Hello!

Hi there!

I just registered and would like to say hello! I found your forum here because I was searching Google for some ideas and hints about selling prints online, a daunting subject! The thread I found was this one: http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11972&page=2 . I must say that is some of the most constructive person to person advice I've run across and after reading though some other threads, I am very happy to have found OPF. I will definitely post in the sales, exhibitions area after this.

Anyway, My name is Lindsey, I've been going by Linz Welch on the net because there appears to be another photographer out there with the same name who has a large web presence I am currently in school, haha, at 31, and will be finishing up this year. I started with photography while living in Germany (2003-2006). Started as a hobby and it just kind got away from me and turned into its own creature. I think I have found myself a bit more confused about my direction in photography than when I started school. Please feel free to look at my site: www.linzwelch.com. It's still in progress a bit. As it stands now, the images were entirely selected my portfolio instructor after he weeded out almost 300 others, and grouped in a class effort; but I think it still needs some more weeding

Hi Lindsey,

Welcome to OPF, and glad to have you here. I like most of the images on your web-page, although some are a bit too saturated in color for my taste. You do seem to have a good eye for composition and interesting subjects.

In school at 31, don't worry the learning never stops. In fact, just like getting your drivers licence, the real learning only starts after the finals. Sure some things become easier, but there will always be new challenges.

Enjoy your stay in OPF, and feel free to join ongoing discussions, peruse older threads, ask a question, or start a subject of your own. Above all, have fun.

Cheers,
Bart

Hi Lindsey.
Welcome. Nice sets on the website. Gritty and earthy. New world. Very refreshing. I'll spend some more time with them later. post some here so they can gather some discussion. Tell us what you had in mind. Share what you can, lunch even.
Cheers
Tom

Lindsey Welch said:

Hi there!

I just registered and would like to say hello! I found your forum here because I was searching Google for some ideas and hints about selling prints online, a daunting subject!

I am currently in school, haha, at 31, and will be finishing up this year.

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Hello and a huge welcome, Lindsey!

I have been in school most of my life and there's so little I know! Besides, only by learning and solving problems does the brain stay in shape and I, for one need every remaining neurone, axon and dendrite, I can save!

I looked over your sampling of your work. Many are remarkable for the severe perspective you shot from or else your work in photoshop. I like the picture of the chairs, so lonely in the street. But I wonder why at least part of the chair is not sharp? Not that it has to be that way, but I don't see that anywhere else.

This picture got me to stop and ponder.


Gritty!

Asher

Hello to you all, and thank you for the cheery welcome!

Bart, haha- you know, you aren't the first person to tell me that online. It's funny though, because once people meet me they say the opposite. This picture: http://www.linzwelch.com/album/marynancyzelda?p=1#5 is actually a self portrait. Mind you, its about 4 years old- but yes that's my muddin' jeep and yes that was a real mess, not a composed one. I try to turn the color down some but am never happy with it that way, although I am trying to explore more b&w lately. Thank you for the comments!

Tom, thank you! I will!

Asher, I know what you mean! I spend way too much time teaching myself things- that is kind of where my work centers around in photography and why I've enjoyed it so much. I'm not happy with a shot unless it was hard to get or hard to realize; and there are endless possibilities to that end most of the time.

Speaking of which- the chairs: yes! they are blurry and I have tried to archive that thing and hide it, but my instructors keep pulling it back out. I took that not but a few weeks after buying my first SLR and was still getting a hang of using it. The location was Gilman, CO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman,_Colorado , a closed mining town. It wasn't, um, necessarily legal for us to be there so I was kinda popping off shots as I ran from nook to cranny trying to not to get spotted by the traffic on the highway. The sun was going down, I hadn't yet learned how to get a decent shot in that kind of lighting. What I would give to get back there now..

This is Gilman:





This is the original chair picture untouched:


The picture you displayed was fun, a hard place to get to if you're walking with 50lbs of equipment and hiking gear. Another ghost town in CO.

I don't have much I would consider new as of the last few weeks except this, all projects for classes, But here you go Tom:

A concept photo- I was really just dieing to use this fly I found on something, why not Time Flies?:



An event photo, burlesque dancer, I LOVED her serene face while she was on stage, she looked like the was having a zen moment, however silly the show was:




A Set taken with and edited on an iphone (yes, I had to add a phone in the pictures with the phone, did I mention I'm a dork?) It was required to turn in a set taken with a mobile phone. I was trying to think of lost things, and how they might feel about being lost- and a laugh in a class based around fine art never hurts: