EOC: Week 10 Financial Statement

The financial statement that we went thru to figure out our statements made me realize a little more of what I should expect when it’s time to speak to banks and also figure out more or less what we are going to spend and how much we are going to make. At first it was a little scary, knowing that all your money will be going back to your business but after thinking about it and telling myself that this is what I want, it becomes more and more at ease to become use to the idea.

I like the way all the numbers figure out to the right amount by the click of the button but it was a little difficult trying to get them to that point. I would like to put more time into it and try to get the exact numbers so that way I could share my numbers to others and try to compare them and see who will be my competition and what it is that I need to do so that my competition would stay below me.

My experience with my financial statement was a little frustrating. I would have hoped that this school would have given a course a little better and pin-point to exactly this. That way when it’s time to set up our financial statement it wouldn’t be such a problem. I feel that that is where this school has a problem. Our school is based on so many fields that when we need to base it on one thing it becomes difficult and it would be hard to understand it. 

EOC: Week 9 40 under 40

Where am I going to be in seven years? 

That is one question that I never thought of until now. I always feared the number and the disappointment that I will have when I reach that age, but truth to be told is that I am a little excited to reach that number and have the goals that I will accomplish at that point. Being forty is not really the end of the world. I feel that reaching forty is the beginning of my road to my future of my photography. I had my share of moments going out with friends and tagging along relentlessly with groups that didn’t care for the world. Now reaching forty and establishing my business, I will have the chance to enter a world of business and a new life for my daughter and myself. I feel that forty will be good to me and it will bring me many opportunities and decisions that I feel that will change my life and those around me. Cheers to forty and I will have my life stable and concreted to the world of business.

The real question here: Is this world ready for me when I reach forty? With all the motivation and desires and even the talent that I am generating, I will bring to the world talent that will be different to many and desired to all. 

Week 8 EOC: Is she fair game.

With the experience and the knowledge that I’ve acquired, I do feel that any image is fair game. Of course the subject must be in public but now in these days a subject could be out of the public’s eye and they are still being exposed and those images are fair game.

Tons of photographers in the world are out in public looking fair that right moment and being able to have the advantage to capture that moment. In legal aspects anybody that is out in public is able to capture an image of anyone. They call this photojournalism. The public is for the public and what ever is being done in public is for the public’s interest to know about it. 

EOC: Week 7 Biggest challenge to complete my business plan

I feel that the biggest challenge to completing my business plan would be looking for all the legal paper for starting a new business. I understand that this challenge is petty but I feel that creating a business plan of something that you are so involved and is your passion should not be difficult at all. This business plan had its challenges but challenges that help understand the reasons for being involved in photography.

These easy steps to our business plan detail tons of information that will help my photography business to be successful.

Another challenge that I did confront would be networking my business to banks. Not having the confidence that I need to poses is hurting me at this time and is something that I need to overcome for banks to be able to give me their opinion about how my business plan could work in the publics eye. 

Week 6 EOC:Ron Galella, first amendment

Having the opportunity to take a look at how Ron works is a great way of how others interfere others private life. I understand that we have a freedom to be able to do what we need to do for a way to bring income, but the form of way Ron and other paparazzi’s work is an invasion of privacy.

I feel that the first amendment is being abused when a paparazzi is defending himself in front of the court of law. I feel that in some case they are taking part of their journalistic duties but the way they capture the image is what is damaging to others. Coming out of bushes, or destroying private property by making a hole in there hedge or climbing a tree is a form that will provoke mental stress to the subject that is being photograph.

I feel that restraining orders help the subject only to some degree. The paparazzi will raise the measures more now then before because the subject’s photo is going to be worth more.  I feel that there should be a law that prohibits paparazzi’s of not being in clear view of the subject. Being able to be in clear view will allow that subject to protect themselves by any means necessary.

With all this said, I dislike the work of paparazzi’s, but it is work and it is some type of art in their eyes. The after math of the paparazzi is remarkable and interesting. 

Week 5 EOC: Horse race and Unicorns

When I first started thinking about a business, I had trouble to pin point exactly what genre I would like to follow. I come from an artistic family and I try to not make photography as a work thing, but just like everything, we need to make money of what we do. With that said, I am thinking of starting a studio that concentrates with portrait photography and event photography. I also would like to start a chain of studios that will be contracted all along the west coast to high priority clients. I would like to be able to have a main photographer at each studio and one assistant. Later I would like to have a team of five individuals in a studio to be able to capture, process, and print and also be able to have a regional sales man for the entire region.

Week 5: Four Photographers

Jeremy Cowart

What I enjoyed a lot about Jeremy website was his portfolio about women and iPhoneography. At first I didn’t understand what he meant as iPhoneography, but I guess there is a new wave and a start to this genre. This front of the website is the photographers face which sells him a lot rather then his photos and I enjoy that. The design to his website is also great. I feel that this site would be a business site.

http://jeremycowart.com

Mitchell Kanashkevich

Mitchell website is very basic but yet to the point. I feel that his genre of photography is based on traveling street photography or journalism. I will admit that all his images are breath taking with a great amount of meaning and they are rich with color. The expressions on his subject’s portray a story line that identifies the location of the photograph. Mitchell site would be a business site

http://www.mitchellkphotos.com

Joon Brandt

I adore Joon’s work. A lot of his work reminds me of Sandy Skoglund’s early work and also David LaChapelle work. Tons of Joon’s work has a great amount of humorous. The images of Joon are all computer edited and in great quality. I had a hard time with Joo’s site but I do feel that this is a business site.

http://www.joonsworld.no

Fredrick Clement

This website is my least favorite. I had a hard time navigating the website to find out who the photographer was and also it took up to much time to navigate his portfolio. Some of his images was not exactly the most impressive in my opinion. I felt they had very low lighting and also hard to read to exactly what they were. Fredrick site to me was a glamour site.

http://www.fredrikclement.com