10
Nov

Shooting hour

I’m going to start dedicating an hour every evening to stock photography. Now an hour a day really doesn’t seem like much time. But I don’t have a lot of time either. I get home around 6:00 or 6:30 at night where I’m immediately swamped with the love and affection of my 4 kids and my wife. After accessing how the school day has gone and getting to chirp in 3 complete sentences between my wife and I Dinner is quickly served and consumed homework is double checked and baring any sports or scout activities the 8:00pm bed times are upon us quicker than the sun sets in the winter. After the last minuet drink of water and bathroom breaks are over the kids are snug and sound asleep it’s typically between 8:30 and 9:00 now normally I would catch 30 min of TV and then it was off to bed in order to get up at 6:30 the next morning to do it all over again. So now I’m making that mental allowance to try and get an hour in during the evening to work on my photography after the little ones are asleep.

I don’t expect I’ll get to it every night but I hope by putting this plan out on the blog I will get to it more than not.

2 Comments

  • Jason V Said:

    Is this plan working for you?
    I started spending 30 minutes in the morning on post-processing and uploading, but my time got sucked up by other projects, so not uploading so much anymore.
    I’m working on setting up a white-plexi / shooting table in the garage to have a constant setup.

    With only 3 children, I can’t imagine your wife giving you an hour a night let alone 30 minutes! ;)

  • Brad Said:

    @Jason
    Well this isnt working out near as often as I had planned, Right now I am getting about 1 to 2 hours of Stock Photo time per week. I have recently added some additional responsibilities around my house so my time is even further stretched. But also I found it difficult to try and be concentrated and creative in a single hour of time, especially at the end of a long work day.

    Look for an updated Blog post coming soon about all of this.

    Do you have a timing / plan that works for you and your stock work?

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