Best Photography Resource Guide
Have you ever been faced with a question about photography or vendors, who to use, what to buy, where to go, only to
have the door closed in your face? It’s like there is a secret code or handshake that allows you the answers. Well not
here, welcome to Colorvale® where we love to share our favorites and what has worked with us.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION TOOLS
The Best Photographer’s Planner – Organize your entire business with this calendar/workflow/tracker & more
The Ultimate Client Workflow & Session Organizer – Cover every detail of a session from the first meeting to the
final order
The Location Scouting Book – Quickly jot down your favorite locations you found, the important details and best time
to shoot there.
Client Product Care Card – It is important to remind your clients of the care that needs to be taken to ensure their
photos are timeless.
Client Session Reminder Cards – What a great way to send out a personalized reminder to your client of their
session date, time & location!
Help Answering Client Emails (E-book)
BUSINESS TOOLS
Tutorial on how to set up an LLC
Moo – Business Cards
Photographer’s Planner – Best Seller
Blogstomp – Create amazing blog collages quickly and easily.
Colorvale’s Pricing Worksheet – Find out how much you should be charging for sessions.
TheLawTog – Contracts for Photographers – FREE Photography Contract Here
DataColor Spyder – Monitor Calibration tool – VERY IMPORTANT
Animoto – Slideshow builder
[Link] – Gear Rental
WiseStamp – Add Apps to your email signatures
Photography Business Checklist – Print and check off to ensure you have everything you need
AlbumStomp – Photo Album Design – amazing product!!!
SOCIAL MEDIA AUTOMATION TOOLS
Tailwind – Best Pinterest Scheduling app (we use & love)
HootSuite – Social Media Scheduling
Bloom – Newsletter Opt-in Plugin For Your Website
GroSocial – Facebook Apps – Marketing – Great for tabs, giveaways and more
Mailchimp – Newsletter builder
Buffer – Social Media post scheduling & life saver!
ONLINE MARKETING TOOLS
Google Keyword Tool – Online tool to help you understand important keywords to use in blog titles & website
development
Google Adwords – Market to google users
SITES TO SUBMIT IMAGES
Senior Style Guide – Weekly High School Senior Photo Submissions
BLOGS & PHOTOGRAPHY RESOURCES
Photography Spark – Zach is the know-it-all of SEO & you’ll love his site!
Photography Tips by Colorvale® – photography blog articles for photographers
Photoshop Video Tutorial List – Great for those wanting to learn tricks to editing
Clickin’ Moms – Blog articles, tutorials, forum and CMPRO
Photography Business Checklist – use this checklist when building your photography business
WEBSITE & BLOG TEMPLATES/THEMES
Imagely – in my opinion best web hosting for photographers!
Photocrati – Wordpress Themes / Designs For Photographers
[Link]
BlueHost – Website Hosting
WORDPRESS PLUGINS
Yoast SEO
Bloom – Newsletter Opt-in Plugin For Your Website
WP Super Cache
Contact Form 7
Backup Buddy – Protect yourself with this great website backup & wordpress migration plugin
Akismet – spam blocker – a must!
Jetpack Publicizer – This theme provides so many functions. Our favorite is the publicizer helping you send blog
posts to your social media sites.
Testimonials by Wootheme – Give yourself the ability to showcase the great testimonials from your clients
Google XML Sitemaps – Important to create xml files for SEO purposes. A must!
NextGEN Gallery – Display your photos beautifully with this plugin
Share Buttons by AddThis – Let visitors brag about your site with these great share buttons
Wordfence Security – Protect your site with this firewall & virus scanner
SEO TOOLS & GREAT WEB RESOURCE
Photography Spark SEO Cookbook
CLIENT GALLERY VIEWING
SmugMug – Online Client Gallery
Shootproof – Photo Gallery
Sticky Albums – Digital Photo Album – Mobile App
PRINTS & PRODUCTS FOR CLIENTS
Photo Flash Drive – flash Drives/ USBs
CG Pro – canvas
WHCC – prints, albums, and more
Pinhole Pro – albums and more
CAMERA BAGS, LENSES & EQUIPMENT
Epiphanie
Kelly Moore Bag
Expodisc – Great for setting exposure and white balance!
Rapid Strap – Best strap – EVER!
85 1.4 – Great for portraits & weddings
24-70 2.8 – Great for weddings
70-200 2.8 – Great for portraits & weddings
105 2.8 Macro – Great for all macro photos
ACTIONS & LIGHTROOM PRESETS
Colorvale Actions
PHOTOGRAPHER’S SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS
Colorvale Support Group – great for asking questions in business/editing/marketing and more
Google + Circle – We follow everyone that follows us. Come over, visit us, chat, ask questions, we don’t bite!
Suggest our next video tutorial.
Note: A couple of the links in here are affiliate links because we absolutely love their products and tell people all the time
about them. This helps to afford the updating of our blog. If you wish not to use the affiliate link you can simply look the
company up on Google.
