ACME Photography

Open Invitation to Photographers and Photo Studios near Phoenix Arizona!

9/2/08 - Airport Hilton [map] 47th Street, Phoenix AZ, 85034  | 6PM Networking, 7PM meeting.
(Aspiring / student photographers are encouraged and welcome to attend as well!)

I’ve been invited to speak at AzPPA’s - Arizona Professional Photographers Association meeting next Tuesday, September 2nd and I wanted to personally invite fellow photographers and friends to attend this meeting.  I was asked me to talk about the photography that I create.  I spoke on this last year at AZPPA so I’m going to touch on this a bit then describe the process in making creative photography, showing lighting setups for available light photography as well as studio lighting (strobe) for on location work.

THEN…

I’m going to share about something that I’m very passionate about: Social Media.  If the word “social media” confuses you it’s a fancy word for “playing on the internet”.  You know “what the kids do”  Facebook, Twitter, Flickr Myspace,  Viddler, LinkedIN, Friendfeed, etc.  The news is you don’t have to be young to do this, and if done properly it can help your business.   Do you blog?  This is great, however  there’s more to the game then blogging.  Learn how you can:

• Keep in touch with existing clients while creating loyal “fans” for your business.
• Obtain  higher search engine rankings simply by being active online and sharing content.
• Generate web traffic without spending money for paid Goggle Ad Sense or Yahoo campaigns.
• Meet new friends who you can help and who will gladly help you when you are in a jam.

…. All for FREE, or dirt cheap.

Understanding how to leverage the “cool websites” to help build your brand is not as simple as signing up and spamming a message to people in your network.   Using social media properly involves understanding normal human relationships.  I’ll break this down with some simple examples to help you understand how relationships work, then apply it to online activities.

FINALLY…

Why your website sucks (and how to fix it)
If you rely on people typing your website into the web browser from the business card you personally handed them then your website is failing.  If the only traffic you get is from paid directories then you need help.

Learn some simple tips to improve your search engine ranking and make your web site your primary source of leads, instead of a compliment to your other marketing efforts.

I’ll see you at the AZPPA Monthly Meeting September 2, 2008

First meeting is FREE if you’re new.
(Tell ‘em if it’s your first time, along with where you heard about AZPPA and it’s on me!  )

Non-members $25
Phoenix Airport Hilton 2435 S. 47th Street Phoenix, AZ
Social Hangout: 6PM
Meeting - 7PM
Autographs - 9PM

Drop a comment below if you are coming.
See you!

Adam Nollmeyer
Phoenix Arizona  Photographer
http://acmephotography.net

My friend Leila is in Beijing China competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics. We grew up in eastern Montana and know each other through track and field. I went to school in Savage MT, a small class C school, she went to school in Sidney, Montana. We would often practice at their school before District and Divisional meets because they had a rubberized track and ours was a crummy dirt track. Sometimes different class schools would compete against each other because there’s not a whole lot of schools in Montana to start with.

About six months ago she asked me for some photo advice. Some of her fellow Stanford track & field friends were thinking about doing some fitness modeling. I’ve been to California several times this year for photo assignments and we both hoped that I could get to the San Francisco area on assignment and also photograph Leila and friends.

Fast forward to the other week. I thought I had a last minute wedding south of San Francisco, but the job fell through. I knew that Leila had made the trials for the Olympics and still needed some photos. She wanted to document her physique and have, “Something to show the grandkids someday.”

I messaged a friend and fellow photographer Gene X Hwang of Orange Photography - San Francisco to see if he could help.

Gene was able to help Leila and here are two of his studio photos:

Check out Gene’s blog post on the Orange Photography Blog to see some other photos. While I would have loved to photograph Leila, It was nice to connect two people I know and Gene did an awesome job at photographing Leila.

Gene met me while searching for a photographer to help with an assignment in Scottsdale Arizona. He googled and found my flickr photos and website. After meeting Gene in person at the corporate event we have keep in touch online as well. Gene has hired me several times to cover some Orange photography projects in the Phoenix area.

If you’re watching the Beijing Summer 2008 Olympics look for Leila. She’s representing Tunisia. I guess she’s was too good to make the USA team!

I’m off to goggle for “gym membership in Phoenix, AZ”.

Adam Nollmeyer
Arizona Photographer
http://acmephotography.net