Art & Design
Blog037: Make your marketing pop! Pre-production tips from a commercial photographer.
Marketing photography. Being a small company we love to see other businesses grow and succeed, photography for marketing across the world varies, but a few things remain constant. This is a brief guide to making your next shoot a success! Introducing the magical pre-production phase. Pre-production is all the work that happens upto the shoot.…
Read MoreBlog035: Success
Define it. What is your success criteria? Have you sat down recently and genuinely gone through the effort of writing it down? It can be an effervescent experience, realising that some successful things you’ve been working for are actually for someone else. Look at my car, it means I’m successful, be envious. The fat man…
Read MoreBlog033: Instagram, Food, Badass Chef
Food porn, behind the scenes. Instagram! Happenstance is a beautiful thing. There I was between dropping off my hard-drive with Phil and getting a coffee, and Matt Demille (who was waiting for the book store to open). I’d been considering all my options for the day, and really needed to get out with the camera.…
Read MoreBlog032: Creative approach to video.
Video. Let’s get started! If you’ve ever wanted to get started in any creative venture, you’ve realized there’s a few hurdles. Lets talk about the main ones that I see for getting started in video work. I love being a creative, and telling the stories in a single frame is something I hold near and…
Read MoreBlog030: Authentic.
Reality, IRL. Art is a tricky thing. We take time to learn complexity and interesting techniques, only to refine these into a simple approach. An authentic way. Art built on your vision, is complex, yet simple. You can’t hide yourself from your art, your art will always reveal yourself. So be authentic. Love your art.…
Read MoreBlog028: Power, Pricing, Participating
Alliteration aside, alas… Ah the joys of photographer pricing… Lots of things go into this, below is some additional pieces of information to remember while going through the pricing aspect of commercial art. A good start for pricing as a photographer is to get an idea of overall costs, and then divide that up…
Read MoreBlog027: How to find your photographer.
On-location, out of area. How to find a photographer? That can be tricky. One of amazing things about the internet is often how hidden artists can be. Finding an artist that’s right for your job can be daunting, here’s some ways to narrow down your selection. Don’t worry about location, worry about style. Sure…
Read MoreBlog026: Screen-less Sunday (The start of the experiment).
Screen-less Sundays, the experiment / life hack The concept: The idea came to me as I lamented not having enough time to read, we, as a family, should start a tradition / ethos / experiment, where we, as a family don’t indulge in any screen time. That means more books, more board games, and none…
Read MoreBlog025: Kids menu
I can’t. My daughter looked at the image to image drawing activity in the menu. For those of you unfamiliar with this, a simple cartoon character is placed into a 10×10 grid, beside it a 10×10 grid lays in wait for the young artist to copy the character using a grid to show where the…
Read MoreBlog021: Distracted 101.
The zombie apocalypse Shuffling towards the exit she glowers at her screen. Without looking up or missing a beat she draws a long gulp out of her chilled soy latte, and places it expertly back into the carrier. Her focus absolute, her thumbs stab at the screen with mantas like precision, drawing symbols, arching swipes…
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