Panel Meetings

I wanted to write a few sentences just to respond to today's meetings with the panel members. First of all, I wish it wasn't raining this morning, i didn't want to walk in the rain with my portfolio, etc. What a pain in the butt. Anyways, it seemed like everyone was kind of anxious/nervous, I've been really confident with my sports photography lately, so I went into the meeting very comfortably and just had casual conversation with all the panel members, not that we didn't talk about my work, but i'm glad it wasn't a nerve-wrecking situation. Scott Elmsquist was a really nice guy, he gave me some good feedback on a number of photos and was really pleased with the overall quality of my shots, minus some prints that turned out poorly, but the composition and photo itself he enjoyed. I feel that both of the panel members real pleased that I knew exactly what I wanted to do after graduation and how to get there. Kimberly Frost was also really nice and down to earth, making it easy to talk to her about my work, we also had similar interests and ideas. Instead of looking at individual photos and talking about them, she just flipped through and then started to talk. She was really happy with the quality of work that I had in my photos, the only thing she said I needed to work on was advertising myself. I've already worked on a corporate identity, i have a logo and business card, I'd just like to work on them a little more. Plus I need a letterhead to put on invoices in the future.

In conclusion, I was really pleased with the individuals I met with today, everything went really smoothly and they were nice and easy to communicate ideas with. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a mock interview or what, either way, because i'm really passionate and fascinated with the genre of photography that I'm shooting, it made it really easy to talk about.