I'll share my experience: to me it's been about shifting photography, from the idea of taking "wow" images to that of storytelling. I noticed that with time great images, that stand on their own, both mine of from other photographers, loose power. While if you focus on storytelling, you create much more meaningful work. For example: you feel sad? You go out and take pictures of things that resonate with that, from trash to lonely trees. And you put together a series, where every picture is like a sentence of a text, you don't want one that has all, but a few that create an experience when you go through them. This will have a cathartic effect and help you feel better and hopefully others too. Storytelling can be about a million things and once you find your theme, pictures can get so much more meaning and maybe, a photo of a trash can will move you thousand times more than that of an epic mountain.
Totally agree. Photography gets powerfull when you use it as a tool to express something, to tell something. When you have somethinf meaningful to tell, and you get to do it through photography, then you become a better photographer. It's the natural step from taking "pretty pictures" to having a meaningful body of images
I have also noticed myself that if I go days, if not weeks, without picking up my camera it is a lot harder to get back to it. I been letting social media (Instagram, Flickr, etc) be the source of my motivation to go out and take photos, I wasn't even doing it for myself anymore, I caught myself chasing likes rather than the actual images so I decided to step away from those photo sharing platforms and see what happens. Thanks for the wonderful content that you make Adrian.
Thank You, I found your video both insightful and inspirational, As photographers, we cannot forget how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to capture and share our inspiration.
To me, photography is indeed living the process, and because I'm a learner, I feel that I am in a movement, and there is no fixed finality. And I hope so because what would you do after you've taken the best photo ever? I really enjoy the continuous evolution of the skill, discovery and feelings that it creates. Hope you keep on having fun in Norway!
Couldn’t agree more! It’s all about exploring and discovering. There’s always something new to find, because everything is changing all the time, including us. Our sensibilities change, our taste changes. Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts!
Thanks for sharing this, it really is hard sometimes to find the spark and the time, but once you do, the images flow and the enjoying process starts! 📷
I like to go out with a technique idea in mind. This weekend I want to try a vertical panoramic shot of a tree with a 50 mm lens. This idea was taken from a RU-vid photographer. I feel excited about this because I have always seen panoramic shots along the horizontal.
That’s awesome, Dirk! I also play the piano, even though it’s been a while. I’ve considered making my own music for the videos but I don’t really have a keyboard to bring with me on my trips. Anyway, music and photography go along really well! Love listening to music while working on my images or looking at somebody else’s work.
I'll try, Kire! But Vero is the only platform that doesn't offer an open API (as far as I know), so I have to manually open the app and share there. I know that shouldn't be a big deal, but when you share your images every day on so many different platforms, being able to do it from just one place is very helpful. Otherwise it becomes very time consuming. So hopefully Vero will be soon included in tools like Buffer, or at least offers a way to schedule posts for the future.
God damn: EVERY video you do sings to me. Such an inspiration. And as someone has previously mentioned in these comments - please eat a bit more food or are you intentionally going for the starving artist look? 😆
