So, funny/annoying thing I just did…
I’ve spend the entire afternoon writing up a blog post featuring one of my recent shoots in NYC. Images, commentary, the usual.
This is actually quite a time consuming process, which includes picking and formatting the images for the blog, creating the post, proofing, etc. Then it’s resizing, sharpening, renaming, re-saving, etc. so those same images don’t get munched up by social media compression algorithms. I wrote and published this post, and proceeded to methodically push the images out to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, Vimeo, etc. It’s the drudgery and boredom of being a photographer these days – with no agent, you have to make your own noise and hustle your own work.
I also sent the images to my lovely subject, and upon seeing her reaction, immediately decided I was an idiot and should have been working to get this shoot properly published.
Cue me furiously deleting everything I’d done in the last few hours. Funny how it takes hours to put this stuff up, but only about 15 minutes to pull it all back down. #funnynotfunny
If you’re not familiar with how this all works, it’s pretty simple. Magazines and the best online platforms like exclusivity. That means they want to be the first and only outlet to release your images or story, and if they aren’t, they just won’t choose your work. Hence me pulling everything down:)
So my apologies for a non-post post today. Hopefully we’ll have some sexy tearsheets to show you in the future.
Until then, here’s a great video I was planning on sharing with you next week: