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Jul 28, 2003 23:36 |  #1

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...




  
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Jul 29, 2003 00:06 |  #2

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


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Jul 29, 2003 00:33 |  #3

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...




  
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Jul 29, 2003 00:58 |  #4

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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!


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Jul 29, 2003 01:39 |  #5

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)




  
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Jul 29, 2003 01:57 |  #6

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.


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Jul 29, 2003 06:10 |  #7

Dude... I am never satisfied with any of my shots. I am Chief Suckiferous. How.


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Jul 30, 2003 04:33 |  #8

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."

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