It seems there's no shortage of news these days about health maladies. What there seems to be a shortage of is what is causing the problems, and what to do about it. The latest malady on the news has been about the increase in autism. Below is a link for an article in Scientific American on Autism. When I read the article, I noticed the sharpest rise started in the early 1990s. I also noticed that was around the time that GMO foods entered our diets. Might there be a connection? I have no idea, but it's something to think about. What about fluoride in our water, or immunizations/vaccines? Below is the link to the vaccine schedule from the CDC. When I grew up, I think I had one or two vaccinations. Now, how many? I'm not recommending for or against, just giving you something to think about and research.
Aside from the above, and environmental toxins that are hard to escape, the other major variable would be what you can regulate - your diet. There are many variables in your diet, from sugar, to chemicals, to GMO foods, etc. Each one may have negatives consequences for your health. For example, below is a link to just one variable that you have complete control over: Sugar, and its negative consequences to your health.
Autism is just one side effect of something that we're doing wrong. What can we do? Research - we have access to more information than ever on the internet. Get back to basics with a healthy diet, one without chemicals, GMOs, refined foods, synthetic ingredients, etc. For help with that, here is a link to http://foodbabe.com/ She and I have a lot in common with out diets. It works for me, and looks like it works for her, too. She looks like the picture of good health. And that is my link back to photography, LOL. If you feel and look that good, your photos will show it. I hope this article helps YOU (and your family and friends) look and feel better, and enjoy life more.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-rise-driven-by-environment/
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/child/0-18yrs-combined-schedule-bw.pdf
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/29/sugar-consumption-healthcare-costs.aspx
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Photography and Pricing
Many people wonder why photographers charge what they charge. The below graphic may help with understanding why they charge what they do, and what goes into a photography business.
This is just the time that is needed for a photographer to produce a photo session. In addition to that, if the photographer is to stay in business, he or she has to make enough to also pay day to day living expenses.
Let's go through an example four hour photo session. According to the chart above, the total time spent for that 4 hour session would be about 32 hours, if you were the only subject he or she was photographing. However, many of the tasks would be shared by other peoples sessions, so it's not quite that much time for each. Probably more like 12 hours needed for each 4 hour session would be close. Then we really need to add to that the amount of time they spent learning about lighting, composition, post processing, posing, etc.
Next, we have to deduct expenses - self employment taxes, equipment, repairs, travel to location, work space, insurance, business license, etc.
And finally, one more thing that goes into pricing - the photographers expertise (artistic vision).
There's a story about Pablo Picasso - someone said she would pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso pulled out a pen and drew a sketch on the napkin, handed it to the lady, and told her that would be $10,000. $10,000 the lady exclaimed, but that only took you 30 seconds! Yes, said Picasso, but it took me 50 years to learn how to draw that in 30 seconds.
That explains why some photographers charge more than others - because of their expertise and experience.
Moral of the story - well, there's actually a few: photographers aren't really charging you too much. If they photographed you and got some spectacular images, and they don't charge enough, they will go out of business and you won't be able to hire them again.
Whatever the photographer does charge, make sure they offer a 100% money back guarantee that says if you aren't happy with the results, you pay nothing and get every penny back that you already paid.
This is just the time that is needed for a photographer to produce a photo session. In addition to that, if the photographer is to stay in business, he or she has to make enough to also pay day to day living expenses.
Let's go through an example four hour photo session. According to the chart above, the total time spent for that 4 hour session would be about 32 hours, if you were the only subject he or she was photographing. However, many of the tasks would be shared by other peoples sessions, so it's not quite that much time for each. Probably more like 12 hours needed for each 4 hour session would be close. Then we really need to add to that the amount of time they spent learning about lighting, composition, post processing, posing, etc.
Next, we have to deduct expenses - self employment taxes, equipment, repairs, travel to location, work space, insurance, business license, etc.
And finally, one more thing that goes into pricing - the photographers expertise (artistic vision).
There's a story about Pablo Picasso - someone said she would pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso pulled out a pen and drew a sketch on the napkin, handed it to the lady, and told her that would be $10,000. $10,000 the lady exclaimed, but that only took you 30 seconds! Yes, said Picasso, but it took me 50 years to learn how to draw that in 30 seconds.
That explains why some photographers charge more than others - because of their expertise and experience.
Moral of the story - well, there's actually a few: photographers aren't really charging you too much. If they photographed you and got some spectacular images, and they don't charge enough, they will go out of business and you won't be able to hire them again.
Whatever the photographer does charge, make sure they offer a 100% money back guarantee that says if you aren't happy with the results, you pay nothing and get every penny back that you already paid.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Back to Health - Vitamins, Herbs, Studies, and Anecdotal Evidence
This will be a very brief summary of things to look for (or look out for) when thinking of adding supplements to your diet. Things to consider include how much and which ones to take, are they natural or synthetic, whether to take them every day or cycle them, and what added ingredients are in the supplement.
When determining which supplements I would take, I used both types of evidence, but mostly anecdotal, because studies can be flawed, and many times are, depending on who is doing the study. Many times studies are done backwards - they know before hand the result they want to show, and then design the study to get that result. For example, a recent study about multivitamins was done using Centrum. The study showed it was not effective for what it was being tested for. Rather than saying Centrum was not good for the problem, they said multivitamins were no good. Centrum is owned by Pfizer, a drug company. It is in Pfizer's best interest, and other drug companies, too, to get you off things that may keep you healthy so you will need to take their drugs. Besides having very low amounts of vitamins, here are some other ingredients in one of their multivitamins:
If you do this Google search (centrum ingredients label) you can see their ingredients.
What's in their multivtamins??? Artificial colors, preservatives, synthetic vitamin E, some chemicals I have no idea of what they are, aluminum, ground up rock (talc, which according to "A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives," "there are suspicions of it being a cancer causing agent upon ingestion." Side note: I used to camp out at Death Valley over Easter break from school, and we explored an old talc mine - nice and cool inside, lots of cave-ins as talc is pretty soft rock, and pretty white in color, too - reminded me of what Moon dust looked like on the floor of the cave), etc. I would be surprised if this formula didn't cause health problems.
Recommended daily values are what you need to prevent deficiencies. They are not likely optimal amounts. The point is that studies can use whatever design they want to get the results they want, supposedly using a scientific approach.
Anecdotal, on the other hand, is basically someone (or perhaps thousands of people) reporting that something they took worked for the problem they were taking it for. It may not be scientific, but it has worked well for me, either in combination with studies, or by itself. For example, Gingko and Ginseng have been taken for thousands of years, and both have been shown through anecdotal evidence to have certain benefits.
Everyone is different - what works for me may not work for you. It may work for most people, some people, or few people. It may take a long time to get the benefits, or a short time. Supplements are not meant to replace a healthy diet, they are meant to SUPPLEMENT a healthy diet, and to fill in things that may be missing from your diet.
A word about herbs - they should be cycled on and off. Perhaps 5 days on and 2 off, or 6 and 1, or 3 weeks on and one week off, etc., depending on the herb. They will work better that way, and be less likely to have any negative effect. My multivitamin has some herbs in it, so I cycle them. For me, with the exception of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin C, I pretty much cycle all my supplements.
My past experiences with diet and supplements would be anecdotal evidence. For example, before changing my diet from terrible (I mean really terrible, but had no idea at the time that diet affected health) to healthy (to get rid of ulcer and nervous stomach), and then adding supplements (to address other health issues), I used to get pretty much everything that was going around - 4 colds a year, plus the flu, bronchitis, stomach viruses, etc. I thought this was normal. If people told me that one day I would only get sick once every several years, I would not have believed them. But now, I do only get sick once every several years, and it has been a few years since last catching anything. No studies were done on me (LOL), and I have done no studies. So this is anecdotal evidence - which works for me very well.
If these thoughts make sense to you, and you want to be healthy, please share this with your family and friends. And if you want to look and feel your best, so you can get your best photos to share with everyone you know, make the changes to go to health. And finally, if you haven't made the change to your health yet, get some photos done now, then go to health, and in two years get some new photos of the new you and see the difference!
Anecdotal Evidence vs Studies
When determining which supplements I would take, I used both types of evidence, but mostly anecdotal, because studies can be flawed, and many times are, depending on who is doing the study. Many times studies are done backwards - they know before hand the result they want to show, and then design the study to get that result. For example, a recent study about multivitamins was done using Centrum. The study showed it was not effective for what it was being tested for. Rather than saying Centrum was not good for the problem, they said multivitamins were no good. Centrum is owned by Pfizer, a drug company. It is in Pfizer's best interest, and other drug companies, too, to get you off things that may keep you healthy so you will need to take their drugs. Besides having very low amounts of vitamins, here are some other ingredients in one of their multivitamins:
If you do this Google search (centrum ingredients label) you can see their ingredients.
What's in their multivtamins??? Artificial colors, preservatives, synthetic vitamin E, some chemicals I have no idea of what they are, aluminum, ground up rock (talc, which according to "A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives," "there are suspicions of it being a cancer causing agent upon ingestion." Side note: I used to camp out at Death Valley over Easter break from school, and we explored an old talc mine - nice and cool inside, lots of cave-ins as talc is pretty soft rock, and pretty white in color, too - reminded me of what Moon dust looked like on the floor of the cave), etc. I would be surprised if this formula didn't cause health problems.
Recommended daily values are what you need to prevent deficiencies. They are not likely optimal amounts. The point is that studies can use whatever design they want to get the results they want, supposedly using a scientific approach.
Anecdotal, on the other hand, is basically someone (or perhaps thousands of people) reporting that something they took worked for the problem they were taking it for. It may not be scientific, but it has worked well for me, either in combination with studies, or by itself. For example, Gingko and Ginseng have been taken for thousands of years, and both have been shown through anecdotal evidence to have certain benefits.
Everyone is different - what works for me may not work for you. It may work for most people, some people, or few people. It may take a long time to get the benefits, or a short time. Supplements are not meant to replace a healthy diet, they are meant to SUPPLEMENT a healthy diet, and to fill in things that may be missing from your diet.
A word about herbs - they should be cycled on and off. Perhaps 5 days on and 2 off, or 6 and 1, or 3 weeks on and one week off, etc., depending on the herb. They will work better that way, and be less likely to have any negative effect. My multivitamin has some herbs in it, so I cycle them. For me, with the exception of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin C, I pretty much cycle all my supplements.
My past experiences with diet and supplements would be anecdotal evidence. For example, before changing my diet from terrible (I mean really terrible, but had no idea at the time that diet affected health) to healthy (to get rid of ulcer and nervous stomach), and then adding supplements (to address other health issues), I used to get pretty much everything that was going around - 4 colds a year, plus the flu, bronchitis, stomach viruses, etc. I thought this was normal. If people told me that one day I would only get sick once every several years, I would not have believed them. But now, I do only get sick once every several years, and it has been a few years since last catching anything. No studies were done on me (LOL), and I have done no studies. So this is anecdotal evidence - which works for me very well.
If these thoughts make sense to you, and you want to be healthy, please share this with your family and friends. And if you want to look and feel your best, so you can get your best photos to share with everyone you know, make the changes to go to health. And finally, if you haven't made the change to your health yet, get some photos done now, then go to health, and in two years get some new photos of the new you and see the difference!
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Photography and Copying (Sort of)
I said "sort of" because what I'm talking about is not copying someone else's actual photo, but copying an idea, pose, lighting, etc. For example, if you or I see a photo in a magazine that we love, for our session we might start by trying to duplicate it. Of course, we then go on to do variations on that theme, some of which may well be even better. Certainly different. Bringing either past photos of yourself that you really liked, or cut outs from a magazine can get your great results in a photo session. Not to mention it's fun to see what we can accomplish with that as a starting point.
Lest you think it's wrong to copy this way, keep in mind that since the first photo was taken in 1838, over 3.5 trillion photos are estimated to have been taken. And millions are being added every day. So no matter what or how something is photographed, chances are pretty good someone else has already done it; therefore, you are almost certainly, and perhaps unknowingly, copying someone somewhere.
Although the pose, lighting, composition, etc., may be the same, your personality is unique - as long as the photographer captures that, your photograph will be unique. That being said, you still wouldn't want a photographer who captures everyone the same exact way. This is less likely to happen if your photos are shot on location (your home, a favorite park or hiking trail, etc.).
Hope this answers some questions you may have. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
Lest you think it's wrong to copy this way, keep in mind that since the first photo was taken in 1838, over 3.5 trillion photos are estimated to have been taken. And millions are being added every day. So no matter what or how something is photographed, chances are pretty good someone else has already done it; therefore, you are almost certainly, and perhaps unknowingly, copying someone somewhere.
Although the pose, lighting, composition, etc., may be the same, your personality is unique - as long as the photographer captures that, your photograph will be unique. That being said, you still wouldn't want a photographer who captures everyone the same exact way. This is less likely to happen if your photos are shot on location (your home, a favorite park or hiking trail, etc.).
Hope this answers some questions you may have. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Another Reason to Always Carry Your Camera (or Tablet, Cell, etc.) and Maria Sharipova
On Friday I was at the paddle tennis courts at Venice Beach. I hadn't planned to play as I was still tired from 12 sets in the past two days. However, they needed a fourth player on one of the courts, and one of the guys loaned me a paddle, so played one set, which went to 11-9 (ha, never fails, when you get tired, the set always gets extended - is that part of Murphy's Law?). On the court next to us was also a doubles game with a very tall good looking lady playing, who looked like a pretty good player. After I finished playing, I found out it was Maria Sharipova, so went over to that court and shot several pictures.
The above photo was my favorite of the images I shot.
From what I had heard, she was eliminated at Indian Wells - it was a nice surprise to see her at Venice Beach.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Labels on Food and Vitamins
Just a short post today about labels - always read the ingredients on the back of them - the front of the label is often misleading.
For example, there is a product that on the front says Bone Active Cal-Mag Chelated, which might sound good, but looking at the back of the label, there is Oyster Shell Calcium and Calcium Carbonate listed first, then the Chelated Calcium Gluconate. The ingredients in lists have to be listed from high to low, with no way to know how much of each. It could be 90% Oyster Shell, 9% carbonate, and 1% of the Gluconate. The first two ingredients are very cheap and who knows how effective they are. I've read lots of negative things about oyster shell and some about carbonate. On the other hand, I've read and heard good things about calcium hydroxyapatite, citrate, and gluconate. Do your research.
Also, what won't the label tell you? Well, for a calcium supplement, it won't tell you that you also need to take it with magnesium, and for bones, to take it with Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K (preferably K1 and K2-MK7).
For food, just make sure there are no chemicals, artificial anything, added colors, etc. Unfortunately, the only way to be sure you're not getting GMOs in some foods is to buy organic. Common foods containing GMOs are if they have beet sugar, corn ________ (corn anything) and soy ________.
If you are uncertain about what an ingredient is, you can always Google it, and also search with and without the word Mercola in the Google search.
Back to photography on my next post.
For example, there is a product that on the front says Bone Active Cal-Mag Chelated, which might sound good, but looking at the back of the label, there is Oyster Shell Calcium and Calcium Carbonate listed first, then the Chelated Calcium Gluconate. The ingredients in lists have to be listed from high to low, with no way to know how much of each. It could be 90% Oyster Shell, 9% carbonate, and 1% of the Gluconate. The first two ingredients are very cheap and who knows how effective they are. I've read lots of negative things about oyster shell and some about carbonate. On the other hand, I've read and heard good things about calcium hydroxyapatite, citrate, and gluconate. Do your research.
Also, what won't the label tell you? Well, for a calcium supplement, it won't tell you that you also need to take it with magnesium, and for bones, to take it with Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K (preferably K1 and K2-MK7).
For food, just make sure there are no chemicals, artificial anything, added colors, etc. Unfortunately, the only way to be sure you're not getting GMOs in some foods is to buy organic. Common foods containing GMOs are if they have beet sugar, corn ________ (corn anything) and soy ________.
If you are uncertain about what an ingredient is, you can always Google it, and also search with and without the word Mercola in the Google search.
Back to photography on my next post.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Back to Health
Over the weekend, I was down at the paddle tennis courts at Venice Beach. I ran into someone who I hadn't seen for a while, and who totally changed his diet over the past several months. He told me his doctors said if he had kept eating the way he had been, he probably wouldn't last another year. I guess that was his wake-up call. He looked the best I've seen him. And was able to get off his prescription pain killers - he said they were the strongest ones available. While getting off them he had terrible withdrawals. But the difference was amazing.
The moral of the story - eat right, eat healthy, get exercise, and your health is pretty much guaranteed to get better and add not just years to your life, but enjoyable and healthy ones. Plus it will save you a fortune on doctor bills and prescription drugs (with all their side effects, which many times are worse than what they are being taken for).
In the example above, that person found what works for him. He almost waited too long. As for me, through lots of experimenting and changing things, I've found what works for me. I'm glad I didn't wait as long as he had. As for your diet, everyone is different. It may take some experimentation to find the best combination of foods for you, as long as the foods don't contain refined ingredients, chemicals, artificial flavors, sweeteners, and colors, preservatives, GMOs, etc. This leaves out most packaged foods - packaged meats, such as bologna, salami, turkey, and on and on. Always check ingredients because even the most innocent looking foods may have added ingredients that don't belong and that you should avoid.
If you are overweight, just making the above changes will most likely help you lose some of that weight. Buying smaller sized dishes can also help.
To your health! May you feel and look great, and enjoy life.
The moral of the story - eat right, eat healthy, get exercise, and your health is pretty much guaranteed to get better and add not just years to your life, but enjoyable and healthy ones. Plus it will save you a fortune on doctor bills and prescription drugs (with all their side effects, which many times are worse than what they are being taken for).
In the example above, that person found what works for him. He almost waited too long. As for me, through lots of experimenting and changing things, I've found what works for me. I'm glad I didn't wait as long as he had. As for your diet, everyone is different. It may take some experimentation to find the best combination of foods for you, as long as the foods don't contain refined ingredients, chemicals, artificial flavors, sweeteners, and colors, preservatives, GMOs, etc. This leaves out most packaged foods - packaged meats, such as bologna, salami, turkey, and on and on. Always check ingredients because even the most innocent looking foods may have added ingredients that don't belong and that you should avoid.
If you are overweight, just making the above changes will most likely help you lose some of that weight. Buying smaller sized dishes can also help.
To your health! May you feel and look great, and enjoy life.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Mistakes Happen, It's How You Fix Them That Counts
Perhaps the title of this post should have been, "Beware of online offers," or of any offer where you have to pay up front. But the bottom line is it's all about customer service. What follows is an example of what I'm talking about, that just happened over the past week.
A photographer, who's webinars I've listened to many times, and who's mailing list I'm on, was offering a free webinar to talk about photography and business. I knew that during the webinar he would be making an offer for more information for a certain amount of money. The offer he promoted was $18.00, and for that you would have access to his vault of emails and telechart scripts plus other information to promote your business. You would also get one free month of what he calls his "inner circle," and you would have 31 days to cancel it or you would be charged the regular $39/month membership fee. I was hesitant to order - I don't like self renewing memberships. I've had problems in the past with those. After canceling the companies kept charging me. However, paying with a credit card, that problem is basically eliminated, so signed up for the offer.
Things went wrong immediately. The offer said my credit card wouldn't be charged until they sent me a link with user name and password to the information. But they charged my credit card and did not send me the link. I emailed them (they had a special email to use for problems) the next three days with no answer. Finally, on the fourth day, I sent an email to all of their email addresses. In the last 3 emails, I asked them to cancel my whole order and not to enroll me in their inner circle and refund my $18.00. Plus I initiated a credit card dispute, which I told them. After telling them this, they sent me the link with user name and password and told me they could not refund my money because I already received the link. The funny thing was someone there had already refunded my money.
How would I have handled the above situation? As soon as I found out what had happened, I would have apologized, explained what went wrong, why it wouldn't happen again, if there was anything we could do to make things right, and asked the customer if he would be interested in the info for perhaps half the price, or if he still would rather receive all money back. And then done whatever was asked at that point. Perhaps extend the offer for another week for the customer to give him time to think it over and perhaps re-order. And if he or she did, make darn sure thing went right before charging for it.
It wasn't about $18.00 - it was the principle of the thing (some say that is why they didn't like high school - it was the principal of the thing, lol). This was a photography company that emphasizes customer service and 100% no risk guarantees - unfortunately, their actions didn't follow their words.
Hope this give you an idea of how I would handle this kind of issue. No one's perfect, it's what you do afterwards that counts.
Hope you all are having a great weekend.
A photographer, who's webinars I've listened to many times, and who's mailing list I'm on, was offering a free webinar to talk about photography and business. I knew that during the webinar he would be making an offer for more information for a certain amount of money. The offer he promoted was $18.00, and for that you would have access to his vault of emails and telechart scripts plus other information to promote your business. You would also get one free month of what he calls his "inner circle," and you would have 31 days to cancel it or you would be charged the regular $39/month membership fee. I was hesitant to order - I don't like self renewing memberships. I've had problems in the past with those. After canceling the companies kept charging me. However, paying with a credit card, that problem is basically eliminated, so signed up for the offer.
Things went wrong immediately. The offer said my credit card wouldn't be charged until they sent me a link with user name and password to the information. But they charged my credit card and did not send me the link. I emailed them (they had a special email to use for problems) the next three days with no answer. Finally, on the fourth day, I sent an email to all of their email addresses. In the last 3 emails, I asked them to cancel my whole order and not to enroll me in their inner circle and refund my $18.00. Plus I initiated a credit card dispute, which I told them. After telling them this, they sent me the link with user name and password and told me they could not refund my money because I already received the link. The funny thing was someone there had already refunded my money.
How would I have handled the above situation? As soon as I found out what had happened, I would have apologized, explained what went wrong, why it wouldn't happen again, if there was anything we could do to make things right, and asked the customer if he would be interested in the info for perhaps half the price, or if he still would rather receive all money back. And then done whatever was asked at that point. Perhaps extend the offer for another week for the customer to give him time to think it over and perhaps re-order. And if he or she did, make darn sure thing went right before charging for it.
It wasn't about $18.00 - it was the principle of the thing (some say that is why they didn't like high school - it was the principal of the thing, lol). This was a photography company that emphasizes customer service and 100% no risk guarantees - unfortunately, their actions didn't follow their words.
Hope this give you an idea of how I would handle this kind of issue. No one's perfect, it's what you do afterwards that counts.
Hope you all are having a great weekend.
Friday, March 7, 2014
A Healthy Snack You Can Make (and Eat at a Photo Session?)
I found this recipe on Facebook. It looked so healthy and easy to make, that I figured even I could do it, so I did.
After I made the first one, which turned out pretty good, I wondered what else I could add to it. So I cut back to 2 bananas, and added some strawberries and blueberries, and it was even better! For my next batch I'm going to experiment with using sesame almond milk and see what that does. I was going to do it on this batch, but forgot to add the sesames. I used organic oats, organic apple sauce, and organic raisins and will use organic sesame.
It's unlikely you'll find any snack at the market that is this pure and without sugar. Happy someone shared this.
I thought something a little bit different would be nice for the weekend. Enjoy.
After I made the first one, which turned out pretty good, I wondered what else I could add to it. So I cut back to 2 bananas, and added some strawberries and blueberries, and it was even better! For my next batch I'm going to experiment with using sesame almond milk and see what that does. I was going to do it on this batch, but forgot to add the sesames. I used organic oats, organic apple sauce, and organic raisins and will use organic sesame.
It's unlikely you'll find any snack at the market that is this pure and without sugar. Happy someone shared this.
I thought something a little bit different would be nice for the weekend. Enjoy.
How Do You Prepare for a Photography Session?
There are many things you should do when choosing a photographer, and also after you've chosen him (or her) in order to get beautiful results. I'm talking about a planned session, not spur of the moment beach shots, some of which which I posted yesterday. As I always say, the more variables you can eliminate, the better will be your results. To eliminate the variables, you need to know what to do - how do you eliminate them? What I am planning to do is write a guide that will help you with all those things - from the first moment you decide you want a professional portrait to the time that the final product is delivered to you. Meanwhile, I will be posting here with bits and pieces of that I think is important with the hope that it will help you to get great results.
For example, how do you choose a photographer? What should you consider? You obviously have to like his past work. I'm sure you would hope, and want, someone to be friendly, easy going, and have excellent customer service. Someone who shows an interest in you and the reasons for wanting your portraits done. Someone who can related to you and your reasons. A photographer who will meet with you and discuss these things with you, answer all your questions, and make everything risk free for you (i.e. - a complete 100% guarantee including a free re-shoot of the session, and if you don't get the results you wanted, a complete return of all the money you paid to the photographer with no hard feelings). In short, someone who you would be happy to have as a friend.
As always, have a wonderful day.
For example, how do you choose a photographer? What should you consider? You obviously have to like his past work. I'm sure you would hope, and want, someone to be friendly, easy going, and have excellent customer service. Someone who shows an interest in you and the reasons for wanting your portraits done. Someone who can related to you and your reasons. A photographer who will meet with you and discuss these things with you, answer all your questions, and make everything risk free for you (i.e. - a complete 100% guarantee including a free re-shoot of the session, and if you don't get the results you wanted, a complete return of all the money you paid to the photographer with no hard feelings). In short, someone who you would be happy to have as a friend.
As always, have a wonderful day.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Food and Photography - Eliminate the Variables
These two would perhaps not normally be related, unless you were taking a client out to lunch to discuss their upcoming session for portraits, a wedding, or something similar. I almost never eat out anymore, and the link at the end of this section will tell you why. In a nutshell, you have no idea what you may be ingesting, unless you go to a restaurant that has organic items on the menu. If you go to the link, you will see that what is on the menu and what you are getting are probably two different things. And the more variables you enter into your body, the more likely something will go wrong, meaning your health will suffer. And the more your health suffers, the more you do, too. Here is the link - it may be a bit long, but very informative: http://foodbabe.com/2014/03/05/are-you-being-tricked-by-these-food-industry-marketing-tactics/
A few more very informal (unplanned spur of the moment with my beach camera) photos from the other day:
Hope you enjoy.
A few more very informal (unplanned spur of the moment with my beach camera) photos from the other day:
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