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design aglow and gift cards!

April 5, 2013

***CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS…SUSAN DODD AND CHELSY HULET!!!***

Design Aglow gives professional photographers tools to run their business smoothly. Marketing, sales tools, posing guides, education, style guides, templates…you name it, they have it.

I am in love with one of their recent products, the Senior Welcome Packet. I have been using the templates to create a huge collection of awesomeness to give to my high school senior clients…hair and makeup guide, welcome brochure, tips, cards, stickers, and tons more. Check out the images below to see everything included.

And, today, my friends at Design Aglow want to give you money to spend in their shop! We are giving away two prizes, one $100 gift card, and one $25 card to the Design Aglow Shop. Entering is super easy. Scroll down to the bottom of this post and use the entry box to get up to FOUR entries. Winners will be chosen randomly on Tuesday, April 9th at 3 pm. Good Luck!
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a Rafflecopter giveaway

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fotofafa and $50 (times ten)

March 25, 2013

There are just not enough hours in the day. Emailing, shooting, culling, editing, blogging, designing, ordering, packaging, shipping, and that’s just part of it. There just isn’t enough Jean to go around.

You’ve probably heard me mention this before, but there was a time in my photography career that I just couldn’t possibly do one. more. day. No sleep, very little eating, no exercise, no time for my Love and my Babies. I love my job so much, but in order for me to keep loving it, keep my business running smoothly, maintain my sanity, and get my life back, I had to give parts of it away. I needed help.

Enter outsourcing.

Enter freedom, happiness, and extra time. Exit near mental breakdowns, guilt, and stress.

It is no secret that outsourcing is essential for running my business smoothly. I tell my friends, I tell our workshop attendees, I tell anyone who will listen. However, I must disclaim that I am a picky one. If I am going to give up pieces of my business and entrust them to others, they dang well better do an amazing job. That is where one of my favorite companies comes in…Fotofafa. Fotofafa is an image editing and album design company, and I have worked with them for the last few years. I had tried two or three other editing companies in the past, and just felt frustrated and unsatisfied. I decided to try one more time, with a company called Fotofafa, and was instantly hooked. Amazing customer service, great proofing system, and awesome quality of work. As with anything, it took a few weddings for us to get our styles meshed, but now it is as simple as sending my images in, approving them or requesting changes on their proofing system, and getting the images back for me to upload to my clients in a quick turnaround time.

Thanks Fotofafa for helping me get my life back. AND, thanks Fotofafa for offering TEN $50 gift cards to my readers! If you would like to try Fotofafa, enter a comment on why you would like the gift card, and I will randomly choose 10 people to get a $50 gift card off your first order with Fotofafa!jeansmith_fotofafajeansmith_fotofafa2

 

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winners!

January 30, 2013

Thank you all so much for participating in the contest! We have three winners! Your choice of a mini session or two hour mentoring session…

Winner 1: Heidi McClelland
Winner 2: Erin Imsland
Winner 3: This is the image from my Best of 2012 gallery with the most votes. Congrats to Meghan Van De Velde for her winning image!

Winners, please email me at jean@jeansmithphotography.com and CONGRATULATIONS!

 

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best of 2012…CONTEST!

January 23, 2013

This is my time of year to…well…hole up in my house and relax. The thoughts, the ideas, the plans for 2013…they are all a brewin. But, those are for later. Right now, it’s time for a little fun. Time to give stuff away. That’s what happens when I hibernate too much in the winter.

What’s the contest? The contest is easy. Just “like” my Facebook page and then vote for your favorite image from 2012 (both done in the entry form below). I have pulled my favorite image from each of my 2012 shoots and put them on a board on Pinterest. Head over to my “Best of 2012″ board on Pinterest by clicking HERE, find your favorite image, and enter the number of the image below for one entry. You can earn extra entries by completing any of the options below your vote entry.

What’s the prize? Well, that’s the trick. There are a FEW prizes :) There will be two winners and they have their choice of either a mini session with me, or a two hour mentoring session with me (online or in person). ANNNNNND, a third winner will be chosen…the image that receives the most votes. So, if you were photographed by me in 2012, get your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and dog to vote for your chance to win one of the two prizes above!

So, yes, THREE prizes are up for grabs!

*Contest ends January 30th at 3 pm EST. Winners will be chosen randomly (except image with most votes automatically wins). The more entries and votes, the better chance to win!

*Mini sessions include a 30-45 minute session and 20 images on a disc.

*A session can be won and given to someone else of winner’s choosing.

*All sessions must take place before May 31st, 2013.

GOOD LUCK!!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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the shoppe…giveaway!

May 1, 2012

*Contest is now closed. The winner of the $150 Gift Certificate is JEAN RIHM!!!  Winner was chosen via random.org…not because she has an awesome first name*

Let’s just say it how it is. We love our workshop sponsors and support their products and businesses 100%. That is why we love to shout their praises…and…we have an AWESOME giveaway from the Shoppe this week!

The Shoppe is an online store featuring an extensive library of design templates and elements made specifically for photographers. You can choose products a la carte, or subscribe monthly to gain access to everything in the entire store.

It’s a genius idea, really. And their stuff? Truly awesome. Time to go check them out if you haven’t used their templates or aren’t familiar with them.

What to win?

$150 gift certificate to the Shoppe’s store!!!

How to win?

Super easy.

Win one of two ways…

1. Go “like” The Shoppe’s Facebook page, and come back here and leave a comment, letting us know that you did.

2. If you already “like” the Shoppe’s Facebook page, you can tweet, blog, or share on your Facebook page about how awesome the Shoppe is, and come back here and leave a comment, letting us know what you did.

When does it end?

Contest ends on Friday, May 4th.  Winner will be announced  (chosen via random.org) on my Facebook page at 12 pm (EST).

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melissa davis designs giveaway!

February 1, 2012

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.  CAYCE WEGMAN IS THE WINNER OF THE $75 GIFT CERTIFICATE AND KRISTIN WILKERSON IS THE WINNER OF THE VALENTINES TEMPLATES!  CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS AND THANKS TO EVERYONE ELSE FOR PLAYING!  PLEASE EMAIL MELISSA AT M@MELISSADAVISPHOTOGRAPHY.COM TO REDEEM YOUR PRIZES!

Awesome products are priceless to our photography business.  We’re so lucky to have so many of our favorite product companies working with us and sponsoring our workshops.  One of our favorite template design companies and workshop sponsors is Melissa Davis Designs.  You’ve heard me rave about her before because, well, she…and her templates rock.  In honor of awesome templates and awesome Melissa, we’re doing a giveaway!  Two giveaways, in fact!!  The first winner will receive a $75 gift certificate to Melissa’s store, and the second winner will receive her 2012 Valentine templates.

Super easy to enter.  Choose one of the following for one entry, or do both for two entries.

  1. Go to Melissa’s online store, come back here and leave a comment with your favorite template.
  2. Sign up for Melissa’s email list.  She’ll keep you updated on sales and other information.  She offers a month a month, surprise 75% off sale and email subscribers are the first to know, AND she will be doing random drawings for $100 coupon codes for email subscribers.

Winners will be chosen randomly via random.org.  Contest starts NOW and ends Friday, February 3rd at 2 pm EST.  Winners will be announced on my Facebook page.

GOOD LUCK!!

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Melissa Davis Designs Store

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winner!

October 3, 2011

We have a winner for the $150 gift certificate to the Totally Rad Actions store!  I was surprised at how close many of you were to my “action recipes” used to create these images!  But, one person was extremely close…and that person (and winner of the contest) is JENNIFER BULLY!!!  Congrats!

The actions I used for the top image (of the little girl) was

  • Claire-ify 50%
  • Punch Out 80%
  • Get Faded Summer 40%
  • Get Faded Autumn 20%
  • Cut like a razor 50%

The actions I used for the bottom image (of the couple) was

  • Sparta 50%
  • Claire-ify 40%
  • Grandma’s Tap Shoes 30%,
  • Wish you were here 50%
  • Dirty diana 50%
  • Cut like a razor 50%

Jennifer, please email me to claim your prize!

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totally rad giveaway!

September 28, 2011

One of the coolest things about our workshops is the chance we have to work with some of our very favorite companies. We have been long time users and lovers of Totally Rad Actions and are thrilled to have them support and sponsor our workshops.  We just held our last 2011 workshop last weekend and I have been uber excited to share some of our experiences, thoughts, and images.  With that in mind, we are giving a big shout out to our rad friends over at Totally Rad Actions and the totally rad products they create to make our job easier and images really rad (I REALLY love it that they brought back “rad”  from the 90′s and I am going to overuse it).

What’s that?  You want to get straight to the giveaway of $150 to the Totally Rad Store?  Keep scrolling down to find out how you can win!

I love recipes.  I use them on almost all images I edit in Photoshop.  This is where I combine several actions and/or steps in Photoshop to come up with a “look.”  I decide on the mood or feel I want for a particular shoot, and start combining actions to create my recipe for that entire shoot.  Here are a few images from our September 16th and 17th workshop edited with Totally Rad Actions.

Oh yes…about that winning part.  In order to win the $150 to the Totally Rad Store, we are going to play a little recipe game.  It’s called Take-Your-Best-Guess-At-The-Recipe-I-Used-For-Either-Of-The-Two-Edited-Images-Above-And-Whoever-Is-Closest-to-the-Real-Recipe-WINS game!

To make it easier for everyone, here are a few rules and hints…

  • Make a list of the actions you think I used to create either one of the two edited images above (please only submit one recipe for one image)
  • Contest ends Monday, October 3rd at 9 am (est)
  • To make it easier for you, I used only actions from TRA2 – The Revenge Set.
  • I used 3-5 actions + one sharpening action on each of the two edited images.
  • You can see all actions from TRA2 and examples by clicking HERE to help you see what the actions look like and what effect they produce.
  • Please leave your recipe guess in the comment section of my blog.
  • An example of what a recipe guess might look like…
  1. Claire-ify 100%
  2. Acid Washed 25%
  3. Select-0-pop 100%
  4. Pool Party 50%

Want to see what else Totally Rad has to offer?  Go check out Travis’ post on his blog for RADLAB…a newer product, that is well….freaking RAD.

If you would like to see all that they have to offer and purchase some rad products for yourself, click the image below!!!

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i heart faces

June 28, 2011

A little peeksie into tomorrow’s blog post…as well as an entry into this week’s iheartfaces contest for the theme of “whimsy…”

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redbook magazine

May 25, 2011

Just to clarify…this is not a form of tooting one’s own horn.  It is merely a celebration of me getting to photograph Kyle…who has been dubbed Redbook’s Hottest Husband in America.  CONGRATS KYLE AND HIS LOVELY WIFE, JULIE!!!

Hair and makeup by Courtney Peters at Donoven’s Salon.

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