Heather Adverts – Images by John MacDonald
7 minute photo shoot here. Heather is a friend of my wife and can be seen as the “senior flower girl” in our wedding. This was a combined fun shoot with possible advertising potential.
Archive for October, 2009
Heather
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009LCS 4th Grade Insect Project 2009-2010
Saturday, October 17th, 2009The 4th grade class now develops their own insects, in the interest of preserving the models that would soon perish I photographed them all. The portraits were done for 22 students in under 5 minutes in the hallway so they could show off their insects.
LCS 4th Grade Insect Project 2009-2010 – Images by John MacDonald
Time For Holiday Cards
Saturday, October 17th, 2009My wife and I have just finished working out the layout of our Christmas cards, we went with a simple traditional design with 3 photos in a 4×8 inch photo card.
peace unto you
We ended up ordering 50, and included photos from our wedding and the honeymoon in Australia, can’t go wrong with kangaroos!
If you and your family are looking to send out photo christmas cards you’ll need to call schedule your photo session with enough time to spare to send the cards out. I try to process images as fast as I can, but it may take up to 2 weeks after the photo session for the cards to arrive without placing a rush order. If you are sending out in time for Christmas, the first week of December would be the absolute latest time to schedule your session.
You can pick out your template ahead of time at pickyourholidaycard.com or view my printed samples of some of the most popular 4×8 and 5×7 flat card sizes before or after your photo session. Cards with envelopes start as low as $1 each.
New Site and Fall Promotions
Friday, October 16th, 2009While most won’t notice that the site is new, since it looks almost exactly the same… the site is new. This is part of the kick-off of the fall promotional push that includes the new in-home focus. It’s about a week turnaround time plus shipping on photo Chrismas/Hanukkah/Holidays cards so there’s about 6 weeks left to get those done. Templates are at http://www.pickyourholidaycard.com/ and samples will be here next week.
Stop by the Tri-Cities Women’s Expo, the Bzen Solutions booth has a raffle to win a free portrait session including a free 11×14 print. They also have some discount cards to hand out that are worth picking up.
The in-home aspect of what I offer is now my new focus. My studio has always primarily consisted of lightweight gear, most of which goes in bags that sling over my back. I’ve paid a hideous premium for my Bogen ultra compact (19″ collapsed!) lightstands. Half of my umbrellas are double-folds. My entire backdrop support system is one of the bags that sling across my back. A lot of my best children’s work has been in people’s homes already.
Moving completely to this has a lot of upsides, both for my and for my clients. For me there’s no studio rental overhead. For clients I don’t have to pass studio rental overhead on. (I still have the option to use a local studio, if clients so desire). But, really, that’s not the biggest thing. Children are more comfortable at home. My wife likes to tell the story of pair that raided their play chest and came out in dozens of costumes, wanting photos in each and every one.
Varsity Football/Impact Cheerleading: LCS vs. Asotin 2009-2010
Friday, October 16th, 2009Featuring the IMPACT cheerleaders!
LCS Varsity Football vs. Asotin 2009-2010 – Images by John MacDonald
An Ode To Health
Friday, October 16th, 2009This is more of a personal entry to explain the lack of recent entries. Including, but not limited to, my lack of coverage of Liberty Christian sports, the not quite finished website integration, etc.
I’ve been down for quite a bit with H1N1 (aka swine flu, which is really mostly an avian flu, and named after the human component just in time to confuse people because this year’s seasonal flu is _also_ an H1N1). Which apparently has a penchant for spurring secondary bacterial infections. Which I’ve had.
Past two weeks were going to be basically dedicated to working on my promotional materials and advertising both in a general sense and in the run up to the Women’s Expo today. My thanks go out to Ben for basically single-handedly designing the new promo cards with almost no input from me and to ProDPI my photo lab, who also do press work, for same-day turnaround on everything being handed out. They also do the photo christmas cards for me and their work is fantastic if anyone is looking to send out photo cards this year.
I have a couple of pages to finish on the site before it is “good enough” for this afternoon and a few new events that I shot before getting sick to post. If anyone’s going to the Women’s Expo today, be sure to stop by the Bzen booth and enter their raffle for a chance to win a free in-home portrait session including an 11×14 print and also to pick up the new promo cards that have a 25% discount.
How to choose a wedding photographer
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Nearly every photographer has weighed in on this subject at one time or another. I’m not going to add my two cents right now, but since I did get married recently I may at some point. Instead, I am going to send you to someone else that just went and asked a number of wedding photographers that question, and a number of related ones, sorted through their answers and posted it in a cohesive format.
Hiring a Wedding Photographer | Mydeejay.com
Included topics are photographer style (primarily photojournalistic vs. traditional), personality matching with the couple, film vs. digital, budgets, engagement sessions, etc. The article then ends with a list of questions you should ask a wedding photographer. I’m going to put a post break here and answer that list for myself after it. (more…)
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