Fresh Ideas and Taking Advantage of Potential
With the arrival of my 85mm F1.8 lens, I've found myself more motivated lately. Realising the potential I have with two prime lenses of very cinematic focal lengths. At some point I'll be starting a company here related to the world of filmmaking and photography, something I have no idea how to go about doing, but pretty excited in regards to the technical side of operating something like this. One of the ideas I've had to try to build a bit more awareness of myself and abilities is to ensure I capture the locations I visit on a day-to-day basis. This means turning the cafes I visit frequently into something I could benefit from through the use of social media. Taking artistic photographs of these locations and finding the companies online to tag them. Gaming for things like follows or just reposts. More eyes, more potential on getting some work, pretty much!
A lot of Armenia, especially Yerevan operates in a very strange way regarding marketing. They have no idea how to go about it. They use Instagram stories and weird phone-filmed advertisements that don't really make sense. I already know I could do something better than this with a few minutes of their time, the first step is building a bit more of a portfolio and pretty much walking on in with a little offer. In terms of photography and filmmaking here, things are dated. The potential here is huge if someone is willing to just take that opportunity. Pretty much open for the taking. I don't really have any excuses at this point. The gear I have far excels the gear I see supposed professionals here using. And that is something that motivates me more.
Anyway, these are a few cafe images from today. Some low resolution exports straight from the camera. Quick, easy, and something to really throw myself into the world. People tell me my photography is good, but I feel I don't do enough to promote it. That has to change.
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Good luck grabbing those opportunities! 😄
You have something very important already diagnosed. From there you can start building. Your hypothesis and a lot of creativity are two elements with which you already have a great start.
I wish you success.
photography just in general is something that I wish I had gotten involved in earlier in life. The most normal things can become extraordinary with the right person / vision.
The only photos I take are with my phone, like most people. Something real like SLR or whatever they are called with zoom lenses would be a lot of fun for me. They are super expensive?
You should get a camera. Price all depends on how much you want to spend. You can get a good Sony for about $400 these days. These digital pictures are taken with a used Sony A6000, which is pretty old at this point! But the quality is all in the lenses. A 35mm prime or 50mm prime lens for it on APS-C can be like $200 max. Lenses vary based on price because of the quality. So, ultimately it's not all that expensive to get into it. But it can be insanely expensive if you go for super high-end stuff.
Take a look at some used cameras near you, maybe the one I have is something to keep an eye on. If you need help, just drop by in any of my posts and ask whatever you want!
Thanks for this information. I will do that!
I feel more and more that the best advertising is just action and real connections. The more I tried to beat the algorithms, the more I realized that I could do it but it would cost authenticity that I wasn't willing to spend. Meanwhile, just going about my life in a more active and social way gets more more attention than paid ads would.
Nice photos! Hope you can find more mutually beneficial ideas, seems like there is a lot of potential there for someone like you
Absolutely. I am going to be taking advantage of social media a bit more with the action side of things, also finding connections in that there will be people interested in helping me build a bit more awareness over what I do. I definitely don't have what it takes to beat the algos, but the market is small enough for anything with some quality here to have some sort of impact, I know that much already.