AIPP

The AIPP talk was good, but it was really about individual attention to the people with their prints that the person was going to enter into the awards. I got some good feedback on the images that I was looking to put in.

The different view point of the architecture was favoured. The landscape image was strongest image. The portrait was liked - the gaze of the subject, the opened zipper and the texture of the unshaven face all worked well. This image was picked as the best or strongest to put into the AIPP wards.

Hilary Wordhaugh

Hilary is a portrait photographer. It came to me that I can understand why she is very good at the job that she does. It is that her images are very nice and beautiful, as she quotes so herself. She can talk to people and I think that is why she gets the great images out of her subjects. Hilary spoke a little on her business side, but not to much. Hilary also gave a demonstration on how a portrait shoot would work and spoke about why she would mainly talk to the kids and get the best out of the kids because mum and dad are the ones paying for the images. One good point that I got out of this was that Hilary shows her clients the size of the images on her wall in her studio with a projector and the difference of a 5x7 image on the wall to a 40x60 image, so she can sell the large prints. Hilary is also a good sales lady, getting her clients into the 'yes' mood so when it comes to buying big prints then it 'yes'.

Geoff Comfort

Geoff was talking about the way he run his business and how this may help you in your business.
He was really good in giving open advice about the way he has set up his business. Things like, have you done a budget? In that budget, have included everything that you would live off and also determined what life style you would like? This will impact the way you cost jobs and work out the cost of the running of the business.

Geoff also went into the way in which he costs a job and the thing to think about when you are writing your job quote or working out the pricing for your business.

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Check Point 4

Thank You

Thanks to Silvia and Julian for their comments. I know that we all enjoy them and take a lot away from them. So, for everyone else, if you like receiving feedback, do the same to other bloggers. Where are you third year?

Photo Shoot

I had a photo shoot today and it was a pain in the ass.

Working with people who don't want to be there and think that one shot should be the best shot ever. The pressure was on and I was not that happy with how it went, but in the end, I think I managed to get what was needed. A good lesson and thank you to CIT, as I would love to get these problems out of the way now and not later.