Conquer every and each day by using your own extreme resourcefulness to find the maximum benefit of every hour of your day.
(more…)Month: January 2019
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Composition vs Aesthetics in Photography
A thought:
(more…)What is more important, composition or aesthetics in photography? And are the two things totally different– or related?
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Lessons Franz Kline Has Taught Me About Photography and Art
Franz Kline: my current muse, and one of the most underrated painters and artists of all time:
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Just Keep Shooting It.
What we don’t need are new cameras. What we need are NEW eyes— to see reality with a new perspective.
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How to Elevate Yourself
Why do we take drugs, enjoy pleasure, enjoy music, films, travel, and make artwork?
My theory:
(more…)To elevate ourselves — to feel super-human/super-natural.
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To Shoot More, Live More!
After looking through my older photos, and thinking when I was the most productive as a photographer– it is when I was living the most!
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Why Curate Your Photos?
To ‘curate’ means choosing the photos you care about. To build your strength as a photographer, you must curate your work to only display the photos you care about.
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How to Live a Perfect Day
To live the best possible life, perhaps we should strive to live everyday like it were our last– to make every single day perfect in our own eyes:
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A Life Without Photography Isn’t a Life Worth Living
Make photos because it is your artistic power:
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When we get bored of our things and want to buy new things, is it because we’re bored of ourselves and our own artwork?
What is the root of our dissatisfaction in our photographic artwork?
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Why Fortune Favors the Brave
If you want to be epic in life, you must be brave, take chances, and take epic risks.
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Streamers Shall Inherit the Earth
An exciting entrepreneurial idea: essentially everything we do is streaming. And the more we stream our artwork, the more powerful we will become!
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How to Shoot More Soulful Photos
A ‘better’ photo is a more personal one. A photo you shoot with your soul:
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The Best Lifestyle is Ascetic
I think if you adopt an ascetic lifestyle, you can live the best life possible, with the least amount of stress, and the maximum amount of personal freedom, joy, and artistic productivity:
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New ERIC KIM WORKSHOPS 2019
Conquer your fears and meet new peers:
- March 7-10: Mexico City / Travel Photography Experience – Feb 15th Early-Bird Discount Deadline
- March 30: San Francisco / Photography Marketing and Branding Workshop – NEW!
- April 6: San Francisco / Conquer Your Fears in Life Workshop – NEW!
- April 24-29: Hanoi to Sapa, Vietnam / Travel Photography ExperienceÂ
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Photography as the Ultimate Artistic Form of Self-Expression
Why is photography great?
Why idea:
(more…)We can transform our “normal” reality into something super-natural — something greater.
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How to Create Your Own Aesthetics in Photography
Creating your own aesthetic in photography: the camera you use, the focal length you use, whether you shoot with flash or natural light, and how you process your photos (whether RAW or JPEG):
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Be Relentless; Don’t Stop!
What is the secret to success? We cannot be certain, but stopping and not continuing to hustle seems to a good path to unsuccess.
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LIVE DOPE.
Live dope with no hope for tomorrow or the day afterÂ
Live today with brave laughter, despite disaster
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Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger
Let us take back the means of production and publishing, by owning our own photo publishing platform (our website/blog), instead of just depending on Facebook-Instagram or other social media platforms.
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Your First Billion Photos are Your Worst
My new life goal: shoot a billion photos before I die.
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How to Become a More Self-Confident Artist
First of all, recognize the fact that you ARE an artist.
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What is Art?
What is “art”? To me, art is a concious activity of creating something that expresses you, your power, your ideas, or your own ideals.
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To Become Rich, Don’t Go Broke
Basic money idea:
(more…)Rather than worrying about getting “rich”, better to focus on NOT going broke!
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What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
A thought:
(more…)In life, do things and consume things which make you stronger. Don’t do anything or consume anything that makes you weaker.
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My Personal Rules for Myself
A list of my personal virtues/vices, and personal rules for myself.
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Don’t Seek to Please or Impress Others with Your Photos
If you try to impress or please others with your photos; you will end up making boring photos.
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In Praise of an Anti-Optimized Life
Obsession with optimizing your life will ruin your life:
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5 Tips to Simplify Your Photography Workflow in Adobe Lightroom (Desktop)
Here is a general overview of my Lightroom (desktop) workflow currently looks like:
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What Should You Do With Your Life Once You Retire?
A lot of people delay their personal happiness until they retire one day. But the question is this:
(more…)What do you even want to do with your life once you retire?
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To Improve Your Life, Subtract the Superfluous from Your Life
When we say we want to “improve” our lives, or to live a “better” life– what does that really mean?
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How to Discover Your Style in Photography
Discovering your style in photography is a constant process:
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You’re an Artist.
If your passion is photography, you’re an artist. No need to get approval from others.
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Shoot For Yourself
A thought:
The best photos are the ones which bring us joy.
How do we make these types of photos? Simple: shoot photos as if nobody else could see your photos. This will be the ultimate judge of whether you shoot photos for yourself or for others.
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Could You Live a Happy Life if You Could Never Shoot Photos or Travel Ever Again?
A thought I had while at the gym:
(more…)If you could never shoot photos or travel ever again– could you live a happy life?
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Why You Must Become More Assertive in Life
Can you achieve anything epic in life without being assertive?
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Power Photography
I have this new notion of photography:
What if we saw photography as a tool of empowerment, instead of just making photos?
I call this notion ‘power photography’.
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Adapt photography to your life, don’t adapt your life to photography
A realization:
If the purpose of photography isn’t to become a better photographer, perhaps we shouldn’t make photography the ultimate aim of our lives.
Instead, we should be seeking to live a better life. And how do we improve our lives and live a better life? By adapting our photography to our life, not adapting our life to our photography.
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Why You Must Obey Yourself and Your Own Needs
Always put yourself first. Obey your personal needs, desires, and “musts” in life before trying to help others:
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Why You Must Create Your Own Personal Brand
As a modern photographer in this brave new digital world, to succeed you must create your own personal brand into yourself:
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Why Hustle?
“Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.” (Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work) – Horace
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In Praise of Audacity
To be audacious means to love taking risks, being bold, to dare, and to venture for the uncertain, even though it might mean you will be hated, ridiculed, insulted, ignored, or fail.
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FREE Open-Source ERIC KIM Stock Photographs
ERIC KIM STOCK PHOTOS [Dropbox Download Link]: A collection of free, open-source photographs for you to use for any purpose:
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