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Showing posts with label photo cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo cards. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2008

Business Cards - That's just too much pressure for one little rectangle to handle!!!

Since I will be doing the photography for the benefit I mentioned in my last post I thought it would be best if I got myself some professionally printed business cards. That way Jo Ann and I have them available to give out at the event if anyone is interested in purchasing prints.

I went with a thicker cardstock with a gloss finish from 123Print.com which is a company that my friend found on the internet that she thought was inexpensive and she liked the results when she got them.

I had a really hard time deciding what to go with for the card. You're card should say so much about you all on one little rectangle...but I think that's just too much pressure for one little rectangle to handle!!! LOL!

If I did a landscape scene I knew which photo I would go with instantly but since I want to concentrate more on portraits/people photography I wanted a person...but even that was too hard to figure out.

Who would I feature? Would I want a customer or family member's portrait? Nah...to hard to decide. If I out a portrait photo of myself to show my portrait ability that would feel very strange/conceited (like hey, here's me!)... if I went with me with my camera that would be too...cliche? So, after laboring over this and getting advice from friends on my options I somehow I ended up with a photo of my own eye! LOL!

I guess it could mean many things if you want to get all deep:

*Having the "eye" for photography is very important
*The actual eye of the photographer is where all the magic happens when looking through the viewfinder
*We see "Life's Fleeting Moments" pass before our eyes
*It's part of a face and people are what I love to capture
*I have a pretty eye??? LOL Ahahahah - that's my favorite..I'll go with that for the reason!! (just kidding)



Saturday, January 12, 2008

Made My First Photo Greeting Card Today!

Today I created my first photo card for my friend's birthday with the blank all occasion photo cards that I purchased and discussed HERE and HERE.

After I printed the pic, added it in, wrote in a greeting, etc I decided I wanted to photograph it to remember my "first photo greeting card."

Here it is...a photo of a yellow bow that you'd put on a present done with my Nikon 105mm Macro lens!

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BACK

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Merry Christmas Wishes!

Last weekend I finalized my Christmas card. I decided to do another "make your own" card of one of my photos.

The past 2 years I had my Black Lab Lucas on the card...one with a Photoshopped Christmas hat and last year he was sitting in front of the Christmas tree.

I decided to not do another Lucas card so I photographed my ornaments on my tree and picked my favorite one...show below:



Some that weren't chosen for the card:








Some good news! My husband ordered my Birthday/Christmas gift from B&H Photo. On Monday my Nikon Telephoto AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR (Vibration Reduction) Autofocus Lens should arrive! I can't wait!!

I'm looking forward to creating my own softbox (hopefully over this weekend) and working on Macros to make my own Birthday Cards/Special occasion cards for family & friends like I do for Christmas every year. I think it's a great way to send them something personal while saving the $4.00-$5.00 that card companies charge!!

I want to find cardboard cards that have the open hole in the front where I can slip the photos into. Otherwise I have to figure out how else to make the cards. I haven't done any research yet on the best ways to do it but I'm sure once I search ideas will come out of the woodwork. :)

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Family Photo Christmas Shoot

My friend asked me to take some photos of her and her 2 sons because her mother wanted to use them as Christmas cards so I went there tonight and shot some quick photos for them aroud the house.

I'm excited that my website host started offering holiday cards for customers.

This is probably the "keeper" shot ... they just have to finalize the card type our of the 36 varieties.



I like this one too...



I liked how this one came out as well:



And I couldn't resist this one of my friend:

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