Last minute shoot for an ad

photogmomma

Heather is a friend of mine just starting out a new property management business. Not long ago, she invited me to put my outdoors photos in her office for sale - which I was quite thrilled to do! (In this town, word of mouth goes a LONG way and she knows a LOT of people! LOL!)

Then she asked if I wanted to put a photo in a fully color ad she was going to be putting in the paper... She said she had about a 1/4 page ad and wanted to fill up space! LOL! She had a snapshot of her and her dog she was going to put in along with one of my photos. I suggested that maybe we just do a quick shoot with her and her dog (dogs are HUGE here and her company is called Watchdog!) and she agreed. This was last night that we decided.

So I got up very early, rode my bike around in the just barely above freezing weather and found a few fun places for shots. She was VERY reluctant to have her photo taken, but luckily the camera loves her.

Any and all CC is welcome!

My fave:


Remember, her company is called "Watchdog":


I need to clean up the background, but like this shot:





Thanks for looking!

Richard

Nice set. I agree with you that the first one is the best, but if you are going for color, I would take #4. It's a great capture.

Cheers,

kres

I'm very fond of #4. It's a great shot.

photogmomma

Thank you so much! It's funny, she actually chose a different photo for the ad (small photo) and the big photo is either going to be #1 (in color) or #2 (my favorite for the ad because of the name of the company). The photo she chose was:


While I like it, it's a bit soft on her face - I had a VERY shallow DOF and the chair was locked onto for the autofocus. Bummer. But since this will be the smaller photo, the focus shouldn't be a biggie....

Anyway, thanks so much for the comments, rsinmadrid and kres!

Jeffro

photogmomma wrote:

....While I like it, it's a bit soft on her face - I had a VERY shallow DOF and the chair was locked onto for the autofocus. Bummer. But since this will be the smaller photo, the focus shouldn't be a biggie....

Remember the photo she chooses will reflect on you, if you don't like it, or don't think it's representative of your abilities don't let her, or anyone, use it. First impressions are somethimes last impressions.....

Just food for thought.

photogmomma

Jeffro wrote:

Remember the photo she chooses will reflect on you, if you don't like it, or don't think it's representative of your abilities don't let her, or anyone, use it. First impressions are somethimes last impressions.....

Just food for thought.

Good point! I think if this weren't a newspaper and weren't small, I probably wouldn't have even given her that photo as an option. Printed small and in a paper, there shouldn't be any problems.... (Famous last words!)

I am trying to steer her towards another photo... We'll see what happens!

Thanks!

Elaine

Love that first photo! Great capture!

photogmomma

Elaine wrote:

Love that first photo! Great capture!

Thank you so much!

jsedlak

Nice photos! I really love the first one as well!

DavidS

I love that first photo as well. Great shot, especially how you caught that dog.

Owen

The only thing that really bothers me is her makeup.. but I doubt you had any control over that!

pathfinder

Nice series of shots. I like #1 also.

Can we see it in color too??

photogmomma

Thanks so much, all!

Owen wrote:

The only thing that really bothers me is her makeup.. but I doubt you had any control over that!

Nope! No control of that! Hmmm, maybe I should PS it better? !

Thanks again!

photogmomma

pathfinder wrote:

Nice series of shots. I like #1 also.

Can we see it in color too??

Here you go!



I can't decide which I like better. I go back and forth!

Thanks so much!