Senior city

Senior pictures are in full swing and I have been so busy that it has been hard to write for the blog. I write at my day job almost all day, so when I come home, I just want to spend a little time with the family.

Anyway, I got a 50mm F1.4 Canon lens and used it yesterday. Wow, for $300, it is very nice. Kills the plastic fantastic 1.8 on image quality and bokeh (camera nerds will get that).

Shot again with Mary and loved this photo that I shot with my lensbaby 2. I just got a lensbaby 3 for my still life class as sort of an ubercheap bellows/tilt shift lens. Because of the finnicky focus of the 2, I had to shoot a bunch in order to get one sharp enough in the eyes. I think the lensbaby 3 will lessen the number of exposures needed to get a sharp shot.

New site getting set up

I bought a site from bludomain.com, and I am populating it prior to my switch from my livebooks site, which you can see (at the time of posting) at www.adamphotographic.com.

My new site is cheaper and has more features, so I am pretty excited. Best of all is the proofing gallery, so I can have people look through the outtakes and see if there are any additional they want. That is the one sucky thing about digital, people expect to see everything. I used to have to go through a real hassle to watermark and pdf them in such a way to make it a pain to use images that may not be up to my quality standards.

Now, I just use Lightroom to create jpgs and upload to a client proof gallery. Super cool.

School starts again

I am going to keep at this blog if for nothing else than as a cathartic exercise.

I have been uberbusy this year with senior portraits. I think they have come out really well. I don;t have a lot of them up, but you can check out a few under individuals at http://www.adamphotographic.com/.

I am in the process of switching to another web server so both my email and website could be messed up for a couple of days.

On Wednesdays, I have begun working with Mary, who is super nice on top of being pretty and super tall. Here is a picture in which I put my old logo (doh!), but it is a good example of my work.

Anyway, just thought I would post an update. It is much quicker to blog it than post it on my own site!

Website

I am looking for a new website provider. Livebooks is too darn expensive.

Spent all day yesterday printing senior portrait orders. I have been lucky this year with lots of pretty people. Makes it much easier.

I am surprised sometimes about what photos other people choose. For instance, this photo of one of the seniors was my faves but did not get ordered:



I still have a bunch of sessions waiting for print orders, but I have been surprised this year. I have had everything from super thrilled with my photos to people whose spouses obviously told them to hire me and weren't thrilled with it.

Alright, I signed up for photographers.com listing. I am not sure if I wasted my $135, but people over at modelmayhem seem to report that the site is bringing them referrals. We will see.

Even with Adobe Lightroom, I am still wading through piles of images. I have to get a handle on keywording and categorizing. Last I checked, I had 22,000+, so it won't be simple.