Photography / Images

Small businesses need photography and images assets for:

• Collages

• Images, logo, brands

• Infographics

• Social media

  • Instagram

  • Facebook

  • Pinterest

  • Selfies

  • Snapchat

• Videos

  • Drones

A picture is worth a thousand words; a well-made video, even more!

Tips

• Shoot from different angles

• Shoot through things - put other items out of focus in the frame

• Shoot from non-common perspectives (opposite from what everybody else does)

• Shoot with good lighting (example window or during the golden hour - hour after sunrise, hour before sunset)

• Frame the shoots with other objects

• Facebook business tips - photography tips for creating ads with a single point of focus

Tools 

• Adobe Simplifies Web Presentations With Free 'Slate' iPad App 

  • Output Shares with Facebook, Twitter, email, SMS, clipboard, Slate.Adobe.com URL

• Canva - built for social media marketers

  • Some free tools and images

  • Template sizes

  • Collaborative file sharing

  • iPad version available

• Flickr - Yahoo photo sharing

• Gimp image editor

• PicMonkey - Pic Monkey image editor

• Pixlr - free web-based photo editor for editing and resizing photosPostcards

• Smugmug - photo sharing

• Steller - tell your story with photos, videos, and text

• YouTube

Articles

• When You Should Be Posting Your Photography to Social Media

• The benefits and risks of using stock photos for your business (including Do's and Don'ts)

• How to Create Social Media Images That Connect With Your Audience

• 5 Tips For Choosing The Right Photos For Your Marketing

  1. Quality first

  2. Image should peak for itself

  3. Be emotional

  4. Have a concept

  5. Give credit

• This Chart Shows How Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO Affect Your Photos

• Use photos without getting sued

• 300 awesome free things

• Add backgrounds to iPhone Pictures

• Photo sharing-every picture tells a story when it has the right caption