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Photography!


xander

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So a while back, I was talking to my Uncle about me getting a different job, and he came up with like a really good suggestion for me...he told me that when they were growing up, my other uncle used to do Videography and Photography for events like weddings. Okay, so I don't know how clear it is that I'm sorta really like ( :P ) into photography, but I am :D , so to me this was a freaking awesome suggestion!

 

Well back in the day, lol, my uncle charged like $80 bucks for a wedding video, but these days its worth a lot more. Plus, I'm good at digital editing and stuff, so I could easily make a really impressive DVD of a wedding. All's good and fine that I could do this...he said that I'd prolly just have to go and get a business license and I'd be good to go...cept...at his birthday party a couple months back, I was reviewing a few tapes to make sure I didnt record over Xander :wub: being born, when I accidently opened the tape door...well you have to open it like half way for it to trigger the tape holder to come out, and I didn't realize I had triggered it and closed it *slaps self*. Soo, it tried opening while the door was shut, so now it skips :( . To send it in to Sony with no warranty, it's like $146.00, but if my mom would ever find the reciept or get something with Best Buy settled <_< , all it would cost to get it fixed is like $45.00.

 

Anyway, like I said, I'm like really into Photography :D , sooo...I decided that I'm gonna start my own little photography business :P . One of the things I wanna say that I specialize in is Pet Photography :D ...I'm really good with animals (hell, I even got Jayne to smile for me the other day! :o ), so hopefully I can get some good shots of pets. I'm also gonna do weddings and stuff like that :) .

 

In fact, I have a camera and stuff ordered...Thanks to Natey :) ...I never thought of looking on eBay. I found this super great deal on an eBay store. The camera I was originally gonna buy costed $424.00, but this hot deal includes: The Camera, a 60" tripod, a table tripod, a 2x telephoto lense, a wide angle lense, a set of 3 lense filters, a 5 piece lense cleaning kit, a 2GB SD card, a USB SD Card Reader, a soft carrying case, and a hard all-metal carrying case, all brand new, never opened, all for only $627.99!! Bought seperately, that would cost over $1100!!

 

Another thing I'ma do when I start my little business is try and offer a few other services. Like, I've recently tried my going at editing and touching up old photos...I can turn black and white to color (as long as somebody tells me what color is which, cuz I'm colorblind, ya kno :P ), I can get rid of scratches and stuff (thas easy..) and recently I got a wild notion to get rid of that ugly chain in Xander's picture where he's sleeping....it kinda sorta makes him look as if he was vicious in his non-sleeping hours :( ....soo..

 

Original



Xander208.jpg

 

With Chain and Paper Removed

:D

Xander2082.jpg

 

Ooo, and I could even have a service to turn a photo into a pumpkin pattern carving :o .

 

Oh, and for those of you who have never seen the cute but naughty dog that gets us into trouble and is mean to Xander on occasion <_< that I got to smile the other day :P , this is Jayne:

 

Jayne.jpg

 

Wish me luck guys :P

 

Ronnie

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JamesSavik

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Way to go Xan! Best of luck with the photography business.

 

One thing that you might want to consider is to create a web site as a showcase for your work. It's the cheapest advertising you can get.

Masked Monkey

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Colorblind, that explains why you didn't notice that someone dyed Xander green :P .

 

:king: Snow Dog

NateB

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First off Ronnie :/ you cheated!! lol

And good luck with the business :P

 

Colorblind, that explains why you didn't notice that someone dyed Xander green :P .

 

:king: Snow Dog

 

*hides the container marked dye, and tries to wash his now green hands* Ummm 0:) What was that Snowy?

 

0:)

 

-Nate

Drewbie

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Good Job Ronnie. Fixing old pics can be tiring :blink:

AFriendlyFace

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Good Luck, Ronnie! I'm sure you'll do great! Xander and Jayne sure are cute dogs! LOL I noticed you left the chain in Jayne's picture :P:boy:

 

Take care and have fun :D

Kevin

NaperVic

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Great job on removing the chain and paper on the picture of Xander! :2thumbs:

 

So if I send you a photo of myself can you remove 15 years :P

 

:lmao:

 

Take Care®,

 

Vic

Tim the Traveller

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WTG! Weddings are fun sometimes. When I was 18 I was a photographers assistant for an entire summer. I worked midnights in the photolab, running minilab machines and enlargers. And every Saturday and Sunday, I was at a wedding. It can be fun if you like large groups of people you don't know. I hate large groups of people, So I never pursued getting further into it. I did work in the lab for over 5 years though, At the end running the Digital Imaging Department, Fixing photographer errors and making thousands of ID tags for sporting events, Using thumbnail size photos and laminating them onto cards.

 

 

It can be fun, But exhausting. If you like people though, It's an awesome way to make money. It is easy money. It can be a lot of money.Some of my commisiion checks(my photographers commission--the photographers got paid by a percentage of the sales of the final product) were over $4K in one month, Besides my salary I got for working in the lab. It sure was nice to take one months salary and buy a decent used car and have plenty left over to make it until payday again.

 

 

 

But WTG--Go and get rich!! If you take good pictures, Why not? Like my boss said to me the time, At least we get to make money doing something we love, instead of doing something we hate to support ourselves.

 

 

 

 

 

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