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barnold999
28th of July 2003 (Mon), 23:36
Is it just me, or do you just go through a slump, where you look at your photos from the last week or so, and everyone sucks...
SoCal69
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 00:06
barnold999 wrote:
Is it just me, or do you just go through a slump, where you look at your photos from the last week or so, and everyone sucks...

Just the last week or so?? More like ALWAYS! :D
barnold999
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 00:33
Well at times I feel like I have decent photos... I can make a decent living with this, then I look at photos from the last week and am wondering what I am thinking, and why I have spent thousands and thousands on gear instead of I dont know... sending a few penies a day to save a child in samalia...

Spending all this money on equipment kills me when I assume I am no good. and then when I even look back at photos I thought I liked, then they start to suck...
SoCal69
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 00:58
barnold999 wrote:
and then when I even look back at photos I thought I liked, then they start to suck...

It just means you're getting better!
barnold999
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 01:39
Ha... or maybe I am not improving and I used to have lower standards (you can really tell I look on the positive side of life)
Conk
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 01:57
Walk away from looking at your photos for a while. I don't mean stop shooting. Just keep them stored and do no processing. After a month take them out and look at them.
Just a suggestion. I just did something similar but by mistake. I misplaced a couple shots and when I found them it was new again.
Laziferous
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 06:10
Dude... I am never satisfied with any of my shots. I am Chief Suckiferous. How.
John_T
30th of July 2003 (Wed), 04:33
I think every artist or professional goes through such phases. That's the creative process. If you are always high or always low your stuff becomes monotone and boring. Life too.

It is the sampling of high and low and all the steps in between where you develop your depth, dynamic and perspective.

Man learns much more from failure than success. There's nothing wrong with you ...except thinking there's something wring with you...

"Life is not a problem to be solved, rather a mystery to be lived."

Eh?