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 4 EOC: What Must Be On a Contract

All contracts must have a date on them. If you do not put a date then it is no negligible on your account. The term of time is reason to believe when it was done. You also must have a statement of the contract. The statement clarifies what the two parties agreed on. You must have signatures from both parties so that it is claimed as legal and the parties show that they agreed to such terms. On an editorial contract, one must write out the usage and the allowance of the usage. The allowance will be a range from a minimum to a maximum. Outline the fees and state what the fees are for so that it is clear to you and the client what is required for each item. For example use the terms quarter, half, full or double page rates. Editorial are based on the finished product. You must have a amendment in writing any changes which is called change orders. It has to say ”work-made-for-hire or you will not get your rights of ownership granted. There are negotiable contracts where you will send in your numbers or your estimates after your client has stated their time and estimates. A stamp with your company name, copyright . year, and contact information stating that you own the right to that document. On an estimate contract you must have the date, fees, product charges, contact information, and a signature with the date. It is your responsibility to have your information stated on the contract or it is lost in what was said on the meeting. If there is question on any part of your contract there has to be a change in order contract to make it more legal for both parties. All these essentials are needed on every contract.

Week 3 BOC: Sports Photography

I wanted to capture the moment at view that a bowler would see it and at an angle so that one can see the motion put into the sport. I used the lighting in the bowling alley to make the game pop out and the people look dark to make it look like it is the sport that they are focusing on. The blue bowling ball seemed perfect against the yellow floors because it popped out better. I wanted to get the bowling ball in action as the bowler is still watching but still in motion from his shot. It was taken at 11:15pm at the Sunset Station on February 3rd on a Thursday night. It was on off time for the bowling alley because on Fridays are Cosmic Bowling during the late night hours. There were many pink bowling balls (the lightest balls) available that night. Because on busy nights like Friday there are next to none pink balls around available. It was only about ten alleys that were filled with bowlers. Most of them were high school to junior high aged kids bowling their free time away. One girl did a little dance and made her friends laugh. There were a couple of families enjoying and spending family time together. They have a snack bar open for bowlers if they need something to snack on for example, chicken fingers, fries, hotdog, nachos, and beverages such as sodas and juices. If one ever gets too bored, they have music playing and some sports on television sets above them to watch while waiting to bowl. For the more gregarious type, there is a bar behind them for some favorite alcoholic drink. There is also a pool table in the bar area for those that want a different sport to play.

Week 3 EOC Where Are you and Where Are You Going?

Where I am now financially is rough. Every time I try to save up or get a new account, I have another thing coming. It gets repetitive like the third party knew I had some set aside. I just sit and say well that was for that situation and know that I was able to pay it off. I have only enough to handle my small personal emergencies. I have enough to get my projects done that’s how I am now. I have always had medical insurance. In the past, I have been doing a retirement with saving some for bigger goals. I have had problems keeping track of what I had in my account in the past because I relied on the computer instead of my own calculations. In the past I was able to have enough to take little trips and invest in a business I was growing. It was a worth while investment because I had learned a lot about how to educate yourself in the business world. I am on my third new car and my first one was paid off so then I got a new one. The second one got messed up from reasons I would not mention so now I am on my third. In the future, I would like to be able to take little trips, save for retirement and save more for later. I want to have enough where I can have a family, nice home, two cars, couple cameras and insurance for each. I would like to have business insurance for my business also so that I can keep it afloat in bad situations that may come up. I still spend on things I should not because I think I would be fine in the end. And next thing I know it is gone and I am barely scrapping by to get some gas. I have to keep myself on that road to financial stability so that it is stable and sit back and say it has and will always be a good rough road to travel.

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.

Week 2 EOC Sacrifices

I would give up everything including my health to be in my career. I like to be in the eye of the storm and be in the midst of poverty to make my photography be valuable. It is in my intuition to make a news of anything I see. My family comes second with my career because without my camera where or how do I support my family. I would live in anywhere and eat next to nothing because that is what it is about. It is about getting yourself in the situation to be understanding and grossed into the culture and be vulnerable to my surroundings. I love to be in the most dangerous situations such as bombings and battles to capture the actions out there.

“The bullets tore holes in the water around me, and I made for the nearest steel obstacle.' said Robert Capa after capturing the 1947 war invasion on the beaches of France."

1 Like Capa I want it to be the most riveting events that makes one’s skin want to jump out with shock. It is my duty to make the best of every moment. I drive on action and no action causes no reaction. I would sacrifice my time with my life partner to be able to capture the most beautiful scenes and fall in love. I love to make my scene my partner and my camera my love to be in that moment of peace. Those moments are the most timing places that makes me me. It makes me find peace and harmony and craziness and chaos all in one lifetime. I crave the situations where there is politics and culture clashing in everyone’s faces and know that it will be resolved later when there is peace. I like seeing the change after a big event because that is where I learn and we learn that life is about life.

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.