I thought of doing this a while back, but after a few pros gave me some advice I'm curious what you guys use for business cards. How do they look. Lets see them.
That's my card, kind of simple, but the site is not up yet..
I gotta say, in my opinion, no offense intended, that having a camera photo that looks like it's out of a camera catalog (is it your photo? an example of product photography?) is pretty cheesy, and gives the impression to me more of a gear-nerd than an artist at work.
You have a point about the "cheesyness" , but most people will not understand the card's purpose if it's not clear what you do. I take photos for club promoters on weekends, and a lot of cards end up on the floor because the cards are not clear enough.
They don't realise what the card is for. And since most people will link "big camera" with pro photographer, I think the design serves it's purpose.
Maciek W wrote:
You have a point about the "cheesyness" , but most people will not understand the card's purpose if it's not clear what you do. I take photos for club promoters on weekends, and a lot of cards end up on the floor because the cards are not clear enough.
They don't realise what the card is for. And since most people will link "big camera" with pro photographer, I think the design serves it's purpose.
Black, for me. But I've never understood why someone would have a web site, but then use an email service somewhere other than their own web site. It looks confused.
sipperphoto wroteWe are actually going to be doing a series of cards showing a few of the different things we do, weddings and portraits and stuff. :-)
This is what we did. Each specific card also has a unique web address that forwards to the appropriate path on the main site (e.g., http://brittonweddings.com goes to http://britton-photography.com/weddings). Cards are cheap enough too that it's actually viable to do this.
Note that there are subtle colors in the designs that work in CMYK, which our printer uses, but do not convey well on the web. For example, the wedding card has a pinkish hue to the label and writing side background.
Use the black one, if you use the white one after it's handled a couple times it'll be all be muddled with finger prints and who knows what on that solid white background. Also, might be just as effective not to use that green color so you're keeping with a B&W theme, just replace with the grey and see how that comes out.
