Many photographers blog about the challenges they face in the genre of work in which they specialize. As an event photographer that primarily focuses on making a large amount of images at events, endurance is a challenge that I confront both during and after the shoot is over. In this last event, we had some other issues that we have not encountered before during the weekend, and it added to the stress and work while we were on site. After pushing through, it was really satisfying to find that the photography quality did not suffer, and we did not lose any image data from 2 full days of shooting.
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After the event, it takes a lot of endurance to go through each of these photos. If a photo is not in focus, no one will ever see it. If a flash did not fire, no one will ever see it. Then, adjustments and crops are made to each so that they look great on the website! You need to be able to see the faces of the main couple in the photo. After all of these are completed, the photos have to be organized by dancer number. At the Mid-Atlantic Championships, we are lucky to know a lot of the dancers by name.
Trying to get all of this done within a week, then have all 9000+ files uploaded to the website takes a lot of effort – late nights, early mornings, and having some computer working on some part of this process going on while working on another. Rest assured, I let everyone know as soon as the website gets all the photos ready to view. This time, the push to get this done really wiped me out, and my body caught some bug. I am recovering now, but it is so much nicer to have a lighter schedule to answer emails, put in orders, and work on some new photos from last weekend! Maybe I will have to improve my endurance since we will have a lot more events this year.
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