had a tiring day for a one-day callup yesterday.
noticed that another of my friends had also openly offered her photographic services on her website. i can't help but wonder, if really anyone with a digital slr can just offer his or her services for photographic coverage of an event. cannoncal once taught me something that i wouldn't want to forget - a responsible photographer always turns up with not one, but two cameras. why? in case the shutter jams - which is the likeliest catastrophe to happen. the next thing is to carry two flashes; since the flash can burn out - but thankfully that can be prevented with discretion with the number of shots with flash, especially in a sequence.
respect the authority of the pacestick,
27th february 2006
though i am going to go along this line for sure; there are still many variables and unknowns. for sure, i will need to hone up my self-marketing skills - after all, what is mcdonald's known for colloquially? good burgers? no - it's a great sales systems of so-so burgers (at least, my tastebuds say so to me). delivering the best, but with crap marketing is going to suck big time. it's like becoming mcdonald's which isn't the best for the consumer - delivering ho-hum quality, consistently with great marketing. of course, it's all the ideal to become a uber-restaurant - best quality with the best marketing.
is wedding photography for me? for sure, a big resounding, NO. my specialties would be sports, news and events. though i have yet to really develop a style... i think one of the good things i'm showing is that i'm looking very frequently at the portfolios of the photographers from major sports publications. i scrutinize the pages of the sports magazines i buy... and don't buy. i try too, to see how lights for a portrait session are placed, too.
if the photographer a wedding couple is engaging for their wedding has problems fulfilling a desire to explore, learn more and push their own bar in achieving and achievement... it's time to get another more deserving person to do the work. unfortunately, most wedding couples i've come across locally are nitpickers for a budget for actual wedding day photographic coverage. 400 bucks, anyone? starts from 6am in the morning till almost 12 midnight - that's 18 hours. 400 divided by 18 = 22.2 dollars per hour, average. that's incredulously cheap! and when the manhours for the postprocessing are calculated, easily 5 to 15 hours can be added in, which can hit as low at $12 per hour (15 hours postprocessing, 18 hours shooting)! shocking, isn't it? and who's gonna pay for the camera gear's upkeeping and making sure it doesn't break down? the math doesn't work out.
photographers, let's work collectively. let's not do things like undercut each other. and for newbies who are faux artists; passing random snapshots without thinking; killing mosquitoes with a machine gun - do yourself and your clients a favour. don't take away the memories that are history and pass questionable shots into forever. studio shots can be done months later, but actual wedding day shots can never be replicated - are you going to bear the financial consequences to recall everyone who turned up for the wedding night to go through the same paces again because you lost shots? or when your shutter jammed on you? when you had no backup camera to get going on right away?
photography is a business deeply rooted in ethics. don't make a fool of yourself just for money, but ask yourself if you're going to be that responsible.
my dreams of a 1d mk ii/n seems more real now. i see it as a viable high quality, durable beast to last through quite a few seasons of work.
something that i did to my bike lately - the change to goodridge hoses.
the levers
the obvious statement of what hoses are used
the front disc brake/hub area
sideview of the whole bike
noticed that another of my friends had also openly offered her photographic services on her website. i can't help but wonder, if really anyone with a digital slr can just offer his or her services for photographic coverage of an event. cannoncal once taught me something that i wouldn't want to forget - a responsible photographer always turns up with not one, but two cameras. why? in case the shutter jams - which is the likeliest catastrophe to happen. the next thing is to carry two flashes; since the flash can burn out - but thankfully that can be prevented with discretion with the number of shots with flash, especially in a sequence.
respect the authority of the pacestick,
27th february 2006
though i am going to go along this line for sure; there are still many variables and unknowns. for sure, i will need to hone up my self-marketing skills - after all, what is mcdonald's known for colloquially? good burgers? no - it's a great sales systems of so-so burgers (at least, my tastebuds say so to me). delivering the best, but with crap marketing is going to suck big time. it's like becoming mcdonald's which isn't the best for the consumer - delivering ho-hum quality, consistently with great marketing. of course, it's all the ideal to become a uber-restaurant - best quality with the best marketing.
is wedding photography for me? for sure, a big resounding, NO. my specialties would be sports, news and events. though i have yet to really develop a style... i think one of the good things i'm showing is that i'm looking very frequently at the portfolios of the photographers from major sports publications. i scrutinize the pages of the sports magazines i buy... and don't buy. i try too, to see how lights for a portrait session are placed, too.
if the photographer a wedding couple is engaging for their wedding has problems fulfilling a desire to explore, learn more and push their own bar in achieving and achievement... it's time to get another more deserving person to do the work. unfortunately, most wedding couples i've come across locally are nitpickers for a budget for actual wedding day photographic coverage. 400 bucks, anyone? starts from 6am in the morning till almost 12 midnight - that's 18 hours. 400 divided by 18 = 22.2 dollars per hour, average. that's incredulously cheap! and when the manhours for the postprocessing are calculated, easily 5 to 15 hours can be added in, which can hit as low at $12 per hour (15 hours postprocessing, 18 hours shooting)! shocking, isn't it? and who's gonna pay for the camera gear's upkeeping and making sure it doesn't break down? the math doesn't work out.
photographers, let's work collectively. let's not do things like undercut each other. and for newbies who are faux artists; passing random snapshots without thinking; killing mosquitoes with a machine gun - do yourself and your clients a favour. don't take away the memories that are history and pass questionable shots into forever. studio shots can be done months later, but actual wedding day shots can never be replicated - are you going to bear the financial consequences to recall everyone who turned up for the wedding night to go through the same paces again because you lost shots? or when your shutter jammed on you? when you had no backup camera to get going on right away?
photography is a business deeply rooted in ethics. don't make a fool of yourself just for money, but ask yourself if you're going to be that responsible.
my dreams of a 1d mk ii/n seems more real now. i see it as a viable high quality, durable beast to last through quite a few seasons of work.
something that i did to my bike lately - the change to goodridge hoses.
the levers
the obvious statement of what hoses are used
the front disc brake/hub area
sideview of the whole bike
