My friends hadn’t really helped me it turns out. Instead they had asphyxiated my growth for a long period of time, by giving me ego boosting advice. Our friends and family often end up doing us this same dis service, creating self-defeating behavior. If we see ourselves as good photographers because our friends say so, we then become afraid to try new things and be seen by friends and family as being a failure.
We therefore resign ourselves to playing it safe, refusing to grow our skills, and instead just keep on taking the kinds of images that bolster our fragile little ego.
We do not see that we stop ourselves at our current level of photography skills when we photograph in the pursuit of praise from others.
We all make choices in our lives. Many times, throughout life we choose to better ourselves. And often do in many areas of our lives in regards to improving our health, our career skills, our living conditions, and our financial well-being. So then why is it that the vast majority of us put little to no thought or effort into improving our photography skills?
We begin our personal photographic journey knowing nothing, knowledge is not innate.
When we realize that photography is hard and doing it well is even harder, we can only succeed by doing the difficult yet long lasting work of improving ourselves through a gathering and compiling of photographic knowledge and techniques.
The pursuit of photographic excellence and mastery is not the destination.
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While the picture itself may be very nice to look at, and it may be sharp and have nice colors and lighting, it typically lacks depth, emotion, and feeling. Many of us forget to look for that when taking pictures. Especially in a world where social media is a habit and cameras are in our pockets, we take pictures for others to see, and we take photos for proof – proof that we were somewhere, proof that we did something. Due to that, we forget about what we are actually doing. We forget about the experiences we should be taking pictures of, and we lose the feelings that we should capture. With our cameras in hand, our objectives are changed. Rather than having the intent to have enjoyable experiences, then taking pictures of it, we have the intent to take pictures, with the experience being a
Sometimes we underestimate ourselves too much. No matter what others say about ourselves, we always have a negative image about ourselves. Somebody can say you are the smartest and talented person on the earth but deep down, we seem to think otherwise. The authors of “Speech to the Young” and “My People” show these different challenges.
We as a society are caught up with trying to have everything is perfect, in which I mean a perfect family, a career, and self image of ourselves. We should accept “the blurriness in our lives” as perfection to allows us to be happy. With the way technology is going, it fells like it doesn’t allows us to live in the moment like we use to. Having the ability to capture more memories with pictures allow us to remember those moments but doesn’t allow us to live in the moment because we are so occupied in trying to get the perfect
“Every time you dream at night, the dream has holes in it. You have to do something to fix those holes and make the dream become a reality,” my father often told me. Although I was very young when my dad passed away, he provided tremendous inspiration and encouragement to pursue my passions that continue to influence my life and my future endeavors. As a child, one of my favorite pastimes was acting; I would routinely act in videos with my friend while my dad filmed us. Later, I assumed responsibility for filming while my friend would act. I instantly fell in love with videography. I was enthralled with how videography could capture my point of view of the world, which prompted me to try photography. Once I began photography, I knew I wanted
The significance of my study is that nowadays, a lot of people or its better to say most of people thinks that they know everything about photography and they think that they are an experts and a professional photographers once they hold the camera or actually once they hold a digital cameras (since a lot of them think that the digital cameras are more easy), but actually they do not even know what photography is. In fact, I see this situation is a big problem because I believe that to be a real or an expert photographer, the person
We will try to make a photograph and it will not be a masterpiece – and often the harder we try the more it seems we are likely to fail. But those failures are the best teachers we can have. A success will only confirm we could do what we thought we are capable of.
London warns us not to be too proud when dealing with frigid, lonely nature. We need to listen to others who have experience, even if that “other” isn’t human. The man in “To Build a Fire” would still be alive if he had done this. The man never got the chance to learn his lesson as his life was cut short with death. With the help of others along the way, you can become a greater human being through the choices you make. An ego that makes you feel the need to over achieve in life could result in the worst possible outcome in whatever field of view you are striving
I agree with Ansel Adams. There is so much more to photography then clicking a button. Photography is ideas and creativity through a photo. If I have an idea in my head or a message I want to send across I have to set it up before I even take the picture. There are also many different settings on the camera that help set up a good photo. Photography is a lot of work and different formulas of how everything is set up determines how the photo is going to look. I could be plain with my photography or I can create something with meaning and have it be photographed in a cool, creative way.
In one way or another, people get to be criticized by others for what they do, what they say, or even who they are. It is so natural for people to criticize anything as well as everything that they get to see or hear, and this can happen whether the person meant to or did not mean to criticize the other. It is for this reason that Aristotle came up with one of the most recognized quotations, “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing” (Hanni p. 43). Through this quotation, Aristotle tries to demonstrate that if someone wants a guarantee of never experiencing the feeling of being a failure or having to face criticism in life, then the best plan is not to do anything at all with their life.
The truth is that photography really does limit our understanding of the world. Although others may argue that photography deepens their understanding of the world around us, this “world” is the world that the photographer creates. The world that photography shows us is not the entire world, as there is more to see. Photography highly limits the understanding of our world in ways that we were not even aware of. The manipulation of images, showing an unreal world through images, not being able to experience what the photographer experienced, and replacing going places by looking at photographs are ways of how we are limited by photography.
While others claim that photography captures the inner soul of a person, or deliberately defines it as painting or writing with light, but in my case, it is just simply a newfound love hobby. I undeniably adore and look up to expert photographers I encounter down the road may it face-to-face or the other way around. In my heart, I silently desire that someday, with hard work, determination, and perseverance, I will become professional and famous as they are. Since my husband bought a Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) as an anniversary gift, my penchant for photography commenced and ignited. Let me detail the essential truths behind my passion over photography.
Family and friends are wonderful, but more than likely they just shore up our self-esteem when it comes to photography feedback. When it comes to our photography, their opinion shouldn’t count. We can't go by what well meaning friends say. We really cannot. And we shouldn’t waste any of our time listening to them. Unless of course they are accomplished photographers in their own right, then we should listen to these family and friends.
Every single day when I wake up in the morning, one of the first things I do is look at myself in the mirror. Am I skinny enough? Is my skin clear enough? Do I look like the girl from the magazine I was reading yesterday? No. I don’t. But I’ll keep asking these questions each and everyday because that is what the media tells me I need to look like. Because if my waist isn’t small enough I’m not pretty. Because if I have cellulite on my legs there’s something wrong with me. Because if I don’t slot into this unattainable standard. I'm not beautiful. Airbrushing and photoshopping models in pictures to display through media is something that frankly speaking is appalling. We are alienating beautiful human beings because of the media’s dictations on what we should look like. I am sick of being brainwashed to the point where all I can ever seem to do is single out the ‘flaws’ in myself. If we display, real, beautiful, raw pictures of people in media then so many problems caused by this would no longer exist.
Photographing has been enjoyed by many people for a long time. Today, it is very easy for everyone to own a camera so this hobby is becoming more and more popular. Everyone like taking photograph but their photo is not always beautiful. Having an expensive camera does not mean that you will have wonderful photographs. The beauty of a photograph
To be a good photographer, one must have certain skills. First, they must be creative. If every photographer took pictures of the same things, no one would want to buy their work. It would get very boring very fast. To help with this, try thinking outside the box. What have people taken the least pictures of? What have people taken no pictures of? This will help a thriving photographer advance in their work (“Job description 1”).