Logos

This Logo talk was actually worthwhile, unlike the last talk we got. This got me thinking about my own brand identity and the logo that I’d like to represent my business. I’ve already decided on my name for the company and it’s simply Lesley Salt Photography. I think the best way to sell your company and for people to remember it is through your own name. I just need a logo, I’m thinking of something simple, girly but abit sophisticated, and also memorable. I just need someone to design it for me… graphics students or Lance?!

Marketing Talk...?

Marketing Talk....?!!

Marketing Talk?…What marketing talk? She didn’t even tell us anything about marketing. It’s a good job we got a handout explaining it all to us.

Feel for hair shoot

Anyone was doing anything for the feel for hair. Nobody had an roles anymore, it was basically if you want to shoot some you can, if you don’t, then don’t. I thought I best get myself involved as I’d like to try and do as much of the projects that I can from this course. The more projects you do the more likely you are to get recognized.

I felt quite comfortable doing this shoot, I decided to shoot the macro shots, and I like working with macro so I really enjoyed myself. The only problem with this kind of assignment is that you don’t feel like your challenging yourself, like you would with other types of photography. The clients want clean cut-out photos and that’s obviously what they are going to get.

Me? A teacher?

My Mentor has asked me if I want to teach a recreational beginners photographers class… hmm.. Can I really do this? It starts in September so I have plenty of time to prepare and get my head around it all.. So why not? I might as well give it a go.

At first I felt a bit apprehensions about this, and I still am feeling like this. Teaching really isn’t my kind of thing especially standing in front of a load of people, but I’ve been told it will only be to about 6 people, so this has slightly made it better. I think it’s best to take these chances and get abit of experience and it’s also something to put on my C.V…. so yes I’m going to be a recreational teacher: S

The perfect mentor

I’ve found my mentor… I’ve decided I’m going to ask my old college tutor to be my mentor. I think she’d perfect for the job. The main reason I’m asking her is because she’s getting me work and she believes in me. Someone approached her about a student photographer for a wedding and she recommended me. I was slightly nervous at first about having the responsibility and the huge pressure on photographing a wedding. But it’s going to be a massive thing for me, I can’t believe I’m doing a wedding!!

This is the kind of work which will challenge you to see if you’ve got what it takes to be a photographer so it’ll be interesting to see how it all turns out… 25^th April isn’t that long away.!!!

Copyright

Ian Shipley Copyright Talk

This talk was really interesting and it also makes you think more about where you put your images. He taught me a lot about Copyright as I didn’t really know a lot about it before and it shocked me how companies such as Facebook hold all the rights to your images when you post them on your profile. I think this is unreal because people’s work could be anywhere making money for the company.

He’s definitely given us all something to think about as he provided information on different aspects of Copyright, as it’s something that we all need to learn if we going into the photography business.

I think the best thing for us all to do is right up our own terms and conditions, but we would need help knowing what to put in them.

Feel for Hair - New Assignment

 We’ve got a new assignment from Feel for Hair, and it seems like a really boring and quite tenuous assignment but it’s showing us a different approach to  photography which I thinks good because not all assignments will be to all our tastes and some will be quite simple and boring. 

The type of photos that they want are cut outs so we don’t need to think of creative ways to photograph them, we just need to get the right lighting and composition for it all to work.

I think quite a few people will back out of this assignment because it doesn’t interest them, but I don’t think that’s the right attitude to have because I think we’ve all got to try the different photography that is being given to us.

I feel like I need to make more of an effort to put myself forward because I feel at the moment I take a step back and let others take charge, but this isn’t going to help me for the future. 

Ok for the Proposals

I was quite shocked by the feedback from the proposals because I felt the exercise was quite a simple one, but the feedback didn’t back that up. Only a few people had an OK to their feedback.

We received feedback today from our proposals for Harriet’s assignment, what was said about mine was that it was Ok but I got a few negative points about me spending money and I also two of the magazines I commented on weren’t customer publishing magazines.  So overall the proposal wasn’t brilliant but after hearing the other feedback it was probably one of the better ones, I was quite shocked to hear the other feedbacks because only a few more got an Ok for them, and I expected that they would all be have an Ok without any questioning about them.

I felt like the actually proposal was quite straight forward if you followed the points which were provided. I think if I was to do a proposal again I would be more definite in my techniques and the equipment I will use.