Deadlines and a successful photographic career
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- If you really could choose to live a life without deadlines, would that be a good thing? I am really really rubbish at getting things done if I don’t have a deadline. After decades of being a self-employed photographer, my level of motivation is very different to when first I started out. In a way, part of the problem is that I have a good life. Maybe a little too good.
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00:17 Alive in Melbourne
01:24 Paying The Rent
02:48 Crushing Failure
04:37 Adding Value To Your Client
07:07 Getting Rest
08:40 Create & Share
11:26 Count The Wins
14:03 Bing Bang Bong
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Much of what you said applies to photography as a hobby also, except the paying the rent part of course. I find that "keeping up" with my photography is so important, no one cares about looking a photo from an event a week ago. I must load, cull, edit and post photos from an event within a Day or few from the event will even look at my posting. Being able to quickly create "highlight or best of" collections for friends birthdays, anniversaries, and yes: funerals really motivated me to keep doing it and to keep up with the flow.
Photography really is a conversation, rather than a frozen moment. The context of when and how a photo is observed makes such a difference. That's on my list to make a video too :)
Couldn't agree more. Having put deadlines on my blog this year for myself means that I'm actually putting content out there! I've successfully done 6 months, more than I did the last few years without deadlines!
Deadlines are better with cake :)
Love the experimental style with this one and such valuable knowledge
Hey Zak :) Thanks for dropping in for this one. Some of my footage and audio was a little askew, but just highlights that perfection isn't always the right objective!!!
Good advice for any career!
:)
I am part of a camera club, we put our comp schedule out in Dec for the following year. I am amazed at how most members put their images in at the last hour, or ask for extra time. It is extremely frustrating, and often we don’t get many images for our comps.
I should probably refer you to the chapter of my book called "why competitions suck" first :) Must be hard with camera clubs where most members are there to enjoy their craft rather than deal with deadlines.
Yes we are struggling because we only meet once a month and the comps have always been the main focus of the meetings. Hard, as a small club and getting smaller, to change the focus, back to more photography based club rather than image based.
Ps just ordered a copy of your book. Looking forward to reading it.
@@vikkitempleton9157 Maybe you guys are a good candidate for the Curation workshop. I used to run them online for camera clubs during the pandemic. Could be a nice event to bring folks together, and move the focus away from single images :)
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I will put it to the committee. I personally would love it.