Amy Rose Productions on the "Voice of Business" Radio Episode.
Missy and Chelsea had the chance to catch up with Hank Stolz, the host of Talk of the Commonwealth, last month.
The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce featured their discussion on the Voice of Business episode. You can listen to the entire conversation by clicking the link below. Join them as they talk about the studio, the community, and their commercial photography work.
Amy Rose Photo & Motion Canvas Rebel Interview
We had the chance to sit down and speak with Canvas Rebel Magazine. The interview prompted us to consider some great questions, so check out the full article and let us know what you think!
aPhotoEditor - Featured Promo – Amy Rose Photography
To say we're excited is an understatement! We are honored that Rob Haggart from aPhotoEditor opened and featured our promo mailer! We created 100 mailers to share our new and exciting photography with existing and prospective clients . The mailers included a custom printed Zine, hand written note, branded stickers, original illustration art cards, and colored pencils. To see what was included, our process, and the printers we used, check out the full article! Follow @aphotoeditor on Instagram for more inspiring and amazing photography!
aPhotoEditor - Featured Promo – Amy Rose Photography
Women's History Month on 'The Voice of Business'
Missy and I were so honored when asked to speak on The Voice of Business as they celebrate Women’s History Month! As a Women Owned Business, we feel it is important to speak the truth about our experiences as entrepreneurs and our views working in a predominantly male represented industry. Fun fact! Only 12% of the commercial photography space is occupied by women. Those kind of statistics fuel us to strive for more and continue to compete for greater representation. For more details, check out the whole segment below!
CoLoR TrEnDs!
For International Color Day we thought we would jump the gun on the Benjamin Moore 2021 Color Trends. We selected and photographed three of our favorites (but they are all so lovely!).
1. Foggy Morning
2. Silhouette
3. Rosy Peach
What is your favorite Benjamin Moore color?
Web Audit on the ARP Website
Jemma from Wonderful Machine recently did a web audit for the ARP website, so we wanted to share a few tips.
One of the most important things to ask yourself is, "What are your goals and your dream clients?" Once you figure that out, you can organize your body of work in an order that makes sense to target those clients.
For our website, each image or series of photos are sequenced as if they are part of the same collection, using color or certain types of furniture to create a cohesive flow from one "season" to the next. Attention to detail, the styling of props, use of color, light, and texture that create a particular personality are just as important.
It's good to have visual diversity with a mix of colorful and poppy color palettes unless you're targeting a client that only uses neutrals. Then you'd want to showcase imagery with neutral tones in them.
Try to show the kind of images you want to photograph and not the imagery you think the client wants to see. You'd be surprised at how many potential clients are looking for a fresh perspective.
Behind the Scenes of Lens Smudge Podcast Episode 1
Join Missy and Chelsea as they take you behind the scenes to talk about the lighting setup used in episode 1 for Tommy's "Curate the Clutter" challenge.
Lens Smudge Podcast Episode 1
Chelsea and Missy are in the Amy Rose Productions studio with special guest, Tommy O'Donnell. Watch as master prop stylist, Tommy, takes on the "Curate the Clutter" challenge.
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Melissa Shanahan, Who is Beyond the Lens?
For those of you who we have not had the pleasure of meeting in person, we decided to create videos about who is behind the lens at Amy Rose Productions. Along with inspiring through our work, we also hope to inspire by simply being us! Watch the video for an insiders scoop into Cofounder, Commercial Photographer Melissa Shanahan’s life.
Amy Rose Welcomes our new Intern Jaime!
Melissa and I are so excited to share some big news! Amy Rose Productions has an official intern, Jaime Moehring! Jaime will be working alongside us a few days a week to gain some hands-on experience and build her photography business acumen and craft. Jaime is self-taught and has a great passion to create impactful and compelling imagery. We give a big welcome to Jaime and are looking forward to helping her grow and develop as a photographer!
Here is a little more about her story and some kick-ass photographs that she captured.
How did you get your start in photography?
I have always had a camera ever since I could remember. I would take it everywhere and just snap pictures. Over the years I have developed my own style and view of the world and I started sharing it on social media. That’s when it really opened up doors for me of making this a career. I started watching a bunch of YouTube videos of what I can do to better my photography and myself and slowly more and more people started noticing.
What are your goals as a photographer?
My goals as a photographer is to capture something that makes people feel something and then creates a domino effect. Something that makes people want to connect to nature and to wildlife and inspires people to want to help save the wildlife and landscapes. For example, my gorilla portrait I did. I wanted to capture the essence of this great gorilla and humanize it a little bit so others could relate more to it because when someone can relate to something, they tend to care about it more. So, this gorilla I edited the photo to make it look like a portrait style that one would do with a person. My end goal was to have people relate and therefore possibly care enough to care about what I care about like saving the rainforest, animals, landscapes that are threatened.
Why are you excited to be a part of the Amy Rose team?
I am excited because I feel you guys are kindred spirits and your work is amazing. I am excited to keep learning and growing as a photographer.
To follow and check out more of her work:
instagram: @jaimecphoto
portfolio: www.jaimecaitlyn.com
XO Chelsea
Lighthouse
For this image I was in Gloucester MA and really wanted to capture the lighthouses there. So, I found this lighthouse and walked out on the rocks looked back set my camera down with my small tripod I had. It was a bright sunny day when I took this picture. For my creative editing process, I uploaded the photo to Lightroom. Started doing basic edits to it and then I really wanted to capture the feel of night, so I really darkened the sky a great color blue and then I added a lighthouse light looking out into the ocean. I really liked the texture and the light and darker colors contrasting together. What I wanted to capture for this image came out exactly how I wanted it too.
Where does the business name comes from? and Who is Amy Rose? ⠀
It all started while road tripping to Vermont. Several names (that’s an understatement, it was actually over 50!) were tossed around such as "Dare to Dream”, "Imagination Nation” as well as Chelsea’s favorite “Capture Queens.” 👑⠀
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The names were original but they were lacking the personal connection that we wanted to have for the brand. After several hours, we knew we wanted to have “Production(s)” at the end of whatever name was decided. We also wanted a versatile name that could be abbreviated and grow as we add on different branches to the brand, such as workshops (coming 2020).⠀
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As the search continued, we came up with other names such as Smoke and Mirrors Production and Legendary Productions. The names still didn’t have that personal touch and we knew we needed something more meaningful. ⠀
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Finally we reached that “ah ha” moment and thought, “How about our middle names?”, which are Amy and Rose. This had the personal connection to both of us, my middle name being Amy and Chelsea’s is Rose. We also felt that is was catchy and rolled off your tongue. ⠀
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Amy Rose Productions is both of us, our talents, expertise and commitment all in one. ⠀
Queue the sappy music!⠀
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Photo by: @sarasbucketlist
Photo Assist: @srsly_styld
