Christmas tree topper?

Hoping everyone has a painless Holiday!!! 

Something to sink your teeth into

Happy Thanksgiving!

Gartober or the Gar-O-Latern

October 2011 Gar Calendar Posting.

Summer 2011

Good-bye summer of 2011. It was fun. Now back to work!

Does W Stand for Bald?

Here is the latest e promo that is going out this week.

Actually .... W stands for Who, What and Where and Whalen.

Here is Whalen's website.

CMG Partners

Here are some screen shots from a great client and awesome group of people at CMG Partners. Had a ton of fun with everyone and still dreaming about the veggie sliders at The Federal in Durham NC. Special thanks to Whalen at izm for your wrangling and speaking abilities and to Sandy for your surperb directions and driving and not missing the flight in Philly!!!

Happy 4th of July!!

I am very excited for the up coming Gar Calendar photo for July... so excited I am posting early. I hope everyone has a great and safe holiday weekend!! Enjoy.

Portfolio's going into retirement

Dusted off the old portfolio’s last night for a group showing to Chicago art buyers with the APA.

Admittedly my portfolios have been collecting dust lately. Mostly for the reason that I am embarrassed that they are old to me. I had them made by Amanda Love (who got out of the business) years ago and by the time she was done with the process of hand sewing them they were already dated to me. Few people have actually seen them so if I show someone new they are unaware they are ‘old’ but I cannot help myself from blurting out how old they really are.

My images (I believe) have gotten better over the years and my style has become more focused and I want people to see that. So, I brought my iPad portfolio as well last night. And here was my dilemma: I LOVE PRINTS AND BOOKS but I also LOVE my images on the iPad. Do art buyers love prints and books so much that they will over look that they are not up to date? I don’t think so. Do they prefer the iPad? Do I show both? I am not sure because I am not an art buyer but I can say that after last night my old books are going into retirement. After showing both my books and iPad, I realized it was not about the craftsmanship and prints of the printed books, it was about the images and and myself… not about some fancy book I had made years ago.

I am currently working on new printed books because I just love the process of flipping though them but this time I’m not putting the time and money into them as I once did. The yearlong process of designing, printing, and building the book is just not worth missing the latest and greatest new image…at least not to me.

All that… and I still love my old books. I will keep them forever. But the only way to seem them now is on this slideshow.

It seems my phone has gone on vacation!

It's been a crazy few weeks of travel in and out of Chicago... a few days in Durham, NC, a few days in Key West (for some family fun), Fort Lauderdale, in and out of Philly and as always, all around Chicago. Only to get back to my studio and desk yesterday to find my phones are not working! I have been so busy and always on my cell phone I did not even notice I was not getting the normal messages on my studio phone. I hope anyone who tried to reach me either called my cell or sent me an email. I hope to get my phones back in order here soon!

WORKBOOK!

Finally. I am in. www.workbook.com

Today’s Lesson: Think beyond the immediate.

This pertains to so many different things and in many ways but as far as photography jobs; always shoot in addition to the job, the location, the model, the props, etc. Magic sometimes happens when you remove yourself from the original thought, idea, or job. Of course… always shoot the original job or layout but always try to go beyond.

Also, don't wear your tight pants on Monday after a weekend of beer and pub food!

Lesson of the Day: Learning never stops

Learning is an Everyday process!!

Although I joke that I am embarrassed to be going to seminars and workshops considering that Blinkbid considers me “been at it awhile”, but no matter how amateur the seminar is or how novice the workshop might seem, there is always something to learn. I was recently at FlashBus with a really nice woman sitting next to me who was amazed that you could turn your camera flash (speedlight) around to shoot behind you to create a large softbox effect (if there is a wall or something to bounce off of). That was worth the price of admission for her but for me it was worth the price of admission to learn that there is a $17 piece of equipment called the JERKSTOPPER for shooting tethered. Nice!

NEW WEBSITE!

Although it has only been two years since my last new site, it was time to upgrade. I love the size of the images this time around. Check it out www.lindsaygallup.com I used www.aphotofolio.com for the template and super thanks to Amanda and Whalen!

Domu Ad Campaign

I had a ton of fun working with my wonderful clients at domu.com a Chicago apartment rental service and a great source of Chicago information and maps. The campaign can be seen all over the CTA which is very exciting to me to have such a cool campaign so visible.

Happy Mardi Gras! Or Mardi GAR!

Here is one more from the now famous Gar Calendar.

Gar Calendar FEBRUARY

For those of you who are not fans of Gar Calendar on Facebook... here is the latest posting. Had a ton of fun with this one. Just in time to keep your hearts warm before the blizzard.

Life After Assisting

I am happy to be on the panel for this APA & ASMP event so if you want to see me battle my fear of public speaking, sign up and come learn some stuff this Saturday!!

For those of you who know me and most of those who have worked for me, you know that I am passionate about the business of photography. It has been, and still is, a huge learning experience for me each and every day and I try to pass that along as much as I can. I have been thinking a lot about what I have learned and advice I might have. I have come up a lot of stuff and I have also been encouraged to continue my "Lessons of the Day" topic on this blog. So.... Lesson of today: START A GOOD FILING SYSTEM!!!

Quick story: I was in Florida after new years thinking it would be a slow week and a great time to get out of town. Of course, book a vacation and the phone rings. Lesson should be book more vacations but really it is have a great filing system and a portable image library. My clients called with a request for old, random, funny images needed ASAP. Since I rarely leave home without my laptop and since I am obsessed with Lightroom and have almost all of my images filed and organized in lightroom since 2005, I was able to make a fast pull and web gallery to show my clients without actually having the files with me. Simple and I did not have to panic or have someone at my studio rummage through my computers or files.

Technical notes: I use Lightroom 3 with a similar filing system from Seth Resnick and D65. I have been to a few of their seminars and now do some webinars when they have topics and times that are good for me. Leaning is never over!

More advice and lesson to come but hope to see you Saturday.

Ninja Sightings!!!

This week we hosted a casting for strange and unusual people for a possible job and more so for a ton of fun. The casting was not as successful as hoped (HINT - DO NOT HOST A CASTING DURING A SNOW STORM) be we actually had 2 ninja's show up!!! I think this somehow says something about me because now I realize I am close personal friends with THREE ninjas... How many ninja's do you know?

Super thanks to those of you who did brave the snow. Your effort is appreciated.