Dealing with failure in Landscape Photography
Today I share a video with you, in which I talk about how to deal with failure in landscape photography and about what's really important when we're out taking photos.
Because let's face it, the photos I usually show here on Steemit are not what I come home with after every photo shoot. In fact they are an exception.
Same goes for all those awesome photos you see on the different photo platforms. Those are the tip of the iceberg. The best photos taken by thousands of photographers. But you can be sure that every one of those photographers has a much larger amount of photos sitting on his hard drive that he will never show.
I fail quite often when I'm out taking photos. It's when I'm just not able to capture the essence of a scene
But those are just failures in terms of not taking a great photo. In terms of being out in nature and having a great time it's nearly always a success. And this is what I always try to remind myself of: Great photos are just a bonus, what really counts is to get out and enjoy the time.
I have thousands that I hate. For the 1 that I like.
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i have just been watching your youtube video earlier, thanks for sharing :)
Nice. Thanks for putting this message out there. After 20 years of photography I am still rarely happy with what I take. It’s a constantly moving target .
Hello and congratulations on winning a daily round of my 7 World´s Continents Photo Challenge. What an amazing image. Kindly see to attend your winner announcement post to answer some of the congratulaiton comments for your increased engagement. Thank you. Tomas
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Thanks Tomas
Great post and nice video. I totally agree with you when you say "Great photos are just a bonus, what really counts is to get out and enjoy the time."
Absolutely true, and I'm sure it's the same for all photographers. What I share is a tiny percentage of the total photos on the memory card. I'm getting much better at not taking so many dumb frames, but still...
Many are failures, many are okay but just aren't good enough to pass the imaginary moving line of acceptability. A smallish percent get shared and a tiny, tiny percent are photos that I actually really like. A handful of those are photos that I still like a year later, and one or two stand the test of time. But it's all worth it for those one or two.