Tanya,
I have no idea how to get Pentax's attention, but e-mailing the US HQ
doesn't seem to work. Not from my address, at least. Maybe Aussie
Pentax is more receptive...or maybe you are more persistent than me
:-)
As for your big project, it seems I have 2 years to become famous and
have kids. You've already won my confidence, so that's 1 out of 3
requirements already met ;-)
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On 26 April 2010 07:45, Tanya Love <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys and gals,
>
> Well, I have a few projects in the midst. I am writing a series of
> downloadable books aimed at the WAHM (Work At Home Mum) niche market of
> website
> and boutique brand owners. The books are designed to be "by a woman for
> women" and are jargon, and techie speak free how-to guides as follows:
>
> 1. Basic product photography - exposure, composition, lighting etc
> 2. Basic photoshop skills to enhance your product photography (deep etching,
> resizing, web optimizing etc)
> 3. How to shoot your kids (pun intended, it will be a tongue-in-cheek
> guide).
>
> Anyways, I have a ready made market with a women in business trade forum
> that I am a member of, and I am also the guest speaker at an event in July
> here in Brisbane which is a 3 day event that culminates with a black tie
> awards night bestowing honours to women in the business community. I will
> be running
> a workshop that covers briefly the content in my books 1 & 2 above. The
> event is hosted by the website Connect2Mums and is known as the annual
> Mumpreneur
> Conference. I will be using this event to launch my series of books and
> the organisers and myself will be offering a 3 for 1 offer to attendees to
> promote it.
>
> Next, I also have a long-term ambition of photographing a book that I will
> call "Great Expectations". It will (hopefully!) be a beautiful black and
> white fine art
> book featuring shots of, and quotes by high profile celebrities doing day to
> day activities with their kids. Things like cooking their dinner, running
> their bath,
> mowing the lawn, helping with homework and instrument lessons etc. I have
> given myself a 2 year goal to achieve this. There is A LOT of work here, I
> need to
> somehow work my way into the circles that agents frequent and become a)
> known and b) respected and trusted by them. I am aiming HIGH here, the
> likes of
> the Jolie-Pitts and Kidman-Urbans of the world. BUT, I also want to feature
> famous activists, politicians, artists and more.
>
> So, to cut to the chase, these are all projects that will showcase me and my
> photography (obviously), and the question will be raised (and answered!)
> about the
> equipment that I use! I foresee that Pentax could gain quite a bit of good
> publicity from it all, if I succeed in my goals, and I am not in a habit of
> NOT succeeding
> at stuff that I try! I was thinking of somehow approaching them for
> sponsorship at some level, and was wondering if any of you guys would know
> the best channels
> to take.
>
> The first thing that jumps out at me immediately is with Book #1 above, I
> have already begun to write about equipment to use, and as I am going to be
> aiming at a
> LESS than amateur audience, I am going to be keeping it at a level of point
> and shoot only. All of my instructions will assume that the user has a
> modern, p&s digital
> camera and I will be recommending that they buy one with a hot shoe.
> Remember that my "guide" will be designed not for people interested in
> photography but
> interested in improving the image of their brand and the shots of their
> products, and they will be busy women who really don't care about why or how
> things work
> just that they want to know that things DO work. So, my angle will be for
> them to skip over all of the jargon, and look for a camera with a hot shoe.
> It is a pretty
> safe bet that any digital camera on the market today that they can afford
> and that has a hot shoe on it, will do more than suffice for what they need.
>
>
> So, I was thinking that with this in mind, and knowing that Pentax has a
> great range of award-winning point and shoots (do any have hot shoes?!?), I
> was thinking
> that it would be great to convince them some how to send me a couple of
> cameras to play with so that I can recommend them in my workshops/books and
> when
> I am fielding questions from people.
>
> I also think it would be great to promote Pentax to show the public that the
> brand CAN be used to achieve Pro-level images, at a fraction of the cost of
> C & N equipment.
>
> Oh, one more thing - Mark, you might be able to help here - was thinking
> that with my workshop and book #2, I will probably use PS Elements rather
> than CS4 as it is
> cheaper and more likely to be used by those in my target audience. Does
> anyone know how I might approach Adobe about the possibility of offering it
> as an accompaniement
> to the books, or at the workshop itself? I expect that some attendees
> (there are already 100 confirmed bookings) will not have any kind of editing
> equipment/software and
> will leave the conference wanting to buy!
>
> What do you guys think? Would love to hear your feedback!
>
> Tan. :)
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