Well for a start I've worked out a basic list of things I want to do this year and the skills I want to improve and work on.
It goes a little something like this:
- Create a blog for my photography [tick]
- Upload some current photos to and link my Flickr site to this blog (and no, I haven't figured out how to do that yet)
- Finish my website and upload it
- Get a detailed business plan together for my studio
- Run a mobile phone photography workshop at PIC (if I end up being allowed to)
- Research my Exhibition/Book Idea and try to get at least some of the wheels in motion
- Research and plan my Presentation Idea and see if I can actually present it
- Take photos and create a website for my current work
- Take more photos (of friends and family) in the studio at school
- Improve my Photoshop, InDesign and Dreamweaver skills and perhaps see if I can get my head around what else the Adobe Creative Suite has to offer
I have a Flickr site/page/whatever you call it, however the photos on there are a bit of a mishmash of the good, the bad and the ugly. I'm planning on getting to that over the weekend.
I started making a website, a photographer's essential, last year as part of my studies, however my end of year folio got in the way and took everything over. As a photographer, a website is not only a place where I can display my photography, it also has the potential to display any other skills I have (enter the Adobe Creative Suite).
One of the classes I will be taking this year at PIC is business studies, where we get to see, through a little window, what it's like out there in the big bad world of photography. I already have a plan sketched out, but it needs a bit or work. It will also help make the whole thing a bit more real.
Last year at PIC I thoroughly enjoyed the Mobile Phone Workshop taken by the inestimable Stuart. And as my end of year folio consisted entirely of photographs taken with my mobile phone, as well as the fact that I have some previous teaching experience under my belt, I thought I might be perfect for the job. Teaching photography is also something I have considered as a possible career. There is, however, some red tape to get through and I may not be legally allowed to do so.
My Big Ideas* are going to remain private until such time as I can safely let them out into daylight without fear or plagiarism (even though there's no such thing as a new idea**) or pointing and laughing.
I currently work in administration/reception for a small engineering company. As you can imagine, this gives me about zero creative opportunity. So I'm making my own. I have approached the Boss about this, and he umm-ed and ahh-ed his way through a mediocre, non-committal response. Essentially he won't want to pay for it, however, as I spend a lot of my time sitting around all day, I figure he already is. And above that, I need the experience, so I'll do it anyway. If he doesn't like it, I won't put it up. The Boss has also suggested I go to some of the sites they have been working on and take some photos to put up around the office. This is a service he would also be unwilling to pay for, I will, however, be sure to talk him around before whipping out the expensive equipment and producing world class images for him.
Being one of the few arty-farty types in my circles of friends, I have been asked by a few of them to photograph them with their partners, various family occasions and other random events. My studio skills are what you might politely call lacking. So I am aiming to get a few studio sessions in this year so I can work on my lighting technique and aforementioned studio skills. Not to mention, every little bit counts.
And lastly, Photoshop and all things digital. I'm passably good at Photoshop and InDesign. Everything else needs work and lots of work. Somehow I think I'll be able to get plenty of practice.
*Yes, the capital letters are necessary.
**Thank you Stuart.
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