Comments on: business: wedding photographers working together

By: John Brainard

John Brainard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:43:06 +0000

I’m glad to hear it! I often get odd, blank stares when I make attempts at humor. It’s nice to know it’s appreciated here.

If you don’t mind me announcing here, Gimp 2.6 was released today! I’m rather excited about it as it’s my only means of photo editing. It’s inclusion of the new GEGL engine paves the way for non-destructive editing and 16-bit/channel photo editing.

Hopefully a package will be available soon for Ubuntu 8.04 and included by default in Ubuntu 8.10.

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:09:03 +0000

Be assured that I not only got the humor, I enjoyed it a great deal. You’d fit right in here at the studio. We’re pretty sharp at Daylight Photo but at the end of a long, hard day there may be a trivial slip up on some count. When there is we’ll look at each other with a serious face and say, “hmmm, I’m really beginning to question your commitment to this job”. Laughter keeps things rolling. Hey, maybe I’ll post something on photo studio humor sometime.

By: John Brainard

John Brainard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:38:48 +0000

That’s the thing that keeps me in the field I’m currently in… programming. I get to constantly learn new things and, if I want, move to a different area of the field without too much difficulty. I see the same opportunities in photography. I enjoy landscape and scenic photography for my own enjoyment but can envision getting into real estate and, perhaps, corporate portraits.

I hope you got the humor in my last post. I like to be certain.

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:26:52 +0000

P.S. and if I happen to find the “easy button” I’ll let you know where it is, too.

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:26:14 +0000

That’s it, John, I’m looking for the “magic bullet” for business success, myself! Just thought I’d share my findings with everyone else.

The key to business longevity seems to be a willingness to learn and constant reinvention. It keeps things interesting, too.

By: John Brainard

John Brainard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:30:32 +0000

I think I just put two and two together (I got three)! Jim, you posted recently about wanting to scale things back a little bit and you keep posting great links to websites that we all find useful!

You’re gonna go out of business if you keep surfing the net and not getting any work done!

By: Eric Cameron

Eric Cameron — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:27:17 +0000

Jim,

Very good find, I think you deserve more respect than stumbling onto these things, I think you know what you are looking for!! I have been planning with some vendors from my area for about 6 or 7 months on similar things to this, but the way these guys do it is unreal. I will for sure be sharing this with my vendor buddies in hopes of moving things along, with better ideas now. Thanks for “stumbling” onto this!!!!

I did some shots with a point and shoot vs. a dslr I just have to put the article together and post it, will get to it as soon as I can. I will keep you posted.

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:11:55 +0000

There’s a lot of cool stuff going on out there, guess I’ve been on a good run of stumbling onto things!

By: John Brainard

John Brainard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:51:59 +0000

Good stuff. I bookmarked this one as I plan on going back to it when I have time and checking out that website and video interviews.

Who needs Google when you have Jim? You find some pretty good stuff for us here! Thanks.