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4 Things I Wish I Was Told When I Started Photography
Time saving insights that can help you develop your craft faster and more intentionally.
1. Scrap the Crap
I wasted so much freaking money and time by buying new gear constantly. Not only did I not need the new pieces of kit, but every time I got new gear I was stuck in a learning curve because I didn’t have a working concept of photography.
Yes, I’ve learned how to use it now, and it’s useful now, but that won’t work out so well for everyone, every time.
The point being that I was a rookie, a newbie, a baby, and I was trying to run in combat boots before I could crawl, let alone walk. This can slow your progress because you don’t focus on fundamentals first if you jump from new lens/gadget/attachment/light to the next.
You can start to fall into a trap where you think that “the next lens is what I need to make my photos better”. No, sadly, it won’t.
You VERY LIKELY aren’t even able to understand what you’re doing wrong yet, let alone how to improve it. Gear won’t fix this.
Recently I’ve started mentoring a friend in photography as he’s started down his photo-journey.
