bgva

joined 1 year ago
[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

r/assholedesign

[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Since you have a week, any chance you could check out the venue to see what lighting looks like? To avoid distractions, I second not using flash if you can help it, at least while people are speaking.

[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Either being featured in a regional magazine last year or being asked to photograph the mayor’s State of the City address.

[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. Mostly real estate and events.

[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sam Hurd in one of his podcasts said that after he shoots a wedding in a good location, he'll go on google and upload those pictures at said location giving a 5 star rating, this way you'll get on the radar of the owner and managers of that venue.

I love this. I've been wanting to get into corporate events as well and have been racking my brains for ideas. Last week, I did an event with a few keynote speakers, and got business cards of each speaker so I could email them personally. But I need to try this idea too.

And congrats OP! That's amazing.

[–] bgva@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're not alone. I bought my first professional camera on Black Friday 2012. About six months later I decided to pursue photography as a profession, mainly because I started realizing just how expensive gear was. From there I immersed myself into learning as much as I could.

At the time I worked at a marketing agency and lost my job in April 2014. My initial goal was to quit in 2016 after saving up about $10,000, so being thrown into the fire prematurely was definitely rough. Lotta sleepless nights, PBJ sammiches, and overdraft fees.

If I could do things differently, I definitely would've left on my own terms. But part of me also knows I never would've pulled the trigger, so my old bosses did me a favor. As much as I struggled in the mid-2010s, it gave me a story to tell.