Growing as a photographer

Like all growing, growing as a photographer we may experience growing pains. Sometimes it comes at the cost of a negative critique, the temporary loss of motivation or inspiration. The pain of change and experimentation that doesn’t work. Again, like all growing, there are many advantages. Your art becomes better, more mature. You are able to see deeper into your subject and express yourself more openly.

This growth may not come easily. It requires change and change can be scary. If we change we don’t know what the future holds for us. Will people like the change? Will I like the change?

So how do we grow as a photographer? For me, it has been looking at the work of others, both good and bad. It has been looking at my previous work and developing a plan to improve upon what I have done in the past. It has been listening to photography podcasts, reading articles and books on photography. It has been learning new techniques and skills in Photoshop and Lightroom, but greatest of all it has been getting the camera off the shelf and just trying something new. Not all the new things I have taken photographs of have been seen by others. Much of it wasn’t worthy of being shown to the public. That has been one of the pains of my growth recently as a photographer. Now, I believe I am ready to start getting some of my new and improved content out into the wild after all, what good is growing as an artist, or more accurately for me now, a visual storyteller and content creator.

Keep after it, start growing as a photographer, visual storyteller, and content creator. Let’s make some art.