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<p>Thank you William, Dan, Gary and Nicole for all your time and effort to help build a great about me. After taking all the advice, I've written the final draft. Here we go.</p>
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Hello You! My name is George and I’m a photographer based in Los Angeles specializing in wedding and portrait photography. When photographing weddings, I enjoy capturing your day in a photo journalistic approach with a fine art sensibility. I’m incredibly meticulous in all areas of my life, so capturing all the little things on your wedding that you’ve been planning for months is something I love to do. Also I get delighted <em>thinking outside the box and creating one of a kind portraits to showcase your personal style. It's one of the things I enjoy most about working with my clients. From the moment I meet you, I want to bring a sense of enjoyment and fun to your shoot. Let’s let loose, have fun, and enjoy out time together because no day is the same, and each brings its own moments. Let me help you preserve them.</em><br>
<em>Coming from a background of producing high quality work for Nike, Billboard, and many other editorial magazines, I’m always on top of the game. Giving you the finest quality of digital files, prints, and albums is my goal for every shoot. I aim to stay ahead of the curve with fresh ideas and walking away with another happy client. I have high standards for the quality of work I produce!</em><br>
Aside from shooting regularly in LA, I’m open to shooting worldwide – especially Italy, Paris, and Sweden. So enough about me, I would love to know more about you.</p>
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<p>Thank you Nicole for your time. All the information is very valuable. Time to make my last draft and then my final. Thank you all for trying to help me become a better photographer.</p>
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<p>Thanks William, I'm going to tighten it up now.</p>
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<p>Thank you all for the help. To clarify, this is my first rough draft, so there was going to be plenty of mistakes. As for the punctuation and grammar, the about me is meant to be like that because, I feel coming from a down to earth tone better connects the client with me. I have nothing against well written professional about me's but, I always felt they were gears towards establish photographers and since I'm not establish, I don't want to create a vibe where I'm too cold, or far from my clients. If the writing of my about me will ultimately decide if the client is going to book me or not then ultimately that is not the client that I'm seeking. This is my second rough draft and hopefully its a lot better then the first. I split the first rough draft into two paragraphs and added another. Thank you again for all the help.</p>
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<p >Hello you! My name is George Jonathan and I’m a 22 year old photographer based in Los Angles., specializing in wedding and portrait photography. I can’t say I’m the typical photographer or else I’ll be lying. With my weddings I enjoy capturing your day in a photo journalistic approach with a fine art sensibility. I’m incredibly meticulous in all areas of my life, so capturing all the little things on your wedding that you’ve been planning for months is something I love to do. I love thinking outside the box and creating one of a kind portraits to showcase your personal style is also another thing I love most about working with my clients. From the moment I meet you guys, I want to bring a sense of enjoyment and fun to your shoot. Let’s let loose, have fun, and enjoy our time together, because no day is the same, and each day brings its own moments and let us help you preserve them.</p>
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<p >Coming from a background of producing high quality work, we are always on top of game with gear, techniques, and providing you with the finest quality digital files, prints, and albums. Not only do we seek to please our clients, but also ourselves. We aim to stay ahead of the curve with fresh ideas, as our goal is to walk away with another award winning image. We have high standards for the quality of work we produce!</p>
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<p >Aside from shooting regularly in LA, we are open to shooting worldwide – especially Italy, Paris, and Sweden. So enough about me, I would love to know more about you. I do coffee, long phone talks, lunch on the beach, and occasionally a glass of wine at Napa.</p>
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<p>William, thank you for your response. Yeah I felt the same with the <strong>"without aging"</strong> part, I'm trying to think of something more clever. That picture is not going to be used in my about me. That was just used as an example to showcase my baby face to the audience since everyone believes I'm a teen, and the camera is a Nikon F5. Thank you again William! I'm going to work on the changes. </p>
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<p>This is a rough draft for my about me and I'm simply looking for opinions on it and what you like and don't like. As well I haven't attached a picture with this post but if you look at my profile picture here on PN you'll get an idea. I didn't want to come off as bragging and wanted to create a down to earth connection with my clients and have a call to action at the end.</p>
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<p >Hello you! George Jonathan is my name and before I continue, I just have to put out there that my age is 22. I’m pretty sure one of the first questions you asked yourself when looking at my picture were “Is this kid 15” or “Great, another hipster with a camera.” I want to ensure you that neither of those is me and I’m here to help you create imagery that will last beyond our time here and that will carry on to your next generation. I specialize in portraits and weddings and when I first started photographing, I was doing a lot of editorial and commercial work until one day it hit me. “Why don’t I bring the experience of one these shoots to my clients?” Fast forward a couple years without aging and we now have George Jonathan photography. From the moment I meet you guys, I want to bring a sense of enjoyment and fun to your shoot. I’m not into the boring posing and traditional way of photographing people. Let’s let loose, have fun, and enjoy our time together, because no day is the same, so we might as well make it a party and create a memory out of it. I’m based in Los Angeles, but open to shooting worldwide – especially Italy, Paris, and Sweden. So enough about me, I would love to know more about you. I do coffee, long phone talks, lunch on the beach, and occasionally a glass of wine at Napa.</p>
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<p>Matt- I have a Nikon D90 with a SB900 flash</p>
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<p>I'm completely new to studio lighting and I wanted to ask your opinion on the Alien Bee's Beginner package. I'm looking to shoot small families and high school seniors. I'm pretty sure I'll have to buy an additional light and if you guys can recommend any more materials or websites that can help me on educating me on this, that will be greatly appreciated. Also if anybody has had this package, what was your experience with it?<br>
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<p>I've been shooting for the past 4 years with my sb900 flash. I'm interested in using a lighting kit to enhance my portrait imagery. My price range is between $100-$250. Any recommendations?</p>
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<p>I do high school seniors and I don't include the digital negatives in any package. For weddings, I use it as an item to pull the client through a higher package, and when I'am doing commercial work, handling the negatives is fine for me as Charles said.</p>
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<p>What are your thoughts on giving the client the digital negatives? I feel that giving out the digital negatives is an incomplete service and I feel that I can provide a complete service and also provide a better product.</p>
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<p>Is the state of photography dying? Will the digital masters ever compared to the masters of film? Will there ever be a group of young photographers to carry the torch and help elevate the medium or are we all witnessing a slow death to the art we know as photography?</p>
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<p>Rick I agree with everything you say too. Again I apologize for being defensive and thank you for taking the time to teach me. I'll apply everything you've taught me along with all the other photographers on this thread. I feel once I get the business side of things right, I can feel more confident to put my best foot forward and just go for it. One day I would like to be the full package and I understand I have a long way to go, but like all things that are achieved, hard work is the main ingredient to do that.</p>
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<p>I love Richard Avedon. Although in my humble opinion Ansel Adams is the greatest of all time, my personal favorite is Avedon. The way he was able to transcend each genre of photography. With his imagery in fashion, he was able to elevate and change the whole way somebody photographs fashion now.</p><P>
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<p>David, you're right and I know this isn't the same over a forum then in person but I apologize for my words Rick. Thank you David for shedding some light on this thread. I have a better understanding on this now.</p>
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<p>Rick to start off, I've taken the advice in this forum and I applied it to my work. You should check out my site and you'll see the difference. Second I'm not saying I'm "The great white hope" or "the one" what my point is, is that photography is changing medium and what your generation strived for is the same thing mine is. That is reaching the excellence of those before us and elevating it. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I came on this forum to ask assistance from other photographers. Clients will choose the images that best fulfill their own criteria, including aesthetic feedback. Feedback from photographers, art directors, customers, etc is indispensable. In the end, its the clients opinion of what I do best that will be the final judgement of business success. The process has everything to do with the marketability of my work "which I've fixed, thanks to your help" and nothing to do with my ego. If it becomes ego driven that I will be an artist and not a businessman.</p>
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<p>Pop another beer and try to one-up the nonsense you just posted or go for a solid career as a respected professional photographer.</p>
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<p>Rick, how do I know that you're even a professional? You have no work or credentials to back up any of your information that you've tried to provide. For all we know, your just a guy who goes on forums and tries to act like a know it all which obviously you think you do. Also, if I did meet those photographers, I would say that. They're people I look up too and all I'm trying to do is again reach there excellence and take it to the next level. You've taught me nothing about the business side but just trying to bring down my photography. I've opened up and try to show "So called professionals" my work, so I can get better. My work is good enough for today's age and I've proven it with the picture I published. What do you know whats marketable to today's kids? People can look at your work and say your washed up. Rick, maybe you should take a good look at your post and realize that everything you just wrote is coming from somebody whose needs some self assessment and re-evaluate themselves as not only a photographer but perhaps a person.</p>
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<p>Again I appreciate all the feedback. I want to thank David for inspiring a young photographer to stick with his guns. I'm thankful of all the photographers on here for taking the time to help me. I've taken what I think would help my brand and applied it. David reminded me that I should follow my gut and go with what feels best. Jeff, I want to thank you for understanding the perspective of a young photographer.</p>
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<p>They don't want images that can come from a 12 year old with an instagram account. Unconventional portrait photographers at least know how to handle a camera and pose people.<br /> Oh, and use an off camera flash in bright sunlight. Which many of these photos are just screaming for.</p>
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<p>Thank Gary for trying to look down on my photography and try not to help a young photographer out. As an older photographer you should know how to criticize a younger photographer.</p>
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<li>You didn't help me understand myself</li>
<li>You didn't help me understand my photographs, so I can eliminate my weakness and capitalize on my strengths</li>
<li>You didn't help me understand my audience</li>
<li>You didn't expand your idea on what good photography is.</li>
<li>You didn't help me, so in essence you didn't help improve the general level of photography</li>
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<p>Next time try to encourage the beginner and try to respect each picture as a photographers search for truth, beauty, happiness, self-expression, a means of communicating with his fellow men, and a way of sharing with others the delightful or interesting things I've seen.<br>
I have written to my fellow PN photographers: I'm the future you could of never predicated. I will redraw your maps, from your seeds of unfamiliar and disorienting forms will spout. Your caution will become my risk. When you seek the reassurance of answers I will commit to the elegance of inquiry. I will outdo you, confuse you, and approach the unknown future with an open heart.</p>
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<p>Hey guys I want to thank you all for the good kick in the ass! lol. Really I appreciate each and one of your responses. I took a step back and threw the ego outside and made some adjustments to the website. I took out the thugs and the woman that would affect my brand. I also took out the tv static and took out the transparent look. I still need to re write my about me but I erased that and I'm going to upload a new photo of myself, that's more presentable. I also took out the Nike page because I feel that it doesn't really do much for my site. As for the post processing, I don't know if I'm going to change that because I feel its all about taste and all art is subjective so perhaps I might or might not reinvent myself depending how the business goes.</p>
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<p>Hey everybody here on photo.net! I just want some honest feedback from professionals and non professionals on my website. This year I'm targeting high school seniors and made a specific portfolio for them. I would like a critique on the design of the website and if possible on the imagery. Any feedback is good feedback, and looking forward into hearing everyone's opinion! By the way, you have to click on a photo to see the actual image. The washed out image in the thumbnails is just an added effect till you click on the selected image. For the website, I was going for something simple and direct so my clients don't get overwhelmed with all the HTML and flash that comes with other websites. </p>
<p>WEBSITE: www.georgejphoto.com</p>
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<p>Hey guys, I need help in writing an email to a future wedding client. I was referred by the daughter of the future bride (Mom) and she would like to see my work. What's the formal way of writing this introduction letter to her?</p>
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<p>To start of my name is George Jonathan and I'm an amateur in hopes of going professional one day. At the moment I'm studying marketing, promotion and anything else that will help my business grow. My first question is how did you professionals get started in this industry? I know my market, and I'll be entering senior portraits. Its highly competitive I believe with my style and the right marketing I can make a name for myself. As well I need professionals to critique my work so I can't use the criticism to help fix any weaknesses in my portfolio. Here's a link flickr.com/george_briseno. Hope to hear some great feedback and thank you for your time.</p>
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