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I've been thinking more about using photography to make money. How to market my pictures. How to advertise..?

So, I posted a 'ad' on craigs list, mainly for weddings over the summer. I've gotten one response so far, for July 5th. I feel like when I'm first starting out, I shouldn't charge much, since I am at their mercy (kind of) for expirence with their wedding.

I've also been shooting solely with the D80 for the past week or so. Went out to the old quarry with evan.. took a few good pictures. Using mainly the new 50mm, 1.8f lens I got.

No down time..

Recently, I haven't had as much down time.

My prints are significantly worse in my opinion... dark and crappy. Not quite sure why i let this new professor dominate me the way i do. This one girl hasn't come to class since the first day because she didn't want to print like he wants her to.. I didn't like her anyway. She was stuck up.

Studio is getting easier, or I'm just getting used to sucking at it. I'm thinking it's the later.

Texture

Recently I've been really into texture. In this photo i feel like the wood actually has texture to it.

Turkey

This is a shot for my portrait class. I kind of enjoy the awkward expression on the subject in the lower picture.

Windmills

Today I took Brendan out to the windmills outside of Syracuse.. it made me want to reprint my black&white windmill pictures from california from 2005. This is a digital one from back then.

Thanksgiving

I got a Nikon D80. Still trying to figure it out for the most part. I've found that one of my lenses works with autofocus. It's hard to get the manual focus to work.. I like the steam in this picture a lot.

Quality of Light

The light in this shot I really appreciate. The picture is lit by multicolored christmas lights and a macbook. The wall right behind the highlighted girl is the place in the photo i like the most.