How To Stop Overthinking Your Photos

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Nothing ruins a photographer's day more than falling into the mire of overthinking your photos. This is what I do to stop this from happening.
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@gregpantelides1355

Thank you so much, Alex. The “Who, am I trying to impress?” Question came to my mind. Just let go and cherish the fact that you’ve taken a photograph. You’ve expressed an idea and brought something into the world that wasn’t there before. :-)

@larryfischer638

I took a picture the other day and I felt the light was to hard so I changed my position and move around and when I got home the pictures turned out the best when I flowed.

@garymc8956

Coffee cup is good for me. Makes it more informal and you more relatable. Like we’re meeting over coffee.

@GeorgeKremer-sp2uw

Great vid, great advice. I'm a bit older (70) and things like AADHD didn't exist when I was a young man. After some deep dives with some help, I have found I am, indeed, on the spectrum. I can go from hyper focusing on a subject, to absolutely freezing up. "Paralysis by Analysis" is now my phrase to let me know that I am letting my brain take over and that I'm not letting my creative self come to the fore and guide me. Get back in touch with that creative self and let it take you where it will! Thanks so much!

@peterlieberzeit3138

"Don't think, just do" is quite the opposite, of what I usually do ;-) ... Great advice! The other thing I learned today (by missing the premiere): the US switch to daylight saving time earlier, than we do on this side of the pond ;-) ....

@alstuart8801

yep... been there

@russellbaston974

VERY much agree with this, ‘paralysis by analysis’ creeps up insidiously.

@PhotoArtBrussels

Alex, i thought for a subject; many old studio photos where not made by using strobes, i suppose. In the old days those did not exist ... can you explain how photos where made in the old days (with artificial lighting, fresnel, hot lights, theater spots...)? What we can learn from it.

@csc-photo

I always try to remind myself - don’t think, but instead, FEEL. Great vid!

@lisajoseph5817

Just did that this morning. I had four exposures on a roll of film I wanted to finish so I could swing by the lab to drop off a couple of rolls while on my errands. Took the camera out to the grocery store (which happens to be right on the estuary), walked over to the path, popped off four shots of what I saw from four different spots, wound the film, dropped it in my bag and went inside to buy spinach.

@HR-wd6cw

Very good advice here. Often times I find myself "stuck" on photographs or I can analyze a scene that perhaps I'm stoke about, and then start to come up with reasons why it "won't work" and this too prevents me from making a photo. I think for me, as you had touched on, was partially I was in the mindset of "what does the audience want" rather than "what do I want". Even if it's the so-called hero shot that everyone has, if I don't have it, and want it, should probably get it, and not worry about what others think (which is one issue I have; I don't shoot some common shots, because they are common shots, even though it may be a shot I'd like as well, or perhaps something similar). So I think for me, part of it is doing it for ME and not someone else. The second thing I think is for me to stop overthinking photos and particularly, why they may not work, and in some cases, to do the best I can to create the composition I had in my mind, but don't get overly obsessed about possible issues (especially ones that I cannot control) and take the picture. In some respects, I sort of want to go back to that curiousity I had when I started, when I didn't think much about composition or perhaps even "the best light" for whatever (ie. golden hour which many strive for in landscape photography, which is fine). I think if i can get myself to do this, and to "forget the rules" for a moment, it may help me with over analyzing photos as well.

@jmguitarnavy

I honestly love your videos, you create such a good atmosphere in them! I imagine you must have shot film back when it was the go-to medium, which it is for me right now. I'd love to see you make a video talking about film photography!

@user-qu6bd4jp3q

Thank you so much. This came just at the right time 😊 Just had a conversation with friends about not taking photos lately due to the "over thinking"

@sebastianop.3052

good suggestion, over thinking is a consequence of the many possibilities we have today with too many set ups, digital cameras, lenses etc. minimize and stay calm, and shoot.

@johnclay7644

informative content

@woozyjoe4703

Excellent, honest video, Alex. I identified with all you said. Really helped me take a new approach.

@urbananjar

Sometimes shooting lots of frames from the same position can be meaningful, eg ef the model moves a lot, more or less is dancing. On a scene sometimes the light moves around givning vaying shadows and reflektions.

@behindwillslens3513

Great challenge!

@vin424242

What you said about looking at the shot on screen, i hardly ever look at a shot ive took until i get home, the exeption being if im taking a macro shot