Rachel Trautmann: Chapter Two

I’m typing as I read so it’ll be in the same order as the chapter.

I can definitely relate to the first area of the chapter where it described how photographers sort of fall in love with the environment they took the picture in along with the image they captured. I have never thought about it in that sense before.

I found the artist statement questions to be helpful, as well.
- What are you trying to say with your work?
- Why are you making this work?
- Why should the viewer care?
Breaking it down into three separate parts that are also simple makes the job of writing a statement a little easier. Ideas seem to come for the artist statement a little easier. — I also always need the reminder to avoid being vague or general in my artist statements.

I need to make another website. The website section made that very clear.
I have a lot of the features and things done correctly but I need to separate my commercial photography and fine art photography.

Also, Hootsuite!!! What!? I can schedule things to post on social media…and all of them at the same time. That’s amazing. I don’t keep up with Twitter because keeping up with Facebook was enough, as is. I also make a habit out of updating my website’s blog multiple times in a day so the scheduling of the posts will be helpful with that, as well!