WEEK 5 BOC: Competitive Anaylsis

I would say that these four photography companies have their assets and make their name well known. Red Rock Studios has a good way of displaying their works. They have a blog to show what they have been doing and putting into the community. They have been Go Red for women that help fund the American Heart Association. They have held a mini session to make nice packages for their clients needs. They do portraits for families, seniors, couples and children. And lastly they do wedding photography at the location where their clients are having their wedding event. They do a one to one contact with wedding events so it is personalized just for the their clients taste. 1. The Cohens Photography have a grandeous variety of photos of different occasions. I think they have good photos but they are disorganized and seem to have you looking and getting lost in their long line of products. Their categories are Recent Work, Weddings, and Clients. Their recent work have just couples, children. Pregnancy and in the middle of them are some photos of them playing paintball when they have off time together. It is nice to show off what they like to do but not on a business website and not categorized in the right way. They are not a company that is business because they have only a list of photos and have not categorized them. They don’t have a contact page to find them. Every business must have a contact page. They would have a hard time trying to get clients with no contact page. (2) Desert Ice Studios has a wide variety of photos. They have weddings, commercial, events, family, and fashion. Each one has a great variety of photos they have taken. They have a contact page, a blog to show what they have been doing recently and over the past months. They come to their clients and do head shots and provide them with needed portraits within the comfort of their office or home. They do digital work and show how each photo has been digitally transformed to adhere to their clients needs. Their studio is displayed through photos they have taken of their office and space here in Las Vegas. They have orders where the client have options to order what they would like to do with their photos.
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A Thousand Words Studios has some photos They do a Fine Art that is not Fine art because it is displaying instruments. They have photos of different types but they are not categorized very well. You have to scroll down to see their gallery and see on that page are categories that pop out. Their blog is not found and not working. I think it is too unorganized to be a business type photography. They have an email and a phone number but describing that her studio is within residence. No business should describe their location at all unless they do have an office set apart from their residency. (4)

Week 2 BOC: Crime Scene

The crime scene where a woman has been stabbed and left to die on the computer desk after attempting to log onto the computer. We do not know what the intentions were only to find that there were divorce envelope left on the desk already opened. I used the lamp to show the scene as if it just happened. I had the knife blobbed with color dyed apple sauce and wrote "Divorce Settlement" to make the story. I used the lamp as my lighting to show where the crime was done. I wanted to give it that office look and the darkness around it to give it that dark feel also. It was done during the day even so I left the curtains closed to make it look like it was done at night. I made myself the subject because I think I can give a good dead person appeal on a shot. I posed myself enough to make myself look like I am dead. I had to pose in a way that I was dangling that my jaw bone hurt laying hard on the desk. I put my camera on a timer taking about five shots per frame. In each shot, I posed with my arm on the desk, with my arm off the desk, with my glasses on or with my glasses off. I did one without any notes, but it didn’t create much of a story or drama so with a note seemed better. I even did some with a scary note on it. I thought it looked too horror type so I put the divorce envelope to make it more modern and real. The red blood I wanted to look like it was real and thick so I used apple sauce to thickin my fake blood.

BOC Week 1 About Me

The photo here was taken on a foggy night of the Las Vegas town and strip. The town is where I grew up and most of my life believed it to be a dull and bland town. But after seeing the city for what it was I grew to appreciate the beauty of it. I say it is the beauty that becomes more interesting. I grew up to be more open and look more interesting as I live my life. I took this on Friday night in December at 10:30 pm out on the east side of Boulder Highway up on the hill. On that hill is just a protected park just for horses mostly and for running, biking and walking. But this night was a very mysterious night because Las Vegas is known for its hot weather and dry climate and cloudless days. The area I was at only had cactus and desert plants and bushes. It is all flat and treeless. I am so appreciative because with trees, one would have a hard time seeing the town. Most nights it is glittering lights along the horizon on the city line. It is still pretty. I took this with a slow shutter speed and high ISO to capture the lights and the lights reflecting off the fog around and above the city. It took me about over 50 shots to get the perfect shot because it was windy enough to move me and cold enough to be in that shiver state. It has been foggy for the passed few days and this one was an opportunity I could not miss. The next night was barely any fog at all. I wanted the night sky above to be a gradual phase from the fog to make it look mysterious and wintery.