Sep 2, 2010, 11:13
Nice job all.
Kombi...just wondering: you know that "enhance" thing you mention? You might want to check, as this could be the problem. I've found with some devs that their way of "enhancing" is actually to mess about to their own idea of colour, density, etc; darkening(IMO) is a sure sign that they're re-jigging an image to their own default settings. Thus, I'd really recommend NOT getting them to enhance, but have full control yourself. I had exactly the same issue with my devs, usually naffing about with the density and over-darkening.
Irma: your card is certainly professional...but perhaps the absence of a colourful image renders it a little "remote" or even emotionless? sorry!
I feel Juergen may be correc there.
May I suggest you do indeed have an image on your card? Now, it needn't be a solo portrait...and I can understand your reason why, that it appears as if you are selling that person!...BUT.. you could, in Photoshop, do a combination of images, importing each one at different sizes and saving the whole composite as a new image. IF you had within this collage a mini-portrait, and another different couple of images, this would "sell" you as a portrait photographer who could also turn her lens to other ideas too. You could have, say, 2 portraits a little larger then the other image...and they don't need to be large...they CAN be mere "suggestions".
As an example, I've included my own "card": see how I've included blends of different shots...almost suggesting that I do portraits but not overstating it(I don't consider portraits my speciality, but still like to say I can do them!) Yours could perhaps have 2 blended portraits in different styles and something more abstract too.
Hey Ade, sorry for hijacking..just hoping to err on the side of helpfulness!
Kombi...just wondering: you know that "enhance" thing you mention? You might want to check, as this could be the problem. I've found with some devs that their way of "enhancing" is actually to mess about to their own idea of colour, density, etc; darkening(IMO) is a sure sign that they're re-jigging an image to their own default settings. Thus, I'd really recommend NOT getting them to enhance, but have full control yourself. I had exactly the same issue with my devs, usually naffing about with the density and over-darkening.
Irma: your card is certainly professional...but perhaps the absence of a colourful image renders it a little "remote" or even emotionless? sorry!
I feel Juergen may be correc there.
May I suggest you do indeed have an image on your card? Now, it needn't be a solo portrait...and I can understand your reason why, that it appears as if you are selling that person!...BUT.. you could, in Photoshop, do a combination of images, importing each one at different sizes and saving the whole composite as a new image. IF you had within this collage a mini-portrait, and another different couple of images, this would "sell" you as a portrait photographer who could also turn her lens to other ideas too. You could have, say, 2 portraits a little larger then the other image...and they don't need to be large...they CAN be mere "suggestions".
As an example, I've included my own "card": see how I've included blends of different shots...almost suggesting that I do portraits but not overstating it(I don't consider portraits my speciality, but still like to say I can do them!) Yours could perhaps have 2 blended portraits in different styles and something more abstract too.
Hey Ade, sorry for hijacking..just hoping to err on the side of helpfulness!
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