It’d be very easy for any of us to get, say, 10% at playing basketball. But it’d be almost impossible for someone like Lebron.
Something similar happens with photography. At first, almost every photograph we take is our “best image yet”, if only because we don’t have many. But this changes as you become a better photographer and make more and more images.
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27 Comments
Well said… an insightful video, thank you !
Thank you, for those thoughts :))) Truly valuable
so true, my self expectations do seem to raise the bar more than is reasonable, as does the hunger for new and different subject matter or location
Ah that was a good one! I couldn't agree more – it's exactly what I've been thinking lately.
Good stuff
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God damn: EVERY video you do sings to me. Such an inspiration.
And as someone has previously mentioned in these comments – please eat a bit more food or are you intentionally going for the starving artist look? 😆
I like to go out with a technique idea in mind. This weekend I want to try a vertical panoramic shot of a tree with a 50 mm lens. This idea was taken from a Youtube photographer. I feel excited about this because I have always seen panoramic shots along the horizontal.
Nice thoughts and encouragement – thank you!
are you going to make a video about how you modified your car to be a travel home ?
I'll share my experience: to me it's been about shifting photography, from the idea of taking "wow" images to that of storytelling. I noticed that with time great images, that stand on their own, both mine of from other photographers, loose power. While if you focus on storytelling, you create much more meaningful work. For example: you feel sad? You go out and take pictures of things that resonate with that, from trash to lonely trees. And you put together a series, where every picture is like a sentence of a text, you don't want one that has all, but a few that create an experience when you go through them. This will have a cathartic effect and help you feel better and hopefully others too. Storytelling can be about a million things and once you find your theme, pictures can get so much more meaning and maybe, a photo of a trash can will move you thousand times more than that of an epic mountain.
Thanks for sharing this, it really is hard sometimes to find the spark and the time, but once you do, the images flow and the enjoying process starts! 📷
This makes so much sense. Thanks !!!
Haz algún video hablado en Español. Se agradecería. Un saludo!
Excellent! An articulate analysis that is relevant to most of us. This is by far my favorites your videos. Thank you.
I so love your work keep it coming.
Have two passions,making music.and photographie,i just know creativity is a virus,that stays forever
Thank you Adrian! What a thoughtful and intelligent video.👍🏾
I have also noticed myself that if I go days, if not weeks, without picking up my camera it is a lot harder to get back to it. I been letting social media (Instagram, Flickr, etc) be the source of my motivation to go out and take photos, I wasn't even doing it for myself anymore, I caught myself chasing likes rather than the actual images so I decided to step away from those photo sharing platforms and see what happens. Thanks for the wonderful content that you make Adrian.
I hope you gonna start posting more pictures on VERO !
When you shoot did you used manual focus all the time?BTW thanks as always to your videos your an inspiration brother.
I like your channel but why not answer some of the comments?
Good talk!
To me, photography is indeed living the process, and because I'm a learner, I feel that I am in a movement, and there is no fixed finality. And I hope so because what would you do after you've taken the best photo ever? I really enjoy the continuous evolution of the skill, discovery and feelings that it creates. Hope you keep on having fun in Norway!
Just like EVERYTHING in life, "The more you know, the more you don't know."
Just found your channel and I love the content. You have a new follower in me.
Thank You, I found your video both insightful and inspirational, As photographers, we cannot forget how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to capture and share our inspiration.