Frame Five–Widening My Gaze

Photography Word of Today: Cull–Basically, the process of picking the pictures you like/love, and deleting the pictures you don’t.

I culled my pictures a lot, but I still have to make more cuts! I hadn’t realized how many pictures I had kept all together. 800 pictures, and 160 were kept. That’s only 2% of the pictures I took! Hopefully it’ll be easier to decide which ones I absolutely want to keep when I do it.
My photographing skills have improved a lot now that I know how to control my camera more. My focus points are clearer, and all my pictures seem to have a much deeper meaning about them than they had before. In the beginning—I mean back when I first got my camera—I was just winging it, thinking I’d get a decent picture or two. And if it didn’t look amazing…Hello Photoshop! Just a thought that crossed my mind. Oh, how much I’ve changed.
I realized this yesterday, when I was going around La Mesa, which I have seen about a million times. I realized there was a lot of beautiful aspects about this place. I had always thought it was boring with little to offer. I guess my gaze was a lot smaller than I had thought, because there were so many flowers and places that were just so unique and beautiful! How did I miss it? Who knows. I found myself falling in love with what I never saw before.
But anyway, today was mostly learning the business part of photography. Things are a lot more expensive than I realized! And there’s so much that goes into creating art! There’s equipment management, editing, album cost, time, and so much more! And after looking through my business plan (which Jeff said I did an excellent job on), we had to figure out and decide what my business would need. Keep in mind that my business is supposed to be a duplex (studio/home). My newest assignment is to come up with my package deals based on how much money I need to earn, and my business goals.
Looking over it now, it’s pretty complicated. I’ll be looking up a lot of prices for equipment and such, plus rental space, and so forth. To come up with the package, I’m going to have to look over my business plan again to remember what I had in mind. These things come to me in a buzz.
So, hello growing up, hello real world, hello business world, and hello math.