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How to Tighten your Feedback Loop in Photography

My thought on how to stay inspired in your photography:

Tighten your feedback loop between shooting, selecting your photos, and publishing your photos.

This will keep you prolific to keep shooting new photos, derive new delights from your new photos, and also be able to share your new photos (preferably on your own blog).

Simple ideas:

  1. Shoot only jpeg with an in-camera filter you like.
  2. Import and select your photos quickly and effectively. Experiment using iPad to import photos from SD card reader (lightning to SD), favorite your favorites and then upload them straight to your WordPress blog.
  3. Just use the jpeg files. Don’t worry about post processing. This will save you much time and effort, and free up mental energy to go out and shoot more new photos!
  4. The best feedback you can get is from yourself: whether your photos bring you joy or not. Otherwise upload your photos to arsbeta.com for real feedback and critique.

Why tighten your feedback loop in photography?

The upside of digital photography: instant feedback, which allows us to learn and improve at a much more rapid pace. Why not use this to our advantage?

SHOOT ON!

ERIC

Agitate

“Mens agitat molem.”- Virgil (Mind agitates [moves] matter).

Agitate comes from “ago” (Latin), which means to set into motion, to lead, to drive/propel/cast.

To agitate ourselves (self motivate ourselves to move, act, and to set ourselves into motion): isn’t this the goal of life?

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Abundant Leisure

Many of us desire more money, however I believe a better goal is this:

Seek to maximize your leisure hours and mental space.

Better to be poorer with more leisure than richer with less leisure.

Leisure as hours and emptiness of mind

Leisure requires an emptying of your mind. Fewer cares, duties, obligations, and responsibilities. Even if you had 10 hours of free time, as long as you got all these worries and concerns in your mind, you cannot leverage your time for creative, philosophical, or scholarly ends.

Or in short:

Seek more freedom and leisure to indulge your creative activities. Less concern with money, fame, and honors.

ERIC

APEX

Flex, strive towards the apex, no baseless, just chase it.

Apex, the highest point. The goal for which we strive— the fire which keeps us live.

Strive towards higher heights sublime, dashed with wine and zest, nodding with your plumy crest.

Zest, test yourself and strive to be the best. Essay the limits and go beyond. Better to be a small fish in a big pond.

ERIC