@AndyML interesting shot, but still needs some color grading
faces are currently washed out. I realize you are trying to keep the exposure of the box right, but the lack of contrast in the eyes makes it look a little dead
I found myself wishing I had brought my camera to church today, they had the place really nicely decorated, even had different chairs so they could fit more people
but then again, I wouldn't have had much time to take photos since I was on sound
or I suppose I could possibly go with the CF/SD hybrid approach writing RAWs to CF and JPEGs to SD. Looks like the newer 32gb eyefi doesn't support raw files :(
only the older Prox2 that doesn't have as good of phone support
@AJHenderson Grabbed the JPEG from in-camera wifi to my phone. The most difficult part of the whole ordeal was figuring out how to post to chat from my phone.
I believe if I only shot RAW, the camera would convert to JPEG if sent via in-camera wifi. Not positive though.
@AJHenderson is that a working site? cause if you weren't aware you have a ton of social buttons showing up and some haven't been configured to go to you (they just go to the main page of that particular network)
The only schools I wouldn't mind going to are RPI, UMinn, or there's a joint Master's program between Miami Ad School and FIU. If I was still living in Miami I'd try to do that
I just can't justify costs for really any graduate program right now since none are in my city. Out of state, relocation, leaving a career. It just doesn't make sense
oh and Illinois Institute of Tech had some promising sounding programs / certificates too
But yeah I looked for my first job, got it a few hours after the first place I interviewed. I'm on my third job and have not had to look for either of them and I make around 20 thousand a year more than a friend who is similarly bright but went to a lower school
So it was worth it
@Ryan yeah, RPI used to have a good distance education program, but Shirely Ann killed it
one of the many reasons I don't like her
(I worked with the distance education program as my workstudy)
I'm finding the issue with distance programs and even part time programs is no funding. So either I stay working but pay full cost or I leave a very good career
Even Rollins College MBA in Marketing which would be good for networking and could be done in the evenings (Orlando, FL) doesn't make a lot of financial sense when the avg salary coming out is what I'm already making
@Ryan well a lot of our distance programs were actually targeted at corporate sponsors
where we'd provide graduate training for multiple employees at a site
but I feel your pain, as much as I don't particularly want more schooling, I've considered an MBA and it always comes down to being either not good enough of a program or too much cost due to lost time
sadly RPI doesn't have a part time option for their MBAs
so even though I live 5 minutes from campus, I can't part time it
(which is kind of funny since I actually lived further from campus when I was actually going to RPI)
Seems like unless you're in a really big Fortune 500 type of company that will foot the bill to send you for the MBA a lot of them just aren't worth it
Miami Ad School has a joint program with FIU for I think a Master's in Global Communication which would be great since I'm pretty sure I could get funding and such for it through FIU's side but I'd still have to leave my job and relocate to more expensive Miami.
I didn't really understand what was so great about the arts program at RPI. I know their electronic arts masters was supposed to be the 4th best in the country, but the EMAC program didn't really teach me that much. I suppose that may have just been because I'd already learned so much before hand though
and I'm quickly learning that I could make a lot more (or at least additional side money) if I knew more of the financial side of marketing to then start my own consulting company
and I do know people who went on to successful marketing jobs with their EMAC degrees
for me EMAC was just another set of words on the piece of paper that said Computer Science so that I could additionally prove I knew the A/V / communications side of things
but it was a convenient program that I already was experienced in before I started college (I was already doing professional work in HS) that fit easily with the rest of my classes.
and yeah, knowing business is important, especially in the creative fields
I was fortunate to have a CFO for a father, an investment manager for a cousin, and a business owner for a grandmother
I've been inundated with business stuff since I was pretty young
ya i've been doing freelance advertising work since i was in high school. when I was in college for architecture i had more then one professor tell me i should've gone to school for graphic design. one even encouraged me to apply to transfer to Cooper Union but I can't draw worth a thing
i once got lost looking for somewhere and wound up asking for directions in an ad agency during my senior year and kinda knew immediately that it was probably where my career would take me
see i have to go the other direction. well don't have to but generally do. i convince people that what i do isn't art. i don't even like the term Graphic Designer and probably got my current job because my boss asked in the interview what I see myself as the most and I explained a Communicator
I could never run my own graphics design shop though. I've determined I'm good at recognizing what looks good and how to make something look better, but I'm not good at coming up with the initial idea myself
i like fine art, i just don't read into it. its either something that appeals to my sensibilities or it doesn't. I've lost a few friends that went on for MFA's and met up from time to time but they're just reading so much into pieces. Meanwhile I make more then they do and they don't consider me an artist or designer because what I do isn't "inspiring"
yeah, don't get me wrong, there are fine art pieces I like, but a lot of "fine art" I get the feeling the artist was just bullshitting as he or she went
rather than actually having a plan
or even a direction neccessarily
there are those who do it well, but atleast as many don't as do
I included my design thinking in the picture above; I would greatly appreciate any comments or questions about my process and final result. The objective is to create an identity for a forward-thinking consultant and speaker. He wanted a Geometric, shape based logo.
yeah, but if you are trying to make a logo that shows establishment and formal grace and 90% of people say that's the impression they got, then your logo worked as advertised
@Ryan the most educational experience I think I may have had in the art program at RPI was when my TA stacked some chairs on each other and started to "sing a sketch of the chairs"
at which point I knew she was totally bat shit crazy
this was the same TA who tried to give me a B in my intro to video class because "we can always do better". Thankfully the Professor was more sane and changed it to a 100% since I was helping him with keeping HIS information up to date
hehe, well, anyway that is just like I saw it. I put +10 saturation on it in post, but I didn't notice any difference. Photo-opportunity vanished almost as quickly as I saw it; two minutes later it was almost gone.
@AJHenderson no problem. I've never really looked too much at the photo board but anything beyond color correction / lightroom involving image manipulation could easily be transferred to graphicdesign.stackexchange especially if it doesn't get an answer here