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Good at things
Aug. 12th, 2014 02:34 pmToday, I got an e-mail from the staffing agency, basically saying that they really appreciate how professional I've been with Crazy Client, and that I'll be their first call if any similar development work comes up in the future. (for a saner client, of course)
I'm currently editing a headshot I did recently, and gosh, I really like everything we took from that session. I really liked that client, and felt honored that she came back to me a second time, to get her shot updated..
And, I actually sold a runway photo, to one of the designers who showed on said runway. That basically never happens in PDX.
Last week, I taught a photography summer camp, and I taught the kiddos about shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, and even some studio lighting and post-processing. It was pretty exhausting, and keeping kids on task is not the easiest thing, but I got through it.
How did it go? Well, here's an actual interaction I had at Walgreens, while picking up prints of my summer campers' work so they could frame and mat them:
Employee: "The photos are beautiful! Did you take them?"
Me: "No, actually, I've been teaching a photography summer camp this week, so the kids took those."
Employee: "Oh, wow! When we looked at them, my manager wrote 'copyright?' on the order, but I said, 'no, they don't look copyrighted, they're just really friggin' good photos."
Yep. The kids' photos were so good that the photo counter staff at Walgreens thought they were possibly-stolen, copyrighted professional photos. XD
I also took some photos myself during the week, with the same camera the kids were using. I shot in JPG, which basically means that you're under even more pressure to get the shot right in-camera, because you can't fix anywhere near as many sins in post as you could with a RAW file. I got some great shots, considering the not-pro gear I was working with.
In short, I've had quite a few days recently that make me think, "dang, why am I so good at things?"
This feeling is extremely rare for me, but holy wow, do I welcome it.
I'm currently editing a headshot I did recently, and gosh, I really like everything we took from that session. I really liked that client, and felt honored that she came back to me a second time, to get her shot updated..
And, I actually sold a runway photo, to one of the designers who showed on said runway. That basically never happens in PDX.
Last week, I taught a photography summer camp, and I taught the kiddos about shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, and even some studio lighting and post-processing. It was pretty exhausting, and keeping kids on task is not the easiest thing, but I got through it.
How did it go? Well, here's an actual interaction I had at Walgreens, while picking up prints of my summer campers' work so they could frame and mat them:
Employee: "The photos are beautiful! Did you take them?"
Me: "No, actually, I've been teaching a photography summer camp this week, so the kids took those."
Employee: "Oh, wow! When we looked at them, my manager wrote 'copyright?' on the order, but I said, 'no, they don't look copyrighted, they're just really friggin' good photos."
Yep. The kids' photos were so good that the photo counter staff at Walgreens thought they were possibly-stolen, copyrighted professional photos. XD
I also took some photos myself during the week, with the same camera the kids were using. I shot in JPG, which basically means that you're under even more pressure to get the shot right in-camera, because you can't fix anywhere near as many sins in post as you could with a RAW file. I got some great shots, considering the not-pro gear I was working with.
In short, I've had quite a few days recently that make me think, "dang, why am I so good at things?"
This feeling is extremely rare for me, but holy wow, do I welcome it.
