[Suzan Martino]

February 2, 2011 at 11:11 pm

Hello!!! :D

Thanks a loooot for your tips!
As I’m in a course, this time I coudn’t choose the time to take the photos, but for my personal try, I’ll consider your tips !

I tried to expose a little more, but, in my opinion, the artificial lights became to shiny, making it impossible to see what’s behind those trees.
And this was one of my problems there: How do I correctly expose so the trees don’t become these “black spots”, since they are in front of the light?

I’ll read the tutorial sent by Lawrence, and I’ll come back here to show the results! :D

again, Thaaaaaaanks! :mrgreen:

[Suzan Martino]

January 18, 2011 at 1:52 am

wow! amazing topic!

I was going to ask how is the market there at Ireland some of these days…
Gerry’s post gave me a good view of what is happening and your behavior, and it’s very interesting!

Well, I’ll tell from what I know from here, of Brazil’s wedding market.
We have a LOT of wedding photographers, and a LOT of bad wedding photographers.
It seems people don’t want to update their equipment and techniques… I shoot a baptism last year, and there was a lot of children there, with their own photographer. There was some cameras and flashes there that I could swear that came out from an “old time movie”!

What I learned from all I’ve seen, and the courses I made, is:

1 – Don’t give up! :)
2 – Develop a strong photographic style, and be yourself.
3 – Don’t think that just because you lower your price when demanded by a client, you are actually winning. As said up there, you have bills, and the companies will not lower their prices just to fit yout budget.
4 – At least here, there are clients to every price range. Study your portfolio, make a solid business plan and go ahead to achieve the clients that you seek, knowing their preferences.
5 – Use the internet a loooot! Web based portfolios, a good looking website is a great first step. Use social networks as twitter and facebook to show your recent shoots and “mark” people in the pictures, so they’ll know in their profile and pass the photo to other people (here it’s a powerful way, that’s giving a lot of good result)
6 – Take care of your personal presentation. Your outfit, haircut, shoes and nails tells a lot about you, before you say a single word.

About what Jhonny said in his first post:
I think you could try to give the parent albuns as an option for the client.
Sell the service of shooting the wedding + the tradicional album.
The parent albuns, calendars and everything else may be purchased as a plus, with single prices to each product.
Some clients may not think it’s essencial, or even something that will make them choose you instead of any other one. Sometimes they just want to have that memory registered, and that’s all. You may be giving more then they need, and loosing profit on doing so… :(

sorry for my “rusty” english :)

[Suzan Martino]

January 18, 2011 at 12:20 am

My try!

The golden camels and the missing DOF

[Suzan Martino]

January 13, 2011 at 3:22 am

Vivien’s story is impressive!

I’d like to share a link on this subject:
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/01/03/the-incredible-story-of-vivian-maier/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;

[Suzan Martino]

January 13, 2011 at 1:43 am

ahhh thank you very much! :D