I’ll start by saying its been a busy January (and an expensive one) and soon I’ll see my website http://www.mvphotography.com.au/ up and running in a hope to boost my photography business that I’ll run from home.
I’ll have photography services available and also a range of limited edition prints available for purchase from anywhere in the world, at a reasonable price. Due to digital capture and digital printing services, everyone has access to quality photographs to hang in their home or business cheaper than ever before.
What I aim to blog about is my photography adventures, photography experiences, commissioned jobs, influences, my photography processes, photography tips and tricks as well as some Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom articles.
I’ll also qualify my self to you all as well: I have been into photography since I was a young teenager (nearly 30 now) and I always used my Dad’s Canon AE1 film SLR to take pictures. I used it so much it required two full services and up only until November 2007 it just didn’t cut it for me anymore. So I updated to digital. I only started out with a Canon EOS 400D with the aim to take better and more pictures and only leave it as a hobby.
It was until I entered a few competitions and won a placing in them all, that myself and others around realised some potential here. I was always a serial hobbyist, I’d get good at something, spend heaps of money on it and give it up after a few years. This time I was committed.
I entered in my first gallery showing in Brunswick St Gallery in Melbourne where I sold 3 prints for an actual profit and realised I was only a handful out of 300 entrants that actually sold some pieces. So that was main turning point, where I decided I should turn this into a business. Don’t get me wrong, I will always do this for the love of photography and seeing people enjoy the images.
This is all I have time for at the moment, but I’m sure I’ll continue to share my thoughts and experiences with you all soon.