Category Archives: Photography Business

Great Bridal Review

Alright, maybe this is a little self serving, but it is my blog and I am allowed to toot my own horn. I keep saying this over and over again, “We love our brides”. As it happens they love us right back.
Here is the latest from one of our 2009 Brides
“Maxim Photo Studio was amazing....

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Brand New Website is Up…at last

It’s been about 4 years, since I last redesigned my website. It was based on a popular Bludomain Flash based template, but frankly it became outdated. It seems as though every photographer of any notoriety has or had a Bludomain website somewhere. It is probably a rite of passage that you must go through and...

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2010 Bride’s Choice Awards

We’ve been honored to receive the 2010 Bridal Choice Awards. This is the second year in a row that our Dayton and Cincinnati brides have honored our service and professionalism with this award. Thanks to everyone. We are honored and truly humbled.

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Announcing a business merger

Today, I am pleased to announce that Maxim Photo Studio (www.maximphotostudio.com) has merged with Dayton’s Preeminent Sports and Event Photography company, ProAct Image. (www.proactimage.com)  and are now officially operating as one. Our combination unites two market leaders, Maxim Photo Studio in Weddings and Portraiture and ProAct Image in sports and event coverage. Together, we are...

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Love our wedding reviews

We love our brides and grooms and their reviews. Nothing validates our performance, than the positive feedback from our couples. All of our couples, receive a feedback questionnaire after their wedding to provide input into maintaining Maxim Photo Studio as a premier Dayton Wedding photographer. We pride ourselves in providing the best wedding day coverage...

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Ode to the Apple Store

As a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Dayton I am missing an essential component of my photography workflow. Yes, we in the Dayton Area do not have an Apple Store and have to travel about an hour away if we want to check out the MacBooks or receive customer service. Today, I ran into an...

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FREE Engagement sessions

We’ve long been known as Dayton and Cincinnati’s most affordable wedding photographers and with our updated September 2009 Wedding price guide, we continue to set the standard. Due to popular demand, we are starting to provide free engagement sessions. Yes, I meant to write, FREE.

This e-session is about 15 minutes long and is conducted within...

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Brady the 6 year old model – Springboro OH

Today, out of the blue, my six year old son asked me about becoming a model. Having photographed many models before as a professional photographer, I had to give him an introduction. We started off with some strobe work in the front yard and moved to a local watering hole. I used my superb 85mm...

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Most Valuable Pictures (MVPs)

I’ll get right to the point. Make sure that your Most Valuable Pictures (MVPs) are safe. MPVs are any of your personal images of family, friends and loved ones.
I was scanning my photographs from my recent Dayton and Cincinnati Weddings and ran across an personal image that I forgot to add to my Lightroom catalog....

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My New Best Buddy – David Ziser

I attended David Ziser’s awesome Digital Wake Up Call – A New Dawn event at Cincinnati’s Netherland Plaza hotel yesterday and took a picture with my best new buddy. I am sorry to say that Johnny Pesky is no longer my best buddy, but rather a really really good buddy. Here we are at the...

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