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Shoot type: 30 minute basic session Location: Wildhorse Greenbelt (Blossom Location), Davis, CA Blossom Type: Cherry Plum
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 It has been a difficult start to the year–and it has been an exceptional series of circumstances which have led me to write this blog post.
There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes for any business or self-employed creative that utilizes any significant amount of tech: both the specificity and capability of the technology itself and the management of that technology. You have your pro-grade laptop, your high-powered desktop workstation, specialized monitors capable of rendering graphics to industry-standard color profiles, high-speed and high-volume storage media, peripherals: card readers, customizable keypads, teleconferencing equipment… the list grows ever longer. I, like many other solopreneur photographers, manage all of these elements myself. I have done so the entirety of my 13+ year career. I’ve designed and built every editing workstation I’ve used, carefully selected industry-grade monitors and peripherals. I’ve maintained my own data archive, preserving client media a decade back–now totaling a whopping 24 terabytes of storage space, housing millions of images. I’ve hand-selected and managed my software–industry standard programs like Adobe Lightroom, and open source gems like Gimp, Darktable, and Libre Office. Never, in over a decade, have I encountered problems in the tech industry quite like the ones I’ve been faced with the past six months. |
