Author Archives: Teresa Milner

About Teresa Milner

Teresa Milner is a portrait and events photographer in Southeastern Wyoming and the creative drive behind Dirt Road Wife Photography. Teresa traded life in the fast lane as a public information officer to raise her family in her native rural Wyoming. Today, she lives on a commercial bird farm with her husband, daughter, a neurotic border collie, a lovable yellow mutt and more than 20,000 pheasants! A self-proclaimed country girl, she loves farm life, wildlife, fishing, hunting, wildflowers and singing loudly with the radio to any George Strait song she hears. Meet Teresa at www.dirtroadwifephotography.com. Or follow her on Facebook or Instagram!

Photographers spend a lot of time ensuring we have the right settings during a session. We spend hours in front of our monitors tweaking an image to get it to look just right. We pour over educational courses looking for ways to improve our technique and business acumen. But we don’t talk a lot about …

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Photography

The Mindset Shift I Made In My Photography Business That Changed Everything

For years, printed forms and checks were the standard for volume photography ordering.  And while those options are still relevant and useful in many situations, more photographers are taking their ordering online.  There are several different ways to facilitate online ordering, from the simple and free to the specialized and complex.  In this article, we’ll …

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Business

Volume Sports Photography: Solutions for Online Print Sales

You’ve lined up your first sports league to take photos of and you couldn’t be more excited.  You love sports.  You love photography.  Combining the two into a job that earns money seems like a dream come true, right?  The only problem is, you really don’t know how or where to start to create a …

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Business

Create Your First Sports Photography Price List

Giving clients a great experience doesn’t have to mean lavishing them with expensive gifts or spending oodles of money.  But with some planning, time, and effort, you can craft a client experience workflow to create an overall customer experience that wows! Learn: What a relational client experience looks like and how it benefits your business. …

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Business

Client Experience Workflows – Create Relationships that Last

We’ve all done it.  Sat down to blog a client session and stared at that blinking cursor with equal parts panic and frustration.  What in the world should I say?  What if they hate it?  Do I really NEED to blog? Can’t I simply connect with customers through my photos? Writing is hard, y’all.  For …

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Business

From the Heart: Connect With Customers Through Your Photography Blog

Adobe Lightroom is one powerful piece of editing software.  It can speed up your workflow and helps you turn photos into true works of art.  But making changes to each photo individually can be a huge time suck.  Presets, or groups of changes, makes editing faster.  But wouldn’t it be amazing if you could use …

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Editing

How to Apply Presets to Multiple Photos in Lightroom

Have you ever tried following a Photoshop tutorial to edit your photo, only to be stymied by something basic in the program?  While you struggle to figure out something like how to unlock layers in Photoshop, the video instructor continues and is soon ten steps ahead of you. So frustrating! I can’t teach you all …

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Editing

How to Unlock Layers in Photoshop

A few weeks ago, a fellow photographer posed the question “What do you wish you’d done differently when you started your business?” My answer?  Use a photography CRM sooner to start my client relationships out on the best foot possible and keep track of all my business things! What is a photography CRM and how …

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Business

Photography CRM: How to Wow Clients and Stay on Track

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Stay safe and wow your clients with high quality pictures of horses Few animals capture the hearts and imagination of the public like the horse.  And it’s no wonder.  A horse is a big, magnificent beast full of character, grace and love. Whether you want to offer high-end portraits or action pictures, understanding the unique …

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Photography

Horse Photography 101

Portrait vs Landscape can mean different things to different photographers. Know the difference! One of my six-year old’s favorite jokes is “When is a door not a door?  When it’s a jar!”  It’s easy to amuse a first-grader.  But just like a door that’s a jar, landscape vs. portrait, as used in photography, can be …

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Genres

Landscape vs Portrait: Which is Best?

If you use Adobe Lightroom to edit or organize your photos, you’ll eventually want to harness the power of presets.  And part of employing the life changing magic of presets involves knowing where those presets are housed on your machine.  You might want to add new presets to your toolbox or locate presets to create …

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Editing

Help! Where are Lightroom Presets Stored?

Podcasts are one of the best “inventions” of that last two decades, along with smart phones and cronuts (part donut, part croissant.  Totally life changing.)  At least as far as I’m concerned.  Podcasts are my go-to audio splurge when I want to learn, grow, or to simply be entertained.  With the volume of shows and …

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Photography

Best Photography Podcasts: Shows to Educate, Inspire and Entertain

Does Real Estate photography seem overwhelming? Don’t worry, we have you covered! Find a home in real estate photography and start becoming a real estate photographer with these tips! As more people shop for homes online, a talented real estate photographer can be a realtor’s best secret weapon.  Get the spec sheet real estate photography, …

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Photography

How to Get Into Real Estate Photography and Unlock a New Market

Almost every photographer I know, even those specializing in portraits or action photography, has a soft spot for landscapes.  There’s just something about nature and sunsets and vistas that captures our imagination and prompts creativity.  Even if you just dabble in landscape images, you’ll want a lens to help translate that vision before you into …

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Gear

Best Lens for Landscape Photography – A Buyer’s Guide for Beginners

Have you ever stood on a majestic spot and been overwhelmed by its beauty?  You pull out your camera, frame your shot, and fire the trigger on this epic landscape. Except when you pull up the photo later on your computer, it’s utterly underwhelming. You wanted jaw-dropping photos, not disappointment and frustration. If your shots …

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Genres

Our Landscape Photography Tips to Supercharge Your Images

Before we jump into some great bird photography tips, I must warn you…this pastime is highly addictive.  You might not know a red-tailed hawk from a red-breasted nuthatch right now, but after a few photo sessions with our feathered friends, you might just become hooked. Soon, you’ll want to know ALL THE THINGS about all …

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Genres

Bird Photography For Beginners