Commercial Photography

1.  The technique that I want to master within this lifetime is commercial photography.  For example, food photography, advertising, fashion and glamour photography and many others.  It is usually defined as photographs for the exchange of money.  In particular, I would like to master advertising.  It is an area I have wanted to go into for years.  In advertising the photographer would be taking pictures of many different subjects such as buildings, people, models etc. Photographs for advertising like we all know is used to sell a service or a product.  Photographers specializing in this area would be working for or have contracts with magazines, newspapers or advertising agencies. 

2.   http://www.collegegrad.com/careers/proft30.shtml

http://www.careeroverview.com/photography-careers.html

http://www.fashion-schools.org/fashion-photographer.htm

3.  This photo I find is really effective because of the back lighting and filling the frame with the subjects.  Not to mention the bright colours and good looking men really catches your eye.  

http://hommestar.com/files/images/Dolce%20&%20Gabbana%20%20Spring-Summer%202008%20Ad%20Campaign.jpg

It is the sky that does it for me in this photo.  The way the clouds are layered and coloured this silver- blue is incredible it creates a beautiful back drop.  Many shots may have been taken on this occasion but the models expression I believe was classic for the statue she just happens to be leaning upon 

http://www.bwgreyscale.com/adimg14/adv_7603.jpg

I love the soft, laid back look to this photo.  There is a lot going on in this photo, your eye just doesn't sit in one place.  I like how the photo is framed so it is almost like there is one and a half subjects.  Because the one girls head is cropped out of the frame it leaves something for the imagination. 

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/1/11538/03_2008/gucci3lh0.preview.jpg

Check it ouuuut

My favourite photo site is www.jpgmag.com. It is a great little social site that works hand in hand with the magazine "JPG". It thrives for and on photographers. The site can be used recreationally to post and browse photos, or to get the chance to publish your own photographs. JPG magazine is published six times a year and is filled with stories and photos from common folks posting on the website. There is a ton of stuff to read and view. check it out

IS2: KELLY

Shooting lines? Well I am not going to say it was tough because lines are every where we look, unless your the type that stares into the sky on very regular basis. But anyways, to be creative shooting lines was the tough part. I narrowed down my photos quite a bit becuase frankly, the majority were a bore to look at. Some problems I did encounter were avoiding useless noise in the background and shooting from interesting angles. But all in all, it didn't cause much grief.

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Time Machine

When I pick up a magazine the first thing I religiously do is flip through the pages and look at the pictures. Seriously, who doesn't? Photography is a fine art that tells a story and holds a secrete. I personally on many occasions find myself lost within a photograph wonderin
g what life was like at that very moment... One simple photograph can show emotion, tell a tale of an era and hold a memory forever. This is what first attracted me to photography; simply getting lost in it.
I think we are all in the same boat when I say I am excited for the year to come. It's great to be in the same working atmospheres of others whom share my same interest. Honestly if I have to pin point all the things I want to learn this year, you folks would be here all day. I have a real fetish for glamourous retro- style pictures. I think it would be pretty nifty to learn the skill to create an image like the ones I see in my mind.

One person, whom if I got the chance to go back in time and meet would be my Grandmother. She passed on while my father was quite young, all I know about her, is what I've seen in pictures. I have these boxes filled with photographs of her, her sister, friends and family. Some of the photos date back to the 1930's and go to the late 1960's. They were all taken by past relatives. I have been told of 'what a fabulous woman she was', and if I got my ticket back in time she would be my first stop.
I have included a few original pictures from when she was young, this picture dates back to 1944.

SO, once upon a time there was this lil' lady named Kelly whom, you know, kind of had a fetish for art and all the beautiful things this big globe has to offer. She tried to capture it through sculpting, painting, and drawing but it just did not get her too far. So after spending a year out of school stumbling along all the options of how I could express my passion for art, I found it. Which leaves me, the lil' lady Kelly, cursed with a case of writters block.

Everyone seems to have a good idea of what type of photography they are into, but, man how do you know till you test every chocolate in the box. For moi, I am still biting into each piece of chocolate; if I don't like what I am tasting, I throw it back in the box for someone else. Hope you all are getting my metaphorical speaking...! Although, I for sure can say I enjoy taking pictures of human subject, my dog (of course, she's too cute), nature and many more things I don't think you want the list! I definitely prefer shooting with a digital, I am a bit of a techno geek with electronics, plus I am impatient I want results asap. I think you have had to read enough of my jibber for now though. ciao.
oh. p.s.. Photo Cred goes to Duncan McNairnay