"El Luchador Diamante" Created for Diamond Thieves Tattoo & Piercing of Asheville

I'm particularly pleased with the way this video turned out.

Be sure to watch it all the way through to see all of the surpries contained within!

Hope you enjoy it!

Alt Media Pros' First Promotional Video

Unsolicited Photographic Advice of the Day: 8 Things Every Beginner Needs to Hear

1. Find people in your life who are better photographers than you.

   - The type of people who will be brutally honest with you about your photographic abilities are the ones to keep around and learn from.

   - Growth is painful at times, but always necessary.

   - Ego has no place when you are learning.

   - You are always learning.

2. Go out and improve your photographic skills daily.

   - Practice a lot. Some say it takes 10,000+ hours to master a skill. This certainly applies to photography.

   - Take at least 100+ pictures a day. Every day. For at least a year. If you hit 40,000 images your first year, and you're still enthusiastic about what comes next, there's a chance photography isn't just a hobby for you.

   - If you make it through the first year, do the same thing again. Repeat as necessary.

   - Review your past work. Note where you've improved and focus on where you've stagnated.

   - Seek out creativity. It will not find you.

   - Read about photographic techniques feverishly and attempt them until it's old hat for you. Then learn more.

   - If you love it you learn it. If you don't you're just faking it.

3. You are not a photographer simply because you have a watermark.

   - Also, your watermark is ugly.

4. Learn your equipment thoroughly.

   - That "M" on the dial stands for "Manual" mode. Set it here and never touch it again except under very special circumstances.

   - "P" mode does not mean "Professional".

   - Having a fancy camera DOES NOT mean you take better photographs.

   - That's what compositional knowledge is for.

   - Don't know what composition is? Then you're not a photographer. Learn it well.

5. Pay your dues.

   - Photography, like any other profession, is a job.

   - Just because you "love photography so much", or were "born to do this" it doesn't grant you the excuse to be bad at it.

   - Be mature enough to admit that a lot of the time your "art" sucks.

   - Always strive to improve.

6. Only post your best work.

   - If you don't know what your best work is, you are not ready to be posting it for the world to see.

   - Snapshots are fine. But don't post them with a watermark claiming they are professional.

7. Do not charge for work you cannot deliver.

   - If a doctor performed at the level many amateur photographers do for "clients", people would die and the doctor would be behind bars.

   - Build your skills before you ever accept money for your photography.

   - It's only fair to you and to your clients.

8. Now go take some pictures and learn!

New Logos and a Business Card for Alt Media Pros

Well, I've got a logo now. A few variations actually.

And one with a pretty camera:

I also worked up a business card that I'll be getting printed soon. Hopefully I'll be able to get these printed on metallic paper, or some shiny equivalent.

Hopefully this will all get me one step closer to tying this whole crazy game together.

Please follow me on Twitter @AltMediaPros

You can see more of my work at Alt Media Pros.

Sensing a theme yet? Always stay on brand.

A New Beginning

Greetings all,

I wanted to let you know that I created a new site to compliment aehric.com and all that it is. I've also been really, really busy as of late with work. So I do apologize for the lack of updates recently.

Please take a look: Alt Media Pros

It's shiny, Squarespace 6 shiny!

Alt Media Pros is now my professional persona. Whereas aehric.com will remain my personal blogging destination of choice. I'll be updating both regularly(ish). Either way, there will be obvious links back and forth so you can practically treat the sites as extensions of one another. I aim to make navigating them a fluid experience. You can keep up to date on my professional work at Alt Media Pros.

If you'd be so kind as to throw me a 'like' on Facebook here: Alt Media Pros I'd be really grateful. It will help me to reach more and more people.

Please consider following my new account on Twitter: @AltMediaPros as well. Much appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to read through this. I really appreciate it, and I always appreciate you, the reader. Thank you so much for your comments, criticism and support. You all rock!