What is a photo?

How do you define a good image? What is a great photo? Is it something small?

Or is it something big?

Or maybe its about consistency and repetitive patterns?

Or does an image should simply tell a story?

Should it be something bright?

Or maybe dark?

I had no idea, but was passion with making photos. So I got a job to do so, and they were even paying me money!

Content-Manager

I have started with a very poorly-designed web-site with randomly made content. This is how it was:

So i made several improvements!

You may not be too familiar with what content-managers doing, when having a huge amount of images to process, so let me explain, focusing specifically on images:

• Standardization: all images got consistent style
• Brightness: all images become about the same brightness
• Positioning: all items got the same angle
• Watermark: I made it less visible and set fixed size for it
• Colors: color-balance, hue and white-balance got standardized

Take a look at this section. It might not be much, but there is a common style in colors, fonts and elements:

I like standardization and experimenting! So I was trying a lot to find a style, that fits great for this products, clients and company in general. During my work there, I created style-guides, that were describing all the possible products, and all of the aspect about ho to:

• Take photos: which products should have which angles
• Set lightning: how to set light in a studio
• Camera: what kind of camera and lenses to use
• Description: how should product's descriptions be written
• Tools: which software to use, to handle photo-editing
• Adds and news: how to write news, adds and any other texts

Being passion about the work I was doing let us, at that time, to become the best Vape-Shop on the market, with the best content that was admired by many-many clients. We were expanding, so was my department too, and at the end I got several colleagues to teach how to handle the content.