Month: October 2021

I want to become the first photographer to do a good suburb street photography project:

Use this information to iterate, and change/improve and do differently next time.

A thought with the new cinematic mode on iPhone and just the trend towards YouTube and film/cinema streaming services: Invest in cinema. For example, the new LUMIX S cameras or micro 4/3rds cameras for …

If you want a photo idea: just go on a hike and bring your camera along.

Move weight. I move photos. The motivational photographer as someone who makes and moves photos. And motivates other photographers to move their bodies more and make more photos.

One rep max. No need to do more than one repetition of any workout?

The reason why notions of improvement in self improvement are good as this: the tells us that we can grow, evolve, and become stronger. In a world where you cannot improve, you have no …

When it comes to investing, why do we feel like we need to make prudent monetary investments towards the future? The problem with investing towards the future is this: the future is uncertain, but …

Every time you make a new photo, you are innovating in your photography. Then the goal is for you to keep innovating by making new photos.

Let us not be fooled: social media is the matrix. If you desire more happiness, productivity, well-being and power, you must unplug yourself from the social media matrix. A simple and modest step: delete …

One of the best ways to improve your photographic composition is to sketch them. A simple way to do this on your iPhone or iPad is this: when you see a photo you like, …

Nieztsche talks about the “grand style” in art and aesthetics. I’m not quite sure what that is, but I know the notion of style is very important to me. Why? Style as a stamp …

ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER > Dear friend, If you upload your photos online, you’re a photography entrepreneur. Then assuming that we are all in a stream of becoming, then the question is: How can we …

Looking at the Polestar electric car (owned by a Chinese company, who also owns Volvo)– Why and how are Chinese companies so innovative? Some thoughts:

A simple end — Strive to empower other photographers. Or in other words: Empower other photographers as you wish you were empowered starting off or though your photographic journey.

Things you do for the sake of it (doing it is the reward in itself), rather than doing it for ‘rewards’.

Rather than wanting to become Elon Musk … isn’t it better to become yourself, or to become your own ‘Elon Musk’?

MATRIX thought: Unplug yourself. Unplug yourself from social media (Deleting Instagram as a form of taking the ‘red pill’). Stop using Facebook. Slightly de-dose yourself from using Google in order to think deeper thoughts.

If you share your photos online, you’re a photography entrepreneur.

My personal desire and hunger to become insanely different— insanely different in how I look, how I act, what I own (or don’t own), insanely different aesthetics and ethics, and an insanely different (and …

A personal thing: No matter how good something is, it is never good enough for me.

What is it that we are searching for or seeking for? I believe it is searching for the upside without the downside. Or maximizing the upside while limiting the downside.

Let us realize and recognize that everything is always a work in progress. In fact, when are creative projects are done, it is quite anti-climactic. In fact, the ultimate completion to life is death. …

Let us say street photography is your passion. Then the question is how can you harness the Internet to make your passion your living?

My ideals: No matter your background, no matter how poor or disadvantaged you were or are, you can become great.

Towards undefining street photography: It is all street photography.

A simple way to make more creative photo compositions: Experiment with your focus. For example focus on what’s closest to you via macro mode, or focus what’s really far away, while getting close to …

New photos is the goal:

The great passion — a burning inner drive to do something. That nothing gets in your way. The refusal to let things get in your way.

The only cardinal sin of the Internet: being boring. I consider myself a very interesting person, and also very interested in many different things. Also I’m one of the most hated people online, especially …

Seneca project:

We all want to become more artistic and creative. My thought: perhaps the secret to artistic creativity is creative constraints. That is, to choose one variable unlock it, and don’t change it, and see …

ERIC KIM NEWS Dear friends, Some thoughts: First of all, right now is the best time to be alive as a photographer. Pre-COVID, it seems the world was quite boring and static. Now, everything …

Why photograph your life? Your life is the ultimate photographic project. Photograph your loved ones (#cindyproject), your kids (#senecaproject), your partner, your friends, family, etc. Photograph it all.

A computer — either a laptop, phone, tablet, and now I suppose cars (self driving Tesla) and digital cameras. I consider all these “computers”. But the question: Why?

ERIC KIM NEWS Dear friends, We are visual artists, who happen to use photography as our primary art creation form. Yet, we should not trap ourselves in a narrow Procrustean bed of just “photography”. …

Dear friends when in doubt — Just make more photos.

What is ERIC KIM? Simple– a photography entrepreneur. His passion is at the intersection of photography, philosophy and entrepreneurship. His blog as a source of his ‘stream of consciousness’ thinking or his ‘turbo thoughts‘ …

Better to ‘undefine’ yourself than to define yourself. Thinking that we are currently in a stream of ‘becoming‘ (rather than just to ‘be’), then perhaps the best way to become more entrepreneurial is to …

The motto of the entrepreneur. Move people (motivate people, workshops) and move products (ideas, physical or intangible products).

For those of us stuck in boring places — you can still shoot street photography; making interesting photos out of a very boring place!

A thought: what is the best way to spark your passion and motivation for photography is a visual detox. That is, to spend a period of time not looking at any other images but …

What are good reasons for going to college, what are bad reasons for going to college?

Why experiment with new forms of Composition? Simple: it is a very fun and interesting way to experiment with your photography. And no matter how boring your environment may be, you could supersede that …

Perhaps the best way to stand out is to look or seem more common.

Whenever I meet new people and try to tell people what I do, it is difficult. I’m not quite sure how to introduce myself. but upon thinking about it for a little bit longer, …

What is the goal of blogging? Simple: to never stop posting.

It seems that in today’s world, the trend is towards film photography. That is, dissatisfied photographers who want to become more artistic seek film as a means of becoming more unique, “artsy”. But in …

The reason why I am so enthusiastic about the photography of Henri Cartier Bresson, that is, my passion for Composition.

Dense as an ethos and philosophy.

What is the great passion? That which impels you out of bed in the morning — not out of a sense of “duty”, but genuine passion and enthusiasm. AUTOTELIC things — things you do …

A thought: what is it that way you really desire? My thought: the beautiful.

It seems that as a healthy capitalistic society, consumerism will never go away. Rather than try to fight it, perhaps it is more clever to attack it from a different angle. I have a …

Customize towards what ends, that is when do you know to stop modifying it or do you keep modifying it indefinitely?

What makes an enigmatic photo? A photo which is hard to decipher (even by you), in which you gotta squint closer to make sense of what you’re looking at. A photo that feels other-worldly. …

Apparently back in the days, to call oneself a philosopher (lover of wisdom) was the low-key way of saying: I love wisdom, and seek wisdom, and I seek to become wise. Back then (as …

My turbo thought: Curiosity in others is a vice, curiosity in yourself as a virtue.

Individuation. That is, the desire hunger and lust to become insanely different and unique. Unique in our thoughts, unique in our appearance, unique in our mannerisms and talking, to be genuinely one-of-a-kind. This is …

When others show interest or desire in us.

A thought: perhaps we should only invest in things that get better over time, and to ignore or disdain that which gets worse over time.

Why do we care so much about our phone? My theory: in today’s modern society we see the phone as our weapon, or tool of advantage. That is, if you want the best possible …

Perhaps the key to interesting photos and better black and white photos is disdain for detail. Higher contrast and blacks. Crush the blacks. More extreme post processing. RICOH GR III in high contrast black …