Shaun Austin Photography - Blog

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• I got a day job again. *sigh*. I needed to have the insurance, plus the steady income. I work for the same company as I did before but now a different department, and everything should be awesome now.  Even though it is work, and every job sucks, I don’t hate myself when I wake up anymore and don’t feel the mountain size ball of stress crashing down on me everyday. Not to mention I won’t be treated like a four year old prisoner anymore.  It’ll be nice.

• One of my best friends came into town and stayed all last week for a little vacation. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Who takes a week long vacation to Salt Lake?’. Well he did and it was a lot of fun to hang out with him again. He needs to just pack up and move here.

• On the photography side of things, I have more gear on the way.. again. Don’t ask me how my wallet is doing. Just refer back to the first paragraph where I stated the point of more money coming in routinely. Much needed as I keep spending it all on more gear.  Plus, I’m scouting out places that I can rent and turn into a photography studio. I have a lot of gigs on hold until I can get an adequate studio space.

• On the horizon.. another hair salon photoshoot in a few weeks.  The theme is ‘Hollywood Glamour’  and it should be way cool. Also on the horizon, more models, bands, and even naked pregnant ladies!

So.. I finally did it last week.

I quit my job! (or Yob if you’re from West Valley)

Yup. I just up and walked out. I had enough and debated for a day or two, and just up and left. I’m up around the 4th day or unemployment and you wouldn’t believe the amount of stress and negativety that has left my life. Of course, not having a job and no income has it’s own stress but I removed the source of a lot of my problems in my life and am going off to find a new adventure. I didn’t realize how angry I was, and how unhappy I was with myself.

I’ve spent more time with my son and a lot more time with myself which was long overdue. I’ve also spent a lot of time engaging myself into my photography. Talking with future clients, booking shoots, and learning new skills in the art of shooting and editing photos. Photography has become something that I could see myself doing as a career and loving every second of it but right now I can’t do that. I can get close, and make enough off of it to cover the bills and more for a while, but for a steady for-sure monthly income (plus the insurance), I’m not to that point yet. But maybe in the future I’ll get there.

Until then, I’ll move onto a new job that will get me by and will pursue my photography as heavily as I can in my own time, so long as I still love it. I’ll be getting a studio space, where I can grow and develop my style more, and allow space for more clients in a professional atmosphere.

I’ve gotten a small website up showing a little bit of my recent work at www.shaunaustin.com.

Please, if you or anyone you know would love some professional pictures, send them to me and I’ll make sure they are taken care of the best that I can offer. Thanks!

So the 2nd hair salon shoot is over with, and I’m super tired. The shoot was an all day, and most of the night event - taking a total of around 13 hours to get through.  There were tons of models, lots of hair styles, attitudes, and themes and over a thousand photos taken - and did I mention 13 hours of shooting??

I’ve got a lot of photos to go through -  I need to start getting a portfolio put together, and actually get a photography website put up! I’ll post lots of photos for you all to take a peek at when I get through them all. But for now, here is a quick one to get a sample of!

I was invited back by the owners to do a MUCH LARGER photoshoot for the hair school Echelon Edge. I guess our first shoot went well enough for them to invite me back to shoot the ENTIRE SCHOOL!!!!!

I’m shooting 60-100 people tomorrow and I’m getting very excited and nervous at the same time. It’ll be a lot of fun I’m sure and I’m hoping I don’t screw it all up!  This could be a huge break for me with photography and I’m hoping for the best.

I’ll post some pictures later on this week from tomorrows shoot, and some other photos from other shoots this past month I haven’t posted on yet! I’m leaning towards making this into my photography blog as I’m really trying to push myself to get out there more and get more business with photography. I love it. If I could do this full time, I would!

Even with the blue popsicle markings all over his face, this picture is adorable. He sure does love his puppy!

I was invited to do a shoot for a hair salon school, Echelon Edge, and it was a TON of fun!

I shot a bunch of pictures for my work which were going to be used to showcase an award they were receiving. I was also invited to take pictures at the dinner banquet of all the companies receiving their awards! It was a lot of fun to shoot both projects! Here are a few shots of the dinner, and also of the booth which showcased all my photos! They even bought a digital picture frame to show even more photos of mine that wouldn’t fit on the board.

Thanks to Nolan, for sending this to me.