Saugen Photography

I got my new business cards back from Lunalux.

Yup, I went with the whole minimalism idea.

Am I pushing the curve to much by assuming that everyone I hand my card to will be able to infer all the important infomation from just my email address?  Let's break it down.

Email: Lucas@SaugenPhotography.com (easy)
Name: Lucas Saugen (medium)
Profession: Photographer (easy)
Website: www.SaugenPhotography.com (medium)
Phone Number....

So, that's a small flaw but I justify it two ways.  My phone number is plastered all over my website and I would guess only about 2% of my first contacts are ever made by phone.  I'm not a big phone person.

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So, my client approaches me and tells me they need this movie marquee photographed but the only problem is that the movie marquee doesn't exist in the real world so I get to create the marquee in Photoshop.

I spent two full evenings in and around Minneapolis looking for and photographing all the right pieces to the marquee puzzle.  We ended up at about seven different locations to create this marquee and the background of the piece.  To name a few you can find bits of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Pantages, and The State Theatre in this ad.

I find myself shooting outside in the winter about once a year but every year it's always the coldest days of the season this year was no exception.  I froze my butt off shooting this.  I'm glad we brought Conor with to keep the truck running.

The guy in the yellow jacket...  That's our off duty police officer making sure no cars hit me or anyone tries to steal the ladder while I'm standing on it.

If the image of the ad looks a little odd it's because I just took a screen grab off of the internet.

Once again this season I was able to take photos for the Minnesot RollerGirls trading cards.  Here are just some of my favorites.

Enjoy.

I love it when my job literally takes me places that I wouldn't usually get to go like the catwalks of the Minneapolis Convention Center to photograph roller derby.

My photo assistant for the evening, Zack, snapped this photo of me at work.  We actually spent most of the evening shooting on the floor but ofcourse this is the most photogenic of our locations.

Click to EmbiggenTook a quick snap of my new business cards being printed today over at Lunalux and they sure are looking nice.

Consider this a warning.  Once I actually recieve the cards I'm going to take a second to point out to the world what makes my new business cards absolutely perfect for today's society.  Yup, business cards 2.0!  Might be a bit polarizing of a post.  Love it or hate it.

I'll be shooting this weeknd at the Minneapolis Convention Center for an upcoming ad campaign with Meet Minneapolis.  I'm really looking forward to this first shoot because I get to shoot something I love, roller derby.

One of the shots we are going to try is shooting from the cat walks above the convention floor.  It's a good thing that I'm not afraid of heights.  Conor Lawrence, my rep, took this bit of video of us climbing to the top to take a look at the situation.

I'm live on Viewville.com.  Viewville is a juried online gallery where you can purchase prints of different photographer's works.  I'm not sure what else to say other then when you buy prints I make money and that's always fun.

Happy Holidays from Dr. Nobbs and myself.

I've been working again with the Minnesota RollerGirls to create their 2010 Home Season Trading Cards and the whole project has been going great.  We shot this video to give the world a little taste of what they will be able to get once the trading cards are released to the public in January.

One of the problems we've had in the past with doing over a 100 different trading cards was the amount of post production time we need to create the front and the backs of all the cards with all the correct information on them.  We decided this year to try to do all of the names and numbers and likes and dislikes in camera at the time of shoot.

We have two sets going for this project.  The first one is for the front of the trading cards in which the RollerGirl gets to actually stand in their frame.  The second is for the backs of the trading card where she spells out letters her important information.

It's been a really good year for Saugen Photography and I wanted to celebrate a little by starting a new tradition.  I'm currently working with Lunalux to create a 2010 wall calendar to give away to my friends, family, and complete strangers if they want one as well.  The calendars should be finished by the end of this week and I will share some photos of the schwag then but until then what I can tell you is that the calendars are 11" wide and about 3.5" tall and will be letterpressed and look oh so pretty.

There's one more then I can share with you.  The first 250 people to go to SaugenPhotography.com/Calendar and fill in their info will get one calendar mailed directly to them totally free.  Not just a free calendar but free shipping as well.

:)