Business | Storyboards and Stuff

One of the reasons I became a lifestyle portrait photographer is that art is meant to be seen on a wall, in a well crafted album, a modern or whimsical storyboard. Art deserves art. As much as I'm all about sharing online, so much is lost (color and details are just two) and forgotten. When you are taking images of a moment that one wants to remember forever, it needs to be handled with great care and consideration. When I photograph a session, even though you can see the images pop up, that "film" is unprocessed. I go straight home, download my film, back up to three hard drives. Then I do a first edit. Then a blog and final edit. Finally, I can process film in my digital darkroom. Eventually a CD collection is born. This process takes weeks and with good reason as shooting is only a part of what you see when you look at a photographic image. As much as things have changed from film to digital, how fast it takes to produce good imagery hasn't. It's just a different process. What's your color palette? How do you couple images together? Sequencing? The wonderful world of Photoshop is a long and winding road; an image could take 10 minutes to edit or 4 hours. Work is funny like that. A session may only be two hours but between communication, paperwork, agreements, day before prepping, equipment checks there's countless hours prior to the shoot and then processing film to be ready for a client or get blog ready (those photos are processed and saved differently too :); it's starts with hello and ends with a big thank you with so much that happens in between. Business and art; creativity and lots of organization. I love it all so that makes me happy. Speaking of love, I spend an insane amount of time with packaging. It's a bit of an illness but it can't be helped.

I have a huge crush on graphic design so designing storyboards is a favorite for me. While designing a bunch that a client ordered, I couldn't help design one for a recent shoot with Dempsey. Typically I make cute or modern frames and designs but this seemed just right as is. Btw, Dempsey's six month birthday is on August 6th and heck yeah we'll be celebrating. Puppies in party hats--photo booth anyone?