Today at Snapm we've released a commonly requested functionality change: you can now edit the captions of all the photos in your project at once without having to drill down to each photo. Hopefully this makes it easier for you to label and show off your work.

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There are certain events which don't come around very often, and really deserve to be captured through the lens of a proven professional photographer. A wedding is one of these events. A fashion show photo shoot might be another. But then there are many other occasions where the high cost of a professional just isn't affordable, and you may think that you'll just have to settle for using your own digital camera. Well, with Snapm's new booking feature, there's an easy to use compromise: hire a local amateur at an affordable price.

Here are some situations where you may have never thought about hiring a photographer, but now that it's easy to find an affordable but capable amateur, you'll be glad that you didn't take the photos yourself.

Night Out On The Town
Next time you and your friends are heading out on the city for a big night, chip in $5 each and have a photographer show up to the party and take some photos for an hour or two. You'll get more than the usual bro's-with-their-arms-around-each-other shots, and your latest facebook album will draw a lot of attention for actually containg great photos for a change. Estimated Price - $40-$80

Dating Site Profile Picture
Taking a leap of faith and decided to try and meet someone the "modern way?" Well here's some news for you: nothing impacts the amount of interest you get through a dating web site than your profile picture. Don't believe me? Read a really great analysis on the subject from the OKCupid Blog. You do not want to mess this one up. Hire an amateur photographer to come by for an hour and take a series of great profile photos for you, and later you can choose the one you like the best. Estimated Price - $20-$70

Small Business Photos
So you've decided to start your own business? Congratulations. Why not bring in a photographer one afternoon to capture the early days, take photos of your store/office/product, and take good looking pictures of your employees? It will boost employee morale and give you great material to post on your new company web site, blog, newsletter, or send to the press. Since new businesses are almost always cash strapped a professional photographer might not be in the budget, but an amateur definitely should be. Estimated Price - $50-$150

Selling Your House
When people come to look at your house they generally pick up an information sheet so that they have all the pertinent details when they leave. Many of these info sheets contain a photo of the house, and since this is likely the only way they'll be able to remember and distinguish your house later, you probably want that photo to look really great. Instead of wandering outside with your old Polaroid camera, consider hiring an amateur photographer to come by and make sure the photos end up looking great. Anything to increase the chances of an offer, right? Estimated Price - $50-$100

Child's Sports Game
Here's one that all the parents in town will be thanking you for. Hire a local amateur to show up to the little league or rec soccer game and take incredible photos of the team in action. Share the photos with the other parents on the team after the event, and everyone will have high quality shots of their kids that look far better than the usual spectator captured photos. Estimated Price - $40-$100

These are just a few of the options that may have never occurred to you. If you have any other creative ideas, feel free to mention them in the comments. In the meantime, head to Snapm to find a photographer near you.

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In the spirit of steady improvement, today Snapm has launched a simple international search feature. There aren't very many international photographers on the site yet, so now you can simply narrow down your search by country. As more photographers join the site outside the US, we'll improve the search as necessary.

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Today Snapm is announcing "Power" accounts for photographers who are looking to boost their online presence and grow their business. Currently priced at $9.95/year (or less than $1/month), the Power account includes the following features:

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Today we've released a simple, but often requested feature, which allows you to list yourself in the Snapm directory even if you aren't currently available for hire. Maybe you have a full month coming up and you don't have time to accept any photography jobs, or perhaps you want a public portfolio to list on school applications but you aren't looking to get hired. Now you can simply set yourself as unavailable, and your profile will still be viewable. Your online reputation will still be in tact.

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Today's tip comes from friend of Snapm, Ben Dodson, who wanted to contribute a little extra something to his friend's wedding day. What Ben did, with relatively little work, was set up a live slide show of pictures taken by the guests of the wedding playing on a screen at the wedding itself. In Real Time. 

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We took up residence today in our new office at Soho Haven. Snapm is sharing the large co-working space with a number of other tech startups here in New York City. It should provide the perfect atmosphere for Snapm to operate and grow quickly, and we're excited to be in the space.

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Today is another big day at Snapm as we've launched our new booking system. This means that our photographers can now get booked for photography jobs and paid for doing what they love. As with all things we release, right now the booking system is relatively simple, but we plan to expand it every day to support more and more features that our users request. Right now it works as follows:

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As of today you can now upload multiple photos at once to Snapm using our new flash uploader. This is a long overdue feature, but it should make album creation a whole lot quicker. Last week we released Flickr importing, and combined these two features should let you get all your best shots into your portfolio in just a couple of minutes.

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Snapm is pleased to announce that you can now easily import your best Flickr photos directly into your portfolio. We got overwhelming feedback from our early users that this was the one feature that they wanted most. To import photos from Flickr simply create or edit your portfolio project and instead of choosing "Upload Photo To Project" choose "Import Photos From Your Flickr Account." We've also upped the number of photos per project to 18. Let us know if you need more.

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