Where was your first photo used commerically?

[xsive]

I'm pretty happy as of this week I had a few of my photos used in a menu of a local pizza shop.
This is the first time any of my photos have been printed in a commerical type of basis.

I'm wondering when your first photo was printed commerically and where was it used.
Doesnt make you feel nice....

Cheers

XSIVE

[Spectrum]

Nice work, mate. :thumb:

Aside from a photo I took for a club flyer design about 8 years ago, my photos feature throughout each section of this Sydney-based web design business: http://www.translogik.com/

Thrill factor, for sure. :)

[nettsu]

i have a photo of my potato salad going into a cookbook

*laughs*

its a bit strange & twisted ;)

I've some photos used by nowpublic (nothing to write home about as the photos they always choose are crap)

[krafty_x]

I've had one published in a photography book in America.

I had some of my printmaking work feature in some journals some years back.

I've also taken some shots for work.

k_x oxo

[ayong]

my claim of fame has been this photo had been published in both mx and the telegraph.

not sure wat it was for again as it was while ago now.

http://contribute.inthemix.com.au/photos11/060106-defected-ayong/aag

[the_pezman]

home girls picture mag 1999 october issue i think it was

[MJKooLio]

Published in the community newspapers around Perth, and then 2nd photo published in The West Australian (biggest state wide daily newspaper), now continuously in Xpress magazine.

[nettsu]

home girls picture mag 1999 october issue i think it was

:lol:

[xsive]

home girls picture mag 1999 october issue i think it was

I bet that was a thrill for sure... Did you keep the cut out... ?:lol:

Try for the high browl of People home girls mate :thumb:

[the_pezman]

^^ you know what? after i posted taht i went looking for it. but having just moved, things are scattered everywhere. did find a ppl mag from 96 tho! :lol: not sure why i even bought that issue tho :stroke:

[Mickstah]

home girls picture mag 1999 october issue i think it was
What, no samples to show us?

:P

[xsive]

What, no samples to show us?

:P

Seems a bit interesting.... or conventent..... :lol:

[the_pezman]

What, no samples to show us?

:P
lol
i did go looking for it, it was one of my slut exs that i would have no prob in exposing if i had the original (took it with her camera) :mad:

[Kimberley]

I replaced my friend one week at Sounds taking the photos a few years back (2003 maybe?), and ended up doing all the photos for a page in Ministry's magazine that was dedicated to the punters of Sounds on Sunday. That was cool.

I've also contributed to the photos in the Herald earlier this year.

[gbanga]

a snowboard camp brouchure in 05 i think. cool thread

[The Brain]

There was a photo of me in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 2001.
But, to my knowledge, no photos I've actually taken have ever been used for anything exciting, ever.

[Patopeaking]

Carl Cox uses some of my shots for his Cds

[nettsu]

There was a photo of me in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 2001.

didn't cosmo used to have a male centrefold?

:haha:

[First Strike]

Wired news just used a turntable pic of mine, cool to have a pic of mine on the front page of popular site like that....

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/1613639876_839e09c97a_m.jpg






http://www.wired.com/

[SPOKEYDOKEY]

Not quite commercially, but I was asked ages ago for use of one of my pics. When the Bill Henson hooha was on I did a walk past the Roslyn Oxley9 galleries. Macquarie Uni's Law Society have used it in their first edition of The Brief (http://www.muls.org/default.asp?page=Education/The+Brief/) for 2009 ;D

[NismoR31]

mine wasn't paid either, but was asked by schmap.com to use a pic of a meal i'd had at cafe sydney @ customs house. They've since changed the pic they use anyway

[SPOKEYDOKEY]

I had one from them also earlier this year, haven't gone back to check it out, was from botanic gardens, sydney.

[MMF_]

theres nothing like getting your photo used commercially, especially the first one!

my first one was for that complex they were building on corner of toorak rd and tooronga rd.

it was used on the homepage for 3 months and they paid me $900 :D i was so wrapped!

here is a screenshot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/shitmajt/toorongaappartments.jpg

[mixxxy]

I've also had a few go to Schmap (glebe festival..). Other than that, I haven't intentionally done anything for commercial purposes.

[mr_mat]

The Brisbane Times used my first one, the gig was for Monty's Chocolates in Paddington (awesome chocolate shop), pretty easy gig just shooting chocolates, and because we "contaminated" the sample stock we had to eat them all :P paid mainly in chocolates as well mmmmm...

However on a serious note, I really underestimated the demand for food photography... good area to stick with in my books.

[Ruthykins]

*bump*
ummm these guys (http://www.dhmd.de/neu/) contacted me to use this picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockinoutruthy/3877032503/in/set-72157622079833869/) in their upcoming exhibition on "beauty"... probably one of my worst and uninspired shots but hey, its an exhibition in Germania!

[Villephant]

lol
congrats btw!!!

[autumn acid]

Shot one wedding (does this count) as an assisstant to a very well regarded photog but not my cup of tea.

Took shots of a luxury apartment. Not that exciting.

Taken catwalk photos that were used for invitations to the opening of a boutqiue designers shop :) And then shop shots that were sent to daily telegraph. Bit more exciting.

Hopefully move into editorial but have a long way to go.

[Cavey]

woah aa! o.O

awesome!

[Dubz]

Despite having taken hundreds of AWESOME shots of naked young children over the years, not one gallery has allowed to display my work. Which is most dissapointing....


In all seriousness, does ITM count? Cos i'm doing my first "proper" shoot at Shrug tonight so pics will go up over the w/end at some point.

[autumn acid]

Yes Dubz. Def counts. It is kind of commercial in the sense that it is club promo and itm promo. (Best of luck by the way! :) )

[the_pezman]

lolz at this thread still going!

i have one claim to fame that im not really sure i want as a credit.... *cough* cosmo bride *cough*http://forums.offtopic.com/images/smilies/ugh2.gif

totally harshens the buzz on my street cred :p


i think the first one was actually vice mag. back when bne used to get proper hard copies.

[white_tar]

I took a photo of the carpark in Berlin that was Hitler's bunker and it's being used by the History Channel in a new documentary about his life.

Just happened to fluke a shot with no tourists in the frame and the show's producer found it on my g/f's blog.. sheer luck!

[divid3d]

i'm mega excited because some pics i took at 3D are in this week's inpress street press mag:

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs079.snc3/14633_665276988647_122612474_39949040_2585181_n.jp g

sorry for the crappy phone photo, i'm at work atm lol.

sadly i was not credited haha.

[the_pezman]

get used to it div lol

tho check the credits at the front/back of the mag. sometimes they just lump them all together in there

[Hooch1981]

I've just stuck my photo of a Jersey Cow into a poster I'm doing for a client. Does that count? :P
I'll head back to Phillip Island to take some more during summer so hopefully will get some better shots then.

I'm not a 'photographer', so it's still a milestone for me to be able to include my shots in my work.

[hOuSeMuSiC]

I bet that was a thrill for sure... Did you keep the cut out... ?:lol:

Try for the high browl of People home girls mate :thumb:

It People Model Citizens to be exact :P

[divid3d]

get used to it div lol

tho check the credits at the front/back of the mag. sometimes they just lump them all together in there
they have them all lumped together at the start of the mag but i'm not in the list :P

[the_pezman]

see comment section #1 :p

[divid3d]

.. huh?

[Cavey]

^ the "get used to it" part.

[autumn acid]

Love the total disregard street press have for togs despite free submissions most of the time

[divid3d]

^ the "get used to it" part.
oh right. i don't plan on getting used to it because i doubt it will be a regular occurrence lol.

[Winslow]

First one ever used beyond me showing friends was back in Cali on a local surf forecasting site, it got me waaaaaaaaaaaay stoked.
http://web.me.com/wstruye/photography/Surfing.html#6

Then the first one I ever properly got paid for was a local streetpress mag (also in Cali). There was a massive swell that came in and they liked the shot that I got from it apparently. I got 25$ for it and then never cashed the check cause I was so proud of myself lol.
http://web.me.com/wstruye/photography/Surfing.html#15

[Ruthykins]

Ay! A couple of my shots are being used in this issue of Scene Mag (local street press)
http://www.scenemagazine.com.au/read/ (page 12 I think) ;D Not much but I'm chuffed

[atrev2much]

Well done Ruthy!
*pats back* :)

[AndyDigit]

How did people find your photos to ask you to publish them?

[Ruthykins]

Thanks dude.
Someone wrote a review of a festival I shot, and the reviewer/magazine asked the promoter who in turn asked me.

[jazzcat]

nice work!

[the_pezman]

Ay! A couple of my shots are being used in this issue of Scene Mag (local street press)
http://www.scenemagazine.com.au/read/ (page 12 I think) ;D Not much but I'm chuffed
well done ruthy :thumb:
just hope that he credited/compensated you appropriately

he didnt even reply to me after i gave him a couple loose requests to follow :meh:

[Ruthykins]

nope, no credit what so ever... so I was a bit bummed by that, but what you gonna do?

[Cavey]

As they say in America:

Sue their fat asses!