A camera, like a guitar, is just a box with a hole in it. Until it is placed in the hands of a true artist, it will not make music, only noise. What do you want your music to sound like?
~ Focus On Your Passion Webinar by Tim Mantoani
I wish somebody had told me that I would spend 95% of my time doing office tasks and only 5% of my time actually taking and processing photographs.
~ Andy Biggs on Things Photographers Wished They Learned in Photo School. I hear this a lot from fellow photographer friends.
I’ve always joked with aspiring photographers that photography is a career of long hours, little pay, no stability, and generally a sacrifice of comfort and ease in the search for photos. If after hearing all that you still want to be in the field, you belong in it.
~ Joshua Wolfe on Notes for Aspiring Photographers. Absolutely true but I also think these conditions are dependent upon which area of photography you specialize in.
I will only follow people that I care enough about to not miss anything they have to share. In a sense, to follow hundreds of people is to devalue the very people you are following. Your likelihood of missing a real friend’s update exponentially grows with the number of other people you follow. Care more, follow less.
~ Follow people, purposefully and personally. The less people you follow, the more personal the experience and the higher the likelihood that you’ll be paying attention. Do the opposite and you’ll drive yourself crazy playing catchup.
Make beautiful art out of the horrors you see and produce work that people will not be able to turn away from. Anyone can take a photo, but producing a work of art, an image or a series of images that will affect people, enlighten them and bring about change is not something that is easy to do.
~ Advice from Zoriah Miller for those seeking to follow the path of photojournalism. This has been a style of photography I’ve become captivated with lately. I love shooting candids and I see the artistic quality and significance that comes with capturing people attempting to live life the way it is. Everything unscripted and shot in a natural environment where all we ultimately see is the image and how we personally choose to understand it.
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