Last month, it was an honour of mine to be invited by MediaEcho to write for one of their article. It was featured in the news section under ‘Featured Professional’. It was the first time I’m writing and it got me a long time to answer those questions posted by them. Shooting is somehow still easier. Ha..
Here’s the link to the article.
Hello!
Merry Christmas! This is my first blog posting as Jean! Hah.
It’s been quite awhile since our last post and we both discussed to make it a point to update the blog regularly but like Shaun mentioned, there is just so much to keep up with that even when I promise to help keep his blog alive, my own job and activities is keeping me busy enough!
Anyways, its a good one week of Christmas break for me and we will be heading to Phuket for a short vacation with friends. I made a quick selection of one of the wedding we took a few months ago. (Ya, which means alot of posting to catchup with…) At Ed & Khim wedding, I had the chance to cover the groom side while Shaun covered the bride.
Here’s some of the photos of the wedding before we fly to Phuket!
In my struggle to keep my blog up to date, I’ve to admit I can never do it. When was this blog last updated? Oh my, I don’t dare to see. I think I can easily count the number of post I’ve for this year. I often debated myself over the topic of spending time to update my work on all the social media I have or to edit more pictures that I’ve owed my clients. More often than the other, the latter wins. In this time where I can say the wedding photography market is getting more and more saturated, it is so more important to let our work be seen so that we constantly remind people of our presence.
The marketing scene for us photographers relies heavily on our blog and facebook update. All these social media update has become an essential part of our workload. We are practically glued to our computer all day long. Our work schedule can have very big swings. Very busy periods, not so busy periods, exciting ones, boring ones. People who misunderstood our job can easily imagine us sitting in cafes all day long sipping into our coffee, thinking this is the best job in the world. We only need to work one day a week.
To let people understand our job more, here’s a pretty honest list of my usual routine.
On busy periods,
- working later and later into the night, editing my pictures
- trying very hard to multi-task which I admit I’m just not good at doing it
- googling for help trying to solve yet another hip-cups from the PC, be it hardware side or software side
- becoming very quiet with all the updates, which is happening now (I still keep my Facebook alive though)
- planning for meeting after meeting forgetting I still need to eat
- on permanent invisible mode when signing into msn
- rejected all my friends’ date to meet-up
- keep forgetting to reply friends’ sms-es (this is really bad I know)
- wearing back the same few clothes. Whatever piece on the top of the pile goes
On not so busy periods,
- I write blogs like this. ha..
- linger in the cafe longer just to slack after meeting my client
- look into my work to enter photo contest
- dreaming of what new gadgets I can buy
- check out potential new places for outdoor shoot
- tidy up my admin stuff
- sync and update my ipad with more recent work
Do I miss the 9-5 structure of a day job..hmm..I absolutely love what I’m doing now.
Back to the blog, to keep it alive, Jean will be helping me with the updates whenever she can. You’ll be hearing more of her voices from now.
