Advertising Project

We we're given an advertising project in which we got to choose 1 of several briefs all for well known businesses but each of which had an extra consideration to take into account.
The one I chose to do was for the makeup company 'Urban Decay' but I had to somehow incorporate their lack of animal testing while keeping my design consistent with their current advertising.  
The first thing I noticed whilst researching the product was their love for the colour purple, the second was that they seem to have two strings of advertising, the first was to show their products and the second to show models wearing it. I decided to go along the model rout as although my photography is based a lot in portraiture I have little experience with fashion so I thought this would be not only good practice but a bit of fun as well
I also noticed that most of their advertising has extreme landscape cropping so trying to include this, some sort of purple and to show the bright colours that their eyeshadows come in this is what I have come up with so far, this is a very rough idea and by no means the finished piece but here's to hoping i'm on the right track!

new advertisement for urban decay.

Putting Plans On Hold

Happy ne year everyone!!

Now that that's out of the way I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to put my plans on hold for a while. My intention was to open my studio come the end of January, I had everything ready, however with the news that I am pregnant with number 2 my plans are now on hold for a while.
I will still be working on my photo book and setting up a website to sell prints etc of my other photography but I feel that it is not realistic to try and go ahead with opening a studio whilst expecting a baby and would only end badly if I tried to run a studio with a newborn.

Although I am disappointed that my plans will not be working to the timeline I had planned I know that it is only a timeline revisal and not a complete ending of the whole thing so it's ok, and besides in the next few months I'll have another tiny person to take up all my time and energy :-)

uni has become a bit of a struggle. I have been in a lot of pain and absolutely exhausted! My pregnancy with River was a dream compared to this one. At this time in my last pregnancy I would have still been working, this time around I can barely stay awake for a whole day!
Still by the time baby arrives I will have finished uni and have a little time to relax and enjoy the beautiful new life we have created. In the mean time keep an eye out for my upcoming page documenting everything we have done so far in our "digital imaging" project and in a couple of months I will also post up my critical studies essay for you all to see.

May this year bring you all that you wish for :-)

Studio Planning

After a few phone calls and some long discussions i now have a few ideas of how to go about starting my own business and how to go about it.
I have an appointment schedueld with a business advisor who is going to help me write up a business plan and talk me through possible finance options etc. I also have a friend helping me to build a website. which i'm hopping to have up and running before christmas.

My business seems to be taking two separate directions,

1 Is the set up of my own studio for portraiture and family photos, really I want to set this apart from the average family portrait studio in that most studios do photos of mum, dad and their 2.5 kids, or even just the kids, I however have a larger family than that and have no photos of myself with my parents, 2 sisters and brother. I also am separated from my daughters father and we both have new partners, his partner has 2 other children and my 3 year old wants a photo of all of us together. (we are all on friendly terms so this is not a problem), however it is quite difficult to find a studio with enough space to cater for larger or extended families so this is what I want to try and cater for.

2 Is my online presence as a nature photographer, I sell prints of my work and would also like to start entering competitions and sending work to magazines as well as to a stock website.

I'm now trying to work out how to integrate the 2 together. I'm not sure whether to have both on the same website / Facebook page etc or whether to keep them separate. I think that until I have my own studio space then I will have to concentrate more on the nature photography side of it as this is what I can do and sell. however once I have a studio then this is what I want to be my main job description as it were so that is where I will concentrate my main efforts.

There is still a long way to go and a lot of things to but I am gaining confidence that it's all going in the right direction.