Become a Wedding Photographer Welcome to the first, in a series of posts where I will be sharing everything I know about shooting weddings and becoming a successful wedding photographer! In each post I will co...

Wedding Photography Contracts Nobody likes to talk about contracts, but they’re a necessary part of running a photography business.  And even if you do not consider yourself a “professional” quite yet… you should sti...

Engagement Photo Session Tips Engagement sessions for me can sometimes feel like a 2-hour pressure cooker where I am constantly trying to figure out what’s next - what location, pose, and lens can I use to create as ...