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Haikyo exhibition photographs printing out!

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Some of the 61 images printing out for my haikyo photography exhibition on Friday November 13, 2009 - taken with my iPhone

Things are starting to come together for my big haikyo exhibition this Friday, the 13th of November!  The photo above shows the huge printer being used by the great staff at NGI Printing to print out my 61 haikyo photographs on a huge sheet.  

A sheet of 8x10 images are coming out of the printer in the photo.  They will later be cut from the sheet, then mounted on black gatorboard, before the final step of applying a laminate cover.  I was really pleased with the print quality.  I can't wait to see the 24x36 images!

I hope you come out and attend the opening night of my exhibition:

HAIKYO - an exhibition on urban decay from Japan

  • 8pm on Friday November 13, 2009
  • RAW Vibes Art & Performance Space
  • 2109 Central Ave. North St. Petersburg, FL 33713

Starting the week of with a headshot

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On location ( Saint Petersburg) headshot challenging the rules of backlighting with only a SB-600!

I started off my week by making the very short drive to downtown St. Petersburg for a headshot with Pam.  I met her last week at the new member orientation for the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce.  Networking pays off!  She also invited me to an exclusive meeting for select businesses in the area, with the one catch that it's at 7:15am!

Pam was a great headshot client.  She knew how to pose without any coaching from me practically.  I just tried to find good backgrounds within her office and also out in the building's elevated walkways.  For the above shot, I thought I'd try to shoot the opposite way one would normally.  Instead of having the subject face the natural sunlight, I chose to use that light as the background.  

For the shot below, there was this very cool orange wall in Pam's office.  Even though she has red hair, I thought I would again go against the rules and use it as a backdrop for a fun headshot. 

A funky orange wall made for a very season autumn background.

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Photo published in an AEON ESL textbook

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A while back, a long while back, a representative from AEON sent me e-mail asking to use one of my photos in a yet to be published ESL textbook.  They had discovered my photo on flickr.  Of course no financial compensation for using the photo, but they did say I would get full credit.  So I said ok, go ahead and use it.  I requested a copy of the textbook once it was printed.  They said sure.

Well, since that time I had moved from Tokyo to Florida.  And in Florida I moved to a different address than I had originally given them.  In light of all that I was pleased to surprisingly received the finished ESL textbook in the mail!  My photo did not exactly get a full page spread, but it is one of only like five photos in the entire textbook and they gave not just a name credit, but my entire photography website URL (on the book's back page).  This is my second photograph to have published in print.  

This is the original photograph.

I had a booth at the St. Pete Multi-Chamber Business Showcase!

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I had my first major public relations push last week by surprisingly having a booth at the St. Petersburg Multi-Chamber Business Showcase.  It was a surprise in that I was supposed to be sharing only a table (4 feet of my own space) with another business.  Well, I ended up having my own booth, which was sweet, but I did not bring materials to fill such a space, so had to resign to just splaying out my pamphlets, postcards and a few print outs around my showcase piece:  the 24" Dell monitor displaying 350+ of images I handpicked for the event.

I did not spend much time actually inside my booth.  I was wisely told by a chamber official much better at PR than myself to stand out in front and handout my sweet canine photography postcards to any and all passersby.  At first I was shy about this, and I was also being bombarded by people wondering over from other booths to try and sell me on their wares & services.  This greatly annoyed me at first because I was at my booth trying to promote my business, and here they were taking my time to shill themselves.  A few times possibly legit potential clients were browsing my materials and I had to waste time shedding the shillers before I could go over and talk to the potential client.

Eventually all the shillers made their rounds and only legit attendees were walking by.  During this time I came out of my shell and handed out nearly all of my pamphlets and postcards.  I had several interesting conversations with people who stopped by on topics ranging from of course my photography services, to my experiences in Japan, to the general state of the current business climate.  I always like interacting with the general public in this manner and packed up my booth feeling good about the personal connections I made at the event.

 It has been one week now and I have had no inquires from anyone I met at the business showcase.  So in light of this, it is hard for me to call the event a success for my business and me personally, though I still retain hope and a good feeling that clients will eventually emerge from the PR work I did at the event.