I'm wanting to do something more professional looking than my current one, but don't have the slightest idea where to go with it.  Any thoughts on it?  Well, beyond raising the opacity on it from the 15-25% where I'm at now I mean.

On one hand, as it sits now, it gives you my name and whatnot, but it just doesn't scream 'professional' to me.  Granted, I'm not there, but I'm hoping to work my way up.  

make it smaller and more opaque.

OH EMMM GEEE


You want to talk about my biggest fucking pet peeve of this industry?  Branding.


It's not bad enough every swinging dick (and, cooch, there's a lot around me) with a camera suddenly thinks they are a portrait studio, they do these huge, obnoxious 99% opaque, white fucking logos. I think the last one that gave me forrest whitacre eye was a decent head and shoulders of a bride and groom highlighting their rings. But at least thirty or forty percent of the image was the snappers' logo.


I don't put any branding on the things I do. It's stupid of me; there are good reasons. Pro houses have done them all throughout film history. But I can't destroy an otherwise interesting and thought - provoking image with my name. I'm not important - that slice of life I captured, is. If you wanna find out who took that, look at the exif data, or ask someone.

I am in NO WAY comparing my efforts, but it is exactly the same as if there was a 20% logo on the Mona Lisa, or a big 'limited edition by' on the Thinker.

NOT saying this applies to you or your example. Just... it bugs me. I might be the only one.

Far from it.

Watermarks have become a good indicator of a bunch of things.

Don't use them OP.

I've used this technique to place event/date info on photos watermark.

Thanks guys :)  I'm trying to figure out where I'm going from here, so all the comments help.    There are a couple paid projects this summer as well, so wanting to get everything set up for it.  Trying to learn lightroom so the settings can carry over to all the images, vs doing it one by one in photoshop and notes of what I did in RAW.

For best watermark, set opacity to 0%.

dupe, 

Just say no to watermarks. Especially for a paid gig. People aren't paying for your watermark on their images. 

Well yeah, I don't watermark stuff I'm paid for.  Generally don't post it anywhere either