New Cosplay Photography Con Rates!

At recent anime & comic conventions, I've mainly offered only one special con rate for cosplayers who wanted to hire me. Many of those cosplayers' shoots I used to try out new editing techniques and gave them much more than they paid for. While I wish I could keep giving people full editing and special effects at such a low cost, unfortunately, that editing eats up a large amount of time and has often either made me late on delivering those photos or caused me to rush on other photos, leading to inconsistent quality. Of course, however, I still want to offer my services at very reasonable rates. Putting together cosplays and paying for the cons to wear them at can become so expensive as it is, so having to hire a photographer on top of that can sometimes be difficult on people's wallets. And that's why I'm now offering 3 different special con rates.

Ignation Christmas Music Video

Merry Christmas!! Here's a little gift to everyone. We just released the music video to Ignation's new Christmas Medley, "Mary Did You Know/O Come, All Ye Faithful". I rarely work with video, so this was a lot of fun to do with them.

Instagram Ornament Series

Are you on instagram? If so, have you seen my series of ornament photos? Each day, I post a photo of one of my ornaments and I explain it's meaning to me. Some of them are funny, some kind of nerdy, and some nostalgic. I plan on continuing the posts until Christmas Day. If you're interested in checking them out, you can find me at instagram.com/ShortStuffTiff.

Holiday Card Project 2015

Last year, some of you may remember me posting about the Holiday Card project. The Holiday Card Project delivers cards to patients in the hospital during the Holiday Season and is run by DeviantArt. It's back around this year, and I just sent in some AGOM Art Holiday cards that I made.

The deadline to send in cards is December 14th, so there's only a couple days left to send in yours if you'd like to help out.

Cyber Monday Deal!

Lately, I've been mainly posting my photography work, but don't forget, I'm first and foremost an artist and painter. A custom painting of someone's favorite scenery or character makes for a great Christmas gift! If you order before December 5th, you can use this ‪Cyber Monday deal to get 15% off.

To check out some of my portfolio, visit: http://aglimpseofme.webs.com/traditional-mediums

To put in a painting or photo shoot request, fill out the form here: http://aglimpseofme.webs.com/contact

New Facebook Cosplay Page

Many of you follow my A Glimpse of Me Studios social media pages, of which I provide Art, Graphic Design, & Photography services. However, as many of you are aware, I also do cosplay. I'm often in cosplay myself when I'm photographing other cosplayers at conventions. Being that costume design is more for fun and not really a service I generally provide, I created it's own facebook page to specifically showcase my cosplay work, as well as feature other cosplayers and give some cosplay tips.

Otakon Photoshoot Special!

For those of you attending Otakon this year, I'm hosting a photoshoot special! $15 for 20 minute shoots, all weekend. I will be booking in Baltimore, MD during the Otakon convention on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (July 24-26). Contact me for available times via my contact form or email me at aglimpseofmestudios@gmail.com.

Instagram Behind the Scenes (& Separating Personal from Work)

Some of you who follow me on my various social media pages may have noticed I have separate accounts for AGOM and for my personal pages.

Mystery Photo

After taking this photo, I thought it may be fun having people try to guess what this is a photo of. 

Have any guesses? Let me know your guess in a comment and I'll reveal what the picture is in a few days.

TEGPLMI

I had the pleasure of helping the The Esther Generation Prayer Life Ministry Inc. (TEGPLMI) with a logo, website, and Facebook page. This organization is started by Florence Brooks and aims to help people around the world, including their current project of building a health center in Mbua, Cameroon.

Growth in Adversity

Throughout this New York winter, I've been growing tomatoes indoors and decided to post some photos of them. The above photo I had titled Growth in Adversity and it inspired me to write a quick little encouraging post:

Olaf Speed Art

I did my first speed art! Woo! Olaf from Disney's "Frozen". Hopefully this brings some extra cheer to your winter...

Peppermint

  

Happy New Year! Hope this year brings you great memories! A start to those memories can be a quick glance at mt my peppermint themed photos. Done as part of the peppermint themed art feature I did on DeviantArt. I had a lot of fun with this shoot. Enjoy!

Pancake Recipe: Holiday Edition

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! So, this was supposed to be posted on Christmas... Haha. A little creative holiday treat. Easy pancake recipe and how to transform them into fun holiday themed characters. Great for kids and adults who are in tune with their inner child! Enjoy! Recipe written below:

Autumn in New York

Recently did a very early (too early for me) morning photoshoot to capture some of the Autumn leaves here in Upstate New York. Not only did I get to capture some beautiful shots, but I also shot video of the shoot, as well as some of the scenery while driving around some of the more suburban and country sides of New York. Join me on this early morning shoot and take a look:

Otakon Fundraiser

So, I mentioned in a poll on DeviantArt that I plan on going to Otakon (August 8th-10th), however, I don't have the funds yet to do so. Oddly enough, it's been really on my heart to go this year. So I'm hosting a little fundraiser, which some seemed to think was a good idea based on the poll. Here's how it will work:

Increasing Your Exposure on DeviantArt

Within the last year, I've returned to the DeviantArt site and have realized how truly of a useful site it is to artists. Seeing all the amazing artists on there has become a big part of my inspiration for my own work. And while I'm not able to spend as much time as I'd like to because of my schedule, I was still able to increase my amount of followers on the site by more than 10x as much within the past few months or so. But I've noticed while many artists do very well on DA, there are also many artists on the site who are frustrated in the fact that they just don't seem to get much exposure. So I decided to help those artists out by providing tips on how to gain exposure specifically on DA.

My Two Month Disappearance (Update)

So many of you who follow my deviantArt page already found out that my hard drive had crashed about 2 months ago, hence why I haven't been posting much work and haven't kept up with the weekly portrait project either.

However I'm now announcing that my computer is up & running again and I now have a larger internal hard drive, plus a 3 TB backup so I don't have to worry about losing my work again! I'll have to spend some time playing catch up, but at least I can work again and there will be many art posts soon to follow!

To see the original post announcing my hard drive crash and what I've learned from it, click below:

http://aglimpseofme.deviantart.com/journal/Sorry-For-My-Disappearance-454354377

Announcing...

Announcing: a self portrait photo project. There's a photographer who goes by the name "Lauren Lemon", and she had a photo project a while back where she posted a new self portrait every day for a year straight. Leaving her with 365 photos that I believe she turned into a photo book. So this got me inspired to do something similar. Except, instead of once a day, I will be posting a group of photos from a shoot once a week. I'm not sure if I'll do it for a whole year; but basically until I run out of ideas or no longer have time to. Each shoot will have a completely different theme.

Improving Your Reach by Keeping it Simple & Easy

I was asked by the Glory House of Prayer church to review their site and give input on how I think they can improve. After reviewing their site and how they managed some events, I had a meeting with them to go over what I thought worked and didn't work to their benefit. But when organizing my notes for this meeting, I realized these points would also make a great post to help others improve their businesses and organizations as well.

See, a church, to an extent, is a business, trying to reach an audience who often doesn't already have a huge interest in who you are and what you're offering, just like any other business. No matter what kind of business you're in, you have certain audiences you want to draw in to be interested in what you have to offer. But having a website, social media page, or even having people visit those pages aren't necessarily enough to make them interested in your organization, company, or product.