Professional but casual business portraits for social media like Facebook and LinkedIn
For all the social media today it is important to have images that communicate your professionalism, but at the same time are not stiff and stodgy. They need to say that you are someone they would enjoy “networking” with.
I’m going to make you run around a bit. This is my post about business portraits for Dayton area professional on my other web site called GROW YOUR BUSINESS IN DAYTON http://www.gybindayton.com Click on this link to take you right to that example.
You will see a few images and a testimonial letter.
After going there, then find out more by going to my page about business portraits. Business Portraits
Jen Hillenga all day workshop in Dayton Ohio sponsored by PPSO.org
July 9th 2012 at Cox Arboretum near the Dayton Mall
I encourage you to pass this along to your photographer friends in the Dayton area and the region (Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and the entire SW Ohio area). This is great opportunity right here in SW Ohio for you to grow as a portrait photographer and learn new things about business of photography. Everyone is welcome to participate. Sponsored by PPSO.org here in SW Ohio. 9am – 9pm packed with learning and experience. Bring your camera and grow as a photographer.
Jen Hillenga Alldayworkshop PDF full-sized flyer
Family portrait session at Sharon Woods in Cincinnati
Two lovely families want portraits together
Amalie called me asking about family portraits for two families. They live in West Chester, but the other family was visiting from Georgia in about two weeks. I was hoping that the foliage would all be out and good for backgrounds for the family groups. We selected Sharon Woods in Cincinnati because it would be convenient for them. She explained that there were some smaller children which could be tricky.
The day before the session I scoped out Sharon Woods. I was able to find water falls that looked like it could be interesting. When everyone arrived, we took some pictures by the entrance to the park, but then I suggested that we head to this water falls that would make for several portrait opportunities. Getting the kids to relax and not smile too hard took some time. As they started to relax, several groupings just sort of came together. And that is they way I like it. I don’t want to say, stand just here and don’t move or something like that. Better to have the family interact and catch them being a family together.
Here are some of the images from the session:
Crew team at Xavier University lake Harsha competition
I had some fun taking pictures of my son and the Xavier Crew team competing at Lake Harsha in Batavia near Cincinnati. This is not the portrait photography that I normally share here.
Tell me if you can feel the coolness of the morning with the mist coming off the water in the early morning. This is a very different sort of sport than wrestling which Evan participated in as a junior and senior in high school. This sport is about strength, endurance, timing and teamwork. In addition they are in what seems to be a tiny little boat that barely sits high enough in the water to keep from sinking.
There is definitely some skill to direct the rowers and rudder the boat effectively. During the competition there was one crew team that was low on experience and their boat was all over the place.
Hope you enjoy the pictures:
Pins from Peter DeMott Photography
It was actually pretty fun to explore the various PINs from this website onto Pinterest. Pinterest is a pin board for photography. Although it does provide a link to my site and a citation under the photograph as to where the photo came from, I am also glad that I have chosen to put my copyright, name and web site on every portrait that I put on the web.
Here is a portion of the page and link so you can see: PINS for photosbypdemott
It is also fun to see the different pages that the photographs are pinned to:
and more..
When I click on one of my photographs that has been PINNED, it shows the image like this:
There are sometimes comments under the photographs like this one, “Great ideas found here” and my web site is hot-linked above the image. In addition you can tweet the image of drop it into Facebook or perhaps embed in on your blog or web site. I am assuming that the hot link remains when the images are embedded this way. It also shows the first person to PIN the image and also if the image has been re-pinned 2 times (or however many times people have re-pinned it under various categories).
Since the pins point back to this website, and since I have my name a web site on every portrait that I post here, I guess that I can count it as free advertising.
Not everything is peachy keen though. I see some pins that have copyright information chopped off or which reference “uploaded by user” even when it is clear the user who created that particular board is not the person who actually created the image. By downloading and then uploading the image instead of pinning the image, the reference website is effectively removed. If copyright information is also removed there is then no way to track the photograph to the original source. As I looked at the Pinterest terms of service, this is both copyright infringement and Pinterest abuse and it can be reported. If someone is reported doing this more than a time or two, they can be banned from the site or removed.
I think I will have to try Pinterest soon. Are YOU a member of Pinterest? Are you enjoying creating some pin boards? Have you seen people abusing the terms of service on Pinterest? What is your take on this new sharing utility?