Happy Wedding Wednesday!
Last month on the 14th, Stephanie April Photography, LLC, celebrated five years in business. So maybe let us look back over the previous five years.
On December 14, 2015, Photos by Stephanie, was created.
Business
June Special
Happy Wedding Wednesday!
June is HERE!
Do you know what that means? No? It’s our CEO and lead photographer’s birthday month! What does that mean?
June Special
For the month of June 2019, Stephanie April Photography, LLC, is offering a 25% off all Wedding and Elopement Collections, (including Building Your Own Collection.)
Inquiry before June 30, 2019, to receive our June Special, a signed contract and non-refundable retainer must be paid before your wedding date is locked in with Stephanie April Photography, LLC.
Don’t forget we offer payment plans on all our Wedding and Elopement Collections. Lock in our 2018 pricing. July 1, our new 2019 Wedding and Elopement pricing will go into effect. Plus they have brand new collection options. We are excited about our latest collections.
“Stephanie April Photography, LLC is very transparent and vulnerable with all our clients, after all, how can I expect to capture raw emotions, if we don’t mesh?”
If you like our images we’ve {capture} at previous weddings and engagement sessions, we want you entirely to reach out to us even if it’s just to ask some questions.
Stephanie April Photography is a DFW Wedding Fine Art Photographer that believes in {capture} Raw Emotions between Soulmates! Are you recently engaged? Congratulations! If you are looking for a bold and moody engagement + wedding photographer for your upcoming wedding, inquiry today!
SAP Tribe
Happy Wedding Wednesday!
The First Day of Spring is finally here! You know what I mean! Well twice a year, on the first day of Spring and Fall is also called, Proposal Day!
I love to {Capture} Raw Emotion between Soulmates from saying “Yes!” to “I Do!” The Journey of Love is beautiful and stressful. Wedding planning can be pretty stressful. National Kiss your Fiance Day is for soulmates to take a pause from their hectic wedding planning, and relieve stress with kissing.
We know that last Wednesday, Facebook and Instagram was down. I realized that if social media goes down again, how will I be able to communicate with my Tribe. Please opt-in to my Newsletter Tribe, and get all the latest updates, sessions, and discounts.
International Day Happiness
Don’t forget to apply below, for our Profile Building Sessions!
Stephanie April Photography, LLC is a Dallas Proposal Photographer that believes in {capture} Raw Emotions between Soulmates! Are you recently engaged? Congratulations! If you are looking for a bold and moody engagement + wedding photographer for your upcoming wedding, inquiry today!
For every first wedding booked for each month, will get their collection wedding album upgraded.
Apps I use to Run my Business – Affordable Photography DFW
ToDoist
My calendar was getting overwhelming. I just wanted to see an overall todo list, that I didn’t have to waste my time rewriting it, with my paper planner. So I googled looking for a to do list that had integrations with asana, calendar After I signed up, I made different projects such as
Home
Brain Dump
{Wedding + Boudoir}
{Maternity + Newborn}
{Senior}
Business
Accounting
Asana
Asana is my workflow master. Now I did use Trello in the beginning. But it was just functioning with what I needed. Every client has their own project in Asana that has from 50 to 500 tasks to complete. Asana shows me the overall picture. I do have Asana synced with ToDoist. So I can then plan my day out accordingly.
Evernote
I had been using Onenote for the past three years, however, after the most recent update it was no longer syncing. So I didn’t want to loss any of my recent work. So I had to find an alternative. Evernote came to the resure. So I have a whole stack just for my Photography Business with inner notebooks labeled
Blog Post
Brainstorming
{Wedding + Boudoir}
{Maternity + Newborn}
{Senior}
Marketing Ideas
Website
Airtable
So I use to use Excel to run my business. However, I had issues viewing my custom collection calculator from my phone. So I had to go mobile. I love Airtable. I have a Base just from my business.
Keyword Tracker
Newsletter Tracker
Equipment Tracker
Collections
Just to name a few.
Not only do I use all four of theses apps in my business, but I also use them in my daily life. I am always about simplifying
my life and the number of apps on my phone. This also makes life easier for my team. Since all four apps sync between all devices. Very Important.
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My Favorite Location – Intimate Dallas-Fort Worth Wedding & Elopement Photographers
Happy Wedding Wednesday!
My Favorite Location
Photos by Stephanie is Intimate Dallas-Fort Worth Wedding & Elopement Photographers that {Capture} Raw Emotion between Soulmates.
I got overly excited when the snow flurries started to fall on Christmas morning. However, that excitement soon ended when they stopped. Growing up in St. Louis, snow is a thing. Make snow angels. Have snowball fights. Go sledding. Oh, the fun excitement with snow.
Happy New Year!
I can’t believe it is already 2018. I hope you enjoy the video of my favorite place, it showcases its beauty and simplicity.
So my favorite location, I use it some much. I first fell in love with this beautiful location; it was a secret elopement. I use this location annual for my Bluebonnet Minis, and recently for a Harry Potter Themed Senior Portraiture. This is the location that I offer as a suggested when I have a client looking for a beautiful location, and they do not mind getting a little dirty.
If you are looking for an Intimate Dallas-Fort Worth Wedding & Elopement Photographers that serves all of North Texas and Worldwide, we would love to chat, by clicking the contact us and inquiry today.
ELOPEMENT | WEDDING | BOUDOIR | ENGAGEMENT | BRIDAL | PROPOSAL | COUPLE BOUDOIR | TRASH THE DRESS | WE STILL DO
Back to the Basics…
Seven years ago, I started out as a landscape photographer, I loved the angles, lines, water and even mother nature, that was always changing and never ending. Since then, I still go out, now and then a do a full Landscape Session. Where I only bring myself, camera, tripod, remote, lens filters, and my hiking camera bag.
Sometimes my landscape images will either be selected for my Nature-n-Motion Project that I have been doing for almost three years or be used to make a composition with images from different sessions or be exclusively used in my ongoing poetry.
How did you become a wedding photographer? Glad you asked. 🙂
After two years of self-learning camera settings from youtube videos, Creative Live classes, and ubemy classes, I finally asked my father, who was a part-time wedding photographer at the time, if I could shadow him.
I learned how not to run a successful photography business. The following are things I would change in his business plan to be successful.
1. Always have a contract between you and your client, second shooter, etc.
2. Have a business plan
3. Don’t give out raw images, actually edit
4. Have an editing style
5. Dress professionally
6. Create a Marketing Plan
7. Have a website (My father’s business ran entirely on word of mouth)
8. Socialize more with other photographers or people in the industry.
9. Have a logo or watermark
10. Don’t do a wedding for free – Be paid for your time and talent.
After a year of shadowing my father, I left and started being a second shooter for different amazing photographers around DFW, and Shreveport/Ruston/Monroe.
Funny Note: My dad decided to stop doing weddings. He is now a photographer for Burlington Northern Railroad (BNSF), most taking images of the Frisco Steam Locomotives, which are sadly the only surviving equipment of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (SLSF) since it was purchased and absorbed into BNSF in the 1980s.
Whenever I was second shooting for the lead photographer, I always had them sign my second shooter rights contract while I was signing their second shooter contract.
Better to be Safe, then Sorry.
During this time, I not only realized that I loved being a wedding photographer but also being their photographer from saying “Yes!” to after the “I Do!” It was the magic I was capturing between a couple: their emotions, personalities, and sheer passion for two people who are madly in love with each other.
I also learned what style of photographer I was … yes out of the top styles: Traditional, Photojournalism, Illustrative Photography, Portraiture, High Fashion and Natural Light…
I love Natural Light… Yes, I still do use flashes and reflectors, on occasion. But mainly, Natural Light is BEST.
However, I also loved telling the couples beauty love story… in the raw, outside of posing AKA FEARLESS… Photojournalism.
I also have a twist with the Traditional, since I do sometimes following set required list for photos from the bride and/or groom.
So what does that make my photography style:
Natural Light Photojournalism
I also learned what type of editing style I was drawn to the most, AKA the style I did the most of – Fine Art with a hint of softness!!!
To [Capture] the glow of a woman looking at her boyfriend down on one knee, or the glow of a newly engaged woman beginning the planning of her wonderful day, or the glow of a bride showing off all her assets for her future hubby’s eyes only, or the glow of a bride on her wedding day waiting to walk down the aisle, or the reaction of the groom seeing his bride for the first time in her wedding dress.
December 24, 2014 …. best day ever… I decided to open my own photography business. Learn more about my business opening journey here.
A photography business was taking my professionally to the next level; however, before opening my business I spend most of my time that were designated as photography – doing what I love – PHOTOGRAPHY. Now, after opening my business – it’s a 20:80 – and not in the best way. 20% photography and 80% business. My goal is to have my passion in business being 80% photography and only 20% business. BRING IT ON…
Photos by Stephanie is here to stay. This is my dream. To be able to quit my 9-5 and become a full-time photographer. A Full-Time Self-Taught Full Service Photography Studio.
On the Journey to make my dream a reality.