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Hey, what’s going on? This is the Billy Newman photo podcast for April 5, 2018. How you guys doing? Thanks a lot for tuning in. Thanks for downloading this podcast and checking out some stuff on Billy Newman photo calm, really, the place to go is Instagram that’s at Billy Newman, you can go to the Twitter app, Billy Newman there to check out some on Facebook. But that’s really where all the photos go. And I’m trying to get more into I guess, through this and maybe some other ideas, I’m trying to get more into YouTube and some other stuff. That’s, that’s kind of on that side of it. But But yeah, this winter, I’ve been really kind of focusing on a lot of photo stuff and kind of trying to rebuild a little bit. I like there’s a lot of the thing, when you get into a lot of media, and you get into a lot of like production schedule stuff, at any point, you kind of have to look at it, and sort of cut that back a little bit, and then put all that time back into maybe a few of the things that are the highest priority. So this, which I’ve been trying to do that as much as I can and just kind of get into a few of the sort of the deeper parts of the photo work that you need to do. And, yeah, it’s all been kind of organizing the life and putting it together. But what I really liked doing it, is kind of working on some of the personal photo projects that have gone. And I’m really trying to get into that more as we ramp up into spring, I’m not sure if it comes through on the microphone, but right now it’s raining outside kind of classic, April, but really so far last few weeks, it’s been, it’s been a fair amount of nice weather on a handful of days. So it really hasn’t been too too bad to be working outside or to be taken photos but but yesterday, I took off on a drive and went up the Mackenzie River and I’m trying to go up to a few spots and then develop more photographs just trying to from that location. Or, you know, try and try and work on some stuff there. And it was good, though, it was cool to get a couple of minutes to try and work on some longer photographs, really nothing stellar from that location. But part of what I noticed it is, you really need more more times in your life, when you’re up to bat or when you’re there, when you’re at the place when you’re at a day of work. All that kind of to say the same thing. But when you’re participating when you’re out and doing it. And I’m trying to develop that more where where it’s just, oh, I was taking photos four times today instead of one time, you know, this week or something. So I think it’s just the your personal ability to cultivate those situations where you get to take photographs, that’s almost really what it seems to be to work as a photographer is to cultivate the next time, you’re going to be able to take photographs, and to try and cultivate that in a rapid succession so that you compound that and and really make efficiency or an efficient use of your time. But I think about that a lot. It was cool going up yesterday, I was working with the Sony a seminar stuff as much as I could. And I was trying to work on some long exposure stuff sort of mapping or matching the, like the river and the rocks of the shore, or some of the stuff on the far end of the of the lake that was kind of cool to, to sort of work with a little bit. But when I try, I’m trying to work on a few of those a little slower tripod shots, let’s say. But some photographs where you kind of getting into a situation that’s a landscape, and you’re trying to be just a little bit more patient and try out a couple different options. And then you know, wait for the light to come in a little better. And that’s a that’s a few more of the techniques in the fine art photography side that that I really like. But I don’t really get to express or get into as much, especially in the product photo side or the event photo side that I end up working in most of the time. So it’s cool that I’ve been pretty happy, trying to get out and do some photo stuff. And it was really nice getting out and trying to put some stuff together for myself. But let’s get kind of working some of those ideas out, I’m trying to take more photos of myself too. I noticed that as I go back through my library, I just completed trying to cut down a lot of the photos over the last like 10 or 15 years or so into a collection and maybe some of the best. And some of the best versions of the file itself to it seems almost like a silly idea. But what ends up happening is you you end up losing over time, the best RAW file
that you have that image if you’re not careful, right, like if you edit the image or you resize the image for the you know, that’s the version that ends up going on social media a lot of the times is an image that’s smaller than three megabytes. And a lot of the time three megabytes is really going to be a downsize compressed JPEG image that I put together. And over time, what I’ve noticed is that a few of these pieces that are maybe some of my favorite photographs, the the version available that I can find right now that’s this JPEG version. So I’m trying to go through and clean that stuff up. And it seems like I’ve done a good bit of the start of that. But the next part really is produce it’s really get out and try and be in places to make photographs that are new for the year of 2018. I need to be producing the files and then getting that work product out. I need to be able to, you know, finish it, edit it and publish it in a way that’s that’s effective. You know, if I’m going to bother to say that I’m a media creator or I’m a photographer, any of that stuff so so it’s been good kind of getting out there’s the Mackenzie River drive, there’s been a couple other deals like out to the Deschutes river I’ll get into that on a podcast some stuff out on the coast that was cool some stuff that near the the tulip farm in Woodburn, all that stuff starting to come together and I have a few ideas for the rest of April two that might involve that. But on the other news, I think I’m dropping Hootsuite, I’ve been working with Hootsuite for a couple of years. And I don’t really feel like I’m getting the value out of it that I need. It’s costly actually is a big part of it. It’s like a monthly bill, it’s probably more than Netflix is a month but but what I need to do is kind of transition over to what other other ideas that are out there for scheduling posts on some of these platforms. And I think that’s what I’ll be able to do in a pretty effective way is try and put a little bit more time into these platforms specifically to schedule out these posts for a business page or for whatever it is, but I think I can do that within Facebook uniquely. And I think I can do that from a few of these other platforms too. And I just don’t use enough of the other features associated with Hootsuite to really interact with my my social demographic that much. I use, like the platform most of the time to do that. But Hootsuite mechanism I used to try and publish to multiple places at once. And maybe now maybe a couple years later, there’s some alternatives or some competitors that that offer some of the features that I was looking for when I first got into the Hootsuite pattern and stuff. So it was cool to try for a while. But really what I noticed, overarching Lee is that, it really they haven’t regenerated a lot of their interface. And so a lot of the things that were glitchy, and buggy problems. years ago, when I started using it, they’re still the same kind of glitchy buggy problems. And really, it’s, you know, it’s it’s the location of the problem is always in the upload module, which is really the only thing I use for the service. So I just got smart and I decided to quit that and jump ship and go to some other service. There’s a few there’s a free option, Hootsuite, maybe I’ll continue to use that, that that services, three social media accounts is what it shows, there’s probably some other limitation to it. And I know there’s another service called buffer that I had used in the past. And I think I might check them out again and see if there’s an opportunity to, to use that interface to do some buffer stuff here on out. But yeah, if anybody’s super curious, that’s how I sneak in some of the photos stuff that I try and put upon on social media, across the board, trying to make it a little easier on myself, I have all these photos, and I’m trying to organize them and then write captions for them in bulk and then put them up online if I can. But yeah, so it’s gone. Okay, you know, it’s a it’s always kind of a process trying to get some of the media stuff together. And really like I was talking about outside of media and YouTube channels and other things like that, what I’m really trying to focus on in 2018 is photographs, am I making photographs? Am I getting to places to make photographs, am I wrapped out in these other side responsibilities that really aren’t going to compound and benefit me when it comes back to my main goal here. So I don’t want to dilute myself in places where you know, where I just can’t really be my best. There’s like an amount of diminishing return this seems to happen. So I’ve kind of thought about that a little bit. But, but the need to make content and to make stuff and to produce. I mean, that’s, you know, that’s what media creation is. So I got to participate somehow. But as it goes, that’s probably most stuff I have to do to talk about today. You can check out Instagram for a couple of photos of the Willamette Valley that have been pretty cool. And a few images from the coast trip that I did. I think it’d be kind of neat. Today I’m editing through some of those images from the Mackenzie River area. And I’ll try and get this up on the YouTube and podcast feed here pretty soon, but thanks, guys for checking out this episode of the billion human photo podcast. You can tune in again check out Billy Newman photo online.
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