Hooray!  The business cards are in! After designing them in publisher (would not recommend this program for designing business cards, other programs have been much easier to use), I uploaded the design to VistaPrint, and voila! just like that the cards have come back printed about two weeks later. These are the premium cardstock ones, although truthfully they could use a bit more heft. For the next batch, I will definitely, definitely be using letterpress, but for now, here are some pics of my very first photography business cards!

The moody lighting in this was done with the Honl Photo Speedlight 1/8 Grid.  It’s a plastic piece that looks like a honeycomb — a common DIY is to take a bunch of evenly sized black plastic straws, glue them together and then put them in front of the flash.  Strobist has instructions for the DIY version here.  It was a bit tricky controlling the direction of the light and there were more than few trial-error error shots to get the light to beam on the logo without having the kickback glare of light hitting white paper….it could definitely be better, if I was going to do it over again, I would use a lightstand rather than holding the flash in my left hand as high as as I could while taking the picture. 

Please excuse the rather unkempt nails (sometimes sharp details are a bad thing!).   This pic takes advantage of the great macro capabilities of my G-9.  I have definitely not stopped being totally amazed with what this little point and shoot can do.  One of my favorite photography bloggers has jumped on the Canon G bandwagon and has the newest G11, with a discussion of the macro capabilities here.