Late night photo shoot

Dominic — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:53:00 -0500

“You know it’s a good photo shoot when the cops show up…”

Those were the fabled words after Saturday evening’s mini-shoot with Heather and Jordan. Turns out that 3 people standing around with umbrellas and stuff look suspicious enough to warrant the cops stop by to check it out.

Actually, someone called 911, the cops showed, and I had a conversation with a very nice public servant.

We were doing nothing wrong, not trespassing, and when I asked if we needed to leave, he sort-of shrugged his shoulders and indicated that he did not care.

All in a days work, I say.

Projects

Dominic — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:52:00 -0500

Dear blog readers,

It occurred to me a while back that I should make another attempt at engaging in a photography project of some kind.

Gordon has hopped onto the SoFoBoMo bandwagon (not a bad idea), and it got me thinking. Despite this thinking, I’ve been on the fence about actually doing a project like SoFoBoMo (publish a photo book in a month).

Earlier this week I spoke with several photographer friends of mine, and they all thought that not only are “projects” a good idea, in that they keep you shooting when you might not be “in the groove” (as I appear to be presently), but they also help you progress and learn things, be it lighting, composition, networking, courting customers or what have you.

So here goes my attempt at an elevator pitch:

Hi, I’m Dominic, and I’m a photographer. I’m currently working on a project where I take recurring photographs of on a daily or semi-daily basis, and plan on putting the photographs together as a book when I’m done.

I’m mostly doing this for my own sake, practice and the experience. It’s also part of a challenge (to myself) to produce a photo book (coffee table book) in about a month.

I still need to come up with a quick schpiel on what a model release is, and some good reasons for why they should sign one.

Anyway, here’s to hoping I get through this, and for several other future ideas.

dominic eidson: Tag photo

Late night photo shoot

Projects