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Taking My own Advice
🕑 Added 2019-08-02 23:24:44 +0000 UTCYa'll August is here, and I must admit I have been struggling with the amount of work I have bit off for myself. Moving to Portland has turned out to be truly incredible. I am basically able to shoot, and create more than I have ever imagined, and this summer has been an explosion as far as the amount of time I am spending behind the camera, and as a result behind the computer.
I had a student in town recently and they were explaining to me that they were having a hard time updating their social media for a couple of reasons, but the big thing I noticed is that they were actually self imposed rules that in following was negatively affecting their work. If you don't share your work people aren't seeing it. I told them they've gotta remove whatever is getting in the way of them getting their work to their fans.
What are we creating art for if not to share it with the world.
Then I sat down today to start updating my Patreon for the next two months, and realized I am doing exactly the same thing here. I've had this idea in my head for so long that if I don't sit down and write out a story for every post that the work will cease to have meaning, which has caused an honestly ridiculous backlog in work I have not shared.
The problem is between shooting, editing, and working on the farm to make sure our home is not taken over by blackberries is that by the time I sit down to write out these posts I'm exhausted. My head is in this sort of fog, and my fear of repeating myself keeps me from getting the blog posts done. I want to put my effort into doing a thousand different things, but at the end of the day this is still largely a one person show.
Nicole helps in so many ways with administration, but she can't down and write for me, take the photos, or edit them.
So I'm going to be taking my own advice. You'll notice that I'm probably going to reduce my writing to post titles and credits for my collaborators for a little while, so that I can make each time I do write a little more meaningful. I want to give insight to what is going on at the times I have the energy to put the words together.
I hope you all will enjoy the massive uptick in art I am able to share here as a result!
Comments
Black Fox Lingerie
Hey Gyokko, I just wanted to toss in a little bit from my own personal experience with the whole irate tfp models thing. Always underpromise and overdeliver. Figure out what your average time for an edit is and then tell your TFP models that your edits will take 2 weeks longer than your average completion time. Laying down the expectation up front helps them to be patient. You and I both know those models who start asking when the photos will be returned 2 days after the shoot because they have no concept of the idea that you actually have to do something to them after they've been taken. For me personally I tell them at the end of the shoot as part of a bit of a "debriefing" of sorts. My average completion time is 3-5 days, so I say "thank you so much for coming today, it was such a great pleasure shooting with you! Now just to let you know it will take me about 2 weeks to get your process your photos and get the edits back to you, I share them using...blah blah blah" Ever since I've started doing that I've had issues with impatience drop to almost nothing. Maybe 1 in 50 people will still be too impatient to keep from asking where their photos are. Hope this helps!
Gyokko
I totally get this as I am holding down a full time day job and trying to shoot and edit at the same time. I find that I take on more shoots than I should and end up being way behind in my edits sometimes to irate models who I shot tfp with..sometimes forgoing sleep and socialising as a result. So.... am hoping to do the same.. I have yet to start using patreon like you are but.. coming soon :) Anyways you have been and still are one of my biggest inspirations and I hope you keep doing what works for you..
Black Fox Lingerie
I really wish other people could experience first hand what it is like to try and keep up with the beast that is patreon + social media + marketing + shooting + editing + + + + + the list just goes on and on and everyone seems to think "well you don't have a job so you can do whatever you want whenever you want" but they don't have the slightest clue the amount of dedication self-employment takes and the insane lack of free time it affords. I'm actually in total disbelief you even find time to work on the farm. Absolutely incredible, and don't beat yourself up about shortening your story link. People came to see the imagery you create, not the words you write. In the immortal words of Brad from Rick and Morty - "You want good words? Date a languager"
