The course was designed for established professional photographers of any genre who are new (or newish) to commercial photography and want to start providing photography services to small brands.

It was created with the assumption that the photographer already has an established business and is looking to add commercial photography to their services.

The course is all about commercial photography for small businesses, including retail stores, entrepreneurs, product manufacturers, start-ups, restaurants, consumer services and more.

The course focuses on the business side of photography as opposed to the shooting and editing side.

If you want to do photography for businesses in your community (and beyond!), this course is for you.

The course is all about commercial photography for small businesses, including retail stores, entrepreneurs, product manufacturers, start-ups, restaurants, consumer services and more.

The Business of Commercial Advertising Photography course contains all of the content in this small biz course, and also a ton more information and resources that are relevant to shooting for mid-sized brands, ad agencies and national and global brands.

If you know you want to stick with shooting for small businesses for the duration of your commercial photography career, this small business course will be perfect for you.

If you want to be able to say “yes!” to opportunities to shoot for bigger businesses, be prepared when they reach out to you, and also learn how to target them, the Business of Commercial Advertising Photography course will be a better match for your needs.

The course does not include any of the following:

• information on photography, lighting, editing or retouching how-to’s (‘how to take pictures’, ‘how to use lighting’, ‘how to edit photos’, etc)
• information on editorial/magazine photography
• information on selling images as stock through stock agencies (with the exception of pricing usage licenses)
• information on working as an hourly or salaried employee photographer for a company
• information on ‘influencer’ photography (e.g. selling space and photography on your social media accounts)

No, the course contains a wide variety of downloadable guides and documents that will be available for immediate download after you purchase it.

After you complete your purchase, provided you check the ‘create account’ box during checkout and don’t choose to check out as a guest, you will be automatically forwarded to a thank you page where you will see a bright blue link to your zip file download.

The thank you page also contains information on how to access your account in the future.

If you prefer to wait to download the file, you may return to your account at any time after purchase, visit the downloads tab, and click on the file name in the ‘downloads’ column. (The file is a zip file). The download link will not expire.

If you choose to check out as a guest, you can download your purchase from your order confirmation email.

You can set up an account later using the same email address you placed your order with. You just need to click the change password link on the login page and you’ll be good to go.

Yes.

The following documents were designed for you to use in the course of your business in a client-facing capacity:

• model releases
• commercial photography agreement
• first-time clients guide (if placing on a private web page or sending to a client)

Not specifically, no. However, the same business rules apply if the photos will be used commercially to advertise/market a product or service.

Whether you are taking pictures of plates of food at a local restaurant, or photographing a display at a children’s clothing store, you’ll learn what you need to successfully work with small biz clients in this course.

If you still think this course doesn’t fit the bill, please reach out and let us know what you need.

Personalized consultation isn’t included in the course.

You can get support from peers in the free Facebook group.

The guides are also loaded with links to additional (free and paid) resources for commercial photography that you should find very helpful.

Because the products are digital and available immediately after purchase, all sales are final and refunds won’t be granted for any reason after you have purchased and downloaded the  product.

If you don’t see the information you need in order to make a decision and you still have questions before purchasing, please reach out to us.

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It can take an hour or more for Gmail to retrieve external emails if you don’t do that.

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