Hi everyone,
Do you ever get this feeling that even when you are satisfied with your progress and level of your photography somehow it's still never good enough.
You look at the magazines, your role model photographers and keep wandering, what's missing, what do they have that I don't?
Well, I had same thoughts recently and I would like to share some conclusions I reached.
First, this kind of thinking can be good and bad. As long as you keep thinking that you can do better, that's obviously good. Learning is a never ending process.
But, it can also happen, like it happened to me when i wanted to make my first website, that you need to chose some of your work for your portfolio and by comparing it with onlines best of the best, anything you chose is not good enough.
So you end up making more free shoots and despairing, shooting, despairing... One year later you still don't have a web portfolio and still no clients cause nobody knows you exist.
Quite a bad approach.
The right way is somewhere in between but before I tell you what by my opinion is good way to go first I want you to remember this.
When you're looking at the work of some of your favorite photographers or when you're googling out all these famous photos just remember
- These photographers have a lot of experience and those photos are usually product of years and years of work.
- They will chose only certain shoots and only 1-2 photos from each, so this is their best of and you can not compare it with every photo you make.
- Budget. Even there are so many amazing things you can do on a low budget you can not recreate and compare with high budget set-ups. Even if you are very good at Photoshop (you can get some amasing results by compositing) but the end result will never look like high budget set up.
So after looking back on my own mistakes I realized that seeking perfection is lifetime process, and every learning process is valuable.
Chose the photos that you like the most and make that portfolio, share them with others and shere your experience. Opening yourself to others is a great way to learn as well.
Listen to the criticism as well as the praises.
Advertise as much as possible. No metter the level of your photography there are always people that will be happy to work with you but they need to know you exist.
Do you ever get this feeling that even when you are satisfied with your progress and level of your photography somehow it's still never good enough.
You look at the magazines, your role model photographers and keep wandering, what's missing, what do they have that I don't?
Well, I had same thoughts recently and I would like to share some conclusions I reached.
First, this kind of thinking can be good and bad. As long as you keep thinking that you can do better, that's obviously good. Learning is a never ending process.
But, it can also happen, like it happened to me when i wanted to make my first website, that you need to chose some of your work for your portfolio and by comparing it with onlines best of the best, anything you chose is not good enough.
So you end up making more free shoots and despairing, shooting, despairing... One year later you still don't have a web portfolio and still no clients cause nobody knows you exist.
Quite a bad approach.
The right way is somewhere in between but before I tell you what by my opinion is good way to go first I want you to remember this.
When you're looking at the work of some of your favorite photographers or when you're googling out all these famous photos just remember
- These photographers have a lot of experience and those photos are usually product of years and years of work.
- They will chose only certain shoots and only 1-2 photos from each, so this is their best of and you can not compare it with every photo you make.
- Budget. Even there are so many amazing things you can do on a low budget you can not recreate and compare with high budget set-ups. Even if you are very good at Photoshop (you can get some amasing results by compositing) but the end result will never look like high budget set up.
So after looking back on my own mistakes I realized that seeking perfection is lifetime process, and every learning process is valuable.
Chose the photos that you like the most and make that portfolio, share them with others and shere your experience. Opening yourself to others is a great way to learn as well.
Listen to the criticism as well as the praises.
Advertise as much as possible. No metter the level of your photography there are always people that will be happy to work with you but they need to know you exist.
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