The Pro Photo Business Forum

Each week the PPBF gives its readers a new challenge designed to help their studios grow. Sometimes the assignment involves shooting, and sometimes the assignment calls for a particular action to be taken. Whatever the assignment, you can be sure we will do our best to help you grow as a professional photographer, and not just as a photographer.

Congratulations to Last Weeks Challenge Winner, Michael Bromley Photography!

This Week’s Challenge:

Create An Executive Portrait!

When I went to college, I already knew I was put on this planet to be a photographer. My goal was simple. When I graduated, I wanted to be so prepared that I could take on any kind of photographic assignment. Food, architecture, family, landscape.

Well, this is what I want this month’s challenge to do for you. This is the PRO Photo Business Forum. If you are an amateur photographer, then this is going to bring you one step closer to becoming a professional, and unless you are an extremely successful professional photographer, you are going to need to take whatever kind of job comes your way. So lets get you prepared.

This week, I want you to photograph an Executive Portrait. Your finished portrait does not have to be created in a studio. It can be done in someone’s office, or wherever you like for that matter. It should be sellable.

Approach this assignment like a real shoot. Not that it is part of the contest, but I want you to also think about how you will be delivering this image to your client. Will it be on a DVD, or will you send them a link allowing them to download their image directly from their computer? How long a turnaround time will you promise your finished product in?

First Place Prize:  Three Months of Free Access to the PPBF.

If you are already a member, then your current subscription will be extended by an additional three months. Access will also be granted to all the goodies in The Swag Bag!

Our first place winner will also receive a $50 lab credit to BWC Photo Imaging! This can of course be used to produce prints for your client from your Executive Portrait session.

How To Enter:

1) Complete the assignment and place the results on your own blog, linking back to the challenge post.

2) Post a comment on this blog entry that you have completed the assignment with a link back to your blog entry. A link will be posted at the bottom of this assignment pointing back to your blog entry, thus creating a reciprocal link and helping with your SEO.

3) The winner of the assignment will be posted in the following weeks assignment.

We would love it if you can place the Weekly Challenge Icon at the beginning of this post in your blog post to show your readers your participation in the weekly challenge.

Here are the entries for this week’s Weekly Challenge!

Houston Photographer Jonathan Golden has completed the challenge!