A Busy Two Months

HDR Photo From my Backyard

I haven’t writ­ten here much because the last two months have been absolutely crazy. If I’m not busy work­ing on projects or pro­mot­ing the Lunarstu­dio busi­ness, I’ve either been field­ing inquiries, respond­ing to job appli­cants, or work­ing on three sep­a­rate blogs/websites. While I read eco­nomic reports of the “slow­down”, work on my end has actu­ally picked up. Typ­i­cally the sum­mer months have been slower for me and it get’s busier into late fall through the spring. If this is any indi­ca­tor of how things might be, then Lunarstu­dio is look­ing at a very busy year ahead of us. I hope that this is the case for every­one in my field as many peo­ple have taken a  big hit.

My head has been in a tail­spin. I’ve prob­a­bly aver­aged 4 hours worth of sleep each night for the past three weeks in par­tic­u­lar — try­ing to get projects out the door and keep my clients happy. I’m not com­plain­ing by any means — just stat­ing how it has been. When work comes in, it tends to come in all at once. And that has been the ten­dency for the past 5+ years. I can’t really explain why it hap­pens that way, but it really does. And see­ing that a period of time could be extremely busy then the fol­low­ing weeks might come to a crawl, I’m very reluc­tant to say no to anyone.

Dur­ing the past month, I’ve worked on a dairy pro­cess­ing info­graphic, a graph ani­ma­tion, this blog, another blog, a cof­fee kiosk, and a syn­a­gogue. Then toss some research on top of all of that. It’s been crazy to say the least.

Add to this is my on going work with my other business/website, HDR­Source. It involves High Dynamic Range pho­tog­ra­phy and is one of the old­est HDR-related web­sites on the Inter­net. I orig­i­nally got into tak­ing HDR pho­tos for 3d light­ing and devel­op­ment when the field of HDR was still rel­a­tively unknown. I had a store that sold libraries and it did mod­est busi­ness. But as the years went on, cam­era equip­ment improved and so did method­ol­ogy, so I took a back seat to HDR­Source, laid off pro­mot­ing the web­site, and focused all of my resources on Lunarstudio.

Recently I’ve got­ten back into pro­duc­ing 360 degree High Dynamic Range pho­tos for 3d. I started order­ing cam­era equip­ment over the course of the sum­mer and study­ing up on the lat­est and great­est tech­niques. I fig­ured that this could help weather the slower peri­ods of 3d work — plus it’s just nice to occa­sion­ally get out of the office and out on the streets while the weather remains good. It’s def­i­nitely a nice change of pace. I’ll try to make an announce­ment when the site goes offi­cially “live” again. It’s already up there, but I’m still work­ing on the new libraries and mechan­ics of the dig­i­tal download/digital asset shop­ping cart.

So I’ve finally seen the light at the end of the tun­nel. Last night was the first night I slept on a nor­mal sched­ule for eight hours straight after a full day of tak­ing pho­tos up in Rock­port and Glouces­ter. It was fan­tas­tic. Now the com­put­ers are busy pro­cess­ing and I’m sit­ting here twid­dling my fin­gers look­ing for some­thing to do. It’s strange going from “full speed ahead” to putting on the breaks on a Sun­day after­noon. It almost feels like I’ve for­got­ten to do some­thing (and I prob­a­bly just jinxed myself.)

Any­ways, please stay-tuned for the HDR­Source announce­ment. Even if you’re not look­ing to pur­chase HDRs, I think one could still appre­ci­ate the pho­to­graphic aspects to these images.