Keep on keeping on...

Wedding photography is really picking up. I have had some additional contacts about my pricing and packaging and although it feels really good I can tell that with a full time job it is going to get crazy stressful. I put together my wedding contract and now am working on the album with samples of both my wedding photography and my photoshop enhancements. I need to get to know it by heart as I am meeting with a client on Saturday to finalize a deal and I want to seem like this is my umpteenth time going over it with someone lol.

Finished the calendar I was working on for my MIL, as well as took some really awesome (in my opinion) casual portrait shots of my neices...so for lack of time I will leave you with those.

Big Day

I am so excited. I just have to recount it here before I don't want to forget what this feels like. I booked a wedding today and 2 engagement portrait sessions. That means $850 in my bank account from this addiction I have to photography... I emailed back and forth with the client all day and we are meeting next weekend for her to put down the deposits. She wants her engagement photos in time to put out as xmas cards and the wedding is in August 2007.

I am just so excited. My hard work and perseverance is paying off. This could be what I need to really get some nice professional grade equipment, since wedding package prices are so lucrative.

OK thats all for now, I was just so excited I had to share.

State Tennis

Was asked to shoot state tennis yesterdat. Turned out to be a very profitable and rewarding decision. While I was attending I saw an event photography booth and thought I would go over to introduce myself. The booth I later found out was run by Wallace Photography out of Nevada and was contracted to cover all the "state" sporting events. Based on my work the owner asked me what my day rate was and when I quoted him at $200.00 he said that sounded reasonable. He rattled off a list of people that were there shooting for his company today and Bryan Kelson was listed amont them. He is a photographer for a big paper down here. I overheard him talking about his own day rate during a baseball game once...$450.00 guess I should have held out for more eh? He told me he would contact me later this week and we could coordinate our calendars. You know it still feels so strange to be able to market myself, my work. This would add another event photography company to my list of clients as well as providing me with more sports work which would be wonderful. I am so excited.

As a bonus I also shot some of my best work during the state match I was covering. Here are my favorites for your viewing pleasure...

Some Vball and a new start...

So I have been a busy bee this week. First off I designed myself a wedding photography website which must be good because I have already had 2 people email me asking for quotes. The url is http://stephiewilliams.googlepages.com if you want to have a look.

Last night I shot volleyball. You know I can across a quote "shoot tight, crop even tighter." I usually crop my images during post processing to get the desired composition...however for that last football game and then again with this vball game I decided to utilize the lesson learned from those words. It is working out so much better. Now I just need to get a good handle on post processing the red eye out of my photos. Here is one I liked from last night.

Friday Night Lights

Covered some football this weekend for the paper. I had been having some trouble with my focus...I was using my kit lens and I would always seem to get the grass in focus and miss my player. So I started to use my Nikkor 70-300mm even though it is only a f4-5.6...This combined with waiting for the play to get reasonably close has been working out well. Here is my favorite of the photos I turned into the paper...