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Alisandra Photography Blog

The blog has moved! Had you clicked on my blog yesterday, you may have found it looking rather strange. Or just not working at all. It’s ok – I was in the process of moving to a pretty new location! So, I am no longer www.alisandraphoto.com/blog, but this new pretty domain: www.alisandraphotoblog.com A lot of people […]

It seems like a popular thing in this industry to have a super cute camera bag. Well, I have two bags and they work really well for me, but neither are what I’d call “cute.” I have my backpack, a Lowepro, that I’ve had since I started shooting! It holds a ton and has the […]

Meet Perchshop. Perchshop is an Etsy store a past portrait client, Ali runs. I’ve stayed in touch with Ali through Facebook and other social medias. When I saw she was opening up an Etsy store, I decided to take a look. Ali’s store blew me away. I wanted everything. More than that, I wanted to […]

Three years ago yesterday, I held a piece of paper in my hand that said I had started a business. Like turning 25, it doesn’t feel different, but you have this sense that things aren’t the same as they were before. Before. Before, I was under my parents support, and now I had begun a […]

I sat at a photographer’s meeting a few months ago with my jaw hanging on the ground. Visibly and internally so stoked about a computer program that I was almost embarrassed. But not quite. Before I get going on why I’m so excited, let me first introduce a new part of my workflow… Have you […]

A few weeks ago, I blogged that I just bought some new Speedlites from Canon! Well, I am still excited, but not as excited as I thought I would be. This review/tutorial is for people with Canon cameras that are older than 2011. I have a EOS-1D Mark V. It’s a big fat camera and […]

If you’re thinking, “Part 2?” well, I wrote Part 1 a long time ago! SO if you need a refresher, go and read part one. To sum it all up though, I picked up a camera my freshman year of college. I got a job with a wedding photographer and I second shot without EVER […]

Last week, I received a piece of mail informing me that, beginning in July, the Virginia State sales tax is going up. From 5% to 5.3%. I’m so split on this sales tax thing. Did you know that Photographers have a special clause? We are required to charge sales tax on services. Most all other […]

Working with off camera flash is always a point of difficulty for wedding photographers. The light is either always changing, or the people are always moving. There are a ton of different set-ups using all kinds of equipment, but I love things to be easy, light, and fast – all while getting great results. So, […]

Many of you know that I just rebranded a few months ago. It’s a beautiful site and I had an amazing designer. I wanted to share with you the “back end” of my site. I didn’t blog yesterday because I was having difficulties with my website. You wouldn’t have known it because it had everything […]