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It's always fun to be a part of something that gets placed in a magazine. To see something that you shot in print...it feels good to hold in your hands and dog ear the corners. We shoot editorial commercial work frequently for Seattle Pacific University and really love having them as a client. The frames associated with this post are from the most recent ETC magazine that we had some shoots featured in. It was fun to see our shoot with Barcelona on a full page spread along with another shoot we did of an SPU student who is now in dental school. These type of projects and jobs mix up our shooting life and keep things interesting.
The other pull is from a magazine called B Wedding Magazine and we had one of our brides bouquets featured in the mag :).
So in here lies the question that a lot of people ask and want to know... "how do you get published?" We received a handful of e mails about this subject this week. The truth is we are no experts on the matter, but if there is one thing I can say it's to put your best work possible out into the world and good things come back to you from it. It may sound obvious, but it's true. Most times we haven't sought out to be published, we have simply sought after doing the best work we were capable of doing.... if you continue to do excellent work people will seek you out for it. For instance in these two examples B Wedding Magazine contacted us, SPU contacted us; When we were published in Professional Photographer Magazine and Design Aglow, both magazines contacted us. This isn't always the case and there are of course circumstances when we do submissions. An example of this would be when we have been published in Seattle Metropolitan Bride and Groom. That is a bi-yearly submission based process and the editors select from there. But at the end of the day it comes down to the work. Are you creating work that is unique/interesting and different from those around you? Are you standing out in your market? Have you differentiated yourself? Are you truly putting your best foot forward? Is your goal to get published or is your goal to create work that is your very best that you are proud of?
Off to an all day mentor session with an awesome hubby/wife team. Ciao & Happy Thursday!
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doing things differently definitely makes you stand out Sarah, love it
congrats. i can only imagine how awesome it feels to see your work in print! you rock
Thanks for sharing not only your beautiful images but not being shy about sharing the business side of it too.
just got my first cards from the printer, will spend tomorrow handing them out all over town - VERY uncomfortable for me!!! But my vision is to take as many meaningful photos as possible and do everything with love. Sarah you have been elemental in getting things started for me, more than you know.
Congratulations!
You all do fantastic work and I love it! It must be an amazing feeling seeing your hard work published! Congratulations :)
Congrats on this. I love your work and have never commented before, but wanted to finally say hi and thought this was a great post to do it in :)
I also wanted to give you a heads up about an email to watch out for about another publishing opportunity.