@ewen @BobHorowitz
... [giant Instagram feeds and scrolling TikTok] leaves me feeling small and inadequate. As in ”all the photos look really great and every photographer is so much better than me.”
Buck up. Sometimes I feel that way, but then I look at the volume of photos I have captured from my more productive periods. It is like National Geographic photographers have said it is: It takes ten dozen 36 exposure rolls of photographs to produce the three that get published—and you make a living. (Ain't digital photography great?)
I find that my take of really nice photos is pretty good with experience, but my much fewer gems are far better than anything in most feeds. Add good post-production skills to the mix?
A shotgun makes an impressive hole, but instead of hitting the bull's-eye it destroys the target. There is a truism amongst writers: comparing your work to others just makes you crazy. Your style will be uniquely yours.
May I suggest that you look at your entire output? Are you better than those National Geographic, or similarly successful, photographers? Some of our work is much better than our median. If our goal is to make a name for ourselves, or to make money, we have to find our gems. Either that, or we have a really good excuse to go out and capture a thousand images today!
My view, anyway.
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