Evaluation of self promotion.

My assignment was to successfully promote myself as a photographer by designing and making products that i could easily hand out to members of the public.

 I started out making business cards that contained all the relevant information so that if customers  needed to contact me they could do so easily. To display these cards i would hand them out to local shops and ask them to display them on a board, i think this would be a good idea as they would be in clear view on people looking. I think my business cards are well designed as they are simple, easy to read and you can find all the relevant information quickly.

Secondly i designed a pen that i could send out to previous and enquiring customers as a way of promotion, this would be a good idea as its an easy and efficient way to promote myself.

Thirdly i designed a notepad that i could use when i sent letters to potential customers, this would be a good way as it gives a personal touch and people are more likely to reinforce them to look at my websites.

My intended audience is that of couples and the older generation as they are more likely to be supportive and interested in upcoming businesses. I would specifically target the wedding market as i think my designs are more suited for them.

review on other peoples work

One person in my class made a goodie bag that he would supply to his customers after they had ordered work from him. I think this was a very good idea as it could be easily personalised and specific to each customer. He also made a calendar which enabled the customer to add their own photos, this was a good idea as it would interest other people to look at it. His target audience for the goodie bag were high paying customers who payed him to take pictures for a wedding or something of the like.

Another idea i like was a booklet of photographs, i thought that this was a good idea as it displays the capabilities as a photographer and would make more people interested in hiring her as a photographer as they can see what sort of work she can produce.

Over all my promtion products cost £13.75

The most cost effective product i got were my business cards as they were free you only had to pay 3.50 for postage. You got 250 cards so each card worked out at approx 1.4pence.

CD Packaging. (Self Promo)

To promote my images i would like to make up a portfolio in CD form. For this packaging would be essential as it would be the first thing that my potential customers would see. I would like to make my packaging unique so that people would remember it and enjoy taking a look at my images.

Front cover:
For the front cover i would have a plain black background and have my logo standing out in plain white text to give it a professional edge.

Inside:
Inside i would have a pop up image to the side of the CD, this would come up as soon as the case was opened and be the first thing that the user would see. Also i would have an image behind where the CD was sat to give the user something else to look at.

Heavy Industry Assignment

For heavy industry we had to decide an individual way to photograph and present our images. I decided to take pictures of the reflection of an image from a compact mirror and change them to black and white to give them an aged effect. I mounted my pictures on a mirror to further continue the "reflection" theme, it also makes the viewer feel part of the picture.

fri 17th

On friday the 17th we started to use photoshop,the first image is before we learned to crop and adjust the resolution of an image. The second has had a few minor adjustments.

Keywords:

Colour definition

Clarity

DPI-dots per inch

Keywords:

Colour definition

Clarity

DPI-dots per inch

Dot Matrix Printer

1000mb-1GB

72 is poor image quality

CMD + S=save

Andreas Gursky

Logo

Last Week in photoshop we made logos using different layers, the logos were created to use on our different sites such as twitter, flicker and blogger.

Photoshop

In photoshop we learnt how make specific selections using the magnetic lasso tool. We first cut out the jumping girl and once we were happy with our first selection we used the quick mask button to make our selection neater.











The red outline displays what you haven't selected, and everything in colour is your selection. On this mode you can neaten up your initial selection.