Listen To Your Creative Calling And Author The Photo You Want To Make
My cheeks got a bit flushed. My heart beat a tad faster.
The beauty of Quepos was taking a physical affect on me.
I raised my camera to my eye to make a photo, then I heard a voice.
“That’s not going to turn out.”
Accessing your lost creativity in your 30’s is hard enough without the negative thoughts in your head.
But this wasn’t a negative thought in my head. This was my Debbie Downer travel companion who was speaking to me.
Debbie had been a photographer for 10 years and had won a few awards. I had bought my first camera the week before.
She cluelessly nearly brought me out of my bliss during a week-long trip in Costa Rica. But in the face of her negativity, I would defiantly make my photos anyway.
Most of my photos weren’t that interesting. But some of them were. After all, it was my own point of view that I was expressing, not Debbie’s.
Now that I have been photographing for nearly 10 years myself, I know a bit more about how to author a photo from behind the camera.
One rule of thumb that has helped me over the years is that there is 3-part spectrum for how much energy a photo communicates. And…
