Fix it Friday week 84

I Heart Faces Fix it Friday photo editing challenge

Week 84

Image edited-NOT TAKEN- by Jennifer Hines

A couple goals and recent projects.

So, yet again, I have failed to blog in a while. This stops now! I have so many ideas swimming in my head and I am keeping them there where they are doing nothing for me! First, I want to start coming up with ideas and plans to turn my bonus room in my house into a small studio. I didn't really think I wanted to do studio work, but after some thinking, I think that it would be a good way to offer more, be able to work with babies more (which is something I'd love to do), and it would give me a way to shoot more during the down time that the cold months bring! Also, how the heck am I supposed to know if it is something I would like to do long term if I don't try it?! I don't know when that sentence is going to finally sink in to my stubborn over analyzing head! Blech..anyhoo. It is the size of a 1 car garage (as that is what it used to be) but it is fully converted to be just another room in the house. It has a sliding glass door that gets evening light and a decent sized window on the opposite side that gets all of the early light. I am going to start paying more attention to, and playing with the lighting that these sources offer to see if they would be enough natural light. Also, I am going to start putting togethor what I would NEED to have to get this going, and what I would eventually WANT to have in this space. As the room slowly starts to turn into what I'd like it to be, I am going to use Project 52 to start shooting in it!

Once I get going, I am going to be on the look out for people who would like to bring their babies over for me to start practicing with! This may be a hard task since I don't really have any friends with babies or any friends that are preggo (with the exception of one that is due far enough away from now that I would have time to get things going). I know I haven't been posting much "work" lately, but don't worry. I am STILL just as excited about all of this and just as determined to reach my goals, I have just been on a weird side of things lately. I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about what I really want to start doing and focusing on and what goals I really want to work on first! So, photoshop and the studio are my two things that I am going to start with!

On a side note, if you are a photographer, or if you are friends with any who have any studio type things that they would be wanting to sell or get rid of due to updating or whatever reason, can you let me know? These things would be backdrops, fake "prop" flooring (or real snap togethor wood flooring that you may have extra of!), any lighting equipment, equipment to hang backdrops with, or anything else you can think of, including props!

Another huge thing that I need to remember to allow myself to do is to keep shooting things that are just for me. Things that don't include people that got me starting with this passion in the first place. In saying that here is some of the shots I have taken recently of random things that make me happy! Enjoy and don't be a stranger!(click any collage to see it bigger or visit my facebook page and click through my albums to see the full size of each individual photo!)

Last, but not least, here is last weeks pictures from Project 52. This is a project that MCP actions is "hosting" to help keep photogs inspired and to challenge their creativity. I am using it for not only that, but so I can shoot what I want to shoot not what I am being asked to shoot at least once a week! This will help me build a portfolio showing what I want to be doing the most! Last weeks theme was "Shades of Grey!" I took more than one, but only submitted the "3/52" pool ball picture. I thought it was fitting. These were all taken in our detached huge garage, also known as the "man-cave" at our house!

Fix it Friday #83

I randomly decided to participate in I Heart Faces Fix it Friday this week! Here is my edit!

Just an update!

Hey friends and fans!

I have no blogged in a while, and mostly, that is due to feeling too scatterbrained and unmotivated to get my thoughts together! That is slowly changing, so here we go with a long blog that I hope you all will read and give feedback on!

First off, I know I have been saying that EVERYTHING is changing and becoming more "official" with the New Year. Well, again, my mind has changed, and I think for the better! There are a few things I need to do to better myself before I jump in and make that change, and I promise, it will be better for all of us! My first goal, is to save up for, then purchase photoshop. I, then, am going to do whatever it takes to learn it! A photog I look up to alot (Alfie) once told me that if the editing program I am using is working for me for now, then don't rush to change it and overwhelm myself. I had all intentions of that, and did put it off for a while now. However, in order to have a logo designed and be able to purchase and use alot of marketing products I have found and am excited to use (Ukando.com), I need to learn photoshop! So, I have plans to do that asap!

In the mean time, I am going to change and adjust just a couple of small things on my price list and in the way I do things so I can continue to offer you the same great savings while I continue to build my portfolio for my new website, which I will be launching hopefully by the beginning of this summer (I will keep you updated on that date)!

When I launch my new website, I am going to PUSH marketing and advertisement like you have never known! If you see me during a shoot or just out and about and I shove 500 flyers and cards in your face, please know that it's because I love you and appreciate your business and I want to get myself out there so I can continue to work with you as your family photographer for life!

Another big goal of mine is to TALK to you guys more! I WANT to be your friend! Lets get to know each other! I am going to be talking more on facebook, and blogging more on here! Please help to continue to spread the word, and please, PLEASE keep bringing me feedback! Comments on here and facebook are what keep us photogs motivated and help us feel like we are connected to the word outside of our "offices"!

Love you guys much and I thank you all for what you have helped me with thus far!

BTW I would love to hear from anyone with any great marketing/business ideas! Also, I am really wanting to get an engagement shoot/maternity or just a few sweet couples wanting pics done squeezed into my portfolio! If you are wanting to have any of these done, let me know! We can even work something out if you would love to "help" me but weren't looking to make the investment just yet!

Email me at JenniferHinesPhotography@gmail.com or facebook me and lets start talking!