Turquoise Feathers Referral Program

Its finally here! Turquoise Feathers is launching its referral program for all past and existing photography and design clients. Make sure to tell your friends and spread the word!

Thanks for supporting my work! I truly appreciate all of my friends, family, and clients for there love and kindness! Just looking to share the love :)

Enjoy!
Jenny
Turquoise Feathers

New Portfolio and Branding

My final semester at Herron required me to create a complete portfolio and brand identity for my work and design abilities. Here is the final product that was then shown at the Herron Senior VC Portfolio Show. Very proud of what I came up with!

I created a portfolio book by hand that encompasses the color and style of my overall identity. 

Inside the portfolio book were individual cards that featured different pieces of design work through out my career. I created the titles to add an extra handmade element. 

Mini portfolio books were created to give out to potential employers or clients. The books were created to mimic the design of the larger portfolio cards and seperated into three catagories -- art, experience, and innovation -- the same catagories that can be found on my website www.turquoisefeathers.com. The pages were saddle stitched, covered with chipboard, and finished off with turquoise feathers emblem. 

My business cards and resume were placed into a muslin drawstring bag and stamped with a turquoise feathers emblem as well. The muslin bag was then tied together with the mini portfolio book for sending. 

The business cards were printed at Faulkenberg Printing Company in Indianapolis. I had them glue two sheets of paper together for added thickness and easier edge painting. After the cards were printed, I hand painted the edges with an aqua color acrylic paint.

Above is my setup at the VC Senior Portfolio Show on May 3, 2012. 

Until another creative project,

Jenny

Pen & Needle

I had the privilege of working on a social action project this semester in my M150 Media and Society course at IUPUI. Because of the up and coming nature of the Handmade artist culture, and the strong influence social media has had on its success, I decided to focus on getting the word out there in this fairly unknown genre. Below is the first issue of Pen & Needle magazine featuring 5 great handmade artists from all over the country. Hope you enjoy!

Thank you Alexz of Bird Trouble, Joel of The Mustard Room, Jaime of Julias Poppies Design, Allie of Allie Ruth Design, and Emily of Jones Design Company for all your insights. You all are great!!

Until Another Creative Idea,

Jennifer

The Sewell Family

What a spectacular family I had the privilege of photographing last weekend. They have a beautiful family both inside and out, and I am proud to display for you some of their gorgeous images. Enjoy :)

A daddys girl. I know what thats like :)

How cute its it that the twins are looking at one another??

A proud mother!

Like father like son

Until another creative project comes along, 

Jennifer

Turquoise Feathers

The Value of Editing

One important thing I have learned in my last few months of photographing is the importance of retouching and how much of a difference it can truly make. Not only does it clean up an image, but it enhances, transforms, and accentuates an image's potentional. As much as I hate to say it, a "great photograph" can be taken by chance, mere luck, if the time, place, subject, and lighting happen to be right. However, great retouching takes time, effort, and a keen eye for artwork. I wanted to show a few examples of what retouching can do to an image, how it can change your perception and emotions related to that image. Take  a look:

It is crazy how much editing can to do to image. I am so thankful to have learned photoshop early, had time to explore, and am excited to continue to discover new things. Comment with an questions on what I did to create these beautiful images!

Until another creative thought,

Jennifer

Turquiose Feathers