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A Review of 2013 - How did it treat you?
In 2013: I shot 365 sets of images and 16,000 frames or an average of 44 frames per set. I only shot on one day a week which means I shot 7 sets every time I set foot in the studio. I shot 12 magazine covers and had 43 publications including 2 featured editorials in Gothic Beauty Magazine. I shot a CD cover and had an image on the poplar Tv show, FaceOff and shot Wednesday Mourning from Oddities: San Francisco. I made a video on youtube of some of my favorite images from 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWenIZwJXJk How did 2013 treat you? Dec 31 13 05:48 pm Link I have nothing to say except 2014 has to be better cause 2013 has been the worst year of my life. Dec 31 13 06:03 pm Link Dec 31 13 06:16 pm Link Laura Dark Photography wrote: Very impressive! Dark Magus wrote: I think your 2014 will get better.. Dec 31 13 06:18 pm Link Averaged a 78% rate of return on investments. And took a few pictures. Dec 31 13 06:24 pm Link Laura Dark Photography wrote: quite a year Dec 31 13 06:32 pm Link 2013 was pretty damn good and funny at times: I made a goal to do more politically in 2013. Then at a new years eve party (I was doing event coverage) I wound up having dinner with the Mayor. We had a lovely exchange/argument about my business in her city. So that kicked off the year with a bang. I was published (print) in the SF Chronicle I was published (print) in New York Post I was published (online) in Yahoo.com front home page A bunch of smaller gallery/art shows. I took part in Playboy TV Show Boarding Pass: 3 episodes about my Boudoir Studio I completely rebuilt my web presence and combined two sites into one. Completely new Facebook page from scratch. New design on business cards. I photographed 125 people. I increased my total billing by 12% over 2012. (Even though I had a massive dry spell of 3 weeks in June with not a single phone call/email) Dec 31 13 07:20 pm Link Happy New Years!  Dec 31 13 07:27 pm Link Every year just gets worse then the last. Dec 31 13 07:31 pm Link SMS-Photography wrote: As we are hours away from the new year, I think it is safe to say that your career as a motivational speaker expires with 2013, and wonderful opportunities as eulogogist and assisted suicide counselor opening up as great new careers! Dec 31 13 07:42 pm Link Found a new ligthting style and technique,also changed my style a bit using more wide angle and focusing more on sky and enviroment of my sunsets..thus my style changed a bit also experimented with more natural light ideas,night walkarounds,even incorperating models at night ... got in with a new magazine called Surreal Beauties and started to get quite a bit of images published,including a calender To me 2013 was a setup for what I feel will be my year in many ways in 2014 Dec 31 13 08:04 pm Link SMS-Photography wrote: Curious, do you get invited to a lot of parties? Dec 31 13 08:07 pm Link udor wrote: SMS-Photography wrote: As we are hours away from the new year, I think it is safe to say that your career as a motivational speaker expires with 2013, and wonderful opportunities as eulogogist and assisted suicide counselor opening up as great new careers! Nailed it! johnreefphotography wrote: It's New Years Eve, I'm watching the news, eating Ritz crackers and commenting on MM forms. What do you think! Dec 31 13 08:18 pm Link I'm finding that I am blessed more and more each day!!:-) Dec 31 13 08:34 pm Link udor wrote: Udor... my man! Dec 31 13 08:49 pm Link Off the top of my head..these are prolly some of the highlights, despite I only started doing things again around August seriously.. I submitted a proposal to do a 7500 kilometer journey through the western arctic to the high arctic and do a film about it, write several articles. It was a bit on the high side for budget so it was rejected, but I hope to re-submit and edit it for early 2014, with some added oomph for less cost. Somewhere around mid year i got an email to put some of my images of the southern arctic on 6 jet planes, which flies from the southern portion of the arctic to BC and Alberta. The images will wrap around the fuselage which will be my biggest public art to date..12' wide at least. I don't know when it will be done but I'll likely be informed so we can begin marketing it together I met and hung out with theresa manchester (whose work i've followed and loved since for years) in banff which was totally awesome  even got a quick shot of her under the aurora, which apparently follows me around, at 4 am. This month I started finishing up and sourcing a composer/musician to do the soundtrack to the nature documentary i started a year ago, I plan to do one on the river and sky of the sub arctic coming out in 2014. Earlier this week I turned down a tour group in Sri Lanka, sadly, because it conflicted with another tour i want to do in the north right after a tour in the southern USA which will hopefully go ahead this upcoming 2014-2015. Dec 31 13 08:50 pm Link SMS-Photography wrote: Get out of Oshkosh. Jesus. Dec 31 13 08:50 pm Link Totally sucked. Models had no interest in creativity. Just wanted to make a buck to eat. Haven't shot for five months. Dec 31 13 09:02 pm Link Cuica Cafezinho wrote: Probably will in a couple months, will need to find a city with better homeless shelters. Dec 31 13 09:17 pm Link udor wrote: This IS the braggy brag brag look what I did forum, right? I did since major bragin' up there ^. Lol Dec 31 13 09:19 pm Link I didn't keep count of any of it... I just kept going. It was AWESOME! I hope everyone had a wonderful year as well. Dec 31 13 09:19 pm Link Tianxiao Zhang wrote: I love this video so hard!!! Dec 31 13 09:23 pm Link I feel I had a great year. I started testing models for a couple of agencies. I've shot with some other agency models too. Ramped up my stock work. I started shooting on the beach and I was very happy with the results. I ended the year with a final shoot with a Lithuanian Elite model currently living in Milan. She had fun working together and would like to shoot again with me when she returns to NYC. I'm a freekin' happy camper. Dec 31 13 09:30 pm Link Laura Dark Photography wrote: curious, what are "sets" of images? is that for zivity? Dec 31 13 10:04 pm Link It treated me like poo. Lol. Dec 31 13 10:40 pm Link Big A-Larger Than Life wrote: I kicked it in the baws for you big a and made it go away. Dec 31 13 11:20 pm Link aside from my pole recital (see my post in this thread) and a couple of other small things, 2013 was the second worst year of my life (the first was 2009, when my dad died plus i had a break-up plus a backstabbing) Dec 31 13 11:39 pm Link Bluntly, the ONLY way 2014 can go is up - after 2013 there isn't much more 'down' it can go. Jan 01 14 12:35 am Link Karl Johnston wrote: In my studio each client "look" is a set. So if model"A" pays for 3 looks, that equals 3 sets of images and my MUA, Hair, and Stylist is paid for each as a separate job. If the client used the same makeup and hair and styled their own looks it was considered one set and I was paid out extra only if they wanted more images from the extra outfits. Jan 01 14 05:56 am Link Laura Dark Photography wrote: I shot like 10 <shrug> Jan 01 14 06:26 am Link Personally a bad year -broke up with my wife -then broke up with GF -house got flood in summer -house got frozen with power outage at Christmas Business -highest grossing year yet Jan 01 14 06:28 am Link It was fine. Greeting crows pleasantly and respectfully yields good karma. Don Jan 01 14 06:44 am Link My wife's career uprooted the family and I moved from the 1.2 million populated Denver metro area to a town of 1,200. It nearly cost me my family and my marriage because I did not want to go at first. In addition to leaving the city, family and friends I'd known since I was 2 years old, it meant leaving decades worth of word of mouth referrals that included polititians, pro athletes, CEO's and thousands of models, for fields of corn and soybeans, horseflies big enough to carry off my youngest daughter and tornado warnings in December. The only internet available is crappy satellite or spotty 4G. I arrived in June 2013, 9 months after the rest of the family, after mending my marriage. I was unemployed for the first 5 months and almost sold my camera to pay bills (our finances are seperate) before finally finding a full time job, which I need to survive and help out mom back home and repair my house I'm renting back in Denver that's suddenly falling apart, all while trying to re-build my business in larger cities that are 50-100 miles away. Nobody has heard of MM out here so I've shot 3 models in 6 months. The ladies all have some form of camoflauge and the most popular accessories are shotguns and cigarettes. The things we do for love. 2014 had BETTER be better! Jan 01 14 07:20 am Link Big A-Larger Than Life wrote: I wish you good luck in the New Year!! Jan 01 14 10:12 am Link Personality Imaging wrote: I'm starting to think it's a southern thing. When I worked in California, this didn't happen to me nearly as proportionally as it does now. Let's just say 2013 was ok, got some good work in, but let's just say I'm hoping 2014 is a better year. Jan 01 14 10:39 am Link Laura Dark Photography wrote: I like this idea Jan 01 14 10:56 am Link treated me very well. Two new primes. Ziess 24mm, Sigma 85mm for my Sony A99. And a Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. Jan 01 14 01:25 pm Link 2013 was good, not amazing. I am ready to get my modeling off to a rocking start. Have a shoot next week and I'm ready to have many more in 2014. Jan 01 14 01:35 pm Link Jan 01 14 03:20 pm Link I didn't shoot much, but I did get the cover and a featured spread with interview in a major alt magazine, so that couldn't have been any more awesome. Jan 01 14 03:23 pm Link |
