“Crackbook” and “Candygram.” I have nicknames for almost everything.
I’m back on facebook after a four year and five month hiatus. I joined Instagram sometime after leaving facebook.
I could not open a new account under Kent Kriegshauser, the name associated with my old account. You’ll now find me under Charles K. Kriegshauser. My Instagram account is KentKriegshauserPhotography.
Instagram was supposed to be “photographer friendly.” I might dispute this. You’re pretty limited to square or horizontal formats. Social media has all but made the vertical photo obsolete. That is unfortunate. A deep, narrow, vertical has a TON of visual impact!
When I was a staff photographer at The Daily Herald, photographers were often given a predetermined “hole” ( photo size) to fill before the assignment. Pica sizes can be recited from memory. A two column was 25.4X16 A three column was 36.6X24. And a four column, if the editor was feeling generous with space, was 52X??. As a result of this, some of our best work might not be published due to the photo not “fitting the hole” the editors had designed. This drove us ape shit. The joke was this. If we ever got a photo of a worker, falling to his death from a water tower, it might win a Pulitzer Prize, but it wouldn’t be published in the Herald because it would be a vertical! TOO many times, our best work wasn’t published because of this. Maddening!
facebook seems to allow for more flexibility in format. And there is no doubt the audience is much larger. I believe it wins out over Instagram.
If you’ve kept up with me at all, or read a blog or two from the past weeks, I’ve been working really hard at updating my primary website. It’s been a work in progress for a long time. I’m blogging to ask you to help me, force myself to follow through on this project. I have made headway in the “On the Clock”, “Faces & Places”, and “Sports & Games” galleries. The “Art & Nature” gallery is still way behind.
July was slow. Really slow. The jobs were few, the bills kept coming. In a previous blog I promised I would be honest with you and myself. So here it is. I’ve never been driven by money. I can be pretty content. And that does NOT mean I’m lazy. When I am working, I am intense, hustling, and in my zone. But there has always been a tendency to “coast” as long as the bills can be paid and some fun money left over Can’t do that anymore. Gotta be a lot more proactive. I need to work harder. I want to work harder.
Read my blogs if you care to. But please check out the photos in the galleries. It’s what I do and who I am. For 42 years. If you like what you see, and believe you might need a photographer, think of me. Share my work with others. I’d love to pick up the pace on senior, business, and other portraits. Events as well. If you need photography for your website… Contact me!
You are visiting my primary site as you read this. My Smugmug website is https://kent-kriegshauser.smugmug.com
Thanks!
Kent K.
Western Nebraska on a motorcycle trip. Look for this one and others in the “Art & Nature” gallery.
Nursing School graduates prior to commencement. Look for this one in the “Faces & Places” gallery.
The Maytag plant closes. Look for this one in the “Faces & Places” gallery