Yes, there is some confusion as to whether it's starting or continuing. Jason has a degree in photography that is just sitting there getting dusty. He has been showing me how to use the Adobe Photoshop program. He has also told me that I take really good photos of the kids.
Honestly, Jason isn't super social. He doesn't have a lot of free time to dedicate to photo shoots. A wedding is something that is scheduled months in advance so he can easily make sure he has the needed time for it off of work. However, things like family photo shoots are scheduled, often, a couple of weeks in advance, at most. They also take less time to do.
I really enjoy taking the photos. I love working with the kids and getting them to act naturally. I like working with the natural light, and as Jason has told me it allows for the best photos.
With all of that, we are officially going in to business. At the moment it's very small scale. This summer I will look in to getting a business license and tax ID number as well as registering our business name locally. I know this will mean extra work come tax time. I also know it has the potential for some extra income for us.
If you are my friend on facebook, I've sent you a like/fan request. I've also started a blog. At the moment, I'm uploading photos of different times Jason or I have taken photos of the kids. To act as a portfolio. I'll be ordering some business cards to hand out as well. I know that to begin with we'll be using a lot of family to build the portfolio and get the word out. That is fine. So if you are family (or not) and would like some nice photos done as a portfolio builder for me, give us a call. For the portfolio builder, we are doing no charge. We'll give you a CD/DVD of the pictures that are taken, sized to 8x10 so that they will be good quality printed up to that size and a stack of business cards. Just spread the word when you are asked who did your photos. If you want, we can get photos printed for you for the cost of the printing.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
JackMan 2010
Here is almost 6 month old JackMan, he's like Batman, but cooler! We really haven't decided on a nickname for Jack. We often call him either JackMan or JackieBoy. Yep, one word, just like that.
Once Abbey's coordinating onesie is clean, I'll be doing 6 month photos of the two of them together. I'm hoping to get them interacting, which they do all the time now. Jack is a rather possesive little dude. Last night he was sitting in the exersaucer and I had Abbey on my knee so she could play too (we have our 2nd exersaucer on order, we wanted 2 different ones and had to resort to ordering it from Babies R Us to be able to accomplish that). Jack was fine playing with the cow, until Abbey was playing with the pig. Then he HAD to have it and pushed her hands away and took it from her. She grabbed his hand and started chewing on it. It seemed like she was saying "Take my toy? I'll eat your hand!"
These pics were all taken in my room using only all natural light. The only editing that has been done to them is that they were cropped and resized to 300 dpi. Jason told me that I seem to always get good pictures of the babies and that I should be a baby photographer. I don't know about that. I think it's easy to take photos of your own babies, it's getting other people's kids to sit there and look at you and not be scared of the weird lady with the black thingy sticking out of her face that is the hard part. I don't have anyone local that I could try out the theory of being able to photograph other people's babies as it is. We all know that it's even more difficult when older kids are involved. I think I'll just stick to my own kids.
Once Abbey's coordinating onesie is clean, I'll be doing 6 month photos of the two of them together. I'm hoping to get them interacting, which they do all the time now. Jack is a rather possesive little dude. Last night he was sitting in the exersaucer and I had Abbey on my knee so she could play too (we have our 2nd exersaucer on order, we wanted 2 different ones and had to resort to ordering it from Babies R Us to be able to accomplish that). Jack was fine playing with the cow, until Abbey was playing with the pig. Then he HAD to have it and pushed her hands away and took it from her. She grabbed his hand and started chewing on it. It seemed like she was saying "Take my toy? I'll eat your hand!"
These pics were all taken in my room using only all natural light. The only editing that has been done to them is that they were cropped and resized to 300 dpi. Jason told me that I seem to always get good pictures of the babies and that I should be a baby photographer. I don't know about that. I think it's easy to take photos of your own babies, it's getting other people's kids to sit there and look at you and not be scared of the weird lady with the black thingy sticking out of her face that is the hard part. I don't have anyone local that I could try out the theory of being able to photograph other people's babies as it is. We all know that it's even more difficult when older kids are involved. I think I'll just stick to my own kids.
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