Anyone Out There Want to Intern with Us?

UPDATE: THE INTERN POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

The time has come! We are just too busy to mange it all! My priorities of shooting and writing for this blog are taking a second seat sometimes because of the little things that need to get done. I have needed a personal assistant for a long time but have put it off, thinking I can handle it! The truth is, I can’t. Either can David, my husband and partner. What would the job entail? Anything from helping me prep a shoot, running errands, second or third assisting on a shoot, returning emails, walking my dog. Yeah, just being around to do the smaller stuff that I simply don’t have enough time in the day to get done. We live in a beautiful house in the Hollywood Hills, just a stones’ throw from the famous Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood Bowl. We actually live right smack in the middle between the Hollywood Sign and the Hollywood bowl. How hip is that? You would be working with us out of our house that has  a great artistic energy and vibe. I would need an intern for 2 days a week, 6 hours each day unless I’m shooting then I would need you at least 8 hours. If you are available 3 days a week, even better.

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Check out who wins the Free Promo Cards
and the Canvas Print Now!

So six weeks ago I ran a contest for 3 lucky readers to win some promo cards and one canvas print! U Printing kindly offered these free prizes to the 3 people with the best comments! Two people would each win 250 free promo cards! I wrote about great uses for a promo card in the same post, Your Promo Cards, so these two lucky photographers can start using the cards to promote themselves. The third winner receives a free 18 x 24 canvas print, to use any way he or she chooses. One way to use them is in exhibiting your work. Posted here.

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A Little Information About The Big Show

You want to know my truth about shooting fashion shows? I don’t shoot them! Seriously. But I have shot them in the past, especially when I was first starting out in my career. The thing is, if you’re a fashion photographer, it’s going to come up. You’re going to get offered the gig at some point. Or a designer friend is going to need a favor and you won’t want to turn them down. Or maybe you really want to head in that direction with your career. For me, I’ve gotten to the place now where I will kindly refuse the gig because I just don’t enjoy shooting them.

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How to have a good relationship with your agent

I know….I haven’t written in over two weeks. I don’t like to have such huge gaps of time in between posts, but I had a tiny disaster recently over a shoot and I’ve had to figure out how to work around it. Plus I signed with an Australian agent and have been busy sending her images from just about everything I’ve ever shot so she can edit down what she wants to put up on her site. AND we’ve been knee deep in post from the beauty shoot (sneak peek shown above!) that I wrote about in my last post! So my plate has been full and my attention has been on “damage control” over the small hiccup from a recent shoot. I will write a post soon on how to side step problems, because they do happen and it does come up from time to time. But not today. Today, I’m going to share my thoughts about agents. How to get a good one and then how to keep the good one.

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An inside look at the day before a shoot

Photo courtesy of Eric Lennstrom Photography

So I am shooting for the next two days. Tomorrow I am shooting for Genlux Magazine again. I’m shooting for the Spring Fashion Issue. The next day I am shooting a beauty story for Zink Magazine. I’ve had these two shoots slated to shoot for the last 3 weeks. We’ve had plenty of time to prepare for them. I’ll only write about my first shoot for Genlux because to write about both of them would turn out to be a really long and really redundant post. So with Genlux, I was given the theme. Travel! That’s the theme of the issue for Spring and that was the only guideline. Since I am totally bored with lifestyle photography and travel lends so easily to that theme, I racked my brain for a couple of days and then it hit me: I wanted to go off in a totally different direction and do a story on Astral Travel! Right up my alley! I’m so tired of the whole trains, planes and automobiles thing. If I see one more chick on a yacht I might faint from boredom. But Astral Travel. Now that’s something I can sink my teeth into. Stephen, the creative director, OK’d my idea. Which is astonishing!

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