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It's been a while.
Wow, I seems like August is the month for freelance work. I've actually had more work offers this month, than I've had so far this year. Usually, it's one maybe two jobs a month (an occasion or two where I didn't have any). But, this month, I've gotten three video editing jobs, one photo shoot, and three different photo sales.
I still can't believe some people wanted my photographs. What a rush!!!
As far as the photo shoot is concerned, It was for a Corporate Challenge 5k at the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. I spent a few hours there, shot a few gigs worth of pictures. God, I love digital photography. You can shoot as much as you want without having to worry about having enough film on you, counting how many shots you can take, worrying about if you caught the right shot at the right time.
Although that one is still a concern, it's not so much when you can take 80 hi res shots on a 1 gig card. Just do burst shoots and pick the good ones later. And the best one, not having to shell out big bucks for devoping and processing and finding out that most of the shots a bad.
Well, back to the shoot. It turned out quite well. I shot about 300 images. After talking to a newspaper photographer, who was there, that is about normal for something like this. In any case, three images got published in the editors blog of the Ohio Sports and Fitness Magazine with the accompanying article. It's my understanding, that a longer article and other photographs are to be published in the actual magazine. As great as it would be to have my photos in a magazine, I'm just happy that the editor decided to put my photos on the magagzines site.
Now on to the video edits, they're still hanging on. None of this are time sensitive. In other words, no deadline, so I've been taking my time. Unforunately, I have the feeling, I'm going to edit this to death. Put more time in it, then I'm getting paid for it. Oh well, hopefully, the extra time I put into it, will garner more work for them.
I'm also thinking about selling some more of my photographs. I had one person buy three of them and two of them buy two each. The only problem is trying to find a way to sell them. I've looked at a few sites, and the pay back to the photographer was pitiful. Some places give the photographer only 3% of their set purchase price. Nothing like getting pennies for your work. I THINK NOT!!! Oh well, I'm sure something work out on that.
I still can't believe some people wanted my photographs. What a rush!!!
As far as the photo shoot is concerned, It was for a Corporate Challenge 5k at the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. I spent a few hours there, shot a few gigs worth of pictures. God, I love digital photography. You can shoot as much as you want without having to worry about having enough film on you, counting how many shots you can take, worrying about if you caught the right shot at the right time.
Although that one is still a concern, it's not so much when you can take 80 hi res shots on a 1 gig card. Just do burst shoots and pick the good ones later. And the best one, not having to shell out big bucks for devoping and processing and finding out that most of the shots a bad.
Well, back to the shoot. It turned out quite well. I shot about 300 images. After talking to a newspaper photographer, who was there, that is about normal for something like this. In any case, three images got published in the editors blog of the Ohio Sports and Fitness Magazine with the accompanying article. It's my understanding, that a longer article and other photographs are to be published in the actual magazine. As great as it would be to have my photos in a magazine, I'm just happy that the editor decided to put my photos on the magagzines site.
Now on to the video edits, they're still hanging on. None of this are time sensitive. In other words, no deadline, so I've been taking my time. Unforunately, I have the feeling, I'm going to edit this to death. Put more time in it, then I'm getting paid for it. Oh well, hopefully, the extra time I put into it, will garner more work for them.
I'm also thinking about selling some more of my photographs. I had one person buy three of them and two of them buy two each. The only problem is trying to find a way to sell them. I've looked at a few sites, and the pay back to the photographer was pitiful. Some places give the photographer only 3% of their set purchase price. Nothing like getting pennies for your work. I THINK NOT!!! Oh well, I'm sure something work out on that.