Well, as some of you know, I used to be a full-time commercial photographer. I shot all over the country for fashion and beauty clients. When my first daughter was born, I found it hard to leave to go on long shoots and be away from watching her grow up. I then refocused my work on commercial and ended up in a big studio (5ooo sq feet) shooting garage openers, chrome wheels, food, jewelry... just a mish-mash of high end advertsing and design photographs. I was slowly going back to my roots as an AD, designing the ads and shooting them as well. Then annual reports and then designing the ads and hiring photographers. A particularly bad decision in becoming partners with a louse caused great financial harm and I pretty much stopped shooting for a while.
I decided over the last year that I missed shooting, so I have been doing more and more stuff to get my skills back. However I wont be doing much 'commercial' work, nor will I be leaving my consulting business and doing it full time. I am going to shoot what I want and keep it fun. My new markets are fine weddings and portraiture.
I have neighbors, friends and clients who are always telling me how much they love the shots I have done of their kids, families and such because they are so different. They love the images and that makes it even more fun for me. That kind of feedback is rare in the commercial world.
I have launched my new wedding and portrait site. Because I am an owner of Total-Control-Site.com, I of course used one of our products, the WebFolio, to build the foundation. So it will serve two purposes; to show my work and to show a site built out fully on our simple template. (BTW... I didn't do anything "special"... this is a WebFolio "straight from the box" as they say.
My PDF, I guess it is an EBook, containing all 10 Action Plans for 2006 is ready for you today at my SteelID site (and it too will be launching a new and improved version this month). Anyway, here is the total link set to all 10 Action Plans. I will post this link set on the right column when I get a chance.
Happiest of New Years to all my readers. I hope to have even more for you this year.
Be Found on the Search Engines. (DAP 1)
Show More Pictures (DAP2)
Flickr… more than just a photoblog. (DAP3)
Web Design Options (DAP4)
Taking Stock of Your Stock (DAP5)
Selling Prints and Fine Art (DAP6)
Get Inspired (DAP7)
Web Marketing Tips (DAP8)
Move to the Web for Increased Productivity (DAP9)
Creating a More Profitable Year (DAP10)
1 comment:
"I have neighbors, friends and clients who are always telling me how much they love the shots I have done...because they are so different."
Hi Don! You probably don't remember me, but I had a senior portraits session with you sometime last year. I never really got the chance to tell you how much I loved them, but I thought I'd take that chance now after reading this entry. Since my session, I've been viewing your work pretty frequently because it reminds me how of how much I love photography. If life were perfect, I'd have a career just like yours, doing something I love-but seeing how I had no real experience in photography in highschool, I'm pursuing a degree in business at the U of A. I've been photoshopping random pictures of mine(of which are nothing compared to your photos, haha) just as a hobby, and I'm considering takign some classes over the summer in order to learn more. Anyway, thanks again for the pictures, and if I ever need more done, I'll know who to come to!
~Andrea T.
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