I've Stopped Taking Photographs - It Had To Happen Eventually
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2023
- By the end of 2022 I'd had enough of photography. I was working insane hours and I had no interest in creating anything beyond invoices. At some point, without realising, I stopped taking photographs. My phone roll was empty, My point and shoot was left in my house, and I wasn't looking to start any new creative projects. I was also very happy with this choice.
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Excuse the daily uploads this week, I am testing out something....
Love them keep them coming
Hmmm.. intriguing!
Yes it does work for the algorith just got recommended this immediately
Lesiure is the mother of invention
I’m enjoying all the content, no excuse required.
Oh man - I just started photographing with purpose again recently (as opposed for just the lols). I'm finding it a bit hard going - mostly cause I'm out of practice with the muscle memory in the studio doing portraits. However it's fun to be channeling that vibe again when things start clicking in front of the camera.
You and Tin House Studio have influenced me the most in starting getting my creativity and ideas out.
You can be creative and turn it into a business or you can have a business and be dependent on booked shootings.
I am very happy that I found both of you with your tips, ideas and thoughts.
Just took a month off! I finally feel like shooting. Thanks for this
YOU talked me into getting off my duff and back into the studio. My first project was just a little fun thing with no goal other than to make myself giggle. I had fun with a miniature spaceship and I made a 4 sec stop-motion animation. Of course I did the sound effects. If you don't make the noises it doesn't work right. FWOOSH! That's what I'm doing right now, exploring some little fun ideas with no true goal. But not letting my camera get cold.
Thats great!
Had not shot since November. Instead, I’ve been going through the last 2 years of C1 sessions and cleaned them up and edited shots I’d overlooked because then I was in a different frame of mind. March has been better shooting wise but it’s been a good exercise going through old work and finally putting it all to bed so to speak. I also learned a lot from looking how I shot then. It’s easy to get caught up in a rhythm and forgetting the basics of experimentation.
This happened to me in 2016. I'd been photographing since 2003 as a freelancer and completely burnt out. Only in 2022 did I feel like photographing again. Almost died twice and being ill for a while changes the way you see the world, with or without a camera.
As soon as I feel a burn out coming I stop unless I get a commission. It allows time for the creative juices to come back naturally. I've done it for years and it really works. Keep up the good work, I'm enjoying your channel :)
Perfectly understand the idea of a fallow period. It can happen either intentionally or just by circumstance - either way it is a glorious opportunity to take a back seat from it all - take pictures in your head then when you're ready - have a blast once more with the real things.
Yeah, I stop shooting personal work as much and have become calculative on projects. From storyboarding to gathering props and personnel can be time consuming. Even shooting outdoors at certain times of the day, to get the right lighting is timing consuming. But when you get a body of work that you patiently plan for.. Oh boy, it’s so worth it!
I wanted to say I fully empathize with this and support you. Create space, rest. If you do burn out (in a real way), you won't be any good to anyone! This is my mantra as I tend to push myself so far that my creativity and mental capacity in general suffer greatly. Step 1: Take care of yourself. Step 2: All the rest of it.
I do have so many creative ideas in my head. Some of them are quite easy to do, some of them are really big. For those I don't have the money to rent a studio, set the stage, hire the models... So, I have to start with simple and small projects.
You and The Photographic Eye are the people who have influenced me the most. And you both have encouraged me to build a strong desire to persue my idea (and nowadays my dream) to live out my creativity and build a life around it and me.
I'll talk to you in a few weeks about it...
Love your honesty. That's what brings me back.
I love all your videos, very helpful.
I always take time off, I'm not a robot and I need to stop, enjoy peace and quiet and then back to work 😊it is the best thing
Last year was a very difficult year! I was in the same head space, I got burnt out, I stopped shooting, I didnt want to shoot anymore,
So took some time off and refocused my work towards product photography/video. Staying busy now. doing what I love again!
Recognised that. It took me some time to get my new studio in reasonable useable shape. After that I made a zine with pictures I already had shot. There’s more to photography than shooting, but I kinda felt guilty, not shooting.
Join the club. Went down that road and we do need a break. Some days I would have preferred a shovel in my hands instead. I enjoy your honest view.
Totally relatable! I did the same although I still took some photo shoots I did nothing I actually wanted to until middle of February where I connected with a local musician and we made some photos for fun. Most creative I've felt in a long time and possibly some of my best images in ages! Breaks are necessary, but sometimes so is getting back into things. Now I have so many ideas again after a horrible fallow period :)
I did it : I took a break from mid December until mid February. My brain was dried and needed a rest, so doing it wad not difficult, it was a logical consequence. I restarted late February with better defi ition of what I want to do , better definition of what I want for my style to be more "personal". So yes, I think it was beneficial .... Happy to have done it
I know somebody who was a very successful fine artist, he came off the back of a huge commission and decided he was done, so turned his hobby into a new successful career. He said to me, drawing for work isn’t like drawing for fun..
I celebrate your evolution - looking forward to where this new space takes you! I hope you still share your path with us as you go, without of course becoming a bona fide "youtuber". ;-)
I just took about three years out man.
Just getting back into it after having to do an emergency shoot for friends.
Forgot I loved it.
The break has moved my photography forward loads by the way
This is such a great video, us as creatives always feel the need to keep pushing when actually if we just took that break and gave ourselves a break, everything improves! Congrats on the decaf coffee, I gave up caffeine 8 months ago now and not touched it since. Anxiety has dropped, mood, productivity and tiredness have significantly improved. Next battle for me is sugar!
Your content is great. I do photography on the side, but a lot of your advice has helped my main personal training business as well!
Man I felt the same way the whole year last year. It wasn't as exciting as it was before and now i shoot lesser but man im a lot happier.
Yep we’ve all been there.
I’ve done One personal project since the new year, commercial work is still trickling in but like you said that’s like going through the motions with limited personal creativity in the hands of an art director and stylist.
Not sure I could give up the caffeine though- well done for that!
I had a look at old projects just before Christmas an I’ve set up an iPhoto archive on my server with the shots that never made the cut- good options I had dismissed out of hand at the time.
It’s a good community you’re building here Scott.
Very few working professionals on UA-cam.
Shed loads of UA-camrs.
Each to their own but I’ve long been over channels that do nothing but kit reviews, not really knowing what they’re talking about walking around taking snaps of old ladies in the street and grungy market stalls.
Oh boy Scott, do I know what you’re talking about! I burnt out in 1979 and packed in my 14-year career in commercial photography the following year. I took my creativity and technical skills to pastures new (IT, which back then was a new, exciting and very risky move) and never looked back, except for fun. Go where your heart takes you and make your head follow, that's my advice!
I understand this, I am no where neat being at that stage yet, I still get excited when a cool idea pops into my head and I want to go create it straight away. I am also not a "proper" commercial photographer and 90% of what I have done is for fun so far, I plan on changing that. absence makes the heart grow fonder and I am sure you'll become fond again (excited) to make some new images.
here in philippines we had more than 2 years off from pandemic. My mortgage didn't have any off time. I understand your point of view. I've been a photographer all my life but I've have some gap years due to life. Burnout is real aswell.
Did what you did back in November & December.
Was working my ass as a designer and fitting photography into every empty space of time I had.
then put my kit down, went out of London for about 3 weeks for Christmas - didn't even take a camera with me because I simply wanted to be part of life for a moment rather than photographing it instead - Once it was about the 2nd or 3rd week of Jan, that's when I started to shoot again.
and I might do it more - No body likes working during those three months so I didn't.
I don't have the luxury to choose working or not, I have to say yes to everything, photo related or not, regardless if I am burnt out or not... I need to pay my bills :(
I’m very much part time at the moment, but even though I have loads of ideas left unexplored I still need to give myself time off from the pressure of finding time to create. Trying to eek out hours late at night to create is a different kind of exhausting.
Last year I took six months off and traveled and enjoyed life/time with my partner. The only images I made were with my iPhone. After the time off I was reinvigorate and was looking back to shooting again.
Rest and time out is certainly something I’ve overlooked in the past
So your photography business was that successful to where you ca take off 6 months? Trying to get like you
I’ve been in a rut, wanting to work on personal photo projects. But then I get busy with paid work. Then when I have free time, I get lost looking at my personal photos.
It seems frequently since we hat jobs and work, we seek to turn our beloved passions into our work in order to love work, so we end up hating the thing we were passionate about instead.
I had a mental shutdown that started Nov 2022 thru January 2023, and haven't picked up my camera since October 2022. I actually dread anyone contacting me. Been at this for at least 20+ years. Not sure what to do...I'm still in recovery from this and have been working with a therapist. I'm actually looking for a steady regular job. I don't even want to do paid jobs.
May I ask you?Which particular Mamyia 6x7 lens were you using on a previous video for macro tilt shift on bellows?
i will stop creating when... i will finish my idea agenda(it has many filled pages) :)
I stopped taking photographs in september and started taking zoloft instead.
i take time off. and when i do I just keep a small pocketable film point n shoot with me anyways haha
Look after yourself and your family will benefit. After 3 years of Covid avoidance, I’m just now feeling I’m coming out of a tunnel.
I really appreciate your progresses and authenticity. Apparently, you contradicted yourself comparing to what you stated in previous videos. But, thinking twice, the beauty of being genuine is that you cannot be in incoherent: regardless what you say and do, you just can’t be incoherent as long as you keep saying and doing it genuinely. I listened change your mind multiple times already and never once I though this decreases your value as a kind of mentor
Have you ever considered trying out filmmaking?
Sometimes you have to take a break
You turned into a utuber.