One of the most important factors is EDUCATING THE CLIENT. If you want to charge a good amount for your work as a photographer and artist then your clients must value your work and understand the process. This type of photography is not like any other. You are not selling a package of 15 digital downloads. You are creating a composite that takes TIME and EXPERIENCE. You must help your clients to understand that so they can VALUE the work that you do! 

To help educate the clients, I have decided to create an In the Box Photography Client Guide. This is a .pdf that I can give to my clients as a full Client Guide magazine, individual images, single sheet pdfs or group some pages together to make a pricing guide, style guide and more. 

One of the most important parts of this guide that I incorporated is a sheet on WHERE DO THE COSTS come from? Clients will NOT understand if you don't tell them. 

I also added a few pages for pricing, styling and box layouts. 

​There are 19 Pages in total in this Family Photography Inside the Box Client guide that can be printed or shared digitally.

This template is now available to the public at our shop Photo Box Designs. 

You can also preview the template with this video demo.

The template is made in CANVA and all you need is a free account to edit the template. It is fully customizable and easy to use. You can add your own photos and branding to the template as well. 

Let me know what you think in the comments! 

Purchase the In the Box Photography Client guide at Photo Box Designs here: CLICK HERE

Check out our FREE Editing Tutorial on Youtube. We also provide instructions on how to Build the Box, Edit the Box with all of our In the Box template purchases! 

​Whether you call this form of digital photography "box photography", "inside the box", "in the box", or "photo box photography", the biggest question I often get is "how the heck do I edit the box photos?" No matter if you are a novice photographer or seasoned professional, photoshop master or lightroom beginner, here are a few tips and tricks and video tutorials to help you out!
Tip #1: When starting out photographing your first box image, keep all limbs inside the box. This will make your first attempt at editing much easier. Once you are comfortable with the photoshoot and photoshop, then you can venture out into more complex poses.
Let's get started! First you will need to organize your images and decide which ones you will want to use for your inside the box composite. I prefer to use Lightroom to organize and crop my images.
I like to sort my images using Lightroom's color and star rating system. I pick out my contenders for the composite.

Next I will crop the images in lightroom. If I do not have anything hanging out over the box sides (feet, objects), then I can crop one photo, select all the rest and use the Sync feature to quickly crop the entire group. However, if there are body parts hanging over, then I would need to crop each image individually.
Once all of the photos are cropped I will highlight all the images by hovering my mouse over the bottom of the page, right click and choose: "edit in"- "open as layers in Photoshop". This will bring all of your selected images into photoshop.

​Have you ever wanted to try out "In the Box" or "Inside the Box" photography but you just don't know where you would store the darn thing? Well our Guest Blogger Thomas Fenchel came up with a great solution, a collapsible box! Thank you Thomas for creating this blog for us! 

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For long time I have been fascinated by photo collages of an "In the Box" or "Inside the Photo Box". These boxes need to be large enough to fit adults and kids, therefore, I had the struggled with where to store such a large box as the space in my studio and related area is limited.

For long time I have been fascinated by photo collages of an "In the Box" or "Inside the Photo Box". These boxes need to be large enough to fit adults and kids, therefore, I had the struggled with where to store such a large box as the space in my studio and related area is limited.
I am a member of the Facebook group Inside the Photo Box photography where I learned some useful inspiration to solve my problem. The box needs to be collapsible, so I can store it aside with limited required space.
I made my box of melanin boards, 120x60cm and 16mm thick (pic1). The US equivalent size would be 4x4x2 ft.
I used 4 boards for the frame and 2 for the back side. To make it collapsible I used quick releases (pic2). I looked what I could find in my local hardware store.