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I’d say chat your way up the ladder, finding out who deals with publications and press releases. See if you can grab a press pass to take photos. Best bet would be to have a cache of images building up as you go, so you can show, “hey, look what I can do! Give me more freedom and you’ll get better results.”

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Seemed like a good place to leave this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17539315

My first thought when I went to the link was, “meh. looks noisy.” Then as I zoomed, I realized the noise was just more stars.
/Crushing feeling of meaninglessness is a great way to start Friday morning.

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Also – for anyone interested in seeing some awesome food photos and/or recipes, I’m always enamoured with this food blog: http://www.tarteletteblog.com/

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Can i post a link to my Facebook to invite people to come vote?

Shouldn’t be a problem if it’s a, “hey, check out the cool photo contest at fark.com – you can vote for any photos you’d like!” but I’d suggest against pandering. When I tell my friends about the site, I specifically tell them not to vote for me unless they actually like the images (they don’t even know my username, but yours is more obvious). That being said, none of them has yet to actually bother creating a fark account anyways. They suck.

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Oops, 24 hours late on submitting this week. That’s gonna hurt in the vote department…

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I’m very guilty of laying on the ground to get an interesting shot, or going right up against something for a different angle. I bet I look like a dumbass, but meh, it gets the job done.

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I’ll bring my Nikon. We can shoot fire and brimstone together and compare images 😉

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Ditto with what was said above – I’m pulling for you. I know words can’t make it better, but keep looking forward, mate – one day at a time until you can get back up and running.

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Here, it’s less pretentious.

I’m sorry, but I couldn’t hear him over the sound of how awesome his Bill Cosby sweater is.

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Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

Bad timing. Really bad timing. Note the questions asked by the pedophile in the blue shirt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNO-AzPxS4U&feature=player_embedded

What the fuck. I’d like to be the internet tough guy that says, “pfft, if he ever did that to my kid, I’d freak out,” but realistically we all know that the person who does that is getting detained and missing their flight just to make a point. Fast forward a week from now, after all the articles and outrage are over, and we’ll be back to square one, or with even more implementations by the TSA. Only way to fix them is to get rid of them, IMO.

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…got them to smile by promising them that they wouldn’t have to fight for uncracked stoppers like Laotian orphans for kelp on their barge ride to servitude in Singapore.

Wait…they come in an UNCRACKED version?!

Thanks, all, for the kind words. Regarding the redhead in blue with bokeh’d background – she was so scared that it was going to just shout “I’m an alcoholic standing in a bar!” I guaranteed her it’d be barely noticeable, hah.

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/I know TLDR 😀

Quite the opposite, I printed this as a PDF for future reference. Thank you for sharing.

Ditto! Well, not literally – bookmarked it though for future reference. Thanks for sharing a good billing system 🙂

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Sooooooo….back to the question I asked earlier, if anyone might be so kind as to input their opinion – when being paid by the hour, do you consider it by hour of shooting, or by hour of work (shooting + processing)? Trying to figure out how to bill the university…

Rav, here’s some shots from a couple different gigs:

The first one wanted plain (BORING!) white background passport-style photos of people. I did get a chance to use my umbrella flash setup, though:

These are the types of photos that will end up in brochures for incoming students:

Afterwards was some fun though – a series of shots aimed specifically at people coming into the school of chemistry:

Now, for an entirely DIFFERENT series, this was from a group of staff a website wanted photographed. They specified, “light, airy, casual style photographs” so I tried the best I could for them. I like this style more than the others (I got to choose the backgrounds in the building and got them more posed to fit their facial features and lighting – the passport-styles are so boring compared to these).

I took the time to get these people relaxed, chatting with each of them a bit before shooting them and trying to make them laugh. I *hope* I made a good impression.

An example of me playing with the pose (took a surprising amount of courage to tell someone what to do, pretending like I knew what I was talking about). I wasn’t liking how the light hit her face, and I wanted to have a more relaxed look, so instead of her looking straight into the camera, I told her to angle her chin down and to the side a bit. I like how this turned out much more than the photos leading up to it when she was looking straight-on.

Similarly with this guy, I played with his posing. He’s the head of the branch and one of the founders, so I wanted something a bit more bold and in charge, so I had him tilt his chin up ever so slightly to give a more dominant jawline, and had him face slightly away from the lighting to light up more of his face.

This woman was extremely shy and it took her a while to even smile. Also the only shot I had to touch up with photoshop – there was a strand of hair coming across her face that I lopped off.

Finally, the standard group shot:

Any suggestions/criticisms warmly welcomed!

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…and absolute lack of z’s! I’ll never call aluminum by the “proper” aluminium they’re trying to get me to. Nevar!

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Okay, for those who have any experience with this, I need some suggestions. The work was agreed as an hourly rate, but no more specifics than that. I ended up being at the site across two days for a total of about 5 hours. Additionally, I put in 2 hours of edits. Based on experience, are fees figured only on shooting time, or also on the processing side? Obviously I want to get the most out of this, but since it’s my university and my first gig, I want to make a good impression (hey, look, cheap labour!) to keep getting brought back in.

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