It feels good to say that I am no longer backed up in the photo department. Typically, I would have about 7 different concerts in my photo folder untouched. And in those seven shows, there would be probably three different bands which always added up to about 700 photos. So multiply that by 7 and thats about how many pictures I was backed up not editing. I discovered a couple days ago how to quickly edit them. Loading the entire album or even half of an album would take hours, mostly because of my extreme ADD and my inability to remember what I was doing only five minutes ago. But then editing the photos themselves took forever because there'd be like 400 photos in photoshop causing the performance to slow down a huge amount. Not only that but it is a pain in the ass resizing each photo one by one, doing the required editing to each photo, tagging them with my website stamp and all of that. I don't know. I strongly dislike that part of my job. If I could, I would shoot the show and then hand my things over to a computer whiz and let them edit everything. But alas, I found a quicker and safer way to get things done so it won't cause my computer a serious melt down (which it's on the verge of right now due to serious concert photography overload). I do own a 320 Gigabyte external hard drive though which I purchased a few months back to give my laptop some breathing space but I fail to ever transfer the photos over to the hard drive up until the very last minute where my lap top starts having asthma attacks because my photos ate up all 80 Gigs that my computer has in space.
Funny though because even though I transfered most photos over to the external drive today, it still seems like the photos weren't the problem. My website in total only takes up less than 1 Gig on my hard drive (I checked the folder. It contains ALL podcasts, my photos, Kristia's, Brandon's, and all the web page content). I want to blame my mp3's but there are also some movies that I ripped off of dvds and turned them into Ipod format lurking on my computer in the shadows somewhere and they probably take up like 10 Gigs a piece because I'm not ever space savvy and don't waste time crunching files unless necessary. There is also probably a music issue considering labels send me albums constantly and I just don't know where to store it all! Like I received the new Panic At the Disco album and The Hush Sound album and then a bunch of albums by artists I've never heard of and most of the time, they send them to me in digital format so I can listen to them like two to three weeks in advanced and submit a review but they eat up my computer.
This was not supposed to turn into a rant about the lack of survival drama that I put my computer through sometimes but more to brag about how I quickly found out how to edit my photos. I'm tempted that if I'm not tired, after shows, come straight home, load them and just edit them that night. It'll take me about an hour or two tops but that's much better than the five or six or even days that it took me last time. I think honestly, this all contributes to the fact that I do this full time now and no longer work a day time job or anything. Probably how I managed to have so much time on my hands. Which is weird because I'm never home. Ever. Unless it's to go to bed. I like and hate it all at once because it makes me feel like I'm neglecting this website which I'm growing into loving more because I have so many marketing schemes that are going to make all my star photogs (K & B) love this website even more. But yeah, I'm always out doing something. I guess it's my way of avoiding slipping into some form of depression because that happens a lot when your life revolves around a computer screen. Up-keeping a social life keeps my spirits high and makes me feel better. I guess it's the fact that concerts don't necessarily give me a high anymore. It's become strictly work all over again. I don't remember what it was like in an actual pit without a camera. It's okay though. It just means I have something going for me, right?
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