Last time I show anyone my images!

[The Saint]

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All I can imagine will happen to the images after the evening is they will either be trashed or be hidden away in the site office.

I'm not sure if there would be any future work out of this let alone paid...

But we can only hope.

I just enjoyed going around the site trying to think up creative images, made a change to the day job for an hour.

Just resized all the images to suit a 20 x 16, which I'm hoping will be big enough for the venue and wouldn't look too small.

Simon

[The Saint]

Re: Last time I show anyone my images!

Well an update with a few images!

Sorry for not getting back any earlier but it's been mad at work and I was away at the weekend.

So how did it go......

Well it was a right mess. I had meetings prior to the event and was meant to have an hour to help finish the setting up, but as you can probably guess meetings over ran and I ended up getting to the venue only 20 minutes before the party started (10 minutes before people started arriving).

When I got to the venue they were still putting the last of the easels, so not prepared at all. The easels were a right pain in the **** as the legs just went all over the place and trying to get them the same level, square and spaced was near impossible. I just ran out of time trying to get them to the standard I would have liked, but there was nothing I could do (after a few glasses of champagne I'm sure they looked level to most people!). In the end the images were printed to near A1 size on foamboard and I have admit they looked quite good, I wasn't sure if there would have been a drop off in quality at that size, but I needn't have worried.

Anyway, forgetting the presentation the comments I received were very good, a lot of them on the "arty feel" to the images rather than normal bland record photos.

The images have now been shared with the design team as they were of a quality equal if not surpassing what they would have got from their "pros" which is nice to know. One of the contractors also liked the image of his works so much that he offered to pay me for a copy (due to reasons I wouldn't go into I couldn't except, but nice to know they would have).

I've also been asked if I would be willing to do some more similar work in the future and get paid, so we'll see what comes out of that. A little pin money to go to the camera fund will never go amiss.

Simon

[PeterBirder]

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Hi Simon.
These are great, I can see why your "audience" liked them, very "profesional". No. 5 is superb.

Thanks for sharing.

[wanderer]

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Very nice. A clean crisp set.
I particularly like the juxtaposition of the waterfall (soft) and building (hard) in the last one.
I recognise the 'road' even the easels in half an hour.
I see where its going. Have fun. You're going to get paid to do what you do for fun.
Don't sell yourself short. Ask at least as much as you earn per hour.

[rutwij]

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Very nicely composed Simon! I like the one of the bathroom... very professional looking shot! The slow exposed waterfall was a nice touch!

Rutwij

[OM USer]

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Superb set, well done. Looks like you timed it well to use the best of the natural light (well, other than the bathroom & basement shot).

[Bikie John]

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Great photos, I'm not surprised they liked them. Maybe it helped that you were doing it for yourself, rather than working to a standard brief and producing standard results.

Here's hoping you can grow it from here.

Best wishes ... John

[Zuiko]

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Great photos, I'm not surprised they liked them. Maybe it helped that you were doing it for yourself, rather than working to a standard brief and producing standard results.

Here's hoping you can grow it from here.

Best wishes ... John

John, I'm sure you're right; "professional" means getting the job done on time to a certain standard, not necessarily with any creativity, inspiration or empathy with the subject - which Simon's pictures have in spades.

Well done, Simon!

[danellis]

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Great set Simon

Love the one with the external stairs (no. 6?) - and what is it with architectural photo studies and bathrooms? Are bathrooms particularly architectural?? lol

dJE

[Chevvyf1]

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C o n g r a t u l a t i o n 's C o n g r a t u l a t i o n 's

Simon REALLY well done ! I LURVE the "eye" ball shot SO VERY Creative

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n 's C o n g r a t u l a t i o n 's

[Ulfric M Douglas]

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Very nice, no! Really, lovely
but
if those are ARTY, what do the stock record photos look liike?

I was expecting artier, or weirder, or something.

The one contractor trying to buy some must've been a great feeling.

[LMGruchy]

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Well done, they look great.

[alfbranch]

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They are well shot and I really like them.

You should show youre work mate.

[Zuiko]

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Very nice, no! Really, lovely
but
if those are ARTY, what do the stock record photos look liike?

Often, but not always, the difference between accomplished amateur and professional is the pro is technically sound but creatively mediocre, who excells at marketing, whilst the amateur is inspired by the subject to invest just that little extra something into the photograph, but is pants at selling.

[dive3dj]

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I think they are outstanding!

D