Hippie Chick Photography

DecoraLux · Sep 19, 2012

Right had a look at the site. Not what I imagined. You need to find a domain name pref. Com that is yours (not weeklies) and get yourself an email account ie enquiries@hippychic..... Or something to look professional.

Your name should be personal to you and your business and your work. Your gallery doesnt reflect the hippy chick vision the words create and looked a lit like every other photographer starting out. Dare to be different, find a style embrace it.

Scuba · Sep 19, 2012

While I don't agree with the mocking or poking fun at you or your site, but I agree both your images and your site need some serious work. Your images are generally underexposed and flat. I think a good area to focus would be your editing and learning how to make an image look professional. Also, as said before only show your best work. I see some images that look to be taken with a cell phone or would be something someone would just "snap" with their cell phone. Work on creating the feeling you are trying to accomplish with each shot through both the actual capture as well as the editing. One last thing I noticed is the lack of control of your DOF. Many of the shots do not isolate the subject from the background because the whole image is in focus. Keep shooting.

ceejtank · Sep 19, 2012

Scuba said:
While I don't agree with the mocking or poking fun at you or your site, but I agree both your images and your site need some serious work. Your images are generally underexposed and flat. I think a good area to focus would be your editing and learning how to make an image look professional. Also, as said before only show your best work. I see some images that look to be taken with a cell phone or would be something someone would just "snap" with their cell phone. Work on creating the feeling you are trying to accomplish with each shot through both the actual capture as well as the editing. One last thing I noticed is the lack of control of your DOF. Many of the shots do not isolate the subject from the background because the whole image is in focus. Keep shooting.

I wasn't mocking. The point I brought up is a serious marketing flaw.

texkam · Sep 19, 2012

You are obviously getting started. I get that. Good luck. +1 on the "keep shooting". +1 on the branding problem - branding doesn't match the name.

Some thoughts: Get new "killer" home page photo. Combine home and services pages. Add a proper contact page. You can use one of those Weebly fill in the fields templates for it. Cull at least half your work. Less is more! Weebly trick: inserting a bunch of blank space at the end of a paragraph (hitting the return key), will move the "Create a free website with Weebly" farther down down the page where it is far less noticable. Get better and learn business.

unpopular · Sep 19, 2012

When i think of a person who refers to themselves as a "hippie chick" I think of a ordinary person, in their mid-to late 20's or early 30's who is trying to stand out. Some "hippie chicks" may dress the part, talk the talk, smoke the pot, but when it comes to walking the walk, it's all:

And your website seems to reiterate a "I'm a hippie, tee hee" attitude. Your work doesn't seem very hip, your style doesn't seem very hip, your web design doesn't seem very hip.

Forkie · Sep 20, 2012

Derrel said:
You might be interested to know that hippiecuties.com is a hippie chick porn site...and there are probably a few others...

I was interested to know that. Bookmarked. Cheers!

Aside from that, I think the business name is fine. I don't get all the negative connotations that everyone else seems to get from the Hippie Chick name. Hippie for me generally conjures up images of being laid-back, informal, free (spirited!) and open minded.

However, I don't think the website reflects these qualities and needs quite a lot of work.

PhotoWrangler · Sep 20, 2012

Soooooo you shot a wedding, a few friends tossing their heads around, and a girl in blue who likes to leap and show us her panties..... and you're building a business on that?

gsgary · Sep 20, 2012

Forkie said:
I was interested to know that. Bookmarked. Cheers!

Aside from that, I think the business name is fine. I don't get all the negative connotations that everyone else seems to get from the Hippie Chick name. Hippie for me generally conjures up images of being laid-back, informal, free (spirited!) and open minded.

However, I don't think the website reflects these qualities and needs quite a lot of work.

Thats because we are British they get everything the wrong way round take Fanny for instance

gsgary · Sep 20, 2012

Those selective color shots are fantastic

Scuba · Sep 21, 2012

ceejtank said:
I wasn't mocking. The point I brought up is a serious marketing flaw.

There were several comments I was referring to not just a specific one. You gave a helpful honest critique which I was not referring to with my comment.