Scott, great review! And I caught the paranthetical comment about your videos not being edited… haha. Believe it or not, I’m working on snippets to upload – the challenge has been editing to bite-sized sessions (4-6 min), from the hours of footage. Soon!

Great Review – I jumped down from Pro to standard – from memory I lost the ability to watermark and to profit from any print sales; but I might be wrong?

Oh and you forgot the other cool thing – the Camera Strap!

Haha you’re all good Garrett… I actually took some video of a Photography Workshop but I’m not sure why since I can’t find the time to edit them either.
Plus each Lightroom class I do seems to get better.
What’s the link to the snippet you did edit? Was there much interest in it anyway?

Very good review. I upgraded from a standard to a pro account this week. One thing you mentioned, that’s not part of SmugMug, but stood out to me is taking your photos to where people are. I’ve always said that I hate the way Facebook compresses images, but you’re right. People are already there, socializing and sharing photos. I need to re-think the way I share photos on FB, not just on my SmugMug site.

Another plus for SmugMug is their DGrin forums (http://www.digitalgrin.com/). Not only do you find a great group of photographers, but people that really know SmugMug. I’ve recently been directed to the SmugMug Customization area of the DGrin forums.

Shaun.
I’ve found that when they take the already web-ready smugmug pictures and then put them on Facebook they get better results (though not perfect)

Scott, I haven’t posted anything online yet. I guess I’m waiting to do one big batch, which is probably a bad idea. I’m anticipating a slow winter, work-wise, so I’ll churn out the best of it and put it on YouTube and send you a link.

Er, might I add that I have other tutorials posted on YouTube from that LR session in March, just not yours, yet. There are a few here:

http://www.youtube.com/aderynproductions

Wow! I have been using Flickr for over a year now but your review makes me want to drop my Flickr account and move to Smug for all of my needs. I am going to be looking into this more and see if it fits my needs and my photography. Thank you very much for this review of Smug. I’m sure Smug would be proud of your review and the customers they will get from it. Keep up the good work. : )

You are the “Lots of Pictures King” Nice work on the review.

I thought I wasn’t one of the larger Smugmug users out there, but I guess I’m probably not too behind the top 100, and maybe in the top 100. Stats as of today:
Photos uploaded: 229723
Disk space used: 334.04 GB

Bandwidth after re-launch of my web site (it sat dormant for 3 years):
July 2009: 220618 21.36 GB
August 2009: 238669 28.45 GB
September 2009: 51957 8.41 GB (bad weather affected events)
October 2009: 101238 14.43 GB (getting colder into the off season)

You’ve got a really popular fan base! I get about 5k unique visitors each month. It was as high was 20k back in the day. I’m working to get it back there again…

Smugmug is a strong business partner. I’ve never had a complaint about a print from a client, and I’ve never had a good copy of a picture stolen from my site. Now that’s a great platform.

Can you tell me how you got Clicky to work with Smugmug some reason it’s not working for me. Thanks.

Advanced customization

I put the javascript from clicky and I actually put it in the footer.
I think you can delete part so their logo does not show up on the site.

I did like wise. I’ve placed it on all my sites with out the Clicky logo. But for Smugmug I’ve placed it there with and with out the logo in both the footer and the bottom javascript (even though I was sure it wouldn’t work in the javascript section.) I’m still not showing the visits.

HOLY COW,
Those are some beautiful people!

Would have loved to come to the intermediate class, but can’t make it that night. Perhaps another intermediate or advanced class in the future? Your passion for helping others at an affordable price is admirable.

That looks amazing!

If only the water casing didn’t cost so much!
The photos looks amazing, made me envious

wow that is one busy week!!

How many gigabytes of data do all those pictures add up to that you took during the week?

Good question… the charity shoot resulted in 94.7GBs of D700 Raws (converted to DNGs)

What about un-cute single girls?

you trying to get me in trouble!
Well there were some of those and pleny of cute un-single ones as well.

But for me the more important stat was the one i mentioned… haha

They’ll never know who’s who… how secretive am I! ;P

Let me just say…WOW!!! These are fabulous!!! I am psyched out of my mind about these. You are such a talent. Thanks SO much, Scott. We had a load of fun. You made us feel comfortable, and the kids didn’t get overwhelmed like they normally do. In fact, your the first EVER to capture all of them smiling in one shot. We will definitely be passing the word!

P.S. Thank you for converting my husband.

I really hope those girls didnt get hurt trying to land in those shoes! These are sweet photos! I’m goign to be coming down soon and a I wanna see you when I visit! Miss you Scottie!!

Glad to see you got some experimenting in with the studio, that’s sorta what I had in mind. Cool stuff! Looks like another great day of shooting. (p.s., the beard is awesome.)

Okay now I am super excited to see the rest! Great job Scott! I had a lot of fun

If you ever need any help…

these posts have been great. another great idea from SJ. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! So beautiful!!! I can hardly wait for tomorrow to get here. Thanks for all your hard work. You’re so talented to be able to get such beautiful shots in the small amount of time that you have.

P.S. you must have a way with kids!

These are fantastic!!!

Hey Scott, are these all the ones from that day that are going to be published?

@Taylor – haha ummm no it’s just a Recap
The rest will take a lot of time to get edited.
Specially with me being gone for a week and there being 8000+ pictures

Haha oh all right, sorry

It was a lot of fun Scott. It was nice meeting you and the photos are all so great and beautifully lit. Fun having the after party as well!

I would be very intersted in seeing the video of how you set up an indoor studio. I mostly do outdoor shots as well, but am interested in seeing what kinds of equipment people use in a studio.

Haha Scott I love the James Bond stuff

Very cool!! I love all of these!!

Looks like a great jam-packed day! I have to apologize for missing my slot this morning– I drove around for an hour and a half and failed to find your studio space (so much for Google). I’d love to still donate, though (or help in some other way).

LOVE the work this far!! I am so worried that i wont be able to find your studio in the morning though..

525 W Bullriver rd
Lehi

East on Alpine Highway .9 mile from thanksgiving pt exit (east) turn on 1500 which happens to turn into bullriver… and then .9 miles to my house.

Sloanie if you want to come again tomorrow you are more than welcome. Today wasn’t good anyway maybe it was for best you didn’t come, now I have some more equipment and will be better prepared.

Scott, it always amazes me how many people I see on here that I know – too bad I didn’t come with them – then again I already had a charity shoot all to myself Ashley and I go way back! Have fun in Mexico.

Sounds a little masochistic to me (hehe). Sounds like fun, can’t join in this week, but one of these times real soon!

See you around!