What in your opinion is the best way to push ourselves to the limits?
Will enrolling in a photography academy for a BA help?
or just shoot and shoot? Lets hear your views.
limit ar, go cold turkey... tie u up, put in a room, and place a new model camera with a super duper lens in front of u...
What in your opinion is the best way to push ourselves to the limits?
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Never settle for second best.
Be your own toughest critic.
Always strive to take a better photo than your last one.
Emulate the masters, then try to surpass them.
Work the subject until you have achieved the perfect photo.
Never settle for second best.
Be your own toughest critic.
Always strive to take a better photo than your last one.
Emulate the masters, then try to surpass them.
Work the subject until you have achieved the perfect photo.
I agree.
But how does one eat an elephant?
Hmmm thanks for all the replies. Alot to think about.
I tend to agree photography is boundry less. I try to be my own critic thats why i've been very depressed for quite a long while now. I feel nothing i shoot is good enough.
I think this is one thing we need to be careful of. When we get too much negative feeling about our own work, having critique ourselves constantly, we may begin to have a negative feeling about ourselves not being able to produce good work. This can lead to alot of people giving up.
I was once told by Russell wong. "In order to improve, you need to read, look at other's work, critique, travel, speak to people and practise."
But having said all that, If it was this easy, how so will enrolment in a institute help in your progress to become a professional commercial photographer?
Hmmm thanks for all the replies. Alot to think about.
I tend to agree photography is boundry less. I try to be my own critic thats why i've been very depressed for quite a long while now. I feel nothing i shoot is good enough.
I think this is one thing we need to be careful of. When we get too much negative feeling about our own work, having critique ourselves constantly, we may begin to have a negative feeling about ourselves not being able to produce good work. This can lead to alot of people giving up.
I was once told by Russell wong. "In order to improve, you need to read, look at other's work, critique, travel, speak to people and practise."
But having said all that, If it was this easy, how so will enrolment in a institute help in your progress to become a professional commercial photographer?
May I suggest that you go one step further in your self-critique.
Instead of just saying "it's not good enough", try to go into the specifics why it is not good enough. Is is composition? lighting? Ask yourself what is the one thing you could do differently to improve the photo, then go out and shoot the same subject better with that one improvement. Repeat the whole process. Take it one step at a time, and when you eliminate all weaknesses one by one, your photos will inevitably become stronger and have more impact.
Thanks uncle Zaren for the advise.