Poster

I created a poster in Illustrator advertising an imaginary Wedding Expo in Philly! I brought in some of my own images and altered them using the effects and live paint. This event is meant to be a huge expo where lots of local businesses would come to advertise their services to prospective brides. There would be jewelers, bakers, florists, dress designers, event planners, and of course, photographers!

Illustrator illustration

The other part of our assignment was to create an illustration completely in illustrator. I really liked going through all of the effects in this program to see what they could do for my shapes. It's pretty neat!

Logos

So we began using Illustrator and we had to make some logos to go with our topic. Since I am trying to begin my own photography business, I made logos to go with my future business, under the name, "Memories by Melissa". I messed around with a couple different effects in illustrator and this is what I came up with:























After looking at my first logos, I decided to take out just the Ms and create something I could use as like a little stamp that went with my logo but didn't have all the writing the others do. Here it is:

Creative bomb?

This image was created in Photoshop for a "creative freedom" assignment. I started out just really liking the image of the bride and her beautiful bouquet...I'm not sure if I ruined that image by doing all this or not...

Here are the links to find the images: bride, table, and cakes clockwise from bottom left are cake 1, cake 2, cake 3, cake 4, and cake 5. (Flower petals image was mine.)

Background

The second part of that photoshop assignment was to take 2 images and replace one's background with the other. I got the image of the men from this site and the gorgeous rings came from here. Taking the rings off of their boring background and placing them in the sky above the men, adds a little intrigue to the new image, I suppose.

Changing perspective...

Here is an assignment we did focusing on working in Photoshop to alter an image to change the perspective around a bit. Using different layers to make multiple copies of a particular part of the original image, we created totally new images. What I created sort of gives the idea of the couple here making their way down the beach on their wedding day.

The original image was taken from this UK photographer's website.

Share with your neighbor!

Another really interesting site I found while wandering around theworld of wedding photography was this forum, called Wedding Photographers Forum. Creative.
Upon further inspection, there actually is a good bit of info here that is shared between aspiring photographers, professional photographers, and scam artists. Of course, it's an open forum, an invitation! Anyway, there actually isn't that much junk here on the posts. They've got sections for posting marketing tips for your business, technical techniques for shooting, equipment reviews, and then just a bunch of other stuff related more to weddings than to wedding photography.


my photo ;-)

The best part about this forum is that you can actually have dialogues back and forth with other members and it can really give you a chance to talk to people already out there in the field to get some answers, hints, and secrets of photographing weddings and being a successful wedding photographer. It's nice to know that other people are out there doing the same thing you are doing. And it's good to know that not all professionals refuse to give out info to up and coming individuals in fear that they will lose business. What's the worry? People have been getting married forever, and it seems to be a continuing trend! There's enough room for everyone out there with the motivation and talent to pursue it.