I always find it amazing how one minute something can affect me so heavily and the next, well what seems like the next moment, it really carries no weight.
I have an up and down lifestyle mostly because I let things impact me that others don't seem to do. You don't know what I am talking about do you? I guess I've been missing a little bit, and a dear friend suggested it was because I was "seeing" a boy.
Truth be known I have been flat out with my photography.
Each night I sit down after my children go to bed and I post process images.
What does that mean?
Well you see I shoot images in RAW format, which on my camera is around a 10-12mg picture PER PICTURE. This IS a new concept to me. I have always been very happy to shoot in FINE JPG which is in my mind the universal format for photographs. You've also probably heard of TIFF and BMP too. But I shoot in JPG.
Recently I got caught out, the JPG file is NOT as big as the RAW file and does not hold as much data as a RAW file. So if you wanted to say get a massive poster print or a HUGE Canvas print the image would not be as detailed or as rich as if it started as a RAW file. Mind you, you still need to convert it to a JPG and that then reduces the data.
Oh i know you are getting a headache reading all that aren't you!! Sorry, it was all double-dutch to me, but slowly I'm learning the importance of knowing it, and yes usually I end up with a headache and either go to bed and can't sleep or I keep investigating, keep reading and trying to learn more.
Okay where was I? Oh yes a friend who I love dearly suggested I was not online much anymore due to a "BOY" whilst I would love that to be the reason, it really isn't the reason.
Post processing has been swallowing up my free time, my thoughts.com time, my blogging time. Why? Well because my work, my images, my photography is gaining a bit of momentum. People are seeing photos I take of their friends and asking me to come and photograph them.
It is all very daunting, not the taking photographs bit, but the fact that people are liking what I do and asking me to do it for them.
From where I sit I still have miles and miles to go before I will say "YES, I am a photographer" without crossing my fingers behind my back. But gee I'd love to be out there doing it every day. It does make me happy, but as you've seen .. or should I say NOT seen (me), it's a time consuming process if you want your images to SHINE.
It's really not a case of taking the photos and handing them over. EVEN if the photos are shot correctly with the right exposure etc. I still have to convert them from .NEF (raw) to .JPG otherwise they are useless to my clients.
I will do my best to be "online" more, but when I've 300 photos to be processed and each photo takes around 10 minutes, I have to do what I need to do.
Love to you all, and have an awesome week-end.
ps. I hope I didn't put you to sleep with the above conversation!
xx  xx
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