Keeping Busy

A lot has been going on in the last few weeks.

Although, I haven't had a whole lot of time to work through the photo shoots that I have done in the last week. I did however have four main photo shoots in the last week, but none of them have really been uploaded to the Internet. Two of the main photo shoots were using my new canvas backdrop that I purchased from Home Depot. It was $20 for a 12' by 24' piece of canvas. I actually had to cut down the 12' side down to 8' to fit in my garage. It is absolutely huge, and wrinkled. I really need to purchase a steamer to get those wrinkles out. Or, just forfeit some money into getting some proper back drops. So, back to the wrinkles, which were still in the canvas at the time of the photo shoot, it doesn't look terrible. I was not too excited for these background imperfection, but the photo shoots turned out okay. I did however upload a select few from the shoots.

Something that is worth mentioning, a I just recently finished up the design for Brent Cole's "Good Love" CD, and should be printed in the next few weeks. I will be very excited to share the artwork that I did for that! I now have two more full CD designs to work on in the next few months. First one for the talented Caleb Paul's "Learning to Fall," and then my second for Mark Wade. I had done a cool CD design for Mark Wade for his first CD, and he is having me do the artwork for his second as well. I am really excited about these projects. I hope they go over well, and will set me up for more projects like them.

I had an interesting conversation with a friend yesterday about business of photography. It got me thinking about how I need to approach this business. I feel I have been carefully pondering the idea of some business strategies a little too carefully. I haven't really spear headed or taken any major risks besides purchasing equipment. My friends keep reminding me that I have a lot of potential, and I usually just rub it off as the usual positive friend's advice. I have noticed recently, that my web site has been gathering a lot of hits, and I have been contacted by a few families about portraits, but nothing has come through. I have thought about becoming a wedding photographer, a fashion photographer, or just staying freelance. It is such a hard market to get yourself into. I basically need to market myself, as the greatest photography that has ever lived, but how am i supposed to do that? The competition is everywhere! Everyone owns a DSLR these days, they don't make bad cameras anymore, and some so called Point and Shoot cameras are good enough to make a living off them. I might have jumped into this one a bit late, you'd say. I may have a competitive edge. I have geared myself with equipment that keeps me mobile. All of my gear can be relocated in one small storage bin to any location. Each individual type of equipment is neatly packaged into a smaller tupperware container. This makes for a very mobile setup, minus the part where I have to carry this large tote everywhere i need a lighting setup.

Other than the CD designs, I have a lot of work to keep me soaked up to my knees in projects. I enjoy keeping myself busy with these projects. I will look forward to sharing some finished products here shortly.