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  • Naming a buisness
  • specialdrifter
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    Looking at setting up a photography business.

    I dont want to use my name either.

    I am pretty stumped on names though as I dont want any cliche or common names how ever I still want it to be apparent to what I would be doing.

    I live on the Isle of Wight and would focus on news media for news stories and undertaking freelance hire for things such as family portraits and weddings.

    I would like something possibly nautical themed also if possible?

    What sort of ideas can you guys come up with that are serious.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Killer Dinosaur Robots 2000 Photography Limited.

    Spin
    Free Member

    Your Name + Photography.

    If you try to get smart then people either wont get it or will think it’s pretentious.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Monkeys Punk Pictures

    smell_it
    Free Member

    The Wight stuff photography. If you don’t mind sounding a bit like jizz. Or Vomit Donkey Inc.

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    Wight Balance photography.

    Seriously, thats a good name.

    Edukator
    Free Member

    Place Name Photography.

    specialdrifter
    Free Member

    Wight balance is a local photography club

    Edric64
    Free Member

    Vectis images

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Think of google – you want location and function in title.

    davidjones15
    Free Member

    Aardvark Photography, you should be able to get the first listing in Yellow pages with that.

    Edric64
    Free Member

    Who uses Yellow pages these days?

    sc-xc
    Full Member

    Four Cross John Photography Limited

    kingkongsfinger
    Free Member

    Wight Lightening pics.

    davidjones15
    Free Member

    Click or Aaardvark if someone else is using Aardvark.

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    Cyclops Imaging? 😛

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    Just your name and photographer stuck on the end + DSLR = instant photographer

    smell_it
    Free Member

    In to the Wight photography. I think I’m going to have to listen the Pixes now 😀

    Or tot’s to tit shots?

    Cougar
    Full Member

    I would like something possibly nautical themed also if possible?

    Wight Water Photography.

    singletrackmind
    Full Member

    Island Pictures
    Island Images
    Black and Wight pictures

    brakes
    Free Member

    Wight Supremacy Photography?

    paulmgreen
    Free Member

    Wight News Photography.? Says where you are and what you do?

    MrNutt
    Free Member

    Little Island Images

    crikey
    Free Member

    I think I’d find the idea of being tied to a small location to be a negative. It’s not like Paris, London or even Stockport..

    brakes
    Free Member

    How about ‘Wight Global Photography’ then?

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet Photography

    randomjeremy
    Free Member

    It looks like you want a lot of local business so <postcode> photography could be a winner, something like “PO30 Photography” ?

    johndoh
    Free Member

    Black & Wight.

    Just need to get a business partner named Black.

    wordnumb
    Free Member

    Nauti-Snaps.
    See Sea TV.
    Sonny, Eric’s son.
    Eye Land Photosnaps.
    Photos of Boats You Definitely Couldn’t Have Done Yourself.
    Man and a Cam era.
    Ghostbusters.
    The Boatographer.

    federalski
    Free Member

    Channeled Photography.

    Verb:
    Direct toward a particular end or object.
    Guide along a particular route or through a specified medium.

    On the English Chanel.

    Ta Daaa.

    Fortunateson09
    Free Member

    wordnumb – I physically LOLd at most of those.

    specialdrifter – PLEASE call your business ‘The Boatographer’

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    All wight photography

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Cowes and Ungulates Photography

    Newport, I port we all scream in Newport Photography

    catfood
    Free Member

    For news I would generally avoid using the word photography in the title, especially if you are going to send stories in as well, makes you sound like a portrait photographer, something like Wight Media, Isle Media, or use a single non specific word, especially if you want to use it as an umbrella name for other aspects of your photography, think of other news photo agencies, Alpha, Rex, Retna, Apex, Gamma, Dragon, i-images etc. Some photographers I know who supply to newspapers simply send it in with their name on it, the papers will very quickly cotton on to who you are as I doubt there are many people on the island supplying photos to them. If supplying to the papers you will put your name on it anyway for the byline, something like Joe Bloggs/Wight Media.

    As an example I just moved to Wales, on my first job there, there were two other photographers, one from Wales Media and one from Media Wales, sort of says it all really.

    I would not go with a nautical theme unless you are going to be sending in lots of sailing pictures.

    Whathaveisaidnow
    Free Member

    if it was my idea and you used it, i’d want paying, . . . email in profile

    thepurist
    Full Member

    Has nobody suggested Wight Wedding Photography yet? Yah I know you want to do news and sutff, but that’s too good to miss!

    StefMcDef
    Free Member

    Spyglass Images? Foc’sle Fotos?

    Although you might have to beware of locals automatically associating “Spyglass” with the Ventnor pub of the same name, I doubt they have copyright on the word.

    Also, there are a few well-established nautical photography specialists on the island, esp in Cowes, so unless you want to try and compete directly with them, or give potential customers the idea that you do, then the nautical themed name might not be such a good idea.

    Available Wight Imagery ??

    dingabell
    Free Member

    The Big Picture Photographers.

    breatheeasy
    Free Member

    The thing with using Wight is it just sounds like a name to most people. And it’s probably going to get lost in a sea of Google search results.

    derek_starship
    Free Member

    My business name came from putting my wife’s forename and my forename into an anagram maker and choosing one of the hundreds of results.

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