Sue Bryce: Following Your Dreams and Emotional Honesty
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Sue Bryce talks about achieving your goals and following your dreams. cr8.lv/1coW4yF
In this CreativeLive clip, photographer Sue Bryce explains how emotional honesty (and the absence of it) has shaped her life. She explains how she found new heights of success when she followed her dream to move the the US and how difficult it was to achieve her goals while living near her family.
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I can totally sympathize with this. Not just family... but sometimes even the groups we started out with... networking or otherwise. They may have a vision of us and for us that is very different from our true path!
As I type this comment it is with tears in my eyes!! I needed to hear these words more than anything at this moment in time. Sue Bryce is more than amazing!!! I hope to one day have the chance to thank her in person for being "Emotionally Honest" and transparent!!!
Sue wow! muchas gracias!!
I've had respect for her and her craft before, and even more so now since I find this relatable.
Powerful ❤
I love you, Sue!! I can relate to this 100%
i could not tell you how much you have just stated how my family works. except with mine in mine, they would rather act nice in your face, gather the information they need and gossip and the only time they are friendly or show the signs of actual family bond is when THEY are in a bind and need money or help. Honestly, if i had the money i'd move myself, husband, & kids out of the u.s. because then maybe we'd get a better mind set. I can go on and on..idk if Miss. Sue see's this but thank you for your classes i have not did the 28 days yet but i take what i can get with cl postings. idk if you ever hear this enough but because of you i decided to live and pursue photography as a form of creative outlt and to not fight anymore(mentally..although it seems hard now). i better go, thank you again Miss Sue & others who read this comment.
Oh my god I love Sue Bryce! Awesome woman!
Sue, thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings. Your parents are lucky to have you.
"I wanna photograph every woman in the world who's ever looked in the mirror and not felt very good enough any time in her life" - that's the reason I want to get into woman photography, great phrase Sue! (from her lesson trailer)
Thank you Sue for sharing your thoughts feelings as lot people cant .
WOW, I was always inspired by her, this one was also magnificent. Thanks Sue, thanks a lot
Powerful! I feel the same way!!
So true that we can't do things out of guilt and we need to follow our own path that will lead us to success and being the best we can be. However there must be ways that we can help our family and friends in need that does not create dependence. There must be a way where we can help our loved ones to learn, grow, develop and help themselves and eventually do the same for others. Perhaps the only way we can do it is by example. It is so hard when you can see all the opportunities that a loved one is missing and they just reject every idea you present to them but we can't give up trying to find a way that will help our loved ones in the long run.
Sometimes Elisabeth the best way to help others is to let them help themselves! Learn to love them at a distance and stop holding them back. There is a great lesson in the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles that Sue is speaking from... actually a few, Chapter 10 Further Use of the Will "Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it will certainly check the movement of things in your direction.
"Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said
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Rather than take Sue's advice, take the advice from the book she deviously talks about. Chapter 9 How to use the Will "Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.
What concerns you is the cure.
Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.
I do not say that you should be hard-hearted or unkind, and refuse to hear the cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the conventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it behind you, and "make good."
Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.
And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich, if you fill your mind with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which give circumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of the horrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering.
You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and the wide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty. What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty into your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.
You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow your mind to be filled with pictures of that misery.
Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to do people who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get rich.
The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration will cause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.
You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when you refuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talk about it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power to keep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faith and purpose ON the vision of what you want."
Make sense?
emotional honesty takes you to the truth, what is or should be.... geographical distance doesn't divide love.
Damn...i think this video is the sign i asked for...
This talk opened up like a storm of emotions for me ... I realized how dishonest I have been .. for last 2 decades
It takes a lot of courage to stand in front of a global audience and speak about a topic so personal. Thanks Sue.
Not really Phil! When you have integrity, conviction and speak from the heart to say what you mean, mean what you say and always do what you say you're going to do it is rather easy! It is a society problem of what I call social conditioning. Like for women the crucial years for any child is 3 to 8 and sometimes 10 (for boys & girls). Yet we teach them to be this way or that way, do this but don't do that! Close you legs, never have sex without being in love. Get out of high school and get married, have 2.3 kids, a house on the hill and live happily ever after. When they get there life is just not the same! We set kids up for failure generation after generation! So that is how you come up with Sue's family and millions of others. They think they have your best interests at heart and just want to protect you in most cases. But as Sue points out, that can be the worst thing! Further, over the past 30 years or so, most have bought in to Clinton's and Obama's scheme of socialism and it is never your fault! But point to someone else and blame everyone around you except for you! When that happens, you are not being honest with yourself.
I do respect Sue as an educator and just hearing her speak, she knows and deeply believes in the Law of Attraction. As a fellow photographer, I'm not impressed to much by her work and more so of what she charges. Now stop and think about, when we see someone do like Sue did here, we tend to resonate with them. Meanwhile, back as the Photo Cave, I lost my grandfather, my father, even my son and his mother as well as two best friends and a couple other close family members all within 5 short months! The struggle was real! So bad that I almost had to check myself into a mental hospital and it took me 2 years to get my head straight. When you have something like that happen to you, it is a God Smack and hopefully you wake up one day as I did brutally honest and don't take crap from anyone. It is not saying I don't have empathy, I do, but you see through people's b.s., especially fellow photogs who may not be honest. For example, go to any modeling or facebook model and photographer group and you don't have to say a word, but start looking up people who claim to be professional photogs through the Secretary of State and see if they have a registered business. Most won't, yet they want to charge people for there photography, right? Even some do weddings and charge clients thousands, yet the again don't have a registered business, not paying taxes and worse took lots of images of what THEY want, not what the client wants, never let them see unedited image (like Sue for example) and give them a limited amount of image with watermarks all of them, turn around and plaster them on social media sites for self promotion. Sound about right?
Now go look up Grand Master Joe Buissink (a wedding photog) and look at his work. If it some pull some emotion out of you or make you feel like you were there, then there is something wrong with you and you don't know what great photography is. Compare his work with Sue's and see the difference! Watch his B&H video where he said he does not call himself an artist and he like me is against Photoshop. He does not use it not allow it in his studio and even uses gaffer's tape to tape up the screens on the back of their cameras. Now Bambi Cantrell is another good one when it comes to posing and I'm a fashion photographer. Yet Bambi also promotes a bit of the same as Sue. So go back and really look at Joe's work and here's the problem. Joe judges for the WPPI and tells of a story where someone took four wedding images and merged into one and they won the grand award. Then the TRUTH cam out. Now they require to submit the RAW file with the metadata to see if and what was altered. How sad! There is no honesty or integrity! Even Bambi says in a few of her vids that far to many don't know when to step aways from the post editing and just muck up a good image. Yet these are our so-called follow photogs who don't register a business and want to call themselves professionals!
When you start being brutally honest with yourself, that sir is when things will happen! Again, Sue is a great teacher or educator, especially along the lines of the Law of Attraction and from the book of The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles. Likewise I have it too for my success.like Sue. Her photography not so much for what she charges. Not trying to be a negative Nancy here but if I'm going to spend thousands on photography, they better be like Joe. Today, while I still design and love my fashion photography work, you see I have become as passionates as Sue to start educating the public on the tricks, schemes, scam in the photography industry and how to not get taken for paying thousand for a simple portrait shot. Hopefully others in the photography community will start being honest with themselves and their work! It starts with you! inside and being honest with yourself.
O. K..... No more Sue for me
Sue, I am appalled at some of your videos and it is likely you will never read this. However, I will post it for others. Every day I see and deal with scores and scores of photographers who at present time are really pushing the "artist" crap. when it is nothing more than crap! I see scores and scores take images of what I have no idea what it is nor what they are trying to convey within their images. Further I have photogs like you say raise your prices to price gouging and profiteering levels without teach how you arrived or came to you $500 an hour service fee. Moreover, you promote as do other like yourself to never let a client see any unedited work (images). I see wedding photogs charging thousands on a philosophy check and see what others are charging and then raise you prices. Bambi Cantrell even says if you can afford yourself, then you are not charging enough! That is dangerous! I can afford myself and it is a lot! Yet these same people are are not even registered as a business with the Secretary of State for the states they operate in, nor are they paying taxes on their earnings. Hence that is why we have so many starving artists rather than photographers. Additionally, I see scores of photogs ravage the social media sites of models for TF work, which then they exploit them by taking hundreds of images, then giving the model a mere 5 edited image and at most 25, while they keep the best for self promotion and to play "show and tell" in social media groups of look at me, look at me, look what I can do!" They then take these images and make calendars, submit to magazine in hope to get "published", sell to stock photo companies and that is completely sad! Artist, professionals, so called master photographers. Whatever! Even Bambi Cantrell states in her videos that most don't know when to step away for Photoshop or Lightroom and end up mucking up these images in post. Sadly, I have four friends, 3 females and 1 male who I have been trying to help. I really thought they each were going to make it. But they all have fallen off the wagon and have become victims or the practices that you and many others push. The one female against my advice shot the the wedding of another female model and friend of mine. The images were so-so at best! She charged the couple $5400 + $600 for the engagement, and an additional $350 for a wedding album. That sound reason by your standards, right? But I looked her up and she has no business registration with the state of Ohio. Further, she has not filed with the Dept. of Taxation, which is tax evasion! On top of that Sue, there are consumer protection laws that are there for a reason, and even if a contract is signed! It doesn't matter if you pushed a damn shutter button and what to hide behind copyright law.
Ohio Administrative Code 109:4-3-05 (D)(12) Repairs or Services “Fail to provide the consumer with a written itemized list of repairs performed or services rendered, including a list of parts or materials and a statement of whether they are used, remanufactured, or rebuilt, if not new, and the cost thereof to the consumer, the amount charged for labor, and the identity of the individual performing the repair or service;”
Ohio Administrative Code 109:4-3-07 Deposits. "It shall be a deceptive act or practice in connection with a consumer transaction for a supplier to accept a deposit unless the following conditions are met: A through E of this section."
Ohio Revised Code 1345.02 Unfair or deceptive acts or practices, including but not limited to (A), (B)(1)(2)(4)(6)(8)(9)(10),
Ohio Revised Code 1345.03 Unconscionable consumer sales acts or practices, including but not limited to, (A)(B)(2)(5) Whether the supplier required the consumer to enter into a consumer transaction on terms the supplier knew were substantially one-sided in favor of the supplier; (6) Whether the supplier knowingly made a misleading statement of opinion on which the consumer was likely to rely to the consumer's detriment;
This is what my female photographer friend is now facing in a court of law among other things, like charging and running a business without a license and tax evasion which is coming from the state. No one wants to talk about this stuff. But hey I'm an artist, I have a studio and take so-so images and my average sale is $3300 dollars... for what? For what? A few images a few hours someone played dress up? A makeup artist put some makeup on them and someone captured the moment. Whoa, that is what photography has come too?
Instead I would encourage anyone to check out Joe Buissink's website, his portfolio and his B&H video Back to the Basics.
Sue I can caught you many times deviously talking about the Law of Attraction and you garner stuff from the Science of Getting RIch by Wallace D Wattles. Would you like to elaborate on Chpt 9 -
"It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is to coerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to do things for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental means accomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. If taking things from people by physical force is robbery, then taking things by mental force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle."
And with regards to your pricing and work, would you elaborate on Chpt 6 -
"Let us suppose that I own a picture by one of the great artists, which, in any civilized community, is worth thousands of dollars. I take it to Baffin Bay, and by "salesmanship" induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of furs worth $500 for it. I have really wronged him, for he has no use for the picture; it has no use value to him; it will not add to his life.
But suppose I give him a gun worth $50 for his furs; then he has made a good bargain. He has use for the gun; it will get him many more furs and much food; it will add to his life in every way; it will make him rich.
When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan your business transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any man anything which does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange, you can afford to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business. And if you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it at once.
Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction
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My question to you is... based on what you state in your videos of your pricing and what you give clients, how is that different than the Eskimo example above? When you charge someone an average sale of $3300 and they only get a few images because they don't know any better, what are you giving them in use value that is greater than the cash value you take from them? The experience you say? How is that useful? For what you said in you one 28 day series video you did a shoot with two looks and 38 image? You charges $900? And you push the sales to seek if I recall $1000 in profit? My question is where is the use value over the cash value? As fashion designer retailer photographer who deals with models, I wouldn't hire her in my business seeing those images or use her as a model. Just saying. It would be nice to know where and how a client is looking to use image before selling them something they don't need. I'm in business in women fashion because women love to buy things, especially shiny and sparkly things. But we give then far greater use value then what we take cash value.
Sadly this is what I deal with almost daily because photographers like yourself are promoting what you are promoting. I hope people who read this before they comment check out Joe Buissink, his work and his B&H video where he rarely uses off camera lighting, does use or permit photoshop in his studio, shows clients images before they are processed in lightroom. and tapes up the back of his assistants cameras and make them think and learn to use their camera rather than rely on post editing and he doesn't call himself an artist! His images captures the moment, tells a story and pulls the emotions out of the viewers like me! My photographer teach back in high school in the late 80's of the film days was much like him! This is why I have a problem with so many photogs today, they are not photographers but rather photoshop and post editing artist with a fancy camera. I see so many exploiting models and paying clients. As for my four friends who engage in this sort of thing, we are no longer close friends but merely distance associates who I may get an email, a text or run into them at a photog function and it is just long enough to say hi and that's about it!
If you won't make a video to answer this stuff, then please stop promoting it as like I say, my one friend is your die hard follower on your facebook page and probably here, and she did your course from what she has said, which now she is in a heap of financial and legal troubles and my other friend is on the victim end of having crappy over priced images for about 80 of her wedding day which was supposed to be special and memorable! Now in court I am sure from what the other friend showed me.... how did she arrive at $600 for the engagement session? $5400 for 6 hrs at the wedding and $350 for the wedding album yet to be delivered.
I have respect for you on some things and others not so much!