I found this on the web Via a friend of mine and it speaks volumes, as a professional photographer I often hear the words " I only want one of two pictures..." I know I'm in trouble and have a client who has no concept of value for talent or my time so seeing this I think all photographers should post this on their door or web page, it would probably be considered rude or un PC but it is true.

What a remarkable evening in Vegas, warm and not too breezy , hell it's December already, by now it's usually cold ,blowing and even snow is not to unusual, after navigating Caesars Palace's parking and walking almost a 1/4 mile or most  my assistant ,Katie and I arrive to a small room decorated with Superman, Wonder Woman , and various other super heroes stuck on the walls, I am told this is decoration from our clients office, my assistant Katie immediately likes this crowd ! 

2012 Holiday season is upon us, parties and and office gatherings  the inevitable photos will be trotted out  for embarrassing moments of indiscretion and awards given for best dressed , most valuable, and out standing in their field (someone let them back in it's cold out there ! ). 

If you're like me, wondering what the hell is going to happen next in relation to the way we all make a living, I have and have various theories but I shall not bore you with them here...
I do think that it is imperative that we continue doing business and advertising, here are my reason why:
1. How is any one going to know you're still around.
2. Consider this a battle ground and you're the last one standing, who are they (your customers) going to buy from?
3.When the dust settles you need to show off your new line, thus commercial photography is needed.
4.Survival of the fittest, your competition may have disappeared off the face of the earth so now is the time to show your strength and resilience with a new add campaign.
5. Go to that Expo/ convention in Las Vegas have your Pictures taken by a professional photographer again to show the world you survived!
6.Public Relations is one of the best ways to get the word out that your company or association is reliable and alive, a new brochure with complimentary images showing confidence will increase sales and loyalty.

and I'd love nothing better than giving them a piece of my mind, perhaps with the business end of my heaviest tripod,

My company Costellophoto has like many taken some pretty hard knocks recently,we could have folded , I don't know what else I would do but fight and even turn this man made disaster in to a positive.
What we at Costellophoto have done is widen our scope, revamped our image, reinvested at a time when every one else is tightening up, I think that a positive attitude is every thing, I might add that last Monday 6th Oct 08 was probably one of the most desperate days I have ever witnessed, other than feeling hopeless and angry at the bankers and other financial institutions (Some of which were our clients) and I'd love nothing better than giving them a piece of my mind, perhaps with the business end of my heaviest tripod, I just had a vision of my company being the only one left in Las Vegas because we have the determination and imagination to find other avenues in photography.
Now this of course won't happen but do have the feeling that the market place is going to shrink rapidly, and as in banking that's not a bad thing.

"free your spirit of all material things" might be the way to go reluctantly but positively"

Also think about donating some time or services, we just spent and evening with a local Cancer charity www.fromtheheartcharity.org here in Las Vegas, other than making you realize that there are others who really need help way more than those being "Bailed out" it also gives your company exposure at the local level and make you feel just a little bit better.
We hope all of you reading this get energized and maybe not as drastic as on Monday and as the Buddha wrote "free your spirit of all material things" might be the way to go reluctantly but positively.

'Free money at Wedding!' 
                                                                         US Banker after Oct 6th 08

 If you're like me, wondering what the hell is going to happen next in relation to the way we all make a living, I have and have various theories but I shall not bore you with them here... I do think that it is imperative that we continue doing business and advertising, here are my reason why: 1. How is any one going to know you're still around. 2. Consider this a battle ground and you're the last one standing, who are they (your customers) going to buy from? 3.When the dust settles you need to show off your new line, thus commercial photography is needed. 4.Survival of the fittest, your competition may have disappeared off the face of the earth  so now is the time to show your strength and resilience with a new add campaign. 5. Go to that Expo/ convention in Las Vegas have your Pictures taken by a professional photographer again to show  the world you survived! 6.Public Relations is one of the best ways to get the word out that your company or association is reliable and alive, a new brochure with complimentary images showing confidence will increase sales and loyalty. and I'd love nothing better than giving them a piece of my mind, perhaps with the business end of my heaviest tripod,  My company Costellophoto has like many taken some pretty hard knocks recently,we could have folded , I don't know what else I would do but fight and even turn this man made disaster in to a positive. What we at Costellophoto have done is widen our scope, revamped our image, reinvested at a time when every one else is tightening up, I think that a positive attitude is every thing, I might add that last Monday 6th Oct 08 was probably one of the most desperate days I have ever witnessed, other than feeling hopeless and angry at the bankers and other financial institutions (Some of which were our clients) and I'd love nothing better than giving them a piece of my mind, perhaps with the business end of my heaviest tripod, I just had a vision of my company being the only one left in Las Vegas because we have the determination and imagination to find other avenues in photography. Now this of course won't happen but  do have the feeling that the market place is going to shrink rapidly, and as in banking that's not a bad thing. "free your spirit of all material things" might be the way to go reluctantly but positively" Also think about donating some time or services, we just spent and evening with a local Cancer charity http://www.fromtheheartcharity.org  here in Las Vegas, other than making you realize that there are others who really need help way more than those being "Bailed out" it also gives your company exposure at the local level and make you feel just a little bit better. We hope all of you reading this get energized and maybe not as drastic as on Monday and as the Buddha wrote  "free your spirit of all material things" might be the way to go reluctantly but positively. Free bags to put all your worldly possession in Las Vegas Oct 08

Having been in this industry (convention photography) for more years than I want to admit to I often think that you the client often could use some help choosing your trade show photographer. My Company 'Costellophoto' www.costellophoto.com is based in Las Vegas, although we do travel all over the US, specializes in Convention and trade show photography, this is an important point, as this type of photography is not just point and shoot, our photographers are all journalistically trained or ex news photographers who are used to thinking on their feet and getting that shot that you, the client will love and just ans importantly your Art Director will use, the shot that makes that sparsely attended breakout meeting look full and the attendees look enthralled and attentive, crowded Isles when there are not as many attendees as you might like. I'm not going to explain how all this is done but it an art and with some practice and a good eye and plenty of experience it is all possible.
 'your Art Director will use, the shot that makes that sparsely attended breakout meeting look full'
Now the age of digital photography is well and truly upon us new problems arise, you have all seen those blue pictures and dark orange images, well there really is no need for that to happen, good professional equipment is the key,but again experience is definitely a must, a combination of using and understanding your equipment , there are so many computations on todays cameras, aperture, asa (film speed or chip sensitivity) shutter speed, flash settings, it boggles the mind not to mention the speed of the lenses used. I'll explain that just a bit, inside the lens is an adjustable aperture basically it makes a hole bigger or smaller to let more light in smaller less light and so on, well lenses are rated on the most amount of light it will let in, an F4.5 lens will let in less light than an f2.8 lens thats the rating system , practically if you are going to be shoot in the average ballroom or meeting room your not going to have an enormous amount of light, so you need a lens that can operate in low light conditions and still give you sharp color correct images and that would be a lens rated at F2.8 or less, these lenses are of professional quality and not cheap, but they do give you exceptional quality when used correctly. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. John Ruskin had this to say over 100 years ago on the topic: It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that’s all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot -- it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better. I think the above says it all. Hope fully you have viewed our website www.costellophoto.com and enjoyed some of our images of keynote speakers, award ceremonies, Convention booths and trade show floors, and the industrial side of Costellophoto, the catalog shots,and corporate head shots. Our corporate photography has been published world wide and featured on many a front page and glossy magazine cover. We are proud of our quality and continue to upgrade our equipment and learn new techniques in a process that never ends. So in this short blog I hope you have got an idea of what to look for when you next need a good qualified Professional photographer in Las Vegas Nv in the next addition of this blog I will no doubt come up witrh more ways you can argue for the better choise, hopefully it's us Costellophoto, but in the long run it's your satisfaction we want to see, we're always happy to refer you to other companies that offer services that we don't, there aren't many but it does happen occasionally. So if you have got this far in the Blog and would like to speak with Costellophoto please call 702 459 3121, there we can give you a quote, and we can discuss your needs and budgets, Costellophot also accepts visa and mastercards, american express for your convinience or send an E-mail to Info@costellophoto.com and we will get right to back to you and make sure that you get the best possible service, and end product that makes you look like the intelligent and well informed person you are! Other sites to visit http://www.lasvegasweddingpics.com http://www.lasvegascostellophoto.com http://www.lasvegasweddingpix.com http://www.lasvegasweddingsite.info http://www.costellophotos.com http://www.costellophoto.net