The Tattoo Gig

OMG. Blogger is a piece of trash. I had this whole entire detailed post typed out and when I went to publish, it said that my blog was flagged as spam and no further publishing could be done to it...this was after I saved my post mind you. Then after I requested a review and found it unlocked this morning, there was a nice two sentence draft of my post saved. What retards. I mean, I had ONE link in ONE published post for The Strobist Blog and they did that to me. I'm angry. Too bad this isn't a pay service, then I could really tell them to go to hell.

Anyways...



My first paid gig. I'm acquaintances through some friends with a guy that opened up Wise Guys tattoo studio next door to a recording studio I'm associated with. I talked to him about a shoot several months back and he finally took me up on the offer. It was $80 for two hours and he purchased $300 in photos after the fact. He got a discount as I'm going to do future work for the shop and I know the guy. My regular prices are going to be a bit higher.

I should be getting the photos back today from WHCC and then I'll post a review on those guys. The test prints were perfect, but the first order using ROES took a bit and was semi confusing...maybe my experience will help some one avoid the problems I had. I'll post about ordering and all that too.

Sorry for the dry post and the lack of details, but after having my first book deleted by some stupid spam protection that can't recognize one like and one post is not spam compared to millions of links to the same site on several post, I don't feel like reciting it again in detail. Pics from the shoot are below. They're small, but if you click on them, they'll take you to the Flickr page with a bigger photo.