I have tried to do this for so many years and have puttered out after January. In an attempt to try this again for 2010 I thought it might be easier to concentrate on ONE subject. My first choice was something immobile like my birdbath…see the picture in my header…it looks exactly like that probably 360 days out of the year – the other five days it is frozen. Pretty boring, easy and just, well BORING. I think I can take on something a little more challenging – my first thought was Amos. He loves the camera, performs on command without any incentive other than dog kisses…hmmmmm sounding a lot like my bird bath. Then Jesse saunters in. Pretty well behaved 90% of the time, active, yet does things with his own personality – kind of like a model would. The challenges of photographing Jesse are going to be invaluable lessons for me. I wanted to do a personal photography project and this fulfills that need. Jesse will be always testing my skills as a photographer… 1. always having your camera handy – whether it’s my (new) bad boy, iPhone or point&shoot. 2. metering his face, white on one side, dark on the other and bright blue eyes. 3. focus points, he has a pretty large snot so making sure what I want in focus is IN focus (I have a lot of great detail shots of Jesse’s nose!). There you have it, 365 Days of Jesse.
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January 10, 2010Giveaway for photographers
November 20, 2009The amount of information on the World Wide Web for photographers is down right overwhelming. Different opinions, Canon or Nikon, film or digital, actions and presets, Lightroom2 or Aperture…I have been lucky to meet some wonderful photographers down this path of starting this business. They have been willing to share information about the things that they have learned along the way. So that is what I plan on doing here on the blog. If you are photographer just starting out (yea! we can make this journey together) or thinking about it be sure check back and also check out my resource section for photographers.
One of the best tips that I received from this gal was to buy this book: Digital Photography Boot Camp by Kevin Kubota. She also advised before taking it home drop it off at Kinkos to have spiral bound. Once you have it home – read it all the way through, breathe it, live it and adopt the whole work flow process.
Because I was just staring out I had no idea about the complication of post production workflow. But as I was working through Kevin Kubota’s process it became very clear how it could be a total mess. Thank you Allison for this tip – valuable and probably saved me years of anguish!
So in the spirit of giving, I have one copy of this book to giveaway – to enter into this random drawing leave a comment on this post:
- Tell me how long you have been a professional photographer OR
- if you are aspiring to become one
- What/who do you photograph?
Dog Kisses – PW
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