Mission Statement - Part 2

So what brought on this whole mission statement thing all of the sudden? Don Giannatti of Lighting Essentials is starting a 52 week project for his readers to follow along to. This is the assignment for week one:

What do you want to do photographically? Tell us with a single paragraph what you want to be able to do with your images. Tell us what you do without telling us you are a photographer. Accompany that message with a single image taken around your home. Inside or out, make a photograph that adds insight into the mission statement you will be writing.

As for the photograph… think long and hard about it. It should reflect your mission statement as best as possible. It can be done indoors or outside. I only want you to to shoot around your house/apartment as an exercise in creativity. Sometimes we have to make do with what we have… and I want you to make do for an important photograph without leaving your yard. That is the extent of the rule.

So with a bit more thinking, I went on to try and finish my mission statement. I think this is it:

We bring imagination to life.

Through creative lighting and editing, Digital Room Studios strives to create the most fun and imaginative images goes above and beyond suiting a client's basic needs. We collaborate with our clients to provide a product that will melt their faces with awesomeness.

It's ok to have something about melting faces and awesomeness in the mission statement, right?

Mission Statement

"We bring imaginiation to life."

It's a start. That's the basic mission of Digital Room Studios. I want something special and imaginitive in all my products for my clients. I'll be doing an overhaul of the website and moving the galleries to private unlisted areas so that clients can have access to them. Site viewers and potential clients will just have a view of portfolio shots, so that they're not underwhelmed by some of the more mundane work I've done; shoots like events and edits.

HD's Birthday Party Photos

Edited and posted for your enjoyment.

Reuter's Best of the Year

55 of the year's best from Reuters' photographers. Notice how 90% of them were taken with Canon cameras? ;)

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2010/11/15/best-of-the-year/?ref=nf#a=1

Let There be Light!

So I'm 75% of the way to having all the lighting equipment I'll ever need until February. Through a fairly fortunate discovery, I found 5 Speedotron Blackline 202VF heads, 5 cables, a bunch of reflectors, and a 405 pack for $1200 from a studio in California. I also purchased an Innovatrix Tronix Explorer XT SE (now that's a mouthfull) to power this stuff on location.

All I really need now is more power packs. The 405 isn't quite strong enough for day time, so I'm eyeing two 1005 1000w/s power packs. That way I'll have 3 power packs and a total of 2400w/s as needed. I mean, 400w/s will be more than enough on some shoots.

My third concern, that I can remember anyways, is being able to carry all this stuff. It normally retails for about $330, but I found what appears to be a new one for $150. It is supposedly an excess purchase from a photographer in Bel Air. Hopefully they still have it and will sell it to me.

To know where you're going...

...you have to know where you come from. I think. Or who you are. Or something like that. If you get bored, try out this test based on the Myers-Briggs personality test. This one is about 72 questions that are all yes or no and there are no right or wrong answers.

I scored as an INTP. I always do. It's fate I guess.