If you’re reading a photography blog it’s because it draws you one way or another into this world, maybe you just like to travel and have photographic memories of your travels and walk around asking for advice, or don’t want to miss your adorable baby’s face, for example, and your passion doesn’t go any further.Although I doubt it, you wouldn’t read this article accurately.If you’re here, your interest goes further.Do you like photography? A lot.
The question now is whether you only like a part of your free time or if you are passionate enough to dedicate a good part of your life to it, if you ever want to be called a photographer, live this art or, even if you have another way of life, photography is your life partner, your other self, with which you identify , you express yourself and from what you know, you can be a great photographer who makes exhibitions and whose photos are bought although your main salary comes from a job in an office for example, if you dream of something like this is because photography runs through your veins and can not be corrected, the only remedy is to let it run freely, listen to its needs.
- In today’s article I’m going to give you the keys that characterize a real photographer.
- Some come from the factory (in your genes).
- Others you can develop them with practice and enthusiasm.
- Do you want to know them?.
I’ll start with the basics, the knowledge. There are great photographers in history who have never studied photography, right?, there are people who were born with a gift, we have commented on it on other occasions, even if it is not the usual, not everyone is Mozart, nor Frida.Kahlo or Vivian Maier who were born with particular potential.It is usual that you need training, photographic knowledge.The more you know about something, the more you realize how little you know, don’t you?It’s the same here. Your knowledge may congratulate you on your photos and you think you can dedicate yourself to them, but not so, you have to learn mainly composition, but also technique, if you do not know what the focal length or opening is, the Road will be much more difficult.
To gain this knowledge, you can go to an accredited school in your city.If your idea is to dedicate yourself professionally to photography, this is the most recommended; take an online course like the School of the Photographer, or be self-taught, that is, read many books or blogs like this and above all practice to consolidate what you have learned.
Knowledge won’t do you any good if you don’t look at the world with eyes other than those of others, you should be curious about everything around you, see and feel what others don’t see, observe from different angles, look for new scenarios and look at the world with a different approach.
There can be no artist without creativity or imagination, these two qualities go hand in hand with the word artist, creativity is what drives you to constantly create, with a camera, a guitar or a brush and a paint can.creative person or is trying to be creative, can hardly be considered an artist in photography or any other artistic discipline.
Querer probar cosas nuevas es otra cualidad que te distinguirá del resto de los mortales que llevan una réflex al cuello, por muy cara que sea. Buscar nuevas direcciones, arriesgarse a saltarse reglas, cometer errores que puedan ser la clave del éxito de la imagen o probar donde nunca nadie haya probado. Esto es lo que nos ha permitido disfrutar de los avances en la fotografía. Sin personas como Harold Edgerton, pionero de la fotografía de alta velocidad, quien creó un flash para capturar el movimiento, seguiríamos tomando fotos debajo de un trapito ? Con esto no quiero decir que necesariamente tengas que hacer una obra de ingeniería, pero sí lograr algo que te diferencie de los demás, algo que no se haya visto, al menos probarlo ?
La pasión será una de las características que funcionará como motor del resto. Si no una sientes pasión irrefrenable por este mundo, olvídalo. No llegarás muy lejos, busca algo por lo que de verdad sientas pasión y sigue ese camino, que será el que te lleve bien alto. Para lograr algo grande, algo importante necesitas poner mucha pasión, un entusiasmo infinito, de lo contrario acabarás tirando la toalla a la primera decepción y, creéme, en este camino encontrarás muchas.
You’ll know if you’re one of those who put passion into it if you don’t mind spending a night capturing the stars, hitting a little morning of the 15th to photograph the fog, there’s no birthday or Christmas you don’t fall into.a gift related to photography, you don’t go out without your camera and you don’t use it is no obstacle to keep photographing everything you see, you remember your trips almost through a viewfinder, it doesn’t matter if it’s Monday or Sunday that you want to go out and take photos and you still think it’s the best photo you have left to take.Here are some of the clues that will tell you if what you feel is passion for this art or just flirting.
When I speak of resources, I do not mean the resources of the team or those you find on the web, but the resources themselves, that you are a decisive person, that if you have forgotten a station at home, you are capable to solve that; If you don’t have time, you can reverse roles and make the most of the day. Or if the monument you were going to photograph is closed to the public, you can find a way to take a room with you.
It’s also another quality I call driving, like passion.Optimism will take care of not throwing in the towel, getting up at five in the morning to photograph a sunrise and stoically chasing a two-year-old baby to paint him a portrait.Why doesn’t anyone convince you you’re not going to make it?
Tendrás que desarrollar tus habilidades comunicativas. Por un lado, para expresar tus ideas a través de tus imágenes. Necesitas poder contar lo que sientes a través de la fotografía, eso es comunicación. Si no comunicas, tus imágenes estarán vacías y no tendrán interés para nadie.
On the other hand, your communication skills will help you involve others in your projects, as protagonists of the images, as assistants, as collaborators or whatever you need, you will also need it to promote yourself and make your work known to the public.Maier was nobody until his reels were revealed and his work could be admired.To make sure something like this doesn’t happen to you, you can always create your own online gallery.
Perseverance, patience, constancy? It is very easy to fall into frustration, in fact it is practically obligatory or inevitable, what distinguishes a photographer from a mere amateur is the ability to overcome that frustration, the need to overcome it and not get carried away by negative feelings.
Edgerton, the photographer I told you about earlier, took twenty-five years to get his famous milk drop out.He tossed all the deformed droplets until he reached the one that formed a perfect crown.You know how much passion, perseverance and optimism this man must have?
And luckily you don’t get lucky with a lowercase letter, the one that belongs to you in the lottery or similar, but Chance with capital, the one that is sought, that it is the one that you find when you have prepared the like, you have worked, you have studied, you have not thrown the towel, you have worked in a gallery, people know you for your work and just that day you are in the most opportune place where you find yourself someone who proposes to edit a book with your work or lend you its prestigious gallery so that you can exhibit your work, if there is no way back, the opportunity to meet that person will pass by you and you will not even notice.
It’s very easy to say and very hard to get, which doesn’t mean it’s impossible.You can have your own style from the moment you take your first photo, but that’s not the norm either.You will find your own, style walking and choosing the paths that you like the most, where you feel most comfortable, you will need to unlearn the photograph to find your style and photograph many times and many types of images until this style of your own appears.Don’t give up, remember: perseverance.
How many of these qualities do you already have? I’m sure with several of them the way will be easier.Remember, if you have passion, what else can be achieved with perseverance and optimism?
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