The Advantage of doing Photography & Graphics...lol!

One of the greatest advantages of be a photographer and doing your own graphics is .... when it comes to special moments and last minutes ideas....all you have to do is, "just do it yourself!"

For example, my little boy will be turning #4 in March, so of course I wanted to hook him up w/a custom birthday invitation card to send out. Instead of spending money on a generic store invitation, (by the way, stores/companies hire people like me to design invitations to sell...so why go and buy one, right) I simply create and design my own.

Since he is really into Transformers and Spiderman, that became my building block for a concept/theme. From there, I took several pics of him and selected the best one. The pic started off in full color and by the time I was finished playing with it....I had created a very cool, hip, retro looking invitation very much suited for a 4 year old kid! He was soooooooo very excited!

Now, my no means is this one of my elaborate designs, but remember, design for your target audience...Below is the invitation that I created....until next time, C ya!

Chris

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Being Creative w/Scrap Photos

OK...while at a recent photo shoot, the client was doing a wardrobe change, in the meantime, I kept looking at this very nice custom wood/stained-glass door in the main entrance of their estate home. So, I just took a picture looking through the very small diamond opening that shows another beautiful home sitting on a hill.... I just simply pressed my camera lightly up against the glass, focused on the white house on the hill and took the picture. I had no intention on using the shot at all, just killing some time and thought...this would make an interesting scrap shot.

Below you will see the picture of the "before" photo from the glass door as it was shot from the camera (this is what I saw) ....and in the "after" photo you will see how I created an interesting border with the scrap picture. What I did was took a scrap photo that I was not going to use and created an interesting picture frame "border" design, dropped in some text and placed the main picture within the border itself...that's it!

Again, the purpose of posting this was to express an artistic view point....Remember, when it comes to graphically/artistically expressing yourself....there is "no" wrong way of showing your vision. Challenge yourself to be as creative as possible!

Enjoy!


Chris