LUCRATIVE INSTANT MONEY FOR PHOTOGS
You have a camera, PhotoShop software or something similar? A Laptop
a printer? Imagine doing this on streetcorners or at the Big Park or the
Harbor where folks stroll on Saturdays, Sundays when the Tourists are crowding
in hoardes. A family portrait
YEP! You shoot the whole family with your own, prop umbrellas and get
your fifty bucks and
you email the print to them, or print it out and mail it. Your
business card has your address, WEBSITE.
So they know they're not going to get robbed. You have a digital camera,
you make it clear they
can have the digitals, then later, if they want, you'll make prints,
even frame them. That's like a
mail order deal as, by then, they've gone back to IOWA. So Just
a pose and an email of graphic is like 10$ print outs go up to 50$ That
kind of money is something they'd have to think about. Always have examples
of final prints on a placard near you. Clients from the weeks before..or
friends if you're just starting up. Price for each print goes down. Christmas
cards, business cards, Show them examples of your desk top publishing skills.
Or you may
want to use a PRO PRINTING SHOP for some personalized Greeting cards, Stationery
or Xmas Cards. Or party invitations, something they want. But the thing
about PORTRAITURE is, nobody else can do it
but you! Or
PRINT on a square of COTTON, make them a pillow. Let them stuff
it, mail the cover only
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You can 'Photoshop' in the details that people tell you they love. In
my case, I love the color blue, I love
clouds, stars, moons, comets, astrology. Cats. So maybe you can assemble
a portrait for
me utilizing a combination of things -- even draw my name in nice letters.
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GUY DOING? I'm just a kid from IOWA.
COMBINE THE
SIGNATURE, COLORS,
SKY, CLOUDS and
YOUR MODEL or CLIENT
ADD THE CAT! Where's the CAT DAMNIT? PHOTOSHOP
THE DAMN CAT!
Right O! Give me a second, here. There! 
Damn
Cat! No, that's not it. Here.
SCARY! My face but half
cat? I'll take it for my mother inlaw!
For ten bucks, but no dozen prints of this
one, thank you!
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If you have
a real glamour girl,
do those features up right!
Give her something she cannot get from her
pals' kodak.
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SOME MAN has a wildness about him? Give him the
DALI FACE.
Set
his portrait under a FIRESTORM
of oil paint. Dali was the last great Surrealist.
Fifty BUCKS
A PHOTOGRAPH SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT!
YEP cuz YA
PRINT IT OUT IN COLOR! That's gotta
cost the photographer
something!
But I can also do it
in black and white
MEOW.
I agree! Jean Cocteau, one of the first great surrealists
And you can do all this with just a digital camera?
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YEP &
MORE! Take a MAGRITTE outline, PUT subject's face in it.
Take the MAGRITTE PAINTING
or LEONARDO DA VINCI's MONA LISA Add client! No, not the PIDGEON!
WHY NOT? It's PHOTO SHOP STUPID! 
But don't cover client's face. Find a MAGRITTE with the face open.
As people PAY for themselves
being inserted in something INTERESTING. Kind of like in CHINATOWN
when you used to
stand in front of THE TARZAN PAINTING and stick your face out and your
big BROTHER was the
GORILLA.
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MAKE USE OF
PROPS!
THE RIBBON DANCE
For black and white film, use a thinner, white ribbon on a stick,
give subject two, and just shoot away while they twirl. Effective in stills
or in video. A lot of movement, even if still photos. Google "ribbon dance"
in quotes. You may find Messerer dancing at the Bolshoi with his thiner,
white ribbon. Seven feet of sheeting on a stick! But it is really exciting
in use and pictured.
MASKS are a possibility but not over the face. MAKE
YOUR OWN OF PAPIER
MACHE
As you put your client to dancing, or surround her/him with strange
people with masks on, you will attract a crowd. Everyone will want a portrait
and be putting their money in your face. Get a pal with a gun to walk you
home as by 5 pm you'll have a grand on you!'
UMBRELLAS, those BLACK CLASSIC ONES for SURREALISM in B&W.
Metronomes moving, if you do video
assemblage
Their eye is on the tip.
Moving.
You're going to add music to it, maybe. VIDEO should be available as a choice.
TWO
LOVERS? Get a big frame
YOU CAN DO A STUNNING
PROFILE PORTRAIT USING REAL FILM
then DEVELOP THE OVEREXPOSED
NEGATIVE, Solarize it PRINT SEPIA.
For more ideas, study the master surrealists, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst,
Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali.
“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated." Ellen Glasgow
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