{Photographer Tips} unscripted
Giving is Awesome was founded in December of 2008. It was a simple premise: photographers give a portrait shoot and products to a family who deserves it, but can’t afford it. In the twelve weeks since then, over 530 photographers have donated over $550,000 worth of custom portraiture to families who couldn’t afford it. Artists in places as far flung as Australia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and Mexico joined in. Giving is Awesome is also featured in this month’s issue of Professional Photographer magazine, and we’re looking to continue to spread the word about giving. Lenovo and Microsoft are sponsoring the ‘Name Your Dream Assignment’ contest, which grants $50,000 to the photographer who wins to shoot whatever/wherever they would like.
What better way to spread the word than to load 12 photographers into a tour bus and hit up cities with Giving is Awesome shoots? The blog traffic generated by the tour would easily reach 50,000 photographers per day, thus multiplying the number of photographers who sign on for the 2009 version of Giving is Awesome. (The goal: 15,000 photographers for the 2009 edition.)
…but how would we decide who to shoot for those tour bus Giving is Awesome giveaways? Why, we would rely on our friends at ConKerr Cancer, an international charity, to provide our subjects: children currently living with cancer. We’d be bringing awareness of both utterly smashing organizations to light, spreading the photographic love, AND rockin’ a tour bus! Now we’re talkin’!
What if this project doesn’t cost $50,000? Easy! ConKerr Cancer receives the funds to purchase cameras for their chapter coordinators, less the expenses of the tour. This allows the impact of the tour to go much further than the people on the bus, or even the photographers associated with Giving is Awesome. It’s the ripple effect in its truest form, giving sparking giving sparking giving.
For more information about the organizations mentioned: www.givingisawesome.com & www.conkerrcancer.org
DIG IT? GO VOTE! Click that little ‘pic’ button in the upper left of the assignment details, when you get there. (You’ll have to register to do so, but I promise it’s worth it! Pretty please, vote?)
GO!! : http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/givingisawesome/giving-is-awesome-tour/
We live in a digital age, everything is saved in jpg, mp3, mov formats. As a child growing up I remember rummaging through photo albums looking at photos of myself and brothers. This morning I was thinking I love having an actual printed image in my hand, for some reason it looks so different than just looking at it on a monitor. Whenever I hand the families I photograph their artwork, I hope they feel the same way. Moments captured in a split second, soon forgotten but then when you see the print memories come rushing back of that very moment. I love that feeling.
SO, my photo tip this week is to look through your digital images either on your camera or computer, pick out the images you love and get them printed. It’s always good to have a hard copy just incase something happens. Prints are also more apt to be looked at over and over again. Don’t get me wrong I love having digital images on my computer and on external hard drives, it’s much easier to store, but it’s also much more time consuming to share those image with family and friends visiting.
This morning I took my own advice and sent a bunch of photos to the printers. I have an album ready for the image to be placed it. Tomorrow I will burn a cd of the slideshow below just for the girls to watch and laugh to. 
Here is some of the images I had printed from a “mini session” I did with my own girls last week. Took me forever to edit them because everything about photographing your own kids is different.(that is another post in it’s self). I hope you enjoy the slideshow.
2.20.2009
Very, very nice. R gets into being photographed when she’s feels like it. My favorite of all is the first one of H inside the unbrella. It looks like the girls enjoyed this session.