12 posts tagged “photography”
I am still knee deep in this session and have two others to work on but I wanted to post just these two quickly, right now they are some of my favorites but that is subject to change.
For all my loyal readers take a stroll on over and check out my latest posts on my business site.. i have some new stuff up and am trying to create a buzzz over there!
Jessica Claire is a photographer I follow out of Southern California - they have an entirely different standard of living out there so her rates are bigger. She is the photographer who created the ShootSac (www.shootsac.com) that camera bag I wanted last year and then received for Christmas. She is definitely a photographer but also a business person and a creative thinker. One of her goals for 2008 was to start another business besides her photography so she created ShootSac. At 4AM she launched her new blog-site (www.jessicaclaire.net) and brand wise its amazing and I love her even more. She got rid of her regular website and her old blog and had this created and designed. Ok, so if you navigate to connect and then click on I'm a Client you will see the screen shot that I attached. She talks about an experience and look at her rates! I love her but in thinking about what I want out of the future that is what I want - not a one stop shop from invites to flowers but a way to create a photography experience, and I think that is best achieved by having multiple products - which is where the renovated farmhouse/business comes in. In any case I have printed this out in color and big and am hanging it at work and at home to remind me every day that that is what I want for myself.
I am also dressed in a suit today - dress for the job you want and I want to be a photographer with a boutique like studio and a high end clientele who comes to me for unique and fabulous products!
ok... i showed some people my logo yesterday and my message architecture and turns out they don't match AND they don't like the logo.
so I sat back down last night to work on a new logo, pulled out my message architecture and turns out that is all wrong for me...
so I started completely over - redid the message architecture last night and turns out that albphotography is modern, premium and relationships-oriented...
so I am pencil sketching some logos, might post up some ideas here but I am going to work through to the illustrations in the next week or so and then do a mini focus group..
branding is so important that I want to get this as right as I can in the beginning so I can make sure that what I am projecting from the start is who I aspire to be.
used to me taking pictures of them but I also think they are a bit over it so I tried
to keep the scope way down - i had three ideas, i dialed it down to two and it was
still CRAZY - Riley said "No way man" to the dress I wanted her to wear, Hailey
liked Riley's dress better and wanted to wear that even though it wasn't her size
and no one would cooperate.... i took just 160 pictures which actually seems
like alot given i only did 2 scenarios... but out of those 160 there are very few
that I can save or are workable... ugh... here are six or so that still needed
to be "edited" to clean them up a bit
People have been asking to see this one - not cropped, so I am just throwing it up here quickly:
I took some pictures of Alison yesterday while we were waiting for the babies to get there. I shot off a quick set of her and then some with her Kitty - I picked the best five and posted them on flickr here
I have a new set of pre photo shoot nerves. When I first started out I was just nervous because I felt I was imposing - I mean who was I to think I was a photographer. Well my skills have improved and now I know I can do a great job so my nerves are different. Now my nerves are around what if the ideas I have for sets don't work, what if they don't come out, what if the babies cry! I met with one of the babies last night and she is a really happy easy baby so today should be fun! I have my photographers uniform on (all black and hair up) and am going to get going on the set. Check back later if you want to see a couple of proofs from the shoot.
today is a big day - and not just because it snowed 4 inches of beautiful snow (pictures from that later!) but today I am getting to do somethings to build my portfolio. Erica is coming up and letting me take a series of pictures of her and we are going to spend the afternoon decorating cakes! Erica would like us to get into the cake decorating business and I am not sure I have the actual talent for that but we are going to find out. The first cake erica made was my birthday cake several weeks ago shown here:
Today we are going to tackle learning how to use butter cream frosting and get it super duper smooth. I have to make some heart shaped cakes this morning since we are going to do a Valentine's Day set of cakes - yeah!
OK i gotta get cake decorating - pictures of the entire day will be up here late tonight or tomorrow!
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