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"This isn't going to work...but it has to, I can't imagine doing anything else." I feel this deeply, especially at the current moment.

This video is what separates you from a LOT of photography guidance on you tube. More goes into this career than understanding how to create images. Cheers my man! You know your stuff.

I used to not enjoy business mechanics or accounting or taxes - until the joy and little wins of photography made those aspects more relevant to me. Great insight - thanks for the edutainment.

Best pep talk in a while. not sure if it was ment to be one but at came out as one at my end.

Great video for those aspiring to be pros. I kind of compare it to a journey...from "photo taker to professional."

Great content, again! There are many parts of the photography process I don't love, but when I make an image I like, I find it rewarding to a level that makes all the other parts fade. I'm certainly no Koudelka but I can recognize quality when I see it.

I majored in music and I played Bassoon. The other bassoonist could sight read better than me, but by the concert, I played better because I practiced. 100% agree! We have talents and skill and one alone won't get you there.

Professional photography is basically a con game.... its conning the potential client into think that your better than the next person for a particular job, and that your capable of doing it. If you dont like pitching and selling yourself week in week out for work, photography is not for you. It frustrates me to no end, that still after 20 years working in the industry, you still have to fight and compete for jobs against someone who has been doing it part time for 3 months. But I put up with it, cause I like the process of taking pictures, capturing someone and being able to display it in 2D form. The business side, I have never really got used too, and am not particularly good at it. People wanting to do photography full time, as their main source of income, need to be aware.... it is running a small business in a cut throat highly competitive industry. The business side is more than 50%. If you dont think you could do that long term.... keep photography as a hobby.

About 2 mins in - shout out to the awesome skills of whoever did the model’s hair ✅👍😺

“Loving the process” is quite an insight. I guess I failed so far because of that. Thank you

Thanks for this video I needed to hear this one over and over again.

So good. It really spoke to me. Thank you.

thank you, and yes some have a "gift" and all the time... they say.. "why I need to learn something new?" some don't have that gift but work so much until they overpass the gifted. I've noticed that when I teach the small kids to ride a bike.

that was such a good talk!

I love your content and information, however this one really hits home. Falling in love with the process is never talked about. It is so important. Bouncing back from multiple cancelations and photos just not working is so critical. Everything doesn't work all the time but for the times that they do it makes it all worth it. All the bad days just fade away when the shutter clicks and what you worked so hard to create suddenly finds it's way into the world. But you have to love the process of cleaning and setting up gear and moving furniture and building the vision or you are not going to be your best for sure. Thanks for this video all the other amazing content you provide here. Cheers.

Nicely explained...cheers.

Ok love the process 101

Uplifting advice. Well put. I am still trying to find the right formula for success. Take decent images. Get decent word of mouth but folks just do not book me or find me. Did a charity shoot recently (all monies raised donated) which went well but my Inbox is not on fire with further enquiries. But I plod on. I read somewhere "plant lots of seeds. Most will not grow, but some will. But you have to plant them seeds in the first place".

I felt lucky as a young photographer. I got to cut my teeth working for a portrait photography company called National. Pretty much anyone could be a photographer there. I took it very seriously and brought wardrobe and hair gel and combs and brushes and jackets and ties. We would shoot in supermarket aisles during the Christmas season which seams campy now but at the time I was so proud of my work. I later got a job in Getty museum and got my skills up high enough to charge for shooting for art galleries. Having a path to follow and having mentors really helps to turn pro. Oh, and I ride a Trek Domane sl5.

Well, maybe, just maybe, to be human is to give yourself the right to reach for the stars. This has to be more important than DNA. You are, of course, right, but I am damned if I am going to live according to my (many) limitations. This explains why I crash a lot on my motorcycle, this explains why each amazing photograph I take is never that great after a week or so, but ...what joy in the meantime. I guess my customers like my results, but they probably work with me because of my passion... Anyway, tomato/ tomatoes

For me as a student photographer, whilst I am far detached from "pro", I find that all my worries fade away once I get behind the lens. For me this makes any headaches absolutely worth it......and of course "pro" is simply perspective as it is a sliding scale.

I do find your videos interesting even though I'll never be a professional photographer. I have been shooting film since 1977 minolta since the 80s just stepped up a few yrs ago to a AF minolta alpha a very nice 35mm love it so much last yr I purchased a 2015 sony a77ll 24 mp. It does everything I need and will be my last camera if it last pluss I can use my minolta glass wich some are minolta ziess. So now I need to figure out what editing program to start with. If you or anyone else have a idea let me know please. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Keep meaning to ask, could you make a video on the Film digitiser you have setup in the studio. Do enjoy your monologues on life and living.

In university there was a saying "You need to be able to kill your babies" It was relating to a work which you do, you show it and people who are honest give you feedback then you need to return and start over again. Kill almost everything related to your previous go and do another one. This video actually reminded me a bit of this. Perhaps it is worth exploring as a topic and hearing your two cents on it. How often as creatives we say "This isn`t working and then ...."

I don't quite understand what you mean by loving the process yet not enjoying certain aspects of the process (i.e. admin/marketing)?

Only 5% of commercially creative people are doing ground breaking, industry changing work. The rest of the 95% (me included) are trying to catch up by copying the 5%. To be commercial successful in anything creative is very tricky!

How do you really know if you are good enough to be or even consider yourself a Pro? just curious; I know for example that I´m not a Pro, I´m just learning still, but I also know that I will never consider myself a Pro hahahahahahah . I love learning, and for me, it will be a long-term process, I would never consider myself to be a Pro because for me learning is a never-ending thing...

A lot of potential photographers cannot afford to persevere.

Can anyone become a professional photographer? Yes its possible! Will most people see it through till they make it? No...

its all good an well , but to make it as photographer . you need 2 things money and to know people with money a basic pro photographer setup will set you back 10-20k just the gear, camera computer and lights and accessory , if you want to have also a studio 10-50k depend how fancy you want to make it and what you want to shoot , and after all that you need to know people with money that will pay for your work , getting one job per week at 50buck will not cut it ,