Thursday, January 06, 2005
I've been thinking a lot about this blog. I'm questioning whether it's really furthering my personal goals for my photography, and that's really why I decided to start it. I started it as a way to get traffic to my site. Well it has succeeded to bring traffic to my site and has gotten more people to see my photos. And the photos that they are seeing is one of the things that concerns me. In an effort to post daily, I'm putting photos on the blog that are test prints and some aren't that great. I make a test print to get a better idea what the photo looks like enlarged, this is where you start after making a contact sheet. In no way are these final prints. There's photos I've posted, which when posted, I thought might be okay, but now I don't like them at all and I'll never print them again.
There are times that, while I might be working hard producing a lot of photos, nothing is making it to a final print stage because I'm not satisfied with it. Kind of like a working dry spell. Or, I'm doing a lot of experimenting and while parts of an image are working, it's not working as a whole, so it's not successful.
Many photographers are happy if they get 20 successful photos a year. I'm probably in this group. Look at my website--there are 27 photos on my holga page. I started seriously shooting with the Holga in 2002. In 2003 I used it some and 2004 I used it more. In about 2 1/2 years of shooting I've got 27 photos I'm happy with.
It's similar with my Minnesota Scenic/North Shore photos. I shot a lot of them in 2003. There's 10 - 15 that I really like. My main problem was I think I needed to be shooting 4x5. Some just didn't work because they needed more detail.
This is a long winded way to say that trying to post photos regularly on my blog might not be right for me. I was thinking it would be a good way to "see the photographer at work" kind of thing. But I doubt many people are getting that. They just see what's posted and that represents my work. I don't think that's what I want. So I am thinking about slowing down my posting for awhile. Heck, knowing me it might just be a passing phase.
There are times that, while I might be working hard producing a lot of photos, nothing is making it to a final print stage because I'm not satisfied with it. Kind of like a working dry spell. Or, I'm doing a lot of experimenting and while parts of an image are working, it's not working as a whole, so it's not successful.
Many photographers are happy if they get 20 successful photos a year. I'm probably in this group. Look at my website--there are 27 photos on my holga page. I started seriously shooting with the Holga in 2002. In 2003 I used it some and 2004 I used it more. In about 2 1/2 years of shooting I've got 27 photos I'm happy with.
It's similar with my Minnesota Scenic/North Shore photos. I shot a lot of them in 2003. There's 10 - 15 that I really like. My main problem was I think I needed to be shooting 4x5. Some just didn't work because they needed more detail.
This is a long winded way to say that trying to post photos regularly on my blog might not be right for me. I was thinking it would be a good way to "see the photographer at work" kind of thing. But I doubt many people are getting that. They just see what's posted and that represents my work. I don't think that's what I want. So I am thinking about slowing down my posting for awhile. Heck, knowing me it might just be a passing phase.
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