PhotoShelter Collection goes live

The PhotoShelter Collection officially went live to buyers on Monday morning. To the best of my knowledge, there have not been any sales as of yet, but there are over 250,000 images [and counting] that are available. I have only managed to get 52 images in... but considering I've only submitted 64 in total, I'm OK with my numbers [I definitely have room to improve, though]. This week I've been perusing the collection trying to get a better feel for what the editors want to see, and then digging through my archives accordingly. I've also decided to stop submitting uncompressed TIFs, and go with high res JPGs instead. It seems many of us new to the stock world took the technical requirements a bit literally and suffered through long upload times with 29mb TIF files... you can view my contributions on my microsite. There are few new images there, and many old favorites. As always, feedback welcome!

Remodels, portraits, & logos, OH MY!

It's been a busy month... In the midst of remodeling our own bathroom, I spent a day shooting professionals remodeling the bathroom of a family in need for REACH Community Development. My volunteer assignment started with a dart game at the Lucky Lab a couple months ago. We met several folks who'd just arrived in Portland for their AmeriCorps assignment, and one of them asked if I'd be willing to do some pro bono work on their behalf. Last Thursday I covered two sites, one with a new wheelchair ramp installation, the other a bathroom remodel and living room window replacement.

The crews were from Belfor and were all very courteous, accommodating, and fun. Some were more aware [and wary] of the camera than others, but that is to be expected. The bathroom job turned out to be much more involved than they had anticipated, so I just tried to stay out of the way and document their work.

Prior to that I designed a logo for Yoga for Weddings... I haven't done a lot of illustration, but I must admit I am very happy with how this turned out. I started out by sketching in my notepad, then a more refined sketch on bond paper, which I scanned and brought into Illustrator. The rest was all vectors and some transparency layering.


I'll be working on the website creative direction next...

I also did another portrait shoot, this time of a young family--our friends Andy & Amy & their son, Theo. Three people at once proved much more challenging, but there were definitely a few keepers. I did decide it was madness to attempt to do that without an assistant, though. It's much easier working one-on-one or in a documentary fashion.


Now it's back to our own remodel... Perhaps I should rename my venture "h2meyer creative"...
[last night my mother asked if I was "bored"...]