{"id":41057,"date":"2017-12-12T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=41057"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:06:06","slug":"how-to-find-time-for-personal-work-amid-growing-client-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/how-to-find-time-for-personal-work-amid-growing-client-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Time for Personal Work Amid Growing Client Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been at least six months since I have worked on any of my personal projects. This is the longest stretch of time in recent memory when I haven&#8217;t been able to carve out a day or half a day to go shoot for &#8220;myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It really hit me today that my fingers are itching, I just want to pack my camera in my bag with a lens or two and head to the Bronx to finish a project I&#8217;ve been photographing for four years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chris-Ochun-Funeral0052.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Ochun Funeral\" width=\"1068\" height=\"723\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/original-products-readings-drumming1192.jpg\" alt=\"person lying on floor\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Instead, I have been working for clients. I&#8217;ve produced and directed a series of seven short documentaries, traveled to Guatemala to create custom content for a non-profit, photographed events ranging from the Girls in Tech conference in San Francisco to weddings in Long Island.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chel2594.jpg\" alt=\"Guatemalan girl in hammock\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/New-Mexico-Alexander-Watches0304.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico Alexander Watches\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining \u2014 steady work is not always a given as a freelance photographer. I am in the habit of always saying &#8220;yes&#8221; to work. Which means when the work comes in I reside in <em>over-extended-ville<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, my post-production delivery time frame suffers. I sleep less. I eat more chocolate and drink coffee from the time I wake up until right before bed \u2014 and I am so tired that I can still sleep. And above all, I&nbsp;<em>don&#8217;t&nbsp;<\/em>go out and shoot my own work.<\/p>\n<p>My struggle to find a balance between the work I am personally passionate about and the work that pays my bills is not new. Looking back, it really began 20 years ago when I left my staff position at a newspaper in Taos, New Mexico to become a freelancer. Perhaps not the safest decision, but most of my successes in life have come from being a risk taker. Back then, in order to supplement my photojournalism income, I started my wedding photography business <a href=\"https:\/\/shoot-the-cake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shoot The Cake<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Eli-Unique0597.jpg\" alt=\"Eli Unique\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manket-rogol-wedding0378.jpg\" alt=\"Manket-Rogol wedding\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My business partner and I specialized in documentary photography for weddings, which was actually a novel idea back then, and so were instantly busy. My plan was that I would do weddings <em>on the side<\/em>. But as time passed and freelance budgets at publications shrunk, I woke up one day and realized I had slowly slipped into being wedding photographer who did journalism assignments <em>on the side<\/em>. This was not my plan and I worked diligently to change it. Still the paying work vs. personal work is a tricky problem to solve and I haven&#8217;t found the solution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40928\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pope_Vignette1_98A7290lo.jpg\" alt=\"Sister Mary Rita\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dorie Hagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are the strategies I&#8217;ve tried in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every other Friday is my personal workday. But in reality what happens is whatever spillover from M-Th winds up taking precedence and instead of heading out with my trusty camera I&#8217;m inside spending the day with Lightroom.<\/li>\n<li>I give myself a self-imposed deadline to finish the project so that I feel some sort of time pressure to get it done. This sort of works, especially if I want to enter the work in a contest or have the opportunity to show the work. But most times I just keep pushing the deadline farther.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the strategies I am going to try next:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a pact with a fellow photographer that we hold each other accountable to a certain number of days per month that we work on our own photography projects.<\/li>\n<li>Come up with a reward system. When I finish the project, <em>then<\/em> I can buy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ca35142.html\">Canon 35mm lens<\/a>&nbsp;(<span class=\"dynamic-data\" data-type=\"price\" data-sku=\"CA35142\"><\/span>) I&#8217;ve been wanting.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for a portfolio review or make an appointment to drop off my book with an editor I haven&#8217;t worked with yet \u2014 a real finite deadline can work wonders.<\/li>\n<li>Remind myself that I feel most alive when I am looking through the viewfinder and finding those moments, the magic, and the flow. It is after all this experience that makes it bearable to spend days with Lightroom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finding the balance between client work and your own work is so elusive which is why it is one of the questions I pose to all the women I interview in my ALC column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/tag\/women-with-cameras\/\">Women with Cameras<\/a>. I have not found the answer. 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