Vol. 5, No. 8 — March 31, 2018
Winner's of the Free Book Giveaway Jean Lesslie and Barbara Driscoll
Answering the Question: What is Your Best Work? |
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What is your best work? It’s a question that you’ll hear a lot over the course of your photographic career. Friends and colleagues will ask this question, gallery owners or prospective clients will ask it. Most of all, you will find yourself asking this question all the time. Maybe even daily, as you go through photographs, create new works of art, and spend time refining portfolios, collections or
projects.
So how do you answer that question? This makes me think once again about that old aphorism, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Is it really even possible, with that thought in mind, to answer such a question? Let’s examine this thought and see what insights are to be had. |
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Weekly Photography Podcast
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Experimentation is vital, it is the reason why we have so many tools at our disposal. On today’s episode, I’ll show you how that enterprising spirit affects the way we work.
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Making Goals: Planning for the Short, Medium and Long Terms
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Photographers are no strangers to goals. In fact, I would argue that goals are of paramount importance to us. They are, I think, the things that guide us throughout the entirety of our careers. Not only are our goals standing as achievements to pursue but they serve as a sort of lighthouse, always guiding us. If you find yourself straying, use your goals to bring yourself back on track.
The problem with goals is that we often think of them in a one-time frame. We set ourselves long term goals or short term. We don’t always examine the differences between them or make sets of goals for various stages of our careers. But, I think that we should all have a variety of goals to work towards, items that span the near term all the way out to the far future. Here are some thoughts that
may help you develop and organize your photographic goals. |
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Networking with Your Fellow Photographers
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No matter what your profession or hobby, networking with likeminded people is never an easy task. This can be doubly true of photographers. Writers may find other writers hanging around at coffeeshops and bookstores. Businesspeople generally have a plethora of conferences to attend. For photographers, opportunities are often fewer and farther between. Even if you don’t have lots of workshops or clubs
nearby, however, there are still a few good ways to meet fellow photographers. Like photography itself, sometimes it just takes a little bit of creativity to find these chances to network. Here is a guide that features some of my top ways to meet photographers and make new friends! |
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Photographers are, by nature, perfectionists. It’s ingrained into us to be highly conscious of every last little detail because sometimes, those details can make or break a photograph. So we struggle and we cause ourselves a lot of stress trying to make sure that every last little detail within an image is exactly how we want it to be. In the end, we end up with these scientifically perfect images in
which the exposure is spot on, the focus is tack sharp, the colors are ideally rendered — you get the point. It goes so far that we spend hundreds, often thousands of dollars on gear and software that will help us chase that perfect photograph. |
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