1st Quarter Update
Three months have gone by since I began this blog and I thought it might be time to pause and look at the results so far. Despite the fact that I did some traveling in that time period, I did not miss a single day of posting to the blog. I set out to take one shot a day for a year. Taking photos is a lot like eating candy, one always leads to another. On average I am finding that I take three or four images per day directly attributable to this blog. So it looks like the blog project will increase my annual production by 1000-1400 images this year. That is a substantial number, and more that I had thought I would do when I began this project.
Let's look at the results so far: Most of the blog images are still life or walk-around pick up shots. This is very different from my normally scheduled shoots, which in the main include models. I wanted to maintain this project as a low budget, opportunistic shooting event, and that is exactly what it is. The first images from the project are just now entering the marketplace to be sold. I would expect to see the first sales results around June, but the results will not be very meaningful because they only represent the return from a small number of images.
The blog has had an ancillary benefit of keeping my mind constantly on stock production. I find that my constant awareness of image concepts has increased and has resulted in a higher production rate in my normal workflow. Typically in the past I produced around 50 images a day from a shoot. Over the past few months my production has increased to a daily return of 60-80 images per day. This is directly attributable to the mind set I am in as a result of having to come up with one blog shot each and every day. The stock photography equivalent of writer's block is a serious impediment to a steady stream of image production. A project such as this is a nice home-remedy for that.
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