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I got an email message that got me extremely excited this evening. I’ve been wanting to add music to my Web site to add to the full experience and mood of the site. I had a particular artist in mind. Someone I’ve been listening to for a little while. The musicians name is Jason Myles Goss. I heard of his music through Pandora about 6 mo. ago, but never did much about it.
A few nights ago I decided to email him just to see how I could work it all out. To my delight, Jason’s agreed to let me stream his music through my site as long as I give credit and add a link.
I feel extremely honored to have his permission. Sure I could’ve posted his music, let it play and nothing would probably ever have been said about it. In fact, for a short period this site did have his music on it. After some deep thought I decided against the use of unlicensed music and removed his song and all others.
Partly due to my participation in the WPJA and mostly out of my own respect for other artists. It’s their music plain and simple. If he or she wishes to let me use their songs that’s awesome, but I simply don’t have the right to take them or use them, even if it’s readily available.
This also pertains to other MP3s and video files. I have completely given up illegally downloading music. Just like many other people, I’m more than guilty of these downloads, but like the Prodigal Son I’ve seen the error of my ways.
All over dramaticism aside, I have just made a conscienable effort to always do the right thing and believe I’ll be rewarded for it later. This is simply one way I feel I’ve been rewarded. Jason couldn’t be a more gracious person. If you’re into the music, please feel free to drop him a line through Myspace, his Web site or better yet, buy his cds here.
I’ve got an order in for all three albums. I’ll let you know my recommendations later.
I got my watermark image through email today, so I’ll be able to post some more photos in the coming days, but I’m too tired tonight. I did however get a chance to add a few images to the Web site galleries.
Photos that needed added a long time ago, but I got too wrapped up in other things. I added a few to the engagements section, babies section and a few to the seniors section. I’m going to add more to the weddings, sports and possibly to the family photos in the next couple of days. I’ll throw an update when they’re on there. Hopefully I’ll be able to add a maternity section really soon too.
For now, check out the ones I put up tonight. Let me know what you think. I put the new ones closest to the front, so people can see newer images.
The move is just about over with, so I can start posting on a little bit more regular basis.
I’m going to recap what I’ve shot in the past two weeks. First, I shot a senior photo session about two weeks ago. I was pretty pleased with the way everything turned out. There are a few minor details that I could’ve changed and there was one pose in particular that I wish I would have taken a much better angle of, but everything went great. It always helps when you have a patient client who is easy going and willing to listen to your ideas.
As I mentioned, I also shot two weddings a couple of weeks ago. I have all the photos loaded onto the galleries on my site, but haven’t posted any to flickr to share yet. I’ll post one or two of my favorites as soon as I get the chance to do that.
I didn’t get a lot of sports shooting in the next week because there wasn’t a whole lot to shoot. Most sports are ending their seasons right about now. However, I did get to shoot some Hubs football action last Friday. I actually had a lot of fun shooting that game.
I don’t think I captured a lot of good peak action, but I certainly caught the dramatic after shots. Here’s one in particular that I loved.
I also shot state tennis last week. I was up in Palatine already, so I got a few shots in for the Herald & Review and possibly one into the News-Gazette. I’m not sure if the Gazette ran mine or not.
Karli Loewecke started the day off good for Rochelle, but an abdominal strain returned to nag her during the second round of the tournament and she dropped that game and the next one to be eliminated.
This was another day where I struggled for story-telling images. I have one that shows her disappointment, but just not really what I’d have liked to get. I’m not sure if it was coincidence or on purpose, but she would usually turn her back during her frustration. I hope it was just a coincidence because otherwise that means she was aware of my presence, something every journalist should try to avoid, unless your name was Hunter S. Thompson.
We went to another wedding that same weekend in Indiana. I made a little bit of an effort to just enjoy the wedding vs. shooting it since it was for friends of ours. Of course I didn’t completely give it up, but I did a pretty good job for the most part. I only shot photos during their first dance.
I posted one to Flickr, but I’m not happy with the way the web handled the blacks and grays. I’m going to reedit in the next few days and repost, but here it is for now.
Last, but not least, I did a series of couple photos for some friends here in town that turned out excellent. After I add a watermark or some of them get ordered I will post my favorite.
I was very pleased with the way those photos turned out. I’m definitely adding a few of them to my Web site and will update when I do.
Speaking of which, I need to take one day and do nothing but work on the site. I have so much to add to the site, but hardly any time to do it.
This weekend I have family portraits galore, baby/belly photos and a conference. Plus we’re holding a Halloween party tomorrow night at our new duplex, so likely to say it’s going to be one crazy weekend, but I kind of thrive on being busy like that.
Hopefully I’ll have much more to update later on.
I updated the Client Galleries and think I’ve figured out how to offer photos online for parents and athletes. I’ve created a gallery for each player on the team through my host company. Each time I get a photo of that player that I like, I’ll upload it into a folder. Toward the middle or end of the season I’ll upload each folder and keep the photos online for up to one month following the sports season.
This works best in two ways for me.
First being I don’t have to put up every shot and make parents sift through hundreds of photos. Secondly, I won’t have to pay for the web space for more than two months cutting down on costs.
The host I use costs per photo, per month. It’s not a huge fee, but lots of photos over several months can add up. So much that it can actually cost me money to be hosting photos vs. making some.
It also gives me a little time to get photos of most the players. I probably won’t get all the players each season. Unfortunately not all players get a lot of playing time. When they are on the court or field I will do my best to get photos, but I’m still concentrating on story-telling photos.
I have a specific style I’m shooting for and want to maintain that. The password for each section will be easy enough. It’s the athlete’s first initial and last name. If there is a conflict in names, I’ll deal with that at the time. Each team member will also get a letter telling them how to access their personal gallery too.
I’m kind of excited about it. Parents have shown quite a bit of enthusiasm toward it.
So far, some volleyball photos are up. I have two weddings this weekend, but then I’ll add football, tennis and the rest of volleyball next week.
I’ve been trying to update much more regularly now that I’ve had a consistent readership on here. Thank you to all who have been looking and please feel free to leave comments while on here. I thrive on feedback. Plus I just like to see who’s looking. Don’t worry, I don’t byte! (Wow, what a lame computer reference.)
Usually this blog lingers somewhere around the 10 – 20 mark for hits a day. I got quite a surprise when I looked at Sunday’s results and saw 60+ hits. I couldn’t figure out why so many people decided to look. I usually expect a few more looks on Sundays because the paper comes out, but not that many. Then I looked at the incoming search references and noticed that it was overwhelmingly from the terms “cheer leaders” and “cheerleaders.”
Just kind of made me crack up. I imagine some poor individuals trying to find different kinds of cheerleader photos passed through the blog only to become sorely disappointed.
Maybe in the tags I should start putting all kinds of inappropriate words to draw people in. It’s like a boobie trap. My journalism teacher always taught me not to do that though. It’s misleading and false advertisement. Would still be funny to see how many hits I’d get though.
Thanks again for looking and look back for a volleyball photo or two later tonight.
I added cheerleading photos to the client galleries section of the Web site yesterday. The girls asked me how to access them at the game the other night so I gave them a password and told them to check the site on Monday.
If you want, you can access them already today. I didn’t want to tell them they could look too early because I wasn’t sure if I’d have the time to add them last night or not. Anyway, if you’re interested in ordering any, the password is: rthscheerleaders
Just click client galleries on the main page, enter the password from above and the photos should be there. There’s only about 20 photos there right now, but I’ll get a lot from the last game I have to shoot in two weeks. Unfortunately I’ll be gone for next week’s game because I have a wedding to shoot. Thanks for looking. Oh, and one last thing. I’ll be adding other galleries throughout the day and week from various sports, so check back to see what galleries have been added and the passwords to access them.
I finally finished all the photos from Julie’s wedding tonight. I think all together I edited around 140 photos. It’d probably be a lot more, but I wasn’t the official photographer so I took it kind of easy.
I have a few shots the I’ll talk about on my other blog, but since they don’t pertain to photography, photojournalism or Lifeworks Imaging I’ll talk about it there.
I also shot soccer today, but I won’t finish up editing them until tomorrow.
I’m having a hard time coming up with an idea on how to offer Rochelle Hubs sports photos on my Web site. The biggest thing is that I have to get a password for each sports, but how do I get instructions to each parent. I guess I could type up a letter to be given to each athlete, but that seems a bit excessive. I’m sure I’ll come up with something I’m sure, but if you have any suggestions let me know.
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There hasn’t been a lot of photography for me this week due to several different personal reasons. I did however get the chance to update my Web site slightly though.
I imagine if you’ve found yourself here, you’ve already seen the main page with the blog entrance or the site entrance.
I really wanted to have something in one location so people can see both sites. It took a little creativity, but I got it to work. I wish I had more creativity in creating the main page, but I’m kind of drained. Or lacking enthusiasm. Either way, it’s done and working for now.
I’m shooting football tonight so hopefully I’ll update with those photos tonight or tomorrow. If you’re a flickr friend, I did shoot volleyball earlier this week, so check it out if you like.
