Building the Empire: Photo Shoots

The other day I had to leave Me Time

early because I had to take pictures

for some new covers.  Someone asked,

"how long can it take to take some pictures?"

I am now into day 3...

Ask most small business owners and they

will tell you they do it all.  My product is

(good or bad) all me.  I design it, I make it,

I write the pattern, I input it all into the

publishing program, it take all the pictures,

I do all the illustrations and I sell it.

The only thing someone else handles is the

printing, I just don't have room for those

machines.  This is not true for every pattern

designer,  there are some who send a sketch

to a pattern writing company and have

photographers and graphic designers.

This would not work for my Type C

(as in control) personality...

This is my little photo shoot set-up.

Various backgrounds which are just

scrapbooking paper, fake berries and

greenery that I pulled from arrangements

in my house, prop pieces that are decor

in my house.  It is quick and easy to

set up, and I can move it around to get

the best natural light.  You can use pieces

of white foam core board as bounce cards,

position them outside of the photo to

bounce the light around and eliminate

 shadows ~ they work great.

And now, back to work.