There will be significant changes to this site over the next week. For starters, we will be adding a new section on pet photography. Why do pet photography? Well, unless you have a Galapagos tortoise, your pet isn't likely to outlive you. Unless you live on a farm -a real farm, mind you- where pets and dinner are interchangeable you get attached to your furry or scaled companions. They're like family, and you want to have something to remember them by. Why not have a photography session for Fluffy or Mittens or Piddles or Bob the fish and capture them the way you always want to remember them?
Bob the fish, for instance, probably doesn't have too much life expectancy anyway, even if he doesn't live in the same home as Fluffy the cat, and it doesn't do to wait until it looks like they're getting old. There's the case of Fillet the beta, who sickened and died due to sickly Petsmart fish being introduced into his tank, and of RJ the jack russel terror who apparently went down a groundhog hole and never came back up. Long before those two there was Socks the cat, who had the unfortunate habit of sleeping underneath heavy machinery. I could go on in this depressing vein, but I'm satisfied I've made my point. No one sat down with any of these critters (except for Fillet) and intentionally took dedicated pictures of just them, and after they were gone it was too late.
We like to think that its not so, but its actually the same way with people.
In any case, I think there's definitely a market if people stop and think about it.
Another idea that was considered but will probably not be adopted is to offer all of my photography through fineartamerica.com. Most of my artistic photography is or will eventually be available there anyway. There are pros and cons to this, chief among the pros being that prints would be shipped directly to clients and once the images were properly uploaded I wouldn't have to do a thing. I might even be able to decrease my costs a little bit since I'd have no cost of materials to factor in. The catch is that even if I reduced my costs, total costs would still be higher because FAA would have to take its cut. It would also take much longer to upload them since each image (and there are usually fifty to eight images per show, or more depending on its size) must have a description.
In other news, it seems that CDP's part of the show in Herndon was cancelled. It may be just as well, and there's another ODSS show on the 29th. This is good, because things have been very quiet of late as far as photography is concerned. I've been looking via craigslist for models to use for example pictures in areas I'd l but as of yet have had no suitable replies.
Bob the fish, for instance, probably doesn't have too much life expectancy anyway, even if he doesn't live in the same home as Fluffy the cat, and it doesn't do to wait until it looks like they're getting old. There's the case of Fillet the beta, who sickened and died due to sickly Petsmart fish being introduced into his tank, and of RJ the jack russel terror who apparently went down a groundhog hole and never came back up. Long before those two there was Socks the cat, who had the unfortunate habit of sleeping underneath heavy machinery. I could go on in this depressing vein, but I'm satisfied I've made my point. No one sat down with any of these critters (except for Fillet) and intentionally took dedicated pictures of just them, and after they were gone it was too late.
We like to think that its not so, but its actually the same way with people.
In any case, I think there's definitely a market if people stop and think about it.
Another idea that was considered but will probably not be adopted is to offer all of my photography through fineartamerica.com. Most of my artistic photography is or will eventually be available there anyway. There are pros and cons to this, chief among the pros being that prints would be shipped directly to clients and once the images were properly uploaded I wouldn't have to do a thing. I might even be able to decrease my costs a little bit since I'd have no cost of materials to factor in. The catch is that even if I reduced my costs, total costs would still be higher because FAA would have to take its cut. It would also take much longer to upload them since each image (and there are usually fifty to eight images per show, or more depending on its size) must have a description.
In other news, it seems that CDP's part of the show in Herndon was cancelled. It may be just as well, and there's another ODSS show on the 29th. This is good, because things have been very quiet of late as far as photography is concerned. I've been looking via craigslist for models to use for example pictures in areas I'd l but as of yet have had no suitable replies.