Updatedness

Okay...

I am making huge steps in my photography career... I now have a talent manager who booked me for a shoot on the 6th of next month... I shot for a comedy festival a week or two ago... I am doing a 365 project which has tested me and taken me far creatively...

Did It

{not feeling very talkative}

Just Did It

I got fired from my job... and then I didn't get a job I interviewed for... Sooo... I decided to start the business I've been coming up with for a while...

Just Did It...

-Dit It :)

It's A Start?

I've been thinking about writing here this week and never got up the nerve to do it... I took some self portraits recently that worked out really well... I guess I am kind of surprised... I got two offers to do some photoshoots... One is for these people I know from a tire shop I hang out at... She would like me to shoot her boys birthday party and her daughters birthday party... Seeing as this will be my first real job I asked for a very low amount to do both... Today another person approached me and asked me to do his headshots... I quoted him a price well below market... I think its good to start out low especially since I don't know whether or not I have the skills to do these jobs... I am lucky to have met a photographer willing to go with me to shoots and help me learn how to do them from someone more experienced in a hands on way where I still get the credit and paid... Achh this is such a long post...

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Projects Make Perfect

So I'm realizing that one of my major issues is that I don't actually plan shoots... I walk around and find things I find interesting and then make them more personal with editing... I want to plan shoots and I'm getting closer to the point where I can... {finally got a tripod!}...

The point of all this is I am finally beginning Did It Productions... Me and two or more of my friends are putting together books of mixed media art with one uniting concept {concepts of design, a-z, etc...} I'm hoping this will also help me take shots with more thought for the outcome...


One step at a time

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Change Vs. Improvement

Last night I was talking to one of the people who mentors me. He told me that I had in fact changed. My issue is that "Change" is not "Improvement". I do realize my style has changed. And I have no issues with where it's headed. My issue is that despite the change I see no significant improval in my skills as a photographer.

Maybe its my aversion to whats considered acceptable. I like my pictures full of grain and at angles that makes you wonder how your supposed to look at it. I like my colors bold and bright or soft and strong... gahh!!

I'm getting criticized more than I'm getting praised. I guess next step is trying to figure out how to reach the people who would like my work more that criticized.

Growth

Gah! I have no idea how to begin this or even put all the things circling my mind in to words... My "thing" is growth... personal, emotional, spiritual growth... I have to admit its a slow and bupy road at times... but to look back through my life and my pictures you start to see progress... I started it off simply... learn to chose happiness... trying to realize that there is so much good in our lives that we learn to take it for granted... Now that I have officially taken this to heart my next step is a doozy lol...

I am going to stop hoping and wishing for the things I want and want to do and start activly doing something about it... that and I am going to start making my photography mean more to me personally... My friend gave me some homework to do... and as Ive been running it around in my mind I realized that I don't connect with most of my old photos... I went back through to some of them and edited them... My Remix's, as I call them, along with most of my newer photos are definitely more in tune with me...

Well yeah... I'm not quite sure why I had to write this but I feel as though I had to so I did... now on to work....

Did It

I am not upset...

That my Flickr doesn't get more attention... okay maybe I am... its such a downer to be on a website with all these amazing photographers and not get that many veiws or comments... Ugghh... I need an amazing photo shoot

Taking A Passenger Seat...

{So I can soon be in the drivers...}
Well I did say I wanted to be busy... Been working everyday {not that I'm complaining} so my SLR only came out once last week... I got some pretty nice ones in a yarn store so I'm just trying to figure out what I am going to do with them...

Printed out an application for school... $26/unit for CA residents and it takes 36-48 units to get an Associates... I'm well on my way to saving so hopefully I can start taking classes by Spring...

I've been working on my photoshop skills on weekends and have gotten selective coloring pretty much down... now I want to think of an effect I want to work on next...

Working with the amount of entrepreneurs that I do I'm starting to get an idea of what it takes to own your own business and make it successful... a mixture of insanity and a mind that thinks about how to make money 1st, 2nd, 3rd and then anything else last... I think with the amount of drive I've got its something I can do if I just keep pushing.. Did It Productions will not be a dream forever!

A blog of mixed emotions...

Happiness: A wonderful woman named Dawn has blessed me with her Cannon Rebel... {which oddly enough I have not had the chance to use since it became mine thanks to my new J.O.B}... shes giving me a wide angle telephoto lens and a better camera bag so... YAY!

UnHappiness: I feel like I'm horrible... ugh my ego is taking hit after hit... and there all me hitting it trying to compare myself to other photographers... BUT I just really want to get better... I feel like I haven't really grown... I see no improvement and I get no more feed back than I used to... {okay thats a lie... I used to get no views if I wasn't online that day now I get 100} But really can I say I'm satisfied with the quality of my stream... no...

Middling: I plan on getting my Associates in Photography... Partially because my parents want me to have a degree in SOMETHING... partially because it'll give me something to do... mostly so I can LEARN... I want to learn as much about photography as possible so I can be the best Photographer I can be... So now im trying to save up 2000 dollars either by August or next January... Wish me luck!

~Did It

It's A Start

I just got my first two jobs. They're both nude shoots but they promise to be something amazing. I am soo excited. My only issue is being so new to this I don't quite know how to go about setting things up and any of the prep work necessary. I hope I'll do well...

Back

Ive been stranded without internet for a while so I'm not on nearly as much as I'd like to be. BUT when I do get on I update my Flickr at the very least... The Parents and I drove some of the PCH south this weekend and I took over 300 pictures... of those 300 about 40 made the cut... I cant wait to post them.

I was thinking if its bad that I dont really like editing my photos. I mean I know photoshop opens you up to a new world of photography. I just love my pictures the way they are. I think that everything is beautiful the way it is, the think is to open yourself up to find the beauty in everything...

OR

Maybe I just don't want to learn how to use photoshop... :D

Its A Start...

Well, here we go I guess... Step one in becoming a pro-photographer... MARKET YO'SEF! So thats what I'm doing. Trying to get myself out there that way I can do MY art MY way... {and get paid for it a'course}. So far I've created a store on Zazzle.com, made a Twitter { :( }. I'm also working on getting a website {Yay for friends who know HTML} and creating an Etsy {once I have products}.
Hope You Enjoy My Journey! <3
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