A bit late... but some questions answered.

[cerealjoe]

I've been asked a few questions a couple of times in the last few months and I've given short replies to the people asking... but here is a more complete entry on stuff related to the photos posted here. The main things that always comes back are "don't you have a life? why do you post so many photos? don't you spend hours editing them and writing the posts?" and similar questions. To put it simply, no, I do not spend that much time editing the photos and writing the posts. I would say that I spend maximum an hour each day but most of the time it's about half an hour while doing other things. Some people have gardening projects, I have this LJ. Here is how typical post-photo taking time goes: - I take the SD card out of my camera and copy the photos taken on my computer. - I look through the photos and delete the ones that aren't good enough or do not really tell a story. - I sort the photos two by two, this way even more photos get kicked out of the lot. - I put those photos together with some slight editing here and there. - I upload them and write the post... with raw html so there is no need to spend hours on the layout of the post. (- Eventually I also upload the unedited photos on Flickr for archiving and backing purposes.) The text in the posts is probably what takes the least amount of time. In my case, a photo is worth a lot of words... I post often because I post about what's going on, I don't wait three days to have enough for a huge post, I like to pretend that my life is so interesting but in reality I just have a terrible memory. This also forces me to go through my photos and sort them. How many people out there take tons of photos and never really do anything with them? Isn't that just a waste of technology and time? Oh and probably I can make a book of my entries and give it as a present to my grandparents for Christmas. Easy peasy! I would do the same for my parents but my mum religiously reads my entries so it wouldn't be as exciting.

Overall the thing that takes the most time is actually going out there and find adventures. I should also mention that sometimes I shamelessly inspire myself from the work of others (but I do leave comments on their blogs telling them that I like their work... so it's ok), like for the shoes photos. And I get to play with different settings on the camera and shamelessly spam with photos of flowers.

And as a final note I should probably mention that all the edited twoxtwo photos are also uploaded on this Tumblr... because not everyone wants to read entries and some people don't feel like clicking on lj-cuts to see all the photos. I think that covers everything pretty much. Except for the cameras maybe. I mainly use my E-P1 these days with the kit 14-42mm lens but I'm looking into getting a 50mm lens (or possibly a 20mm because the 50mm micro four-thirds lens is extremely expensive and I don't feel like getting a huge lens for a tiny camera). I also take tons of photos with my Diana Mini in half-frame mode so I don't get to develop films often. My on-the-go camera, when I don't feel that bringing the E-P1 is safe or handy, is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX12, I absolutely love that point-and-shoot. Eventually I'll get my dad's Zenith-E (limited Olympic Games edition!) properly looked at... right now the mechanism to release the film gets stuck but otherwise everything works! Did I forget anything?